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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="Act" Num="259" PromulgateDay="21" PromulgateMonth="12" Year="23">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendment to the Law concerning the Provisional Exception to Election Campaign and Others.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <PromulgateDate>This twenty-first day of the twelfth month of the twenty-third year of Showa (December 21, 1948)</PromulgateDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Law No.259</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle>Law for Partial Amendment to the Law concerning the Provisional Exception to Election Campaign and Others</LawTitle>
    <MainProvision>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The Law concerning the Provisional Exception to Election Campaign and Others (Law No.196 of 1948), shall be partially amended as follows:</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Article 20, Item 2, "and boats" shall read "......, boats or sledges."</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Article 22, Paragraph 5, "and sledge (one only for each candidate at a time)" shall be inserted after "boat."</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 next general election.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
  <Signatures>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Finance pro tempore</MinisterialTitle>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of State</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>OYA Shinzo</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Communications</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>FURUHATA Tokuya</Name>
    </Signature>
  </Signatures>
</Law>