I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendments to the Law for Hydrographic Activities.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This tenth day of the third month of the twenty-sixth year of Showa (March 10, 1951)
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law for Partial Amendments to the Law for Hydrographic Activities
The Law for Hydrographic Activities (Law No.102 of 1950) shall be partially amended as follows:
In Article 1 "to get Maritime Safety at Sea" shall be amended as "to contribute to the safety of communication at sea and in the air" .
The following one Article shall be added next to Article 4:
(Aeronautical Charts and Publications)
Article 4-(2). "Aeronautical charts and publications" in this Law shall mean the aeronautical charts, air almanac, and other aeronautical charts and publications.
The following one paragraph shall be added next to Article 19:
2 The governor of To, Do, Fu or prefecture shall, in case he has licensed the fixed-net fishery or the common fishery which was designated by the Minister of Transportation, under the provision of Article 10 or Article 22 of the Fisheries Law (Law No.267 of 1949), or he has permitted the common fishery designated by the Minister of Transportation in accordance with the provision of the text of Article 66 paragraph 1 of the said Law, report the following items to the Director of the Maritime Safety Agency. In cases where he has annulled or altered the fishery right in accordance with the provisions of Article 37 to Article 40 inclusive of the said Law, or changed the reported item, the same shall also apply to those matters:
(1) The fixed position and the term of fixture of the fixed gears in the case of the fixed-net fishery;
(2) The area of the fishery grounds, the position of the submerged gears and the term of submerging gears as designated by the Minister of Transportation, in the case of the common fishery or the fishery permitted.
The heading of Article 24 shall be amended as follows:
(Protection of Hydrographic Publication, and Aeronautical Charts and Publications)
In Article 24, "or aeronautical charts and publications" shall be added next to "Hydrographic publication," and "or aviation" shall be added next to "navigation" .
In Article 25 paragraph 1, "aeronautical charts," shall be added next to "charts,"
Supplementary Provision:
This Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.