(Purpose and Scope of Application) Article 1. The purpose of this Law is to provide compensation for national public service personnel enumerated below (hereinafter referred to as "personnel in the special government service" ) for their service: (1) Prime Minister; (2) Minister of State; (3) Personnel Commissioner and Auditor; (4) Director of the Cabinet Secretariat; (5) Deputy Director of the Cabinet Secretariat; (6) Parliamentary Vice-Minister; (7) Chief Librarian of the National Diet Library; (8) Secretary-Generals of the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors and Chiefs of the Legislative Bureaus thereof; (9) Commissioner of the National Public Safety Commission; (10) Chairman and Commissioner of the Fair Trade Commission; (11) Chairman and Commissioner of the National Election Administration Commission; (12) Chairman and Commissioner of the Foreign Exchange Control Commission; (13) Chairman of the Statistics Commission; (14) Commissioner of the National Offenders Prevention and Rehabilitation Commission; (15) Member of the Transportation Council; (16) Grand Steward of the Imperial Household Agency and Grand Chamberlain; (17) Ambassador and Minister; (18) Confidential secretaries as defined in Article 2 paragraph 3 items 8 and 12 of the National Public Service Law (Law No.120 of 1947); (19) Member of the Local Autonomy committee; (20) Member of the Local Tax Council; (21) Commissioner of the Election Administration Commission for Members of the House of Councillors elected from the National Constituency; (22) Member of the Science Council of Japan; (23) Chamberlain; (24) Persons engaged in service for the Allied Forces to meet demands of the Allied Forces; (25) Personnel of the Foodstuffs Distribution Kodan; (26) Persons whose duties are not of a technical, professional, supervisory or administrative character employed directly by the National Government in positions for which they were referred to as "unemployed" by Public Employment Security Offices for Work Relief Projects or under the category of "unemployed" for Public Works Projects.

(Compensation of the Prime Minister and Others) Article 2. The compensation to which the personnel in the special government service as enumerated in items (1) to (18) inclusive of the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as "Prime Minister and others" ) are entitled shall, unless otherwise provided for by law, be salary and area allowance.

Article 3. The monthly amount of salary of the Prime Minister and others shall be provided for in the Annexed Table. 2 The step rate of monthly salary as provided for in the Annexed Table to which the confidential secretaries are entitled shall be determined by the Prime Minister, the Attorney-General, each Minister, the President of the Economic Stabilization Board, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the President of the National Personnel Authority, or the President of the Board of Audit on their respective consultation with the Minister of Finance.

Article 4. The monthly amount of area allowance of the Prime Minister and others shall be obtained by way of multiplying the monthly amount of their salary by the same specified rate that is prescribed for the regular government service personnel.

Article 5. Those newly appointed to the Prime Minister and others shall be entitled to their compensation from the day of their appointment;provided that in case national public service personnel discharged or dismissed from their posts are appointed as the Prime Minister and others on the same day, they shall be entitled to their compensation from a day following the day of such appointment.

Article 6. When the Prime Minister and others cease to be as such due to discharge, dismissal therefrom or death, they shall be entitled to their compensation until the day of such event.

Article 7. The amount of the compensation to be paid under the preceding two Articles, except for payment to be made from the first day of a month or up to the last day thereof, shall be computed by daily pay rate on the basis of the number of days obtained by deducting as many Sundays as there are in the month concerned from the actual number of days therein.

Article 8. The date of paying the compensation for the Prime Minister and others shall be the same as in the case of regular government service personnel.

(Compensation of the Members of the Local Autonomy Committee and Others) Article 9. The personnel in the special government service enumerated in Article 1 items (19) to (22) inclusive (hereinafter referred to as "member of the Local Autonomy Committee and others" ) shall be granted for their service performed such amount of compensation as may be determined by the Prime Minister upon consultation with the Minister of Finance at a rate not exceeding 1,000 yen per day.

(Compensation of the Chamberlain) Article 10. The kind and amount of compensation and conditions aid procedures of its payment for the personnel enumerated in Article 1 item (23) shall be determined by the Minister of Finance following the example of regular government service personnel.

(Compensation of Personnel in Service for the Allied Forces to meet Demands of the Allied Forces, etc.) Article 11. The kind and amount of compensation and conditions and procedures of its payment for the personnel enumerated in Article 1 item (24) shall be determined by the Director of the Special Procurement Agency upon consultation with the Minister of Finance;provided that the compensation for such personnel as coming under the provisions for prevailing wages by general occupation category of Article 2 of the Law concerning the Protection of the Government against Unjust Claims and Others Law No.171 of 1947) shall not exceed the amount of prevailing wages by general occupation category.

Article 12. The kind and amount of compensation and conditions and procedures of its payment for the personnel in the special government service enumerated in Article 1 item (25) shall be similar to those provided for the regular government personnel;provided that a Kodan special allowance may be paid, as determined by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry on consultation with the Minister of Finance within the limit of 10 per cent to 50 per cent of the salary and as to computation of the area allowance, the Kodan special allowance added up to the salary can be a basis for computation of the area allowance. 2 The total amount of the Kodan special allowance prescribed in the proviso to the preceding paragraph shall not exceed the amount equivalent to 30 per cent of the total amount of the salaries to be paid by a Kodan to the personnel in its service.

Article 13. The compensation of the personnel enumerated in Article 1 item (26) shall be such amount of wage as is determined by the Minister of Labor upon consultation with the Minister of Finance;provided that in no case such amount shall exceed the amount of prevailing wage by occupation category prescribed in Article 2 of the Law concerning the Protection of the Government against Unjust Claims and Others.

(Adjustment of Dual Payment) Article 14. The members of the Diet, the Prime Minister and others and regular government service personnel required to be in full-time service, when falling under one of the undermentioned cases, shall not be paid the compensation prescribed in Article 2 or Article 9 for the personnel in the special government service to which position they are concurrently assigned: (1) In case of being concurrently assigned to the posts of the Prime Minister and others; (2) In case of being concurrently assigned to the posts of member of the Local Autonomy Committee and others. 2 When the monthly amount of compensation obtainable as the personnel in the special government service to which position concurrently assigned is in excess of the monthly amount of annual allowance to the members of the Diet, the monthly amount of salary and area allowance obtainable as the Prime Minister and others, or the monthly amount of salary, family allowance and area allowance obtainable as regular government service personnel required to be in fulltime service, such difference in amount shall be paid from an agency to which belong the personnel in the special government service as concurrently assigned, regardless of the provision of the preceding paragraph.