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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="Act" Num="235" PromulgateDay="13" PromulgateMonth="6" Year="26">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendment to the Judicial Scrivener Law.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <PromulgateDate>This thirteenth day of the sixth month of the twenty-sixth year of Showa (June 13, 1951)</PromulgateDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Law No.235</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle>Law for Partial Amendment to the Judicial Scrivener Law</LawTitle>
    <MainProvision>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The Judicial Scrivener Law (Law No.197 of 1950) shall be partially amended as follows:</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>Article 7 shall be amended as follows:</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
          <NewProvision>
            <Article Num="7">
              <ArticleTitle>Article 7.</ArticleTitle>
              <Paragraph Num="1">
                <ParagraphNum/>
                <ParagraphSentence>
                  <Sentence>Deleted.</Sentence>
                </ParagraphSentence>
              </Paragraph>
            </Article>
          </NewProvision>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>The following one item shall be added to Article 15:</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
          <NewProvision>
            <Item Num="6">
              <ItemTitle>(6)</ItemTitle>
              <ItemSentence>
                <Sentence>Provisions concerning the fee of Judicial Scrivener.</Sentence>
              </ItemSentence>
            </Item>
          </NewProvision>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>The following three Articles shall be added next to Article 15:</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
          <NewProvision>
            <Article Num="15_2">
              <ArticleCaption>(Fee of Judicial Scrivener)</ArticleCaption>
              <ArticleTitle>Article 15-(2).</ArticleTitle>
              <Paragraph Num="1">
                <ParagraphNum/>
                <ParagraphSentence>
                  <Sentence>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.</Sentence>
                </ParagraphSentence>
              </Paragraph>
              <Paragraph Num="2">
                <ParagraphNum>2</ParagraphNum>
                <ParagraphSentence>
                  <Sentence>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.</Sentence>
                </ParagraphSentence>
              </Paragraph>
              <Paragraph Num="3">
                <ParagraphNum>3</ParagraphNum>
                <ParagraphSentence>
                  <Sentence>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.</Sentence>
                </ParagraphSentence>
              </Paragraph>
            </Article>
            <Article Num="15_3">
              <ArticleTitle>Article 15-(3).</ArticleTitle>
              <Paragraph Num="1">
                <ParagraphNum/>
                <ParagraphSentence>
                  <Sentence>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.</Sentence>
                </ParagraphSentence>
              </Paragraph>
            </Article>
            <Article Num="15_4">
              <ArticleTitle>Article 15-(4).</ArticleTitle>
              <Paragraph Num="1">
                <ParagraphNum/>
                <ParagraphSentence>
                  <Sentence>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.</Sentence>
                </ParagraphSentence>
              </Paragraph>
            </Article>
          </NewProvision>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Article 19 paragraph 1, "or the cases where the business is conducted incidental to proper business" shall be deleted.</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
        <AmendProvision>
          <AmendProvisionSentence>
            <Sentence>In Article 20, "or Article 7 paragraph 2" , shall be deleted.</Sentence>
          </AmendProvisionSentence>
        </AmendProvision>
      </Paragraph>
    </MainProvision>
    <SupplProvision>
      <SupplProvisionLabel>Supplementary Provisions:</SupplProvisionLabel>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum>1</ParagraphNum>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>This Law shall come into force as from July 1, 1951.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
      <Paragraph Num="2">
        <ParagraphNum>2</ParagraphNum>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>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.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
      <Paragraph Num="3">
        <ParagraphNum>3</ParagraphNum>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>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.</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>