I hereby promulgate the Law for Increase of Fixed Working Capital of the Mint, etc.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This thirty-first day of the third month of the twenty-fourth year of Showa (March 31, 1949)
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law for Increase of Fixed Working Capital of the Mint, etc.
Article 1. The former fixed working capital of the Mint shall be increased by 20,000,000 yen.
2 For the purpose of increasing the capital referred to in the preceding paragraph, 10,000,000 yen may be transferred from the fund of the Mint respectively for the fiscal years 1948-49 and 1949-50.
Article 2. A part of the Mint Special Account Law (Law No.9 of 1915) shall be amended as follows:
Next to Article 9-(2), the following Article shall be added:
Article 9-(3). In the present account, those appropriations disbursement of which is obliged and is not done within the fiscal year concerned, may be carried forward to and used in the following fiscal year.
To the carrying forward under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 43 of the Finance Law shall not apply.
When the Minister of Finance made the carrying forward under the provisions of paragraph 1, he shall notify the Board of Audit of it.
In case the carrying forward was made under the provisions of paragraph 1, the said appropriations shall be deemed as the appropriations allocated under the provisions of Article 31, paragraph 1 of the Finance Law.
Supplementary Provision:
The present Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.