(Partial Amendments to the Agricultural Land Adjustment Law)
Article 1. The Agricultural Land Adjustment Law (Law No.67 of 1938) shall be partially amended as follows:
"Agricultural Land Commission of City, Town or Village" shall be amended as "city, town or village agricultural commission" and "Agricultural Land Commission of the Metropolis, Hokkaido or Prefecture" as "To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural commission" .
In Art.4 par.1, next to the "the city, town or village agricultural commission" shall be added "(in respect to the city, town or village where, under the provision of Art.2 par.3 of the Agricultural Commission Law, no city, town or village agricultural commission is established, the mayor of the city, town or village;hereinafter the same)" .
Art.14-(8) par.3 and par.4 shall be deleted.
Art.15 to Art.15-(26) inclusive shall be deleted, and Art.15-(27) shall be made Art.15.
Art.15-(28) shall be deleted, and Art.15-(29) shall be made Art.15-(2).
Art.15-(30) to Art.15-(34) inclusive shall be deleted.
Art.17-(2) shall be amended as follows:
Article 17-(2). In this Law, the provisions governing a city, town or village or a mayor of city, town or village shall apply, in respect to a locality where any special ward exists, to the special ward concerned or the head thereof and, in respect to a city under Art.155 par.2 of the Local Autonomy Law, to the ward concerned or the head thereof, and, in respect to a locality where whole-affairs-associations or office-affairs-associations exist, to the associations concerned or the administrators thereof.
Art.17-(3) shall be deleted, Art.17-(4) and Art.17-(5) shall be respectively made Art.17-(3) and Art.17-(4);in Art.17-(6), "Art.17-(4)" shall be amended as "Art.17-(3)" ;and the same Article shall be made "Art.17-(5)" .
(Partial Amendments to the Law for Partial Amendments to the Agricultural Land Adjustment Law)
Article 2. The Law for Partial Amendments to the Agricultural Land Adjustment Law (Law No.240 of 1947) shall be partially amended as follows:
In Art.3 par.1 of the Supplementary Provisions, "the city, town, or village agricultural land commission" shall be amended as "the city, town or village agricultural commission (in respect to the city, town or village where, under the provision of Art.2 par.3 of the Agricultural Commission Law, no city, town or village agricultural commission is established, the mayor of the city, town or village;hereinafter the same)" ;and in Art.3 pars.2 to 6 inclusive, Art.4 and Art.6 par.1 of the Supplementary Provisions, "the city, town, or village agricultural land commission" shall be amended as "the city, town or village agricultural commission" , and "the agricultural land commission of the Metropolis, Hokkaido or prefecture" as "the To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural commission" .
Art.6 par.2 of the Supplementary Provisions shall be amended as follows:
The permission of the governor of To, Do, Fu or prefecture given under the provisions of Art.9 par.3 and the preceding paragraph by the time fixed by the order of the preceding paragraph or the application therefor, shall, after the lapse of the time concerned, be deemed respectively the approval of the city, town or village agricultural commission or the application therefor".
(Partial Amendmedts to the Owner-farmer Establishment Special Measures Law)
Article 3. The Owner-farmer Establishment Special Measures Law (Law No.43 of 1946) shall be partially amended as follows:
"Agricultural Land Commission of a City, Town or Village" shall be amended as "city, town or village agricultural commission" and "Agricultural Land Commission of the Metropolis, Hokkaido, a Special Prefecture or Prefecture" as "To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural commission" .
In Art.3 par.1 item (1), next to "the city, town or village agricultural commission" shall be added "(in respect to the city, town or village where, under the provision of Art.2 par.3 of the Agricultural Commission Law, no city, town or village agricultural commission is established, the mayor of the city, town or village;hereinafter the same)" .
Art.48 shall be amended as follows:
Article 48. With regard to the application of this Law to the city, town or village where, under the provision of Art.2 par.2 of the Agricultural Commission Law, two or more city, town or village agricultural commissions are established, "the limits of City, Town or Village" in Art.3 par.1, Art.4 (including the case where this applies mutatis mutandis in Art.40-(2) par.5), Art.7 par.2 (including the case where this applies mutatis mutandis in Art.40-(4) par.5) and Art.40-(2) par.1, shall read "the limits of the city, town or village agricultural commission" ; "the limits of City, Town or Village adjacent thereto" in Art.3 par.1 item (1), Art.40-(2) par.1 item (1) and par.5 of the same Article, and Art.40-(4) par.5, shall read "the limits of the adjacent city, town or village, or the limits of any other city, town or village agricultural commission in the same city, town or village adjacent to the limits of the city, town or village agricultural commission concerned" ;and "the office of city, town or village" in Art.6 par.5 (including the case where this applies mutatis mutandis in Art.15 par.3), Art.18 par.4 (including the case where this applies mutatis mutandis in Art.29 par.2, and Art.41 par.3), Art.31 par.4 which applies mutatis mutandis in Art.38 par.2, and Art.40-(4) par.4, shall read "the office of the city, town or village agricultural commission concerned" .
(Partial Amendments to the Land Improvement Law)
Article 4. The Land Improvement Law (Law No.195 of 1949) shall be partially amended as follows:
"Agricultural Land Commission of City, Town or Village" shall be amended as "city, town or village agricultural commission" and "Agricultural Land Commission of To, Do, Fu or prefecture" as "To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural commission" .
In Art.3 par.1 item (2), next to "the city, town or village agricultural commission" shall be added "(in respect to the city, town or village where, under the provision of Art.2 par.3 of the Agricultural Commission Law (Law No.88 of 1951), no city, town or village agricultural commission is established, the mayor of the city, town or village;hereinafter the same)" .
In Art.97 par.1, "within the limits of one city, town or village" shall be amended as "within the limits of one city, town or village (in respect to the city, town or village where, under the provision of Art.2 par.2 of the Agricultural Commission Law, two or more city, town or village agricultural commissions are established, the limits of the city, town or village agricultural commission concerned;hereinafter the same in this and the following paragraphs)" ;in the same paragraph, "the Agricultural Land Commission thereof" as "the city, town or village agricultural commission concerned" .
In Art.108 par.3, "city, town or village or" shall be deleted.
In Art.125, ";and the provisions concerning the Agricultural Land Commission of City, Town or Village shall, in a district of city, town or village where a Divisional Agricultural Land commission is established apply to said Divisional Agricultural Land Commission" shall be deleted.
(Partial Amendments to the Farm Tenancy Arbitration Law)
Article 5. The Farm Tenancy Arbitration Law (Law No.18 of 1924) shall be partially amended as follows:
"Agricultural Land Commission of city, town or village" shall be amended as "city, town or village agricultural commission" and "Agricultural Land Commission of To, Do, Fu or prefecture" as "To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural commission" .
In Art.5, "(or the divisional Agricultural Land Commission, in case the same Commission is, in accordance with the provision of Art.17-(2) par.3 of the Agricultural Land Adjustment Law, established of the locality wherein is situated the lands concerned;hereinafter the same)" shall be deleted.
(Partial Amendments to the Cabinet Order concerning the Transfer of Lands under the Owner-farmer Establishment Special Measures Law and the Agricultural Land Adjustment Law)
Article 6. The Cabinet Order concerning the Transfer of Lands under the Owner-farmer Establishment Special Measures Law and the Agricultural Land Adjustment Law (Cabinet Order No.288 of 1950) shall be partially amended as follows:
"City, Town, or Village Agricultural Land Commission" shall be amended as "city, town or village agricultural commission" and "To, Do, Fu or Prefectural Agricultural Land Commission" as "To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural commission" .
In Art.2 par.1 "(including the Divisional Agricultural Land Commission;hereinafter the same)" shall be amended as "(in respect to the city, town or village where, under the provision of Art.2 par.3 of the Agricultural Commission Law (Law No.88 of 1951), no city, town or village agricultural commission is established, the mayor of the city, town or village;hereinafter the same)"
(Partial Amendments to the Local Tax Law)
Article 7. The Local Tax Law (Law No.226 of 1950) shall be partially amended as follows:
In Art.406 par.1 item (2) and Art.425 par.1 item (3), "Member of the agricultural land committee of a local body" shall be amended as "Member of the city, town or village agricultural commission or of the To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural commission" .
(Partial Amendment to the Afforestation Temporary Measures Law)
Article 8. The Afforestation Temporary Measures Law (Law No.150 of 1950) shall be partially amended as follows:
In Art.9 par.7, "the Prefectural Agricultural Land Commission, the City, Town or Village Agricultural Commission" shall be amended as "the To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural commission" .
Par.3 of the Supplementary Provisions shall be deleted.
Supplementary Provisions:
1 This Law shall come into force as from the day of enforcement of the Agricultural Commission Law (Law No.88 of 1951).
2 The city, town or village agricultural land commission (including the divisional agricultural land commission;hereinafter the same) shall, regardless of the provisions of Art.1, continue to exist until the day (in respect to the city, town or village where, under the provision of Art.2 par.3 of the same Law, no city, town or village agricultural commission is established, the day of public notice under par.5 of the same Article;hereinafter the same) when, under the provisions of the Agricultural Commission Law, one or two or more city, town or village agricultural commissions are to be established over the jurisdictional area of the commission concerned, and the To, Do, Fu, or prefectural agricultural land commission shall, regardless of the provisions of Art.1, continue to exist until the day when, under the provisions of the same Law, the To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural commission of the To, Do, Fu or prefecture concerned is to be established and, so far as the city, town or village agricultural land commission or the To, Do, Fu, or prefectural agricultural land commission is concerned, the laws and orders as enumerated in Art.1 to Art.8 inclusive shall apply as before.
3 The disposition made, the procedure taken, and other acts done by the city, town or village agricultural land commission or the To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural land commission, or the disposition made, the procedure taken, and other acts done to the said commission, under the provisions of the laws and orders enumerated in Art.1 to Art.8 inclusive or the provisions of the orders issued thereunder, shall, on and after the day, when, under the provisions of the Agricultural Commission Law, one or two or more city, town or village agricultural commissions have been established over the area of the city, town or village agricultural land commission concerned (in respect to the city, town or village where, under the provision of Art.2 par.3 of the same Law, no city, town or village agricultural commission is established, the day of public notice under par.5 of the same Article;hereinafter the same), or the day, when the To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural commission of the To, Do, Fu or prefecture concerned has been established, be regarded respectively as the disposition made, the procedure taken, and other acts done by the city, town or village agricultural commission concerned (when two or more city, town or village agricultural commissions have been established, the one to be designated by the governor of To, Do, Fu or prefecture, and in respect to the city, town or village where, under the provision of Art.2 par.3 of the same Law, no city, town or village agricultural commission is established, the mayor of the city, town or village) or the To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural commission concerned, or the disposition made, the procedure taken, and other acts done to the said commission under the provisions of laws and orders enumerated in Art.1 to Art.8 inclusive or the orders issued thereunder or the provisions of the Agricultural Commission Law or the orders issued thereunder which correspond to the provisions of the said laws and orders.
4 During the period from the day when, under the provisions of the Agricultural Commission Law, the city, town or village agricultural commission has been established, to the day when, under the provisions of the same Law, the To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural commission is established, the procedure to be taken and other acts to be done, under the provisions of laws and orders, to the To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural commission as regards the functions of the city, town or village agricultural commission concerned (in respect to the city, town or village where, under the provision of Art.2 par.3 of the same Law, no city, town or village agricultural commission is established, the mayor of the city, town or village;hereinafter the same in this paragraph), shall, regardless of the provisions of the laws and orders enumerated in Art.1 to Art.8 inclusive, be taken or done to the To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural land commission, and the procedure to be taken and other acts to be done, under the provisions of laws and orders, by the To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural land commission to the city, town or village agricultural land commission shall be taken or done to the city, town or village agricultural commission.
5 In the case where the To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural commission has been established under the provisions of the Agricultural Commission Law, the procedure to be taken and other acts to be done by the city, town or village agricultural land commission concerned to the To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural land commission under the provision of par.2, shall, if the city, town or village agricultural land commission still continues to exist under the provision of the same paragraph in the area of the To, Do, Fu or prefecture concerned, be taken or done to the To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural commission, and as regards the matters under the jurisdiction of the city, town or village agricultural land commission concerned, the procedure to be taken and other acts to be done, under the provisions of laws and orders, by the To, Do, Fu or prefectural agricultural commission to the city, town or village agricultural commission (in respect to the city, town or village where, under the provision of Art.2 par.3 of the same Law, no city, town or village agricultural commission is established, the mayor of the city, town or village), shall be taken or done to the city, town or village agricultural land commission concerned.