I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendments to the Regulations governing the Organization of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and others, and cause the same to be promulgated.
御名御璽
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
昭和二十二年三月二十九日
This twenty-ninth day of the third month of the twenty-second year of Showa (March 29, 1947)
內閣総理大臣 吉田茂
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
農林大臣 木村小左衞門
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry KIMURA Kozaemon
勅令第百三号
Imperial Ordinance No. 103
第一條 農林省官制の一部を次のように改正する。
Article 1. The following amendments shall be made to a part of the Regulations governing the Organization of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry:
In Art. 1, "agricultural, forest, live-stock, and fishery production" shall read "agriculture, live-stock, and fishery production," and "agriculture, forestry, live-stock industry, and fisheries" shall read "agriculture, live-stock industry, and fisheries"; "business related to the statistics of agriculture, forestry, live-stock industry, and fisheries" shall be added next to "as well as."
第三條第一項中「山林局」を削り、「開拓局」の次に「統計調査局」を加える。
In Art. 3, par. 1, "Forestry Bureau" shall be deleted and "Statistic Research Bureau" shall be added next to "Land Development Bureau."
In Art. 4, "price in general, general scrutiny of the administration concerned, receiving and forwarding of the official documents and definite plans, preparation of statistical reports, as well as compilation and preservation of official documents" shall read "price in general and general scrutiny of the administration concerned."
第六條を削り、第七條を第六條とし、以下第十一條まで一條ずつ繰り上げる。
Art. 6 shall be deleted; Art. 7 shall be replaced by Art. 6; Arts. 8 to 11 shall be moved up respectively.
第十一條 統計調査局ニ於テハ農林畜水產業ニ關スル統計ニ關スル事務ヲ掌ル
Article 11. The Statistic Research Bureau shall deal with the affairs concerning the statistics of agriculture, forestry, live-stock industry, and fisheries.
Article 12. The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry can set up crop reporting officers of branch offices thereof in any of regions that are deemed to be necessary for the purpose of causing them to deal with the affairs concerning the research and information as to crop growing conditions.
Chief of the crop reporting offices shall be appointed from among the 2nd rank Agriculture and Forestry secretaries or technicians, and chief of the branch crop reporting offices from among the 2nd or 3rd rank Agriculture and Forestry secretaries or technicians.
Article 16. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry shall have statistic officials. They shall be appointed from among the 2nd or 3rd class Agriculture and Forestry secretaries or technicians and they shall, under the supervision of higher officials, deal with the affairs concerning the statistics of agriculture, forestry, live-stock industry, and fisheries.
第二條 農林部內臨時職員等設置制の一部を次のように改正する。
Article 2. The following amendments shall be made to a part of the Temporary Agriculture and Forestry Official Appointment System.
In Art. 5, items 5 and 6 shall be deleted; item 2, item 3, and item 4 shall be moved down to item 3, item 4, and item 5, respectively. Following item shall be added next to item 1:
In item 7 of the same Article, "full-time officials, 4 persons" shall read "full-time officials, 2 persons"; "full-time officials, 28 persons" shall read "full-time officials, 17 persons." The same item shall be item 6, and the following items shall be moved up respectively.
附 則
Supplementary Provision:
この勅令は、昭和二十二年四月一日から、これを施行する。
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from April 1, 1947.