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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="Act" Num="13" PromulgateDay="20" PromulgateMonth="3" Year="23">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby promulgate the Law concerning the Transfers from the General Account to the Special Account for Deposits Bureau, of the Ministry of Finance and Other Three Special Accounts, pursuant to the Measures relative to the Payment of Salaries and Others of Government Employees.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <PromulgateDate>This twentieth day of the third month of the twenty-third year of Showa (March 20, 1948)</PromulgateDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>ASHIDA Hitoshi</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Law No.13</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle/>
    <MainProvision>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
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        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence Function="main" Num="1">The Government is authorized, under the measures for paying salaries and others based on the First and Second Reports of the Extraordinary Pay Committee, to transfer funds from the General Account to the Special Account for Deposits Bureau, Ministry of Finance, the Special Account for State Railway, the Special Account for Communication Service, and the Insurance sub-account and the Annuity sub-account of the Special Account for Simple Life Insurance and Postal Annuity, for their resources of expenditures:Provided, that the maximum amounts transferrable shall be \196,083,000 for the Special Account for Deposits Bureau, Ministry of Finance, \1,909,142,000 for the Special Account for State Railway, \931,941,000 for the Special Account for Communication Service, \167,815,000 for the Insurance sub-account of the Special Account for Simple Life Insurance and Postal Annuity, and \4,834,000 for the Annuity sub-account of the same special account.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
      <Paragraph Num="2">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The Government shall later transfer sums, equivalent to the amounts transferred under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, as prescribed in a budget, to the General Account from the Special Account for Deposits Bureau, Ministry of Finance, the Special Account for State Railway, the Special Account for Communication Service, the Insurance sub-account and the Annuity sub-account of the Special Account for simple Life Insurance and Postal Annuity.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </MainProvision>
    <SupplProvision>
      <SupplProvisionLabel>Supplementary Provision:</SupplProvisionLabel>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The present Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
  <Signatures>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Finance</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>KITAIMURA Tokutaro</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Transportation</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>OKADA Seiichi</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Communications</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>TOMIYOSHI Eiji</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>ASHIDA Hitoshi</Name>
    </Signature>
  </Signatures>
</Law>