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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="Act" Num="71" PromulgateDay="31" PromulgateMonth="3" Year="26">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendment to the Law for Impeachment of Judges.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <PromulgateDate>This thirty-first day of the third month of the twenty-sixth year of Showa (March 31, 1951)</PromulgateDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Law No.71</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle>Law for Partial Amendment to the Law for Impeachment of Judges</LawTitle>
    <MainProvision>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The Law for the Impeachment of Judges (Law No.137 of 1947) shall be partially amended as follows:</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Article 5 paragraphs 8 and 9, "remuneration" shall be amended as "sundry expenses for performing duty" .</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>Article 7 paragraph 2 shall be amended as follows:</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
          <NewProvision>
            <Paragraph Num="2">
              <ParagraphNum/>
              <ParagraphSentence>
                <Sentence>"The Secretariat shall have two Secretaries and three Clerks" .</Sentence>
              </ParagraphSentence>
            </Paragraph>
          </NewProvision>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Article 16 paragraphs 9 and 10, "remuneration" shall be amended as "sundry expenses for performing duty" .</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
      </Paragraph>
    </MainProvision>
    <SupplProvision>
      <SupplProvisionLabel>Supplementary Provision:</SupplProvisionLabel>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence Function="main" Num="1">This Law shall come into force as from April 1, 1951. However, the revised provisions of Article 7 shall come into force as from July 1, 1951.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
  <Signatures>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
  </Signatures>
</Law>