I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendments to the Law concerning the Annual Payment, Travelling Expenses and other Allowances to the Diet Members.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This twenty-third day of the twelfth month of the twenty-third year of Showa (December 23, 1948)
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law for Partial Amendments to the Law concerning the Annual Payment, Travelling Expenses and other Allowances to the Diet Members
Part of Law concerning the Annual Payment, Travelling Expenses and other Allowances to the Diet Members shall be amended as follows:
Article 1 shall be amended as follows:
Article 1. The Speaker or the President of each House shall be paid forty thousand (40,000) yen a month, the Vice-Speaker or the Vice-President thirty-two thousand (32,000) yen, and a Member of the Diet twenty-eight thousand eight hundred (28,800) yen as annual payment.
In Article 10, "five thousand (5,000) yen" a month shall read "seven thousand (7,000) yen" a month.
Supplementary Provisions:
This Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation;and the amended provisions of Articles 1 and 10 shall apply as from November 1, 1948.
The annual allowance and the salary which the Speaker or the President, the Vice-Speaker or the Vice-President, the Member of the Diet, and the Secretary has respectively received since November 1, 1948 shall be deemed as part payment of the annual allowance and the salary in accordance with this Law.