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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="Act" Num="240" PromulgateDay="14" PromulgateMonth="12" Year="23">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby promulgate the Law concerning the Partial Amendment to the Law fixing the Sum of the Fees concerning Family Registration.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <PromulgateDate>This fourteenth day of the twelfth month of the twenty-third year of Showa (December 14, 1948)</PromulgateDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Law No.240</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle>The Law concerning the Partial Amendment to the Law fixing the Sum of the Fees concerning Family Registration</LawTitle>
    <MainProvision>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The Law fixing the Sum of the Fees concerning Family Registration (Law No.51 of 1948) shall be partially amended as follows:</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Article 2, Article 3 and Article 4, Paragraphs 1 and 2, "5 yen" shall read "12 yen."</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
      </Paragraph>
    </MainProvision>
    <SupplProvision>
      <SupplProvisionLabel>Supplementary Provision:</SupplProvisionLabel>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The present Law shall come into force as from the day when fifteen days have elapsed reckoning from the day of its promulgation.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
  <Signatures>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Attorney-General</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>UEDA Shunkichi</Name>
    </Signature>
  </Signatures>
</Law>