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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="Act" Num="7" PromulgateDay="22" PromulgateMonth="3" Year="27">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby promulgate the Law for Abolition of the Cabinet Ordinance concerning Censorship of Mails, Telegrams and Telephone Calls exercised by the Allied Powers Occupation Forces.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <PromulgateDate>This twenty-second day of the third month of the twenty-seventh year of Showa (March 22, 1952)</PromulgateDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Law No.7</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle>Law for Abolition of the Cabinet Ordinance concerning Censorship of Mails, Telegrams and Telephone Calls exercised by the Allied Powers Occupation Forces</LawTitle>
    <MainProvision>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The Cabinet Ordinance concerning Censorship of Mails, Telegrams and Telephone Calls exercised by the Allied Powers Occupation Forces (Cabinet Ordinance No.43 of 1945) shall be hereby abolished.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </MainProvision>
    <SupplProvision>
      <SupplProvisionLabel>Supplementary Provision:</SupplProvisionLabel>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>This Law shall come into force as from the day of the first coming into force of the Treaty of Peace with Japan.</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </SupplProvision>
  </LawBody>
  <Signatures>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Postal Services</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>SATO Eisaku</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Telecommunications</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>SATO Eisaku</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
  </Signatures>
</Law>