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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="Act" Num="163" PromulgateDay="31" PromulgateMonth="5" Year="26">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendment to the Prime Minister's Office Establishment Law for Adjustment of Councils, Etc.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <PromulgateDate>This thirty-first day of the fifth month of the twenty-sixth year of Showa (May 31, 1951)</PromulgateDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Law No.163</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle>Law for Partial Amendment to the Prime Minister's Office Establishment Law for Adjustment of Councils, Etc.</LawTitle>
    <MainProvision>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The Prime Minister's Office Establishment Law (Law No.127 of 1949) shall be partially amended as follows:</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In the table of Article 15 paragraph 1,<QuoteStruct>
                <TableRow>
                  <TableColumn>
                    <Sentence>"Council for Purchasing Products Manufactured by Disabled Persons</Sentence>
                  </TableColumn>
                  <TableColumn>
                    <Sentence>To investigate and deliberate on the matters of the business of purchasing products manufactured by disabled persons according to the Law for Welfare of Disabled Persons (Law No.283 of 1949)."</Sentence>
                  </TableColumn>
                </TableRow>
              </QuoteStruct>shall be amended as,<QuoteStruct>
                <TableRow>
                  <TableColumn>
                    <Sentence>"Unemployment Counter-measures Council</Sentence>
                  </TableColumn>
                  <TableColumn>
                    <Sentence>To study and deliberate on important matters concerning the framing of comprehensive government policy on unemployment and employment problems.</Sentence>
                  </TableColumn>
                </TableRow>
              </QuoteStruct>"</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
      </Paragraph>
    </MainProvision>
    <SupplProvision>
      <SupplProvisionLabel>Supplementary Provision:</SupplProvisionLabel>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>This Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
  <Signatures>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Welfare, pro tempore</MinisterialTitle>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of State</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>HORI Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Labor</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>HORI Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
  </Signatures>
</Law>