I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendments to the Japan Monopoly Public Corporation Law.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This fourteenth day of the fifth month of the twenty-fourth year of Showa (May 14, 1949)
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law for Partial Amendments to the Japan Monopoly Public Corporation Law
The Japan Monopoly Public Corporation Law (Law No.255 of 1948) shall be partially amended as follows:
In Paragraph 3 of Article 9, "six" shall read "eight" ;and in Paragraph 4 of the same Article, next to "growers of leaf tobacco" shall be added "persons who have direct connections with the monopoly enterprise" ;and in Paragraph 5 of the same Article, "each two councillors shall be given the tenure of 1, 2 and 3 years, respectively" shall be amended to read "two councillors shall be given the tenure of 1 year, and other each three councillors shall be given the tenure of 2 and 3 years, respectively."
The following one Article shall be added next to Article 17:
(Limitation after Unemployment)
Article 17-(2). In case where the official or employee of the Corporation has been attached to the business of allocation of materials or has directly supervised the business thereof mentioned in the Designated Production Materials Allocation Regulations (Prime Minister's Office. Attorney-General's Office, Ministries of Finance, Education, Welfare, Agriculture and Forestry, Commerce and Industry. Transportation, Communications, Labor Ordinance No.1 of 1948) under the Temporary Demand and Supply Adjustment Law (Law No.32 of 1946) concerning the production of leaf tobacco, cigarette paper for manufactured tobacco, salt, bittern, brine, crude camphor or crude camphor oil for any period within the five years before he left the employ of the Corporation, he shall not be an official or an employee of a company or other corporation having the purpose of interest with close relations to the allocation business to which he had been attached or supervised for the period of two years following his leaving the employ of the Corporation;provided that when he attains a position of an official or an employee of a company or other corporation not having relations to the above allocation, or when it is deemed to be no particular evils, the above shall not be applicable in case an approval of Minister of Finance has been given by the request of the President of the Corporation.
The following one Article shall be added next to Article 47:
Article 47-(2). A person who is an official or an employee of a company or other corporation which manages business for the purpose of interest in contravention of the provisions of Article 17-(2), shall be subjected to an imprisonment with hard labor not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding 30,000 yen.
The following proviso shall be added to Paragraph 1 of the Supplementary Provisions:
However the provisions of Article 9 shall come into force as from May 15, 1949.
The following one paragraph shall be added next to Paragraph 2 of the Supplementary Provisions:
3 Until the establishment of the Corporation, in Paragraph 4 of Article 9, "employees of the Corporation" shall read "employees of the Monopoly Bureau" . In this case, persons who have been appointed from among the employees of the Monopoly Bureau shall be deemed to be those who are appointed from among the employees of the Corporation after the establishment of the Corporation.
Supplementary Provision:
This Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.