I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendments to the Law concerning Control of Sea-Otter and Fur-Seal Hunting.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This fourth day of the fifth month of the twenty-fifth year of Showa (May 4, 1950)
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law for Partial Amendments to the Law concerning Control of Sea-Otter and Fur-Seal Hunting
The Law concerning Control of Sea-Otter and Fur-Seal Hunting (Law No.21 of 1912) shall be partially amended as follows:
To the end of Article 1, "The same shall apply to manufacturing, processing or selling of any fur or finished product of sea-otter and fur-seal" shall be added;and the following one paragraph shall be added to the same Article: 2
The provision of the preceding paragraph shall apply mutatis mutandis to the possession of any sea-otter or fur-seal, or any fur thereof or finished product therefrom which was hunted, manufactured, processed or sold in violation of the prohibition or restriction as prescribed in the same paragraph.
Article 2 and Article 3 shall be amended as follows:
Article 2. In cases where the Government intends to make any prohibition or restriction in accordance with the provision of the preceding Article, it must hold public hearing in advance and hear the opinions of persons interested therein and persons of learning and experience.
Article 4 shall be amended as follows:
Article 4. Any fisheries supervisor or fisheries supervising official mentioned in Article 74 paragraph 1 of the Fisheries Law shall carry on the business relating to enforcement of this Law under the provisions of the same Article.
In Article 5 "not exceeding five thousand yen" shall be amended as "not exceeding one hundred thousand yen (\100,000)" .
In Article 6, "sea-otter and fur-seal taken or their furs" shall be amended as "any sea-otter or fur-seal hunted or possessed in violation of the prohibition or restriction as prescribed in Article 1, or any fur or finished product of a sea-otter or fur-seal manufactured, processed, sold or possessed in violation of the prohibition or restriction as prescribed in the same Article" ;and Article 7 shall be deleted.
Supplementary Provisions:
1. This Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.
2. With regard to the application of penal provisions to any act committed prior to the enforcement of this Law, the precedents under the former provisions shall still apply.
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry MORI Kotaro
Minister of International Trade and Industry TAKASE Sotaro
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru