I hereby promulgate the Law for Disposition of Orders under the Reparations Agency based on the Imperial Ordinance concerning Orders to be Issued in consequence of Acceptance of Potsdam Declaration. Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor This twenty-eighth day of the third month of the twenty-seventh year of Showa (March 28, 1952) Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru Law No.16 Law for Disposition of Orders under the Reparations Agency Based on the Imperial Ordinance concerning the Orders to be Issued in Consequence of Acceptance of Potsdam Declaration

(Partial amendments to Cabinet Order concerning Liquidation of Property in Japan of the Mutual Aid Association of Transportation Bureau of Government General of Korea) Article 1. The Cabinet Order concerning Liquidation of Property in Japan of the Mutual Aid Association of Transportation Bureau of Government General of Korea (Cabinet Order No.40 of 1951) shall be partially amended as follows: In Article 1, "in pursuance of the directive from the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers," shall be deleted.

(Order to continue in the future) Article 2. The Order provided for in the preceding Article shall remain valid as the law even after the enforcement of this Law.

(Abolition of the Specific Property Custody Ordinance) Article 3. The Specific Property Custody Ordinance (Imperial Ordinance No.286 of 1946) shall be abolished.

(Transitional provisions followed by the abolition of the Specific Property Custody Ordinance) Article 4. The application of the penal provisions to acts done before the enforcement of this Law shall still follow the former examples.

Supplementary Provisions: 1 This Law shall come into force as from the day of the first coming into force of the Peace Treaty with Japan. 2 The Law for the Temporary Establishment of the Reparations Agency (Law No.3 of 1948) shall be partially amended as follows: In Article 8 paragraph 2, "and the Chiefs of Taxation Offices" shall be deleted. 3 The Ministry of Finance Establishment Law (Law No.144 of 1949) shall be partially amended as follows: In Article 15 paragraph 2, "And of affairs concerning the enforcement of the Specific Property Custody Ordinance (Imperial Ordinance No.286 of 1946)" shall be deleted. Article 40 paragraph 2 shall be deleted, and paragraph 3 of the same Article be made paragraph 2 of the same Article. Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru Minister of Finance IKEDA Hayato