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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="Act" Num="157" PromulgateDay="13" PromulgateMonth="7" Year="23">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby promulgate the Law amending a Part of the Fertilizer Distribution Kodan Law.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <PromulgateDate>This thirteenth day of the seventh month of the twenty-third year of Showa (July 13, 1948)</PromulgateDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>ASHIDA Hitoshi</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Law No.157</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle>Law amending a Part of the Fertilizer Distribution Kodan Ordinance</LawTitle>
    <MainProvision>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>A part of the Fertilizer Distribution Kodan Ordinance (Imperial Ordinance No.171 of 1947) shall be amended as follows:</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Art.1, par.1, "such fertilizers as prescribed by Order" shall read "such fertilizers and emergency agricultural chemicals as prescribed by Order" .</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Art.13, "and production of fertilizer" shall read "and production of fertilizer or agricultural chemical" .</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>Next to Art.15, par.1, item 5, the following item shall be added and item 6 of the same paragraph shall he item 7:</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
          <NewProvision>
            <Item Num="6">
              <ItemTitle>6.</ItemTitle>
              <ItemSentence>
                <Sentence>Purchase, storage and sale of the emergency agricultural chemicals.</Sentence>
              </ItemSentence>
            </Item>
          </NewProvision>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Art.20, pars.2 and 3, "appropriate distribution of fertilizer" shall read "appropriate distribution of fertilizer and emergency agricultural chemical" .</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
      </Paragraph>
    </MainProvision>
    <SupplProvision>
      <SupplProvisionLabel>Supplementary Provision:</SupplProvisionLabel>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>This Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
  <Signatures>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Agriculture and Forestry</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>NAGAE Kazuo</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>ASHIDA Hitoshi</Name>
    </Signature>
  </Signatures>
</Law>