I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendments to the Local Finance Equalization Grant Law.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This twenty-ninth day of the eleventh month of the twenty-sixth year of Showa (November 29, 1951)
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law for Partial Amendments to the Local Finance Equalization Grant Law
The Local Finance Equalization Grant Law (Law No.211 of 1950) shall be partially amended as follows:
In Article 19 paragraph 1, "may, when it has discovered that there has been an error in the figures used as the basis for the computation of the amount of the grant after the computation of the amount of the grant in accordance with the provision of Article 10 paragraph 4 or upon receipt of a request for examination as provided for in paragraph 1 of the preceding Article, allocate the amount of deficit to the amount of the grant it should have received or reduce or make it repay the amount of excess to such amount;provided that in cases of the repay the Commission shall obtain in advance the opinion of the local body concerned in regard to way of repay" shall be amended as "may, in the case where it has discovered that there was an error in the figures used as the basis for the computation of the amount of the grant, after the computation of the grant, in accordance with the provisions of Article 10 paragraph 4 or upon receipt of a request for examination as provided for in paragraph 1 of the preceding Article, if there has occurred a necessity to increase or decrease the basis financial need or basic financial revenue in regard to the local body concerned, consider the amount obtained by adding or deducting the amount to be increased or decreased to or from the amount of the basic financial need or basic financial revenue to be used for the computation of the amount of the grant to be delivered to the local body concerned, as the amount of the basic financial need or basic financial revenue for the fiscal year concerned of the said local body in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations, in the fiscal year when it has discovered that there was an error, or in the fiscal year next to the above" .
In paragraph 3 of the same Article, "the preceding two paragraphs" shall be amended as "the preceding three paragraphs" ;in paragraph 4 of the same Article, "paragraph 1 and paragraph 2" shall be amended as "paragraph 1 to paragraph 3 inclusive" ;paragraph 2 of the same Article shall be made paragraph 3 of the same Article;the numbering of the succeeding paragraphs shall be moved down by one, and next to paragraph 1 of the same Article the following one paragraph shall be added:
2 In the fiscal year after the fiscal year when the erroneous figures were used as the basis of computation of the grant (referred to as the "allocating fiscal year" ;hereinafter the same in this paragraph), with regard to the local body subjected to the application of the provision of the preceding paragraph, whose basic financial revenue for the fiscal year concerned which is to be used for the computation of the amount of grant to be delivered to the local body concerned exceeds the basic financial need even in the case where the provision of the same paragraph does not apply, or whose basic financial revenue exceeds the basic financial need in consequence of the application of the provision of the same paragraph, the Commission may, in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations, deliver the grant out of the fund of the grant for the fiscal year concerned within the limit of the amount of deficit if the amount of the grant delivered as that for the allocating fiscal year is less than that to be delivered, or cause the local body to repay the exceeding portion, within the limit of the amount of excess if the amount of the grant delivered as that for the allocating fiscal year exceeds that to be delivered;provided that, in the case of the repayment, the Commission shall hear, in advance, the opinion of the local body concerned, in regard to the way of the repayment.
In Article 20 paragraph 2, "paragraph 1 and paragraph 4 of the preceding paragraph" shall be amended as "paragraph 1, paragraph 2 and paragraph 5 of the preceding Article" .
Supplementary Provisions:
1 This Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.
2 The provisions of Article 19 paragraph 1 and paragraph 2 of the Local Finance Equalizations Grant Law after amendments, shall also apply, to the local finance equalization grant for the fiscal year 1950-51, concerning which there was an error in regard to the figures used as the basis of computation of the amount.