The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Establishment Law (Law No.153 of 1949) shall be partially amended as follows:
In Contents, "(Articles 36-40)" shall be amended as "(Articles 36-41)" ; "Part 2 Material Adjustment Offices (Article 41)" shall be deleted;and "Part 3 Crop Reporting Offices" shall be amended as "Part 2 Statistical Survey Offices" .
In Article 4 item (32), "machinery, implements and materials for land reclamation works" shall be amended as "machinery, implements and materials used for land reclamation and land improvement works (including disaster rehabilitation works on agricultural lands and facilities, hereinafter the same)" ;in item (33), "land improvement works" shall be amended as "land reclamation and construction works or land improvement works" ;and in item (34), "land improvement works" shall be amended as "land reclamation or land improvement works" .
In Article 4 item (52), ", and for control or prevention against the forest noxious insects" shall be deleted.
Article 4 item (62) shall be amended as follows:
In Article 8 paragraph 2, "and item (6)" shall be added next to "item (3)" .
Each item of Article 9 paragraph 1 shall be amended as follows:
(1) Planning for agricultural lands and agricultural water utilization system;
(2) Establishment and maintenance of ownerfarmer;
(3) Control over transfer and disuse of agricultural lands and adjustment of other matters relative to agricultural lands;
(4) Investigation of resources to be developed such as lands, water, etc. and planning of the development thereof;
(5) Long-term planning and district planning for land reclamation and land improvement works;
(6) Guidance and furtherance of settlement, and land reclamation works and farm management incidental thereto;
(7) Financing settlers'fund;
(8) Accounting of Owner-farmer Establishment Special Measures Special Accounts as well as of Settlers'Fund Financing Special Accounts;
(9) Guidance and supervision over organization and administration of land improvement districts and the league thereof;
(10) Guidance and furtherance of exchange and consolidation of agricultural lands, etc.;
(11) Execution of State-operated and reclamation and construction works and land improvement works;
(12) Technical guidance, supervision and furtherance of land reclamation and construction works, and of land improvement works;
(13) Administration and help of procuring of machinery, implements and materials used for land reclamation and land improvement works.
In Article 9 paragraph 2, ", (5) to (7) inclusive and (9)" shall be amended as "and (6) to (10) inclusive" ;in paragraph 3 of the same Article, "concerning survey and plan for implementing state-operated land improvement projects out of such affairs" shall be deleted and "and (8)" shall be amended as "and (5)" ;in paragraph 4 of the same Article, "the affairs concerning design and construction work required for implementing the state-operated land improvement projects out of the affairs provided for in paragraph 1 item (8)" shall be amended as "the affairs as referred to in paragraph 1 items (11) to (13) inclusive" .
Article 11 paragraph 1 item (13) shall be deleted.
In Article 13,
"Agricultural Experiment Station
Horticultural Experiment Station
Livestock Experiment Station
National Research Institute of Agriculture
Land Development Research Institute"
shall be amended as
"Agricultural Technique Research Institute
Agricultural Experiment Station
National Research Institute of Agriculture"
and "Agricultural Machinery and Implements Administration Office" shall be amended as "Agricultural Machinery and Implements Training Office" .
Articles 14 to 17 inclusive shall be amended as follows:
(Agricultural Technique Research Institute)
Article 14. The Agricultural Technique Research Institute shall be an organ taking charge of technical research and study, analysis, judgement and training course related to agriculture.
2 The Agricultural Technique Research Institute shall be established in Tokyo-To.
3 The internal organization of the Agricultural Technique Research Institute shall be provided for by Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Ordinance.
(Agricultural Experiment Station)
Article 15. The Agricultural Experiment Station shall be an organ taking charge of technical research and study, analysis, judgement and training course concerning the agriculture in the region where it is located and in the regions the agricultural conditions of which are similar thereto.
2 The names and locations of the Agricultural Experiment Stations shall be as follows:
Name |
Location |
Hokkaido Agricultural Experiment Station |
Hokkaido |
Tohoku Agricultural Experiment Station |
Iwate Prefecture |
Kanto-Tosan Agricultural Experiment Station |
Saitama Prefecture |
Hokuriku Agricultural Experiment Station |
Niigata Prefecture |
Tokai-Kinki Agricultural Experiment Station |
Mie Prefecture |
Chugoku Shikoku Agricultural Experiment Station |
Hyogo Prefecture |
Kyushu Agricultural Experiment Station |
Fukuoka Prefecture |
3 The internal organization of the Agricultural Experiment Station shall be provided for by Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Ordinance.
Articles 16 and 17. Deleted.
Article 19 shall be amended as follows:
Article 23 paragraph 2 shall be amended as follows:
2 The names, locations and areas of jurisdiction of the Fertilizer Inspection Offices shall be as follows:
Name |
Location |
Area of Jurisdiction |
Tokyo Fertilizer Inspection office |
Tokyo-To |
Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gumma, Saitama and Chiba Prefectures, Tokyo-To, and Kanagawa, Yamanashi, Nagano, Shizuoka and Niigata Prefectures |
Sapporo Fertilizer Inspection Office |
Sapporo City |
Hokkaido |
Sendai Fertilizer Inspection Office |
Sendai City |
Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata and Fukushima Prefectures |
Nagoya Fertilizer Inspection Office |
Nagoya City |
Toyama, Ishikawa, Gifu, Aichi and Mie Prefectures |
Kobe Fertilizer Inspection Office |
Kobe City |
Fukui and Shiga Prefectures, Kyoto-Fu, Osaka-Fu, and Hyogo, Nara, Wakayama, Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima, Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime and Kochi Prefectures |
Fukuoka Fertilizer Inspection Office |
Fukuoka City |
Yamaguchi, Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki and Kagoshima Prefectures |
Article 27 paragraph 2 shall be amended as follows:
2 The names, locations and areas of jurisdiction of the Animal and Plant Quarantine Stations shall be as follows:
Name |
Location |
Area of Jurisdiction |
Yokohama Animal and Plant Quarantine Station |
Yokohama City |
Hokkaido, and Aomori, Iwate, Akita, Yamagata, Miyagi, Fukushima, Niigata, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gumma, Saitama and Chiba Prefectures, Tokyo-To, and Kanagawa, Yamanashi, Nagano, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui Prefectures |
Kobe Animal and Plant Quarantine Station |
Kobe City |
Gifu, Shiga, Shizuoka, Aichi and Miye Prefectures, Kyoto-Fu, Hyogo and Nara Prefectures, Osaka-Fu, and Wakayama, Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima, Kagawa, Ehime, Tokushima, Kochi and Yamaguchi (excluding Shimonoseki City) Prefectures |
Moji Animal and Plant Quarantine Station |
Moji City |
Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Kagoshima, Oita and Miyazaki Prefectures, and Shimonoseki City |
Article 28 paragraph 2 shall be amended as follows:
2 The Rural Industry Training Institute shall be established in Shinjo City.
Article 29 shall be amended as follows:
(Agricultural Machinery and Implements Training Office)
Article:29. The Agricultural Machinery and Implements Training Office shall be an organ taking charge of technical guidance, research and experiment concerning agricultural machinery and implements.
2 The Agricultural Machinery and Implements Training Office shall be established in Kanagawa Prefecture.
3 The internal organization of the Agricultural Machinery and Implements Training Office shall be provided for by Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Ordinance.
Article 33 paragraph 1 item (3) shall be deleted, item (4) shall be made item (3), and the numbering of its succeeding items shall be moved up by one, and in the table of paragraph 2 of the same Article, such parts as related to Shizuoka Breeding Stock Station and Kagoshima Breeding Stock Station shall be deleted respectively.
The table of Article 34 paragraph 1 shall be amended as follows:
Kind |
Purpose |
Agricultural and Forest Commodities Standards Council |
To make research and deliberation on any matters relating to the standards and gradings of agricultural, forest, livestock and marine products. |
Committee for Losses Incurred by Agriculture and Forestry Credit Improvement Special Loan |
To fix losses and amount of losses sustained by a city, town or village, or by the Central Cooperative Bank for Agriculture and Forestry, the Hypothetic Bank of Japan, the Agricultural and Industrial Bank or the Hokkaido Colonial Bank, due to the special loans made under such laws as the Special Loanings by the Central Cooperative Bank for Agriculture and Forestry and Loss Compensation Law (Law No.32 of of 1932), the Agricultural Debts Disposition Association Law (Law No.21 of 1933), the Special Loanings for Agricultural Dobts Disposition Funds and Loss Compensation Law (Law No.77 of 1937) or the Temporary Agricultural Debts Disposition Law (Law No.69 of 1937). |
Agricultural Mutual Relief Reinsurance Committee |
To inquire into matters related to the reinsurance operated by the Government in pursuance of the Compensation Against Agricultural Loss Law (Law No.185 of 1947), and to make research and deliberation on matters relating to the Agricultural loss prevention or to the agricultural damage compensation. |
Central Agricultural Adjustment Council |
To make deliberation on important matters relating to the agriculture planning for staple food products or to the enforcement of the Food Maintenance Temporary Measures Law. |
Agricultural Materials Examination Committee |
To exercise the powers provided for by the Agricultural Seeds and Seedlings Law (Law No.115 of 1947) and the Agricultural Chemical Control Law (Law No.82 of 1948) and to make inspection of agricultural machinery and implements as well as to make research and deliberation on important matters related to agricultural seeds and seedlings, agricultural chemicals and agricultural machinery and implements. |
Central Agricultural Land Conference |
The dispose of the affairs placed under the powers thereof by the Agricultural Land Adjustment Law (Law No.67 of 1938) and by other laws and orders, and to make research and deliberation on important matters related to agricultural lands. |
Central Crop Estimation Council |
To make research and deliberation on important matters with respect to estimation on crop growth and yield of staple food. |
Veterinarian Licence Committee |
To administer veterinarian examination and to make research and deliberation of important matters related to veterinarians. |
Horseshoers Examination Committee |
To take charge of the matters related to horseshoers examination under the Horseshoers Law (Law No.89 of 1940). |
In Article 35,
"Material Adjustment Offices
shall be amended as "Statistical Survey Offices."
Article 36 shall be amended as follows:
(Responsibilities)
Article 36. The Regional Agricultural Land Offices shall take charge of a part of the responsibilities of the Ministry proper as enumerated below:
(1) Establishment and maintenance of ownerfarmers;
(2) Control of transfer and disuse of agricultural lands and other adjustment relating to agricultural lands;
(3) Investigation of resources to be developed such as lands, water, etc. and planning of the development thereof;
(4) Long-term planning and district planning of land reclamation and land improvement works;
(5) Guidance and furtherance of settlement, and land reclamation works and farm management incidental thereto;
(6) Financing of settlers'fund;
(7) Execution of State-operated land reclamation and construction works, and land improvement works;
(8) Guidance, supervision and furtherance of land reclamation and construction works, and land improvement works, as well as of persons engaged therein;
(9) Administration and help for procuring of machinery, implements and materials used for land reclamation and land improvement works.
In Article 39, "and business places" shall be amended as ", and business places and their branches" .
"Part 2 Material Adjustment Offices" next to Article 40 shall be deleted and Article 41 shall be amended as follows:
"Part 3 Crop Reporting Offices" next to Article 41 shall be amended as "Part 2 Statistical Survey Offices" and in Article 42 and Article 43 paragraph 1, "Crop Reporting Offices" shall be amended as "Statistical Survey Offices" .
In Article 47,
shall be amended as
"First Operation Division
Second Operation Division
".
Article 48 item (3) shall be deleted, item (4) shall be made item (3), the numbering of items (5) to (8) inclusive shall be moved up by one, in item (9) ", Groceries Distribution Kodan and Oilstuffs Distribution Kodan" shall be amended as "and Oilstuffs and Sugar Distribution Kodan" and the same item shall be made item (8), and item (10) shall be made item (9).
In Article 49 (inclusive of heading), "Food Division" shall be amended as "First Operation Division" , item (2) of the same Article shall be deleted and item (3) shall be made item (2).
In Article 50 (inclusive of heading), "Groceries Division" shall be amended as "Second Operation Division" , item (2) of the same Article shall be made item (4), item (1) shall be made item (3) and the following two items shall be added to the same Article as items (1) and (2):
(1) Adjustment of export and import of staple foods, foods and beverages as well as oils and fats;
(2) Granting of license, etc. for export and import of staple foods;
In Article 51, ", in addition to those provided for in Article 54," shall be deleted and Article 54 shall be amended as follows:
In Article 56, paragraph 4 shall be made paragraph 5;in paragraph 3, "and with respect to the affairs prescribed in the preceding paragraph, to the direction and supervision of the Chief of Minister's Secretariat" shall be added next to "of the Director of the Forestry Agency" and the same paragraph shall be made paragraph 4;and the following one paragraph shall be added next to paragraph 2:
3 The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry may, in addition to the affairs under the preceding two paragraphs, charge, for the time being, the Food Offices not exceeding ten in number, designated by him by area, with a part of the responsibilities of the Ministry proper, concerning the adjustment of allocation or distribution of agricultural, forest, livestock and marine products and materials used for agriculture, forestry, livestock industry and fisheries, as well as the liaison for transportation of these materials.
The following one item shall be added next to Article 62 item (7):
(8) Extermination of and prevention against the forest noxious insects.
In Article 63 item (6), "and the Firewood and Charcoal Demand and Supply Adjustment Special Account" shall be deleted.
In the Table of Article 65 paragraph 1, the part concerning Forest Products Standards Council shall be deleted, and in paragraph 2 of the same Article, "the Forest Products Standards Council" , and "the Law for the Designated Agricultural and Forestry Commodities Inspection" shall be deleted.
In Article 66, "Charcoal Offices" shall be deleted.
In Article 69 paragraph 2, "and the uniform of the personnel" shall be added next to "the detailed organizations" .
In Article 70 paragraph 2, "and the uniform of the personnel" shall be added next to "internal organizations" .
Articles 71 and 72 shall be amended as follows:
Article 71 and Article 72. Deleted.
In Article 76 paragraph 1, "Feedstuff Distribution Kodan" and "Grocery Distribution Kodan" shall be deleted, and "Oil and Fat Distribution Kodan" shall be amended as "Oilstuff and Sugar Distribution Kodan" , and in paragraph 2 of the same Article, "the Feedstuff Distribution Kodan," , ", the Grocery Distribution Kodan" , "The Feedstuff Distribution Kodan Law (Law No.202 of 1947)" , and ", the Grocery Distribution Kodan Law (Law No.201 of 1947)" shall be deleted and "the Oil and Fat Distribution Kodan Law (Law No.203 of 1947)" shall be amended as "the Oilstuff and Sugar Distribution Kodan Law (Law No.203 of 1947)" .