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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="Act" Num="72" PromulgateDay="31" PromulgateMonth="3" Year="26">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendments to the Reformatory Law.</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.72</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle>Law for Partial Amendments to the Reformatory Law</LawTitle>
    <MainProvision>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The Reformatory Law (Law No.169 of 1948) shall be partially amended as follows:</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In the proviso to Article 11 paragraph 1, "six months" shall be amended as "one year" and "for six months" as "for one year" .</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Article 21 paragraphs 1, 2 and 3, "March 31, 1951" shall be amended as "March 31, 1953" .</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>Article 22 shall be deleted.</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
      </Paragraph>
    </MainProvision>
    <SupplProvision>
      <SupplProvisionLabel>Supplementary Provision:</SupplProvisionLabel>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>This Law shall come into force as from April 1, 1951.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
  <Signatures>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Attorney-General</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>OHASHI Takeo</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
  </Signatures>
</Law>