Article 56-(2). Those who, having graduated from the public-health nurse training school or the midwife training school or having been licensed as midwife on or before August 31, 1951 or having been licensed as nurse on or before August 31, 1950, in areas other than Japan proper, have been authorized by the prefectural governor to have the abilities equal or superior to the abilities of those who have been entitled to become public-health nurse, midwife or nurse in accordance with the former Public-Health Nurse Regulation, the former Midwife Regulation, or the former Nurse Regulation, may, for the time being, be licensed or registered even after the period of time prescribed in Article 49 paragraph 2 and Article 50 paragraph 2 by the prefectural governor according to the former Public-Health Nurse Regulation, former nurse regulation or former Midwife Regulation.