I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendment to the Judicial Scrivener Law.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This thirteenth day of the sixth month of the twenty-sixth year of Showa (June 13, 1951)
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law for Partial Amendment to the Judicial Scrivener Law
The Judicial Scrivener Law (Law No.197 of 1950) shall be partially amended as follows:
Article 7 shall be amended as follows:
The following one item shall be added to Article 15:
(6) Provisions concerning the fee of Judicial Scrivener.
The following three Articles shall be added next to Article 15:
(Fee of Judicial Scrivener)
Article 15-(2). In case the judicial scriveners association has established the regulations relating to the fee for the judicial scriveners in accordance with the provision of item (6) of the preceding Article, it shall report them to the Attorney-General through the head of the Legal Affairs Bureau or the District Legal Affairs Bureau under which jurisdiction it is located and shall obtain the authorization of the Attorney-General.
2 In case the Attorney-General has received the report mentioned in the preceding paragraph, he shall make a decision to authorize it or not within two months from the day when the judicial scriveners association submitted the documents of such report to the head of the Legal Affairs Bureau or the District Legal Affairs Bureau.
3 If the decision under the preceding paragraph is not made within the term stipulated in the same paragraph, the provisions relating to the fee under paragraph 1 shall be regarded as authorized with the lapse of such term.
Article 15-(3). The judicial scrivener who is not a member of the judicial scriveners association or who is in the area where the judicial scriveners association has not been established shall, with respect to their fee, observe the provisions relating to the fee of the judicial scriveners association in whose area his office is located or of the judicial scriveners association designated by the Attorney-General.
Article 15-(4). No judicial scrivener shall receive the fee concerning his business in violation of the provisions relating to the fee of the judicial scriveners association which he belongs to or which he shall observe in accordance with the provisions of the preceding Article.
In Article 19 paragraph 1, "or the cases where the business is conducted incidental to proper business" shall be deleted.
In Article 20, "or Article 7 paragraph 2" , shall be deleted.
Supplementary Provisions:
1 This Law shall come into force as from July 1, 1951.
2 Any judicial scriveners association which is in existence at the time of enforcement of this Law shall stipulate without delay the provisions relating to the fee of judicial scrivener in the regulations of the judicial scriveners.
3 The precedents under the former provisions shall be followed with respect to the amount of the fee of the judicial scriveners in the area of the judicial scriveners association, until, the authorization of the Attorney-General stipulated in Article 15-(2) of the Judicial Scrivener Law revised by this Law is granted on the provisions relating to the fee of the judicial scriveners under the preceding paragraph.