I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendments to the Compensation against Agricultural Loss Law.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This fifteenth day of the twelfth month of the twenty-fourth year of Showa (December 15, 1949)
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law for Partial Amendments to the Compensation against Agricultural Loss Law
The Compensation against Agricultural Loss Law (Law No.185 of 1947) shall be partially amended as follows:
Article 13-(2) shall be partially amended as follows:
Article 13-(2). The National Treasury shall bear, out of mutual relief premium for the silk-worms and cocoons mutual relief to be paid by the members of the Agricultural Mutual Relief Associations, in the 1949 and 1950 fiscal years, the amount of money corresponding to the total of the amounts of money obtained by multiplying each total sum of mutual relief benefit calculated by each To, Do, Fu or prefecture by the aggregated rate of the following rates:
(1) Seven-eighths of the rate obtained by subtracting the minimum one of the ordinary standard rates of mutual relief premium of all To, Do, Fu and prefectures, from the ordinary standard rate of mutual relief premium provided for in Article 107 paragraph 4 item (1) for the silk-worms and cocoons mutual relief in To, Do, Fu or prefecture concerned;
(2) Seven-eighths of the extraordinary standard rate of mutual relief premium provided for in Article 107 paragraph 4 item (2) for the silk-worms and cocoons mutual relief in To, Do, Fu or prefecture concerned;
(3) The super-extraordinary standard rate of mutual relief premium provided for in Article 107 paragraph 4 item (3) for the silkworms and cocoons mutual relief in To, Do, Fu or prefecture concerned.
The following two Articles shall be added next to Article 13-(2):
Article 13-(3). The National Treasury shall bear, out of mutual relief premium for the death or disuse of cattle or horse to be paid by the members of the Agricultulal Mutual Relief Associations, in the 1949 and 1950 fiscal years, the amount of money corresponding to one half of the minimum mutual relief premium provided for by the Articles of Association under Article 114 paragraph 1 item (1).
Article 13-(4). The provisions of Article 12 paragraph 2 and of Article 13 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the money charged upon the National Treasury under the preceding two Articles.
Supplementary Provisions:
1. This Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.
2. The Agricultural Mutual Relief Re-Insurance Special Account Law (Law No.11 of 1944) shall be partially amended as follows:
In Article 3, "the receipts from the Food Control Special Accounts;the money prescribed in Art.13-(2) par.1 of the Compensation against Agricultural Loss Law" shall be amended as "the receipts from the General Account and from the Food Control Special Account" and "(including the case whereto the same provision shall apply mutatis mutandis as is prescribed in Art.13-(2) par.6)" shall be amended as "(including the case where the same provision shall apply mutatis mutandis under Article 13-(4) of the same Law)."
In Article 4, next to "the re-insurance premium accruing from the operation of re-insurance business as regards mutual relief work concerning live stock;" shall be added "the receipts from the General Account;" and next to "the re-insurance money defrayable due to the operation of the said re-insurance business" ;shall be added "the allotment in money under the provision of Article 13 of the Compensation against Agricultural Loss Law which applies mutatis mutandis under Article 13-(4) of the same Law."
Minister of Finance IKEDA Hayato
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry MORI Kotaro
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru