I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the amendment of Rice and Barley Inspection Ordinance 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 of Agriculture and Forestry KIMURA Kozaemon
Imperial Ordinance No. 192
Staple Food Inspection Ordinance
Article 1. Any person, who produces rice and/or barley, or who, having a title to the land, receives rice and/or barley as tenant fee shall undergo the inspection conducted by the Food Office of the kind, brand, quality, volume, and packing of rice and/or barley which he produced or received as tenant fee and which shall be sold to the Government in accordance with the provisions provided in paragraph 1 of Article 3 of the Food Administration Law, except rice and/or barley which have undergone the inspection as provided in paragraph 1 of Article 2 of this Ordinance or which may be designated by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.
Article 2. In case where a person as provided in the preceding Article wishes to transfer rice and/or barley except rice and/or barley which shall be subject to the inspection as provided in the preceding paragraph, he shall undergo the inspection conducted by the Food Office of the kind, brand, quality, volume, and packing thereof in accordance with the instruction of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry. This shall also apply to a case where an agricultural association of a city, town, or village, farm warehouseman, or any other person whom the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry may designate, wishes to transfer rice and/or barley which such association or person has a title to or possesses.
The inspection in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall not apply to rice and/or barley which have already undergone the inspection in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, or to such rice and/or barley as may be designated by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.
Article 3. In case where a person, who produces, or makes it his business to process or manufacture sweet potato, Irish potato, and/or other staple food as may be designated by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry (hereinafter called designated food), wishes to transfer sweet potato, Irish potato, and/or designated food which he produced, or processed or manufactured, he shall undergo the inspection conducted by the Food Office of the kind, brand, quality, volume, and packing thereof in accordance with the instruction of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry. This shall also apply to a case where an agricultural association of a city, town, or village, farm warehouseman, or any other person whom the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry may designate, wishes to transfer sweet potato, Irish potato, and/or designated food which such association or person has a title to or possesses.
The inspection in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall not apply to sweet potato, Irish potato, and/or designated food which have already undergone the inspection in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, or to such sweet potato, Irish potato, and/or designated food as may be designated by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.
Article 4. A person who cultivates Irish potato with the view of transfering the same as seed, shall, in addition to the inspection in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 of the preceding Article, undergo the inspection conducted by the Food Office of the kind thereof, and the disposition, growing condition, and damage done by diseases and/or insects thereof in the growing area in accordance with the instructions of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, except, however, a case as may be designated by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.
Article 5. Chief of Food Office shall place a seal, mark, or certification label which is duly established by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, on rice, barley, sweet potato, Irish potato, and/or designated food which underwent the inspection as provided in Article 1, or in the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 2 or paragraph 1 of Article 3.
Chief of Food Office shall deliver a certification label as may be determined by Minister of Agriculture and Forestry to a cultivater of Irish potato which passed the inspection as provided in the preceding Article.
Article 6. Rice, barley, sweet potato, Irish potato, and/or designated food whose seal, mark, and/or certification label, placed in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 of the preceding Article, has been destroyed, erased, or removed, shall be inspected again in accordance with the provisions of Article 1, paragraph 1 of Article 2, or paragraph 1 of Article 3.
Article 7. In addition to the matters as prescribed in this Imperial Ordinance, those matters necessary for the inspection of rice, barley, sweet potato, Irish potato, and designated food shall be determined by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.
Supplementary Provisions:
The present Imperial Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.
Rice and/or barley which underwent the inspection in accordance with the Rice and Barley Inspection Ordinance prior to the enforcement of this Imperial Ordinance, shall be deemed to have undergone the inspection as provided in the provisions of Article 1 or paragraph 1 of Article 2, and sweet potato, Irish potato, and/or designated food, which underwent the inspection in accordance with the prefectural ordinance or the provisions as determined by a person whom the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry designated, prior to the enforcement of this Imperial Ordinance, shall be deemed to have undergone the inspection as provided in the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 3, or Article 4.
In the case mentioned in the preceding paragraph, the seal, mark, and/or certification label, which was placed, affixed, or delivered in accordance with the Rice and Barley Inspection Ordinance, the prefectural ordinance, or the provisions as determined by a person whom the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry designated, shall be deemed to be that which is placed, affixed, or delivered in accordance with the provisions of Article 5.