I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendments of Regulations governing the Organization of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This thirtieth day of the fourth month of the twenty-second year of Showa (April 30, 1947)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister for Home Affairs UEHARA Etsujiro
Minister of Commerce and Industry ISHII Mitsujiro
Imperial Ordinance No. 178
Article 1. The following amendments shall be made to part of the Regulations governing the Organization of Ministry of Commerce and Industry:
In Article 12, "full service 100 persons"; "full service 229 persons" shall read "full service 115 persons"; "full service 265 persons" respectively.In the same Article, in the part relating to Technical Official of Ministry of Commerce and Industry, "full service 80 persons"; "full service 167 persons" shall read "full service 106 persons"; "full service 216 persons" respectively.
Article 2. The following amendment shall be made to part of the Regulations governing the Organization of Industrial Experiment Institution:
In Article 2, in the part relating to Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry, "full service 1 person"; "full service 23 persons" shall read "full service 2 persons"; "full service 22 persons" respectively.
Article 3. The following amendment shall be made to part of the Regulations governing the Organization of Ceramic Ware Experiment Institution:
In Article 2, "
Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry "
full service 2 persons, 3rd Class
" shall read "
Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry
full service 1 person, 2nd Class,
full service 2 persons, 3rd Class
."
Article 4. The following amendment shall be made to part of the Regulations governing the Organization of Textile Industry Experiment Institution:
In Article 3, "
Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry "
full service 6 persons, 3rd Class
" shall read "
Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry "
full service 1 person, 2nd Class,
and full service 5 persons, 3rd Class
."
Article 5. The following amendment shall be made to part of the Regulations governing the Organization of Underground Resources Investigation Institution:
In Article 2, "
Technical Official of Ministry of Commerce and Industry "
full service 51 persons, 2nd Class (may include one (1) person, 1st Class),"
"full service 58 persons, 3rd Class";
"Secretary of Commerce and Industry
full service 5 persons, 3rd Class
" shall read "
Chief of institution Technical Official of Ministry of Commerce and Industry
full service 51 persons, 2nd Class (may include two (2) persons, 1st Class);"
"Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry
full service 1 person, 2nd Class";
"Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry orTechnical Official of Ministry of Commerce and Industry
full service 62 persons, 3rd Class
" respectively.
Article 6. The following amendment shall be made to part of the Regulations governing the Organization of Industrial Art Direction Institution:
In Article 3, "
Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry "
full service 3 persons, 3rd Class
" shall read "
Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry,
full service 1 person, 2nd Class,
full service 3 persons, 3rd Class
."
Article 7. The following amendment shall be made to part of the Regulations governing the Organization of Fuel Research Institution:
In Article 2, "
Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry
full service 3 persons, 3rd Class
" shall read "
Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry
full service 1 person, 2nd Class,
full service 2 persons, 3rd Class
."
Article 8. The following amendment shall be made to part of the Regulations governing the Establishment of Temporary Employment of Officials under the purview of Ministry of Commerce and Industry:
The words "Regulations governing the Temporary Establishment of Employment of Officials under the purview of Ministry of Commerce and Industry" shall read "Regulations governing the Temporary Establishment of Employment Officials, etc. under the purview of Ministry of Commerce and Industry."
In Article 1, in the part of Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry "full service 151 persons" shall read "full service 130 persons." In the part of Technical Officials or Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry "full service 274" shall read "full service 234 persons."
In Article 1-(3), "
Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry
full service 1 person, 2nd Class,
full service 6 persons, 3rd Class
Technical Official of Ministry of Commerce and Industry
full service 5 persons, 2nd Class,
full service 6 persons 3rd Class
" shall read "
Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry "
full service 3 persons, 2nd Class";
Technical Officials
full service 8 persons ,"
Secretary or Technical Official of Ministry of Commerce and Industry
full service 17 persons, 3rd Class
."
In Article 2, "
Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry
full service 1 person, 3rd Class,
Technical Official of Ministry of Commerce and Industry
full service 2 persons, 3rd Class
" shall read "
Secretary of Technical Official of Ministry of Commerce and Industry
full service 3 persons, 3rd Class
."
In Article 3, "
Technical Official of Ministry of Commerce and Industry
full service 1 person, 2nd Class,
full service 2 persons, 3rd Class
" shall read "
Technical Official of Ministry of Commerce and Industry "
full service 1 person, 2nd Class,
Secretary or Technical Official of Ministry of Commerce and Industry
full service 2 persons 3rd Class
."
In Article 5, the term "Temporary Research regarding the promotion of Chemical fertilizer production" shall read "Temporary Research regarding Chemical fertilizer," in the part of Technical Official of Ministry of Commerce and Industry "full service 5 persons" shall read "full service 13," and in the part of Secretary or Technical Official of Ministry of Commerce and Industry "full service 17 persons" shall read "full service 36 persons."
In Article 8 "Full service 2 persons, 3rd Class" shall be added next to "Full service 2 persons, 2nd Class."
Article 9. The following Officials shall be added for the execution of affairs relating to temporary regional administration of Commerce and Industry:
Director of Coal Division
Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry-
full service 33 persons, 2nd Class.
Technical Official of Ministry of Commerce and Industry-
full service 23 persons, 2nd Class.
Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry or Technical Official of Ministry of Commerce and Industry-
full service 38 persons, 3rd Class.
Coal Divisions shall, temporarily, be established in each of Bureaus of Commerce and Industry in Sapporo, Sendai, and Fukuoka for the purpose of conducting business regarding production and distribution of coal, semi-coal, gas and coke.
Article 9. The following amendment shall be made to part of the Regulations governing the Organization of Regional Bureau of Commerce and Industry:
In the part of the Regulations governing the Organization of Regional Bureau of Commerce and Industry "Regional Bureaus of Commerce and Industry," "Director-General of Regional Bureau of Commerce and Industry," "Director-General of Regional Administration Bureau, or Governor-General of Hokkaido-cho," "Secretary of Local Government," "Technical Official of Local Government" shall read "Bureaus of Commerce and Industry," "Director-General of Bureau of Commerce and Industry," "Minister of Commerce and Industry," "Secretary of Ministry of Commerce and Industry," "Technical Official of Ministry of Commerce and Industry" respectively.
In Article 1, the term "affairs relating to the enforcement of Wages Control Ordinance for mining industry, affairs (excluding those concerning ship's crew) regarding the enforcement of Temporary Wages Disposition Ordinance for mining and alluvial mining industries" shall be deleted.
Paragraph 1, Article 2 shall be amended as follows, and paragraph 3 of the same Article shall be deleted.
Names, locations of and areas of jurisdiction under Bureaus of Commerce and Industry are as follows:
Name |
Location |
Areas of jurisdiction |
Sapporo Bureau of Commerce & Industry |
Sapporo-shi |
Hokkaido |
Sendai ,, ,, |
Sendai-shi |
Prefectures of Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata, and Fukushima |
Tokyo ,, ,, |
Tokyo-to |
Tokyo-to, Prefectures of Ibaragi, Gumma, Tochigi, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, Yamanashi, Niigata, and Nagano |
Nagoya ,, ,, |
Nagoya-shi |
Prefectures of Gifu, Aichi, Shizuoka, Mie, Toyama, Ishikawa |
Osaka ,, ,, |
Osaka-shi |
Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu, Prefectures of Shiga, Hyogo, Nara, Wakayama, and Fukui |
Hiroshima ,, ,, |
Hiroshima-shi |
Prefectures of Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima and Yamaguchi |
Shikoku ,, ,, |
Marugame-shi |
Prefectures of Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, and Kochi |
Fukuoka ,, ,, |
Fukuoka-shi |
Prefectures of Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki, Kagoshima, and Okinawa |
In paragraph 1, Article 3, "8 persons" shall be deleted, "
Secretary or Technical Official of Ministry of Commerce and Industry,
full service 8 persons, 1st Class
" shall be added next to "Chief of General Affairs Section," "full service 385 persons," "full service 991 persons" shall read "full service 397 persons," "full service 1001 persons" respectively.
Paragraph 2, Article 3 shall be deleted.
Article 4. The following three divisions shall be established in each of Bureaus of Commerce and Industry:
Commerce and Industry Division
Besides the above divisions, in accordance with direction of the Minister of Commerce and Industry, General Affairs Division or General Affairs Section shall be established in each of Bureaus of Commerce and Industry.
Allotted affairs of General Affairs Section and of each Division thereof shall be fixed by Director of Bureau.
In Article 5, the following paragraph shall be added as paragraph 1.
"The post of director shall be held by a Secretary or Technical Official of Commerce and Industry, 1st Class."
In paragraph 2, Article 8, the term "affairs relating to the enforcement of Wages Control Ordinance for mining industry, affairs (excluding those concerning ship's crew) relating to the enforcement of Temporary Wages Disposition Ordinance for mining and alluvial mining industries" shall be deleted.
Article 10. The following amendment shall be made to part of the Regulations governing temporal employment of officials, etc in To, Cho, Fu, prefectures, etc.
Article 5 shall be deleted.
Article 11. Following amendments are made to a part of the Ordinance governing Classification of Shinnin-Kan Rank and other Official Ranks:
"Director General of Bureau of Commerce and Industry," shall be deleted from the table of the Regional Administrative Bureau and its area of jurisdiction (prefecture).
Supplementary Provisions:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.
Those who actually hold offices of Regional Bureau of Commerce and Industry on the day of the enforcement of the present Imperial Ordinance shall be regarded, in case no appointment order is issued, as having been appointed respectively Secretary or Technical Official of Ministry of Commerce and Industry retaining the same class and same salary from the post of Secretary or Technical Official of Local Government.
Secretary or Technical Official of Local Government, who are actually suspended from service on the day of enforcement of the present Imperial Ordinance, and attached to Bureau of Commerce and Industry at the time of their suspension from service shall be regarded, in case no appointment order is issued, as having been appointed, in accordance with above example, respectively Secretary or Technical Official of Ministry of Commerce and Industry.