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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="Act" Num="15" PromulgateDay="31" PromulgateMonth="3" Year="24">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendment to the Japanese National Railway Law.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <PromulgateDate>This thirty-first day of the third month of the twenty-fourth year of Showa (March 31, 1949)</PromulgateDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Law No.15</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle>Law for Partial Amendment to the Japanese National Railway Law</LawTitle>
    <MainProvision>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The Japanese National Railway Law (Law No.256, 1948) shall be partially amended as follows:</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Article 5, "March 31" shall read "May 31."</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Paragraph 1 of Supplementary Provisions, "April 1" shall read "June 1."</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 of its promulgation.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
  <Signatures>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Transportation</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>OYA Shinzo</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
  </Signatures>
</Law>