I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendments to the Forest Fire State-Operated Insurance Law.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This thirty-first day of the third month of the twenty-seventh year of Showa (March 31, 1952)
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law for Partial Amendments to the Forest Fire State-Operated Insurance Law
The Forest Fire State-Operated Insurance Law (Law No.25 of 1937) shall be partially amended as follows:
"Imperial Ordinance" in Article 2 paragraph 2, Article 10 paragraph 1 and Article 22 paragraph 3 shall be amended as "Cabinet Order" .
Article 3 shall be amended as follows:
Article 3. Forest which is the purpose of insurance shall be a group of trees grown artificially.
Articles 13 and 14 shall be amended as follows:
Article 13 and Article 14. Deleted.
Article 21 shall be amended as follows:
Next to "city, town or village" in Article 24 paragraphs 1 and 2, "or the forest owners association or the federation of the forest owners associations" shall be added and paragraph 3 of the same Article shall be deleted.
Supplementary Provisions:
1 This Law shall come into force as from April 1, 1952.
2 As for the contract of insurance existing at the time of enforcement of this Law, the precedents under the former provisions shall apply.