CHAPTER I General Provisions

(Purpose of this Law) Article 1. The purpose of this Law is to establish basic standards concerning expenses paid by the State for travels which shall be made by national public employees and other persons for official business and thereby insure efficient administration of public affairs as well as proper disbursements of the expenditures of the State. 2 Travel expenses to be supplied by the State to national public employees (hereinafter referred to as "employees" ) and persons other than national public employees and travel expenses supplied to personnel of the Kodan established by laws and orders, the People's Finance Corporation, Housing Loan Corporation, the Japanese Governmeut Corporation for Housing of Allied Personnel and the Civilian Merchant Marine Committee shall, except where specific laws provide otherwise, be in accordance with the provisions of this Law.

(Meaning of the Terms) Article 2. When used in this Law, the terms laiddown in the following items shall have meanings as indicated in the respective items: (1) The term "Chief of each Agency" means the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President of the House of Councillors, the Prime Minister, the Attorney-General, the Minister of each Minitry, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the President of the Board of Audit, the President of the National Personnel Authority, the Presidents or Chairmen of the Kodan estadlished by laws and orders, the President of the People's Finance Corporation, the President of the Housing Loan Corporation, the Chairman of the Japanese Goverment Corporation for Housing of Allied Personnel and the Chairman of the Civilian Merchant Marine Committee; (2) The term "domestic travel" means travel made in this country (which includes Honshu, Hokkaido, Shikoku, Kyushu and such other islands adjacent thereto as designated by Ministry of Finance Ordinance;hereinafter the same); (3) The term "foreign travel" means travel made between this country and foreign countries (meaning the areas outside this country (inclusive of high seas);hereinafter the same) and travel in and between foreign countries; (4) The term "temporary duty travel" means travelling of an employee on official business temporarily away from his office (or from residence in the case of an employee having no office to serve on full time basis) or travelling of a person other than employee on official business temporarily away from his residence; (5) The term "travel to newly assigned office" means travel of a newly appointed employee from his residence to his office for removal in compliance with his appointment or travel of an incumbent employee from one office to another for removal in compliance with the change of his service; (6) The term "home travel" means travel of an employee himself, his dependents or bereaved dependents to the place where they may sustain their living, after his separation from service or death; (7) The term "dependents" means, in case of domestic travel, the spouse of an employee (including a person who, although report has not been filed on the marriage, has in fact been related to him in a manner similar to marriage;hereinafter the same), his children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents, brothers and sisters who are dependent on and supported by his income for the most part, and in case of foreign travel, the spouse of an employee and his children who are dependent on and supported by his income for the most part; (8) The term "bereaved dependents" means the spouse of an employee, his children, parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters, and other relatives who lived together with the employee in one household at the time of his death. 2 The words "positions of the grade......" as used in this Law shall be the positions of the grade concerned according to the general salary schedule as prescribed in Article 6 paragraph 2 item (1) of the Law concerning the Compensation of Employees in the Regular Government Service (Law No.95 of 1950) and the positions corresponding thereto as the Chief of each Agency shall designate upon consultation with the Minister of Finance with regard to persons not governed by the said general salary schedule. 3 The words "place of......" or "...... place" as used in this Law shall mean the area of the city, town or village (or the whole area of special wards (ku) in case of To) within this country or similar area in a foreign country.

(Supply of Travel Expenses) Article 3. An employee making a temporary duty travel or travel to newly assigned office shall be supplied with expenses for the travel. 2 In case an employee, his spouse or bereaved dependents fall under any of the following cases, travel expenses shall be supplied to the person mentioned in the item concerned: (1) The employee, in case he is ordered, while making a temporary duty travel or a travel to newly assigned office in this country, to retire, to be dismissed, to lose his position or to be temporarily suspended from his service (hereinafter referred to as "retirement, etc." )(excluding cases where travel is not required in connection with retirement, etc.); (2) The bereaved dependents of an employee, in case the employee dies while making a temporary duty travel or a travel to newly assigned office within this country; (3) The bereaved dependents of an employee, in case the employee dies after more than two years of service and thereupon his bereaved dependents in this country make a home travel departing from their place of residence within three months from the day following the date of death; (4) The employee, in case he if ordered retirement, etc. at his official duty place in a foreign country and makes a home travel to this country within a certain period of time or he is ordered retirement, etc. during a temporary duty travel or a travel to newly assigned office to or from a foreign country (exclusive of cases where travel is not required in connection with the retirement, etc.); (5) The bereaved dependents of an employee, in case the employee dies at his official duty place in a foreign country or during a temporary duty travel or a travel to newly assigned office in foreign travel; (6) The bereaved dependents (only spouse and children) of an employee, in case the employee dies and thereupon, the bereaved dependents residing in a foreign country make a home travel departing from their place of residence within three months from the day following the date of death; (7) The employee, in case the spouse of the employee serving in a foreign country dies at his official duty place or dies during foreign travel falling under Article 38 paragraph 1 item (1) or (2). 3 If an employee, in case falling under item (1) or (4) of the preceding paragraph, is ordered retirement, etc. due to the causes stated Article 38 items (2) to (5) inclusive or respective item of Article 82 of the National Public Service Law (Law No.120 of 1947) or similar causes, he shall not be supplied with travel expenses provided for in the preceding paragraph, regardless of its provisions. 4 In case those who are expected to be appointed newly as employees have appeared in person in response to the call, they shall be supplied with travel expenses. 5 Employees or those other than employees who make a travel at the request or demand of agencies of the State to assist execution of official business as a witness, expert witness, interpreter, etc. shall be supplied with travel expenses. 6 In case laws specifically provide for or in case there is the necessity to let persons travel at the expenses of the State, excepting cases prescribed in paragraphs 1, 2, 4 and the preceding paragraph, travel expenses shall be supplied. 7 In cases where a person who is eligible to receive the supply of travel expenses under paragraphs 1 and 2 and paragraph 4 to the preceding paragraph inclusive (including his dependents, if he can receive the supply of expenses for their travel;hereinafter the same in this Article) has the travel order mentioned in Article 4 paragraph 3 cancelled or has died before starting on travel, if there is an amount of money already paid out as expenses of the travel, the portion of the said amount which is sustained as an actual loss on the part of the person shall be given as travel expenses, as may be provided for by Ministry of Finance Ordinance. 8 In case a person who can receive the supply of travel expenses under paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 to 6 inclusive loses a part or the whole of the amount of money supplied by rough estimate as travel expenses (as to a person who has no been supplied with travel expenses by rough estimate, the amount of money to be suppliable by rough estimate as travel expenses) owing to traffic accidents during travel, travel expenses as provided for by Ministry of Finance Ordinance within the amount of money lost may be supplied.

(Travel Order, etc.) Article 4. Travels mentioned in the following items shall be made, according to the classifications mentioned therein, by the travel order or by the travel request (hereinafter referred to as "travel order, etc." ) issued by the Chief of each Agency or a person delegated by him (hereinafter referred to as "travel authorizing officer" ): (1) Travel falling under the provision of paragraph 1 of the preceding Article...... Travel Order; (2) Travel falling under the provision of paragraph 4 or 5 of the preceding Article...... Travel request. 2 The travel authorizing officer may issue a travel order, etc. only when the official business cannot be smoothly performed by means of communications such as telegraph, telephone, post service, etc., and moreover the budget can afford to disburse the expenses of travel. 3 The travel authorizing officer may amend (including cancellation;hereinafter the same), wherever he deems it necessary and in case falling under the preceding paragraph, the already issued travel order, etc. at his own discretion or at the request of a traveller under the provisions of Article 5 paragraph 1 or 2. 4 The travel authorizing officer shall issue or amend travel order, etc. by delivering a written statement of travel order or a written statement of travel request (hereinafter called "written travel order, etc." );provided that if he has not time enough to deliver a written travel order, etc., he may issue or amend travel order, etc. verbally. 5 In case the travel authorizing officer has issued or amended travel, order, etc. verbally, he shall deliver a written travel order to the traveller concerned as early as possible thereafter. 6 The matters to be stated and the form of the written travel order, etc. shall be provided for by Ministry of Finance Ordinance.

(Travel not in compliance with Travel Order, etc.) Article 5. If a traveller finds it impossible, due to the necessity of official business or to natural disaster or other inevitable cause, to travel in compliance with the given travel order, etc.(including the travel order, etc. amended in accordance with the provision of paragraph 3 of the preceding Article;hereinafter the same in this Article), he shall apply for an amendment of the travel order, etc. to the travel authorizing officer in advance. 2 In case a traveller has not time enough to apply for the amendment of the travel order, etc. under the preceding paragraph, he shall apply for the amendment of the travel order, etc. to the travel authorizing officer as early as possible after he has made a travel not in compliance with the travel order, etc. 3 When a traveller has made a travel not in compliance with the travel order, etc. in case he has not applied for amendment of the travel order, etc. or in case he has not been given authorization for its amendment although he has applied for it, in accordance with the preceding two paragraphs, he shall be supplied with travel expenses only for the part of travel authorized by the travel order.

(Kind of Travel Expenses) Article 6. Travel expenses shall comprise railway fare, passage fare, flight fare, traffic charge, per diem allowance, lodging expense, boarding expense, transfer expense, after-arrival expense, dependents'transfer expense, outfit allowance and expense for disposal and transportation of the dead. 2 Railway fare shall be supplied for travel by railway by giving passenger fare and others according to the mileage. 3 Passage fare shall be supplied for travel by ship by giving passenger fare and others according to the mileage. 4 Flight fare shall be supplied for travel by air by giving passenger fare according to the mileage. 5 Traffic charge shall be supplied for travel by road (except by railway;hereinafter the same) on the basis of fixed rate per kilometer or in the amount of actual expense required according to the mileage. 6 Per diem allowance shall be supplied in the fixed amount per day according to the number of days spent during travel. 7 Lodging expense shall be supplied in the fixed amount per night according to the number of nights spent during travel. 8 Boarding expense shall be supplied in the fixed amount per night for travel by ship or air according to the number of nights spent during travel. 9 Transfer expense shall be supplied in the fixed amount according to the mileage for removal of household goods in connection with a travel to newly assigned office. 10 After-arrival expense shall be supplied in the fixed amount for travel to newly assigned office. 11 Dependents'transfer expense shall be supplied for removal of dependents in connection with a travel to newly assigned office. 12 Outfit allowance shall be supplied in the fixed amount in case of temporary duty travel to or travel to newly assigned office in foreign country. 13 Expense for disposal and transportation of the dead shall be supplied in the fixed amount and others in case falling under Article 3 paragraph 2 item (5) or (7). 14 For domestic travel, the travel expense on daily amount basis may be supplied in stead of the supply of travel-expenses enumerated in paragraph 1. 15 For foreign travel, travel allowance may be paid in stead of travel expenses enumerated in paragraph 1.

(Computation of Travel Expenses) Article 7. Travel expenses shall be computed according to the expenses required for the travel made along the most economical usually travelled route and in the most economical way;provided that in case it is impossible to travel along the most economical usually travelled route or in the most economical way due to the necessity of official business or due to a natural disaster or other inevitable cause, the expenses shall be computed on the basis of the route and the way actually taken.

Article 8. The number of days of travelling for computation of travel expenses shall be the number of days actually spent for the travel, except in cases falling under paragraph 3; provided that, excepting the number of days spent due to the necessity of official business or to natural disaster or other inevitable cause, it shall not exceed the number of days computed by counting travel by railway for every four hundred kilometers, by ship for every two hundred kilometers, or by road for every fifty kilometers as one day travel, respectively. 2 Fractions less than one day produced in the computation in the case under the proviso to the preceding paragraph shall be counted as one day. 3 In cases falling under Article 3 paragraph 2 items (1) to (4) inclusive and item (6), the number of days of travelling for computation of travel expenses shall be the number of days of travelling computed under the proviso to paragraph 1 and the preceding paragraph.

Article 9. The per diem allowance and the lodging expense for sojourn in the same place (meaning the area according to the classification under the provision of Article 2 paragraph 3;hereinafter the same in this Article), if the period of sojourn exceeds thirty days counting from the day following the date of arrival at the said place, shall be the amount obtained by deducting twenty per cent of the fixed amount with respect to the number of days in excess of thirty days and, if the period of sojourn excess of sixty days, the amount obtained by deducting thirty per cent of the fixed amount with respect to the number of days in excess of sixty days. 2 If, while staying in the same place, a temporary duty travel is made temporarily to other place, the period of days for such travel shall be deducted from the period of days of sojourn mentioned in the preceding paragraph.

Article 10. In case a person, who resides or stays for private business in a place other than his official duty place or place of temporary duty travel, makes a travel direct from such place of residence or stay and the amount of expenses for travel from the place of residence or stay to its destination is larger than that of expenses for travel from his official duty place or place of temporary duty travel to the destination, travel expenses required for travel from his official duty place or place of temporary duty travel to the destination shall be supplied for the travel.

Article 11. In case the fixed rates of per diem allowance or lodging expense is caused to vary in connection with travel in the course of the same day, the per diem allowance or lodging expense as computed according to the higher rate shall be supplied.

Article 12. In case it is necessary to compute in divisions the railway fare, passage fare, flight fare or traffic charge (including portions of dependents'transfer expenses corresponding to these travel expenses) due to the change of a fiscal year, the change of the grade of position, etc., during travel by railway, ship, air or road, the travel expenses shall be computed by dividing the itinerary into the part up to the arrival at the first destination and the part after that.

(Procedures relating to the Claim for Payment of Travel Expenses) Article 13. A traveller who wants to receive the supply of travel expenses (including travel expenses supplied in roughly estimated payment) or a traveller who was supplied with travel expenses in roughly estimated payment and who will make a claim for settlement of account shall submit the specified written claims for payment of travel expenses together with necessary documents to be attached thereto verifying the payment to the person in charge of disbursing the travel expenses concerned (hereinafter referred to as "disbursing officer, etc." ). In this case, any person who has failed to submit the whole or a part of the necessary attached documents cannot receive the amount of travel expenses as claimed corresponding to the amount of travel expenses for which the need was not clarified due to the failure to submit the documents. 2 A traveller who was supplied with travel expenses in roughly estimated payment shall make the settlement of account of the travel expenses as prescribed in the preceding paragraph within the specified period of time after completion of his travel. 3 If there is a sum of money to be refunded by the traveller from the travel expenses he was supplied with upon the settlement of account as mentioned in the preceding paragraph, the disbursing officer, etc. shall have the traveller refund the said sum of money within the specified period of time. 4 In case a traveller supplied with travel expenses in roughly estimated payment by the disbursing officer, etc. fails to make the settlement of account within the period of time as mentioned in paragraph 2 or fails to refund the money within the period of time as mentioned in the preceding paragraph, the disbursing officer, etc. shall deduct the amount corresponding to the amount of the expenses supplied in roughly estimated payment or the amount to be refunded from the compensation or the travel expenses of the traveller to be paid by the disbursing officer, etc. thereafter. 5 The kinds, the matters to be stated and the forms of the written claims and documents attached thereto mentioned in paragraph 1, the periods of time in paragraphs 2 and 3 and the kind of the compensation in the preceding paragraph shall be determined by Ministry of Finance Ordinance.

(Travel Expenses for Persons Expected to be Appointed) Article 14. Travel expenses suppliable in accorddance with the provision of Article 3 paragraph 4 shall be such travel expenses as are commensurate with the position to be newly assumed computed following the example of the travel to newly assigned office.

(Travel Expenses for Witness, etc.) Article 15. Travel expenses suppliable in accordance with Article 3 paragraph 5 or 6 shall, except where specific laws provide otherwise, be determined by the Chief of each Agency upon consultation with the Minister of Finance.

CHAPTER II Expenses for Domestic Travel

(Railway Fare) Article 16. The amount suppliable of railway fare shall be the amount of passenger fare (hereinafter referred to as "fare" in this Article) and express charge (including taxes imposed on these charges) which shall be computed in accordance with the provisions of the following respective items: (1) In the case of travel on a railway line on which the fare is graded by three classes, the fare shall be in accordance with the following classification; a) As for the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, employees whose appointment or dismissal requires the attestation of the Emperor and employees enumerated in Article 1 items (4) to (15) inculsive of the Law concerning Compensation for National Public Service Personnel in the Special Government Service (Law No.252 of 1949)(hereinafter referred to as "Prime Minister, etc." ) and also employees in positions of thh grade 11 or higher, the fare of the first class, b) As for employees in positions of between the grade 4 and grade 10, the fare of the second class, c) As for employees in positions of the grade 3 or lower, the fare of the third class. (2) In the case of travel on a railway line on which the fare is graded by two classes, the fare shall be in accordance with the following classification; a) As for the Prime Minister, etc. and employees in positions of the grade 4 or higher, the fare of the higher class, b) As for employees in positions of the grade 3 or lower, the fare of the lower class. (3) In the case of travel on a railway line on which the fare is of a single class, such amount of fare as required for taking the train shall be allowed; (4) In the case of travel on a railway line where express charge is charged, express charge shall be in accordance with following classification, in addition to the fares prescribed in the preceding three items; a) In case of travel on a railway line falling under the provision of item (1) or (2), express charge the grade of which is equal to the grade of the fare mentioned in these provisions, b) In case of travel on a railway line falling under the provision of the preceding item, such express charge as required for taking the train. 2 The express charge as provided in item (4) of the preceding paragraph shall be paid only in the following respective cases: (1) Travelling for five hundred kilometers or longer for one way on a railway line on which a "super-express" train is run; (2) Travelling for one hundred kilometers or longer for one way on a railway line on which an "ordinary express" train or a "semi-express" train is run.

(Passage Fare) Article 17. The amount suppliable of passage fare shall be the amount of passenger fare (including ferry fare and wharsage;hereinafter referred to as "fare" in this Article) and charge for sleeping berth accommodations (including taxes imposed on these charges) which shall be computed in accordance with provisions of the following respective items: (1) In the case of travel by ship of which the fare is graded by three classes, the fare shall be in accordance with the following classification; a) As for Prime Minister, etc. and employees in positions of the grade 8 or higher, the fare of the fist class, b) As for employees in positions of between the grade 4 and grade 7, the fare of the second class, c) As for employees in positions of the grade 3 or lower, the fare of the third class. (2) In the case of travel by ship of which the fare is graded by two classes, the fare shall be in accordance with the following classification; a) As for Prime Minister, etc. and personnel in positions of the grade 4 or higher, the fare of the higher class, b) As for personnel in positions of the grade 3 or lower, the fare of the lower class. (3) In the case of travel by ship of which passenger fare is of a single class, all personnel shall be allowed such fare. (4) If, due to the necessity of official business, charge for sleeping berth accommodations has been required separately, the charge actually paid therefor shall be allowed, in addition to the fares prescribed in the preceding three items. 2 In the case falling under the provision of item (1) or (2) of the preceding paragraph, if travel is made by ship of which passenger fare in the same class is graded by two sub-classes or more, the fare under each item concerned shall be the highest fare among the same class.

(Flight Fare) Article 18. The amount suppliable of flight fare shall be the amount of passenger fare actually paid.

(Traffic Charge) Article 19. The amount of traffic charge shall be in accordance with the fixed amount in Annexed Table No. I;provided that if the fixed amount is not sufficient to meet expenses of the travel actually required due to the necessity of official business or to natural disaster or other inevitable cause, actual expenses shall be supplied. 2 Traffic charge shall be computed by summing up the total mileage;provided that in the case of divisional computation under the provision of Article 12, it shall be computed by totaling the mileages respectively according to the division. 3 In case fractions less than one kilometer are produced in the total mileage, computed under the provision of the preceding paragraph, they shall be cut off.

(Per Diem Allowance) Article 20. The amount of per diem allowance shall be in accordance with the fixed amount in Annexed Table No. I. 2 The amount of per diem allowance in the case of travel by railway for less than one hundred kilometers, by ship for less than fifty kilometers or by road for less than twenty-five kilometers shall, regardless of the provision of the preceding paragraph, be the amount corresponding to one half of the fixed amount provided for in the said paragraph, except in cases of lodging due to the necessity of official business or to a natural disaster or other inevitable cause. 3 In case a travel is made by any combination of the railway, ship and road, the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall apply by regarding four kilometers by railway or two kilometers by ship as one kilometer by road, respectively.

(Lodging Expense) Article 21. The amount of lodging expense shall be in accordance with the fixed amount in Annexed Table No. I fixed according to classification of the area of lodging place. 2 Lodging expense for travel by ship or air shall be supplied only in case of lodging on land after landing due to the necessity of official business or to natural disaster or other inevitable cause.

(Boarding Expense) Article 22. The amount of boarding expense shall be in accordance with the fixed amount in Annexed Table No. I. 2 Boarding expense shall be supplied only in case where charge for board must be paid besides passage fare or flight fare or where, although neither is required, charge for board must be paid.

(Transfer Expense) Article 23. The amount of the transfer expenseshall be in accordance with the amounts provided for in the following items: (1) In the case of transfer of dependents at the time of the employee's travel to newly assigned office, the fixed amount in Annexed Table No. I as fixed according to the distance between the formerly assigned and newly assigned offices; (2) In case the transfer of dependent is not made at the time of employee's travel to newly assigned office, an amount equivalent to one half of the fixed amount provided for in the preceding item; (3) In case a person does not transfer his dependents at the time of travel to his newly assigned office but does transfer them within one year counting from the day following the date of issuance of the order of the travel, an amount equivalent to the fixed amount stipulated in the preceding item (if another travels to newly assigned office was moreover made before removing dependents after the travel to the newly assigned office, the total of such amounts as may be payable for each travel to newly assigned office in accordance with the preceding item). 2 When in case of item (3) of the preceding paragraph, the fixed amount of transfer expense suppliable at the time of transfer of the dependents is different from that at the time when an employee traveled to his newly assigned office, the amount prescribed in the said item shall be computed on the basis of the fixed amount of transfer expense to be supplied at the time of transfer of the dependents. 3 The travel authorizing officer shall, in case there are special reasons, may prolong the period provided for in paragraph 1 item (3).

(After-arrival Expense) Article 24. The amount suppliable of afterarrival expense shall be the amounts equivalent to the amount for five days of the fixed amount of per diem allowance in Annexed Table No. I and the amount for five nights of the fixed amount of lodging expense in the same Table according to classification of the area of the new official duty place.

(Dependents'Transfer Expense) Article 25. The amount of the dependents'transfer expense shall be in accordance with the amounts stipulated in the following respective items: (1) In the case of a person accompanying his dependents from his formerly assigned office to newly assigned one at the time of travel to the latter office, the total of amount computed in accordance with the following respective provisions, for every dependent sustained as of the date of issuance of the order of the said travel, according to his age at the time of his transfer; a) As for a dependent over twelve years old, an amount equivalent to the full amount of such railway fare, passage fare, flight fare, and traffic charge, and two-thirds of the amount of such per diem allowance, lodging expense, boarding expense and after-arrival expense as are payable to the employee concerned at the time of his transfer, b) As for a dependent of younger than twelve years but elder than six years an amount equivalent to one half of the amount specified in sub-item (a), c) As for a dependent under six years, an amount equivalent to one-third of the amounts of such per diem allowance, lodging expense, boarding expense, and afterarrival expense as are payable to the employee concerned at the time of his transfer. (2) Except in the case falling under the preceding item, in the case of Article 23 paragraph 1 item (1) or (3), the amount computed by applying the provision of preceding item as for the travel of dependents concerned from a place of their former residence to one of new residence;provided that it shall not exceed the amount payable under the preceding item (if there was made another travel to newly assigned office before removing dependents after the travel to newly assigned office, the total of such amounts as may be payable for each travel in accordance with the preceding item.) 2 In case child of the employee was an embryo at the time of issuance of order for travelling to newly assigned office, as for the accounting of the amount of the dependent's transfer expense of which the transfer was made with his child after his travelling to the newly assigned office, the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall apply by regarding the child as a dependent on the day he was ordered to travel to newly assigned office.

(Travel Expenses on Daily Amount Basis) Article 26. The coverage of personnel supplied with travel expenses on daily amount basis in accordance with the provision of Article 6 paragraph 14, and its rate, conditions and procedures of payment shall be determined by the Chief of each Agency upon consultation with the Minister of Finance;provided that the amount suppliable must be fixed in consideration of the nature of the travel expenses on daily amount basis concerned and not exceed standards established by this Law with respect to the amounts of travel expense enumerated in Article 6 paragraph 1.

(Expenses for Travel within the Official Duty Place) Article 27. As for the travelling within the official duty place in case where travelling falls under anyone of the following items, only such amount of travel expenses as provided for in the item concerned and the travel expenses on daily amount basis provided on the basis of the travel expenses concerned shall be supplied: (1) In the case of a travel made for eight kilometers or more in distance or for five consecutive hours or more in length of time, the per diem allowance the amount of which shall, not to exceed one half of the fixed amount of the per diem allowance in Annexed Table No. I and according to the standard as established by Ministry of Finance Ordinance, be determined by the Chief of each Agency; (2) In the case of a lodging due to the necessity of official business or to natural disaster or other inevitable cause, the lodging expense of the amount of actual expenses required which shall not exceed the fixed amount of the lodging expenses stipulated in Annexed Table No. I; (3) In case a travel falls under one of the items of Article 28 paragraph 1, railway fare, passage fare, traffic charge or transfer expense of such amounts as stipulated therein.

(Expenses for Travel within the Same Place outside the Official Duty Place) Article 28. As regards travel within the same one place which is located outside the official duty place, railway fare, passage fare, traffic charge, transfer expense, after-arrival expense and dependents'transfer expense shall not be supplied therefor;provided that in case the travelling falls under one of the following items, the travel expenses of such amount as provided for in the item concerned shall be supplied: (1) In the case of travelling by railway for one hundred kilometers or more, by ship for fifty kilometers or more, or by road for more than twenty-five kilometers or more, railway fare, passage fare or traffic charge of the amount under the provision of Article 16, Article 17 or Article 19; (2) Except in the case falling under the provision of the preceding item, in case passage fare or traffic charge of a large amount is required especially due to the necessity of official business or to natural disaster or other inevitable cause, and expenses actually required exceed the amount equivalent to one half of the fixed amount of per diem allowance suppliable for the travelling concerned, actual expense of passage fare or traffic charge equivalent to the said excess; (3) In case an employee who was ordered to travel to his newly assigned office is directed to take or vacate his residence in the Government housing quarters for the employees, actual expenses required for the removal within the limit of the amount equivalent to one-third of the fixed amount of transfer expense for the travel by railway for less than one hundred kilometers in Annexed Table No. I. 2 The provision of Article 20 paragraph 3 shall apply mutatis mutandis in the case of item (1) of the preceding paragraph.

(Travel Expenses for Retired Persons, etc.) Article 29. Travel expenses suppliable in accordance with the provision of Article 3 paragraph 2 item (1) shall be as provided for in the following items: (1) In the case of an employee who has been ordered retirement, etc. during his temporary duty travel, the travel expenses as provided for in the followings; a) Such travel expenses from the place where he found himself on the day he was ordered retirement, etc.(hereinafter referred to as "the day of retirement, etc." ) to the place where he found himself on the day he was notified of the retirement order, etc. or knew of the occurence of the fact for the cause therefor (hereinafter referred to as "the day of knowing of retirement, etc." ), as are commensurate with the position heretofore held, b) Only in case a person makes a travel in connection with the retirement, etc. within three months from the day following the day of knowing of retirement, etc., such travel expenses from the place where he found himself on the day of knowing of retirement, etc. to the former official duty place as are commensurate with the positions heretofore held. (2) In the case of an employee who has been ordered retirement, etc. during his travel to newly assigned office, such travel expenses computed according to the example of the travel to newly assigned office and applying the provision of the preceding item by regarding the new duty place as the former one, as are commensurate with the position heretofore held. 2 In case an employee serving in a foreign country falls under the provision of Article 3 paragraph 2 item (1) while making a temporary duty travel to this country, travel expenses supplied under the said provision shall be travel expenses computed by applying mutatis mutandis the provision of Article 44 paragraph 1 item (3) b) or item (4) or item (5) as well as paragraph 2, in addition to those computed in applying the provision of item (1) of the preceding paragraph by regarding the place of his temporary duty travel in the country as the former official duty place.

(Travel Expenses for Bereaved Dependents) Article 30. Travel expenses suppliable in accordance with the provision of Article 3 paragraph 2 item (2) shall be as provided for in the following item: (1) In case an employee dies during a temporary duty travel, such expenses of travel for each way from or to the place of death and to or from his former official duty place as are commensurate with the position heretofore held; (2) In case an employee dies during his travel to newly assigned office, such expenses of travel from the place of death to the new official duty place computed according to the example of the travel to newly assigned office as are commensurate with the position heretofore held. 2 In case an employee serving in a foreign country falls under the provision of Article 3 paragraph 2 item (2) while making a temporary duty travel to this country, the travel expenses supplied under the said provision shall be travel expenses to be computed by applying mutatis mutandis the provision of item (1) of the preceding paragraph by regarding the place of his temporary duty travel to this country as the former official duty place. 3 The order of the bereaved dependents to be supplied with travel expenses prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs shall follow that enumerated in Article 2 paragraph 1 item (8) and among those in the same sequence the eldest shall be placed in the first order. 4 Travel expenses suppliable in accordance with the provision of Article 3 paragraph 2 item (3) shall be railway fare, passage fare, traffic charge and boarding expense to be computed, by applying to the provision of Article 25 paragraph 1 item (1), for travel from the place of dependents'residence to the place where the home travel is destined (or in case of home travel to a foreign country, the place in this country of leaving for the foreign country). In this case, "as of the date of issuance of the order of the said travel" mentioned in the said item shall read "as of the date of death of the employee" .

CHAPTER III Expenses for Foreign Travel

(Travel Expenses for Passing Through this Country) Article 31. If in a foreign travel any part of this country is passed through expenses for the travel in such area shall be supplied in accordance with the provisions in the preceding Chapter;provided that transfer expense, passage fare or flight fare in the case of travel by a ship or an airplane on a foreign service departing from or arriving in this country and the per diem allowance and boarding expense from the day of leaving this country or up to the day of reaching this country shall be in accordance with the provisions in this Chapter. 2 In the case of the main provision of the preceding paragraph, as for the application of the provision of Article 25 paragraph 1, the place of leaving for a foreign country in case of the travel starting from this country shall be regarded as the new official duty place or new place of residence and the place of arrival from a foreign country in case of the travel arriving in this country as the former official duty place or former place of residence.

(Railway Fare) Article 32. The amount suppliable of railway fare shall be the amount of passenger fare, (hereinafter referred to as "fare" in this Article), express charge and sleeping berth charge (including taxes imposed on these charges) as provided for in the following items: (1) In the case of travel on a railway line on which the fare is graded by more than two classes, the fare of the highest class shall be allowed; (2) In the case of travel on a railway line on which the fare is of a single class, such fare shall be allowed; (3) When the Prime Minister, etc. and employees in positions of the grade 11 or higher have made the use of special seat accommodations in the necessity of official business, fareand charge actually paid therefor shall be allowed in addition to the fares mentioned in the preceding two items; (4) When express charge or charge for sleeping berth accommodations was separately required in the necessity of official business, such charges as actually paid shall be allowed in addition to the fares mentioned in the preceding three items.

(Passage Fare) Article 33. The amount allowable of passage fare shall be the amount of passenger fare (including ferry fare and wharfage;hereinafter referred to as "fare" in this Article) and charge for sleeping berth (including taxes imposed on these charges) as provided for in the following items: (1) In the case of travel by ship of which the fare is graded by more than two classes, the fare of the highest class (if the highest class is further divided into more than two classes, the fare of the highest rate in that class) shall be allowed; (2) In the case of travel by ship of which the fare is of a single class, such fare shall be allowed; (3) When, in the necessity of official business, the Prime Minister, etc. and personnel in positions of the grade 11 or higher have, upon prior permission of the travel authorizing officer, made the use of a cabin the use of which requires special fare, the fare actually paid for the use of the cabin shall be allowed in addition to the fares mentioned in the preceding two items; (4) When charge for sleeping berth accomodations is separately expended in the necessity of official business, the charge actually paid shall be allowed in addition to the passenger fares mentioned in the preceding three items.

(Flight Fare and Traffic Charge) Article 34. Flight fare shall be supplied in the amount of passenger fare actually paid. 2 Traffic charge shall be supplied in the amount of actual expense.

(Per Diem Allowance, Lodging Expense and Boarding Expense) Article 35. Per diem allowance and lodging expense shall be supplied in the amounts fixed in the Annexed Table No. II according to the classification of destination. 2 Boarding expense shall be supplied in the amount fixed in the Annexed Table No. II. 3 The provisions of Article 20 paragraphs 2 and 3, Article 21 paragraph 2 as well as Article 22 paragraph 2 shall apply to the per diem allowance, lodging expense and boarding expense for foreign travel.

(Transfer Expense) Article 36. Transfer expense shall be supplied in the amount stipulated in each of the following items: (1) In case an employee upon his travel to newly assigned office, accompanies his dependents from the former to new official duty place the amount of transfer expense fixed in Annexed Table No. II according to the distance between the former and new official duty places; (2) In case an employee does not accompany his dependents upon travel to newly assigned office, an amount equivalent to one half of the amount of the preceding item; (3) In case an employee does not accompany his dependents upon travel to newly assigned office but calls them in the case falling under the provision of Article 38 paragraph 1 item (2), an amount equivalent to the amount stipulated in the preceding item. 2 The provision of Article 23 paragraph 2 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the transfer expense in case of foreign travel.

(After-arrival Expense) Article 37. After-arrival expense shall be supplied in the amount corresponding to the fixed amount for seven days of the per diem allowance and to the fixed one for seven nights of the lodging expense according to the classification of the area of the new official duty place in Annexed Table No. II.

(Dependents'Transfer Expense) Article 38. Dependents'transfer expense shall be supplied in any of the following cases: (1) Where an employee upon his travel to newly assigned office accompanies his dependents from the former to new official duty places with the permission of the Chief each Agency; (2) Where an employee, while serving in a foreign country, lets his dependents come to his official duty place or lets them return to this country, but once for one official duty place, with permission of the Chief of each Agency; (3) Where a person, after having travelled to his new official duty place in a foreign country from this country, transfers his dependents, with the permission of the Chief of each Agency, from a place of their residence as of the date of issuance of the travel order to another place in this country, but once, within one year from the day following the said date. 2 The amount of dependents'transfer expense in the cases of items (1) and (2) of the preceding paragraph, shall be the total of amounts computed in accordance with the provision of any of the following items for every dependent as of the date of issuance of the order of the travel to newly assigned office according to the age as of the day of their transfer: (1) As for the spouse, an amount equivalent to the full amount of such railway fare, passage fare, flight fare and traffic charge, and to two-thirds of the amount of such per diem allowance, lodging expense, boarding expense, after-arrival expense and outfit allowance as are payable to the employee concerned at the time of transfer of the spouse; (2) As for the child of over twelve years, an amount equivalent to the full amount of such railway fare, passage fare, flight fare and traffic charge and to two-thirds of the amount of such per diem allowance, lodging expense, boarding expense, and after-arrival expense, as are payable to the employee concerned at the time of transfer of the child; (3) As for the child under twelve years, an amount equivalent to one half of the amount stipulated in the preceding item. 3 The amount of dependents'transfer expense under the provision of paragraph 1 item (3) shall be computed in compliance with the provision of Article 25 paragraph 1 item (1) by regarding the place of their former residence as former official duty place and the place of their new residence as the new official duty place. 4 The provision of Article 25 paragraph 2 shall apply mutatis mutandis with respect to computation of the amount of dependents'transfer expense under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs.

(Outfit Allowance) Article 39. Outfit allowance shall be supplied in the amount fixed in the Annexed Table No. II according to the classification of the area of destination and the period of travel. 2 In case an employee who was ordered a travel to his newly assigned office in or a temporary duty travel to a foreign country, had already received the outfit allowance, the amount of outfit allowance to be supplied to him shall, regardless of the provision of the preceding paragraph, be within the limit of the amount produced after deducting the total amount of outfit allowances received by him within the period of one year commencing from the day on which he was ordered the said travel from the amount of the said allowance stipulated in the same paragraph.

(Expense for Disposal and Transportation of the Dead) Article 40. Expense for disposal and transportation of the dead shall be paid, in the case falling under the provision of Article 3 paragraph 2 item (5), in the fixed amount in Annexed Table No. II according to the classification of the place where an employee died and, in case falling under the provision of item (7) of the same paragraph, in the amount equivalent to one half of the said fixed amount. 2 In the case of an employee falling under the provision of Article 3 paragraph 2 item (5) and in case the place where he dies is within this country, the amount of expense for disposal and transportation of the dead shall be the amount provided for in the following item, regardless of the provision of the preceding paragraph: (1) In case an employee dies during temporary duty travel, travel expenses to be computed in applying to the provision of Article 30 paragraph 1 item (1), by regarding the place within this country where there is located an agency he belongs to (meaning an office of the Chief of each Agency;hereinafter the same)(in case there is no agency he belongs to, Tokyo;hereinafter the same) as the former official duty place; (2) In case an employee dies during travel to newly assigned office, travel expenses to be computed in applying to the provision of Article 30 paragraph 1 item (2) by regarding the place where there is located his agency within this country as the new official duty place. 3 In case the spouse of an employee serving in a foreign country falls under the provision of Article 3 paragraph 2 item (7) and the place of death of the spouse is somewhere in this country, the amount of expense for disposal and transportation of the dead supplied under the said provision shall be the amount stipulated in the following respective items regardless of the provision of paragraph 1: (1) In case the spouse dies during the travel falling under the provision of Article 38 paragraph 1 item (1), an amount equivalent to one-half of the amount computed in applying to the provision of item (2) of the preceding paragraph in such a manner as if the employee died; (2) In case the spouse dies during the travel falling under the provision of Article 38 paragraph 1 item (2), an amount equivalent to one-half of the amount computed in applying to the provision of item (1) of the preceding paragraph in a manner as if the employee died. 4 The provision of Article 30 paragraph 3 shall apply with respect to the order of bereaved dependents who fall under the provision of Article 3 paragraph 2 item (5) and are supplied with the expense for disposal and transportation of the dead under paragraph 1 or 2.

(Travel Allowance) Article 41. The coverage of personnel who are paid the travel allowance in accordance with the provision of Article 6 paragraph 15, the amount of the said allowance, conditions and procedures of payment shall be determined on each occasion by the Chief of each Agency upon consultation with the Minister of Finanec;provided that the said amount shall not exceed the standard as provided for by this Law with respect to the amount of the travel expenses stipulated in Article 6 paragraph 1 according to the nature of the travel allowance.

(Expenses for Travel within the Official Duty Place) Article 42. The provision of Article 27 (excluding the provision pertaining to the travel expense on daily amount basis and transfer expense) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the expenses for travel within the official duty place in a foreign country. In this case, "Annexed Table No. I" mentioned in items (1) and (2) of the same Article shall read "Annexed Table No. II" and "under one of the items of Article 28 paragraph 1" in item (3) of the said Article seall read "under the provision of Article 28 paragraph 1 item (1) or (2) which applies mutatis mutandis in Article 43" .

(Expenses for Travel within the Same Place Outside the Official Duty Place) Article 43. The provisions of Article 28 paragraph 1 items (1) and (2) as well as paragraph 2 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the expenses for travel within the same place outside the official duty place in a foreign country. In this case "Article 16, Article 17 or Article 19" mentioned in item (1) of paragraph 1 of the same Article shall read "Article 32, Article 33 or Article 34 paragraph 2" .

(Travel Expenses for Retired Person) Article 44. Travel expenses to be paid in accordance with the provision of Article 3 paragraph 2 item (4) shall be as provided for in the following respective items: (1) In case an employee serving in a foreign country was ordered retirement, etc. at his official duty place, the travel expenses as provided for in the following sub-items; a) Such per diem allowance and lodging expense fixed according to the classification of the area of his former official duty place for the period from the day of retirement, etc. to the day of knowing of the retirement, etc. as are commensurate with his former position, b) Only when he makes a home travel to this country deperting from his former official duty place within three months from the day following the day of knowing of retirement, etc., travel expenses enumerated below, i. Per diem allowance and lodging expense fixed according to the classification of the area of his former official duty place from the day following the day of knowing of retirement, etc. to the day preceding the day of departure, as are commensurate with his position;provided that the amounts paid of per diem allowance and lodging expense shall not exceed the amounts for thirty days of the fixed amounts and for thirty nights of the fixed amount, respectively. ii. Such travel expenses computed in compliance with the example of the travel to newly assigned office from his former official duty place to the place where there is located the agency he had belonged to, as are commensurate with his former position (excluding after-arrival expense). (2) In case an employee was ordered retirement, etc, at the place of his temporary duty travel in a foreign country and made travel from the place in connection with the retirement, etc. without returning to his former official duty place, travel expenses computed according to the example of temporary duty travel and in compliance with the provision of the preceding item by regarding the place of temporary duty travel as former official duty place; (3) In case an employee serving in a foreign country was ordered retirement, etc. at the place or temporary duty travel in this country and made travel from the place in connection with the retirement, etc. without returning to his former official duty place, travel expenses as provided for in the following sub-items; a) Such per diem allowance and lodging expense prescribed in Article 20 paragraph 1 and Article 21 paragraph 1 according to the classification of the area of the place of temporary duty travel from the day following the day of retirement, etc. to the day of knowing of retirement, etc., as are commensurate with the position heretofore held, b) Only when he made travel in connection with retirement, etc. departing from the place of temporary duty travel within three months from the day following the day of knowing of retirment, etc., such travel expenses prescribed in the preceding Chapter computed according to the example of temporary duty travel from the place of such travel to the place where there is located the agency he had belonged to, as are commensurate with the position heretofore held. (4) In case an employee serving in a foreign country was ordered retirement, etc. at the place of temporary duty travel in a foreign country or in this country and made travel in connection with retirement, etc. after retruning to his official duty place from the place of temporary duty travel, travel expense as provided for in the following sub-items; a) In case an employee returns to his former official duty place from the place of temporary duty travel in a foreign country, per diem allowance and lodging expense computed in applying to the provision of item (1) a) by regarding the place of temporary duty travel as the former official duty place, b) In case an employee returns to his former official duty place from the place of temporary duty travel in this country, per diem allowance and lodging expense computed in applying to the provision of the provision of the preceding item a), as are commensurate with the position heretofore held, c) Only when an employee returns to his former official duty place departing from the place of temporary duty travel within one month from the day following the day of knowing of retirement, etc., travel expenses stipulated in the following numbers in addition to those prescribed in a) or b) above, i. Such per diem allowance and lodging expense provided for in Article 35 paragraph 1 or Article 20 paragraph 1 and Article 21 paragraph 1 according to the area of the place of temporary duty travel for the period from the day following the day of knowing of retirement, etc. to the day preceding the day of departure, as are commensurate with the position heretofore held;provided that the amounts paid of per diem allowance and lodging expense shall not exceed the amount for fifteen days of the fixed amount and that for fifteen nights of the fixed amount, respectively. ii. Such travel expenses computed according to the example of temporary duty travel from the place of such travel to the former official duty place, as are commensurate with the position heretofore held (excluding outfit allowance). iii. Only when he makes travel in connection with retirement, etc. within two months from the day following the day of arriving at his former official duty place, travel expenses computed in applying to the provision of item (1) b) by regarding the day of arrival at the former official duty place as the day of knowing of retirement, etc. (5) If it is necessary for an employee serving in a foreign country, in case of items (2) and (3), to remove his personal effects or dependents from his former official duty place to this country, such transfer expense and dependents'transfer expense (excluding portions corresponding to after-arrival expense) from the former official duty place to the place where there is located the agency he had belonged to, as are commensurate with the position heretofore held, in addition to the travel expenses of the said items. 2 The Chief of each Agency may, if he deems it necessary due to natural disasters or other inevitable causes, prolong the period stated in item (1) b) and item (3) b) or item (4) c) of the preceding paragraph. 3 Travel expenses to be paid in accordance with the provision of Article 3 paragraph 2 item (4) in case of an employee being ordered retirement, etc. on the way of foreign travel, except in cases falling under the provision of paragraph 1 items (2) to (4) inclusive, shall be provided for by Ministry of Finance Ordinance in compliance with the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs.

(Travel Expenses for Bereaved Dependents) Article 45. The travel expenses to be supplied in accordance with the provision of Article 3 paragraph 2 item (6) shall be such transfer expense and such dependents'transfer expense from the former official duty place of the employee concerned to the place of the agency he had belonged to, as are commensurate with the position heretofore held (excluding portions corresponding to after-arrival expense) and travel expense computed in applying to the provision of Article 30 paragraph 4 by regarding the place where there is located the agency he had belonged to as the place of his residence.

CHAPTER IV Miscellaneous Provisions

(Adjustment of Travel Expenses) Article 46. In case the amount of travel expenses supplied to travellers in accordance with this Law or other laws pertaining to travel expenses is considered to be unreasonably large when compared with the sum of money actually expended for their travel on account of their making the use of transportation, lodgings, etc., furnished at the expense of the Government or due to other cause, the Chief of each Agency may not supply entirely or party travel expenses corresponding to those portions of travel expenses exceeding the actually expended money. 2 In order to ensure the uniform application of the provision of the preceding paragraph, the Chief of each Agency shall determine, upon consultation with the Minister of Finance, the uniform standards for his administration with respect to the cases where the said paragraph will be applied, and when he intends not to supply travel expenses entirely or partly, he must abide by the said standards.

(Exceptional Case to Travel Expenses) Article 47. In case travel expenses provided for in this Law may not be supplied to employees as they fall under the provision of Article 15 paragraph 3 or Article 68 of the Labor Standard Law (Law No.49 of 1947) or Article 47 of the Seamen's Law (Law No.100 of 1947) or in case travel expenses supplied to them by this Law fall short of travel expenses or expenses that are provided for in Article 15 paragraph 3 or Article 68 of the Labor Standard Law or Article 48 of the Seamen's Law, the Chief of each Agency shall pay them as travel expenses the sum of money corresponding to the said travel expenses or expenses or the sum of money meeting the deficit. 2 In case employees are dismissed against their will during the period of conditional initial appointment prescribed in Article 59 of the National Public Service Law and make home travel within fourteen days from the day they were notified of dismissal, the Chief of each Agency shall supply to them the travel expenses as computed in applying to the provision of Article 30 paragraph 4, as are commensurate with their former position.

(Regulations for Implementation of this Law) Article 48. The procedures for the enforcement of this Law and other metters necessary for its execution shall be provided for by Ministry of Finance Ordinance.