I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendment to the Law for Exceptions to Article 12 of the Law for the Election of the Members of the House of Representatives and Others.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This first day of the twelfth month of the twenty-third year of Showa (December 1, 1948)
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law for Partial Amendment to the Law for Exceptions to Article 12 of the Law for the Election of the Members of the House of Representatives and Others
Article 1. The Law for Exceptions to Article 12 of the Law for the Election of the Members of the House of Representatives and Others (Law No.2, 1947) shall be partially amended as follows:
Paragraph 1, Article 1 shall read as follows: "When an election is held using the Elector's Register for the election of Members of House of Representatives in accordance with the provisions of Article 1 of Law No.30, 1946 (Exception to Electors'Register for the Election of Members of the House of Representatives), and there is any person who is not registered in the Electors'Register for the Members of the House of Representatives but who possesses the right to vote at the election of the Members of the House of Representatives, the Election Administration Committee for the election of the Members of the city, ward, town or village assembly or any agency concerned with the making of the Register, shall, in accordance with the application of the person concerned, temporarily make an Elector's register for the Election of the Members of the House of Representatives which will have such person or persons registered therein."
Article 2. The Law for Special Instances of the Writings, Drawings and the like in Election Campaign shall be partially amended as follows:
Article 1 shall read as follows: "The aim of the present Law shall be to perform most properly and rightly the election which is to take place under the most pressed economical conditions, as in the case of actual deficiency of paper or other materials, and the Law shall apply in respect of notices or distribution of writings and drawings to be used in the campaign for the election of the members of the House of Representatives, House of Councillors, prefectural assembly and for the election of the chief of a prefectural community."
In Paragraph 2 of the Supplementary Provision. "The Disciplinary Regulations concerning the Election Campaign of the Member of the House of Representatives and others, the Disciplinary Regulations Concerning the Election Campaign of the Member of Councillors and the Disciplinary Regulations concerning the Election Campaign of the Member of the Local Assembly and others" shall read as "the Disciplinary Regulations concerning the Election Campaign of the Member of the House of Representatives, the Disciplinary Regulations concerning the Election campaign of the Member of the House of Councillors and the Disciplinary Regulations concerning the Election Campaign of the Member of the Local Public Entity" and "from the day of the enforcement of the present Law to December 31st of 1948" as "while the present Law is in force" .
Article 3. The Law concerning Local Autonomy (Low No.67 of 1947) shall be partially amended as follows:
In Paragraph 1, Article 183, "two years" shall read as "three years."
Supplementary Provisions:
1. The present Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.
2. The amendment provisions in Paragraph 1 of Article 183 of the Law concerning Local Autonomy in Article 3 shall be applied retroactively up to the day of the appointment to the Election Administration Committeeman of the Local Public Entity who was appointed before the previous day of enforcement of this Law. However, it shall not be applied to the person the appointment of whose successor has already been under procedures before the day of enforcement of this Law.