I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendments to the Law for Establishment of the Attorney-General's Office.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This thirty-first day of the third month of the twenty-fifth year of Showa (March 31, 1950)
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law for Partial Amendments to the Law for Establishment of the Attorney-General's Office
The Law for Establishment of the Attorney-General's Office (Law No.193 of 1947) shall be partially amended as follows:
In Article 9 paragraph 1, item (11) shall be deleted, item (8) shall be item (9), the items following down to item (10) shall move down by one item respectively, and the following one item shall be added after item (7):
(8) Matters concerning fixed number and position classification of personnel.
Item (12) of the said paragraph shall be amended as follows:
(12) Matters concerning training and research of personnel.
The following one Article shall be added after Article 10:
Article 10-(2). There shall be established the Procurators Practising Law Institute under the administration of the Attorney-General as an organ for public procurators to study the theories and practice of prosecution.
The Procurators Practising Law Institute shall be established in Tokyo-To.
The internal organization of the Procurators Practising Law Institute shall be provided for by Attorney-General's Office Ordinance.
Article 13-(2) paragraph 1 shall be amended as follows:
There shall be established Legal Affairs Bureaus and District Legal Affairs Bureaus under the administration of the Attorney-General in order to cause them to take charge of a part of the affairs mentioned in Article 8 paragraph 1, paragraph 2, paragraph 3 item (2) and items (4) to (7) inclusive, and paragraph 4 of the same Article.
In Article 17, "90 persons" shall be amended as "115 persons."
In the Annexed Table No.2, items of Rehabilitation Work Council, Legal Affairs Liaison Council and Lawyers Examination Committee shall be deleted.
In the column of area of jurisdiction in the Annexed Table No.3, "Article 8 paragraph 1, paragraph 2 and paragraph 4 and" shall be deleted.
In the Annexed Table No.4, the following one item shall be added after the item of the Kasamatsu Prison:
In the same Table, the following one item shall be added after the item of the Kitagata Prison:
Fumoto Prison |
Fumoto-mura, Miyakigun, Saga Prefecture |
In the same Table, the following one item shall be added after the item of the Miyagi Prison:
Fukushima Prison |
Fukushima-shi |
In the same Table, the following one item shall be added after the item of the Asahigawa Prison:
Kushiro Prison |
Kushiro-shi |
Supplementary Provisions:
1. In this Law, amendatory provisions of Article 10-(2), Article 17, and Annexed Table No.4 shall come into force as from April 1, 1950, and the other provisions as from the day of its promulgation.
2. The Rehabilitation Work Law (Law No.42 of 1939) shall be partially amended as follows:
In Article 7 paragraph 1, "after hearing the opinion of the Rehabilitation Work Council," and paragraph 2 of the said Article shall be deleted.