I hereby promulgate the Law concerning Exceptions to the Management of Affairs for Payment of Wages and Other Pays to be paid to the Employees, etc. Engaged in Labor for the Allied Forces in Compliance with the Demands of the Allied Forces. Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor This seventh day of the third month of the twenty-fifth year of Showa (March 7, 1950) Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru Law No.5 Law concerning Exceptions to the Management of Affairs for Payment of Wages and Other Pays to be paid to the Employees, etc. Engaged in Labor for the Allied Forces in Compliance with the Demands of the Allied Forces 1 If necessary specifically for payment of wages and other pays (hereinafter referred to as "the pays" ) to be paid to employees engaged in labor for the Allied Forces in compliance with the demands of the Allied Forces and workers engaged in the public works financed by the public works expenses or the Counterpart Fund of U. S. Aid to Japan, the Government may entrust a part of the affairs to banks (excluding the Bank of Japan, hereinafter the same) and make the bank manage them. 2 The procedures for entrusting a part of the affairs for payment of the pays to banks under the provision of the preceding paragraph and the necessary procedures for payment of the pays shall be prescribed by the Minister of Finance. Supplementary Provision: This Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation. Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru Attorney-General UEDA Shunkichi Minister for Foreign Affairs YOSHIDA Shigeru Minister of Finance IKEDA Hayato Minister of Education TAKASE Sotaro Minister of Welfare HAYASHI Joji Minister of Agriculture and Forestry MORI Kotaro Minister of International Trade and Industry IKEDA Hayato Minister of Transportation OYA Shinzo Minister of Postal Services OZAWA Saeki Minister of Telecommunications OZAWA Saeki Minister of Labor SUZUKI Masabumi Minister of Construction MASUTANI Shuji President of Economic Stabilization Board YOSHIDA Shigeru