I hereby promulgate the Law for Abolition of the Law for Compensation to Shipowners for Payment of Retirement Allowance to Seamen of the Civilian Merchant Marine Committee.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This first day of the fourth month of the twenty-seventh year of Showa (April 1, 1952)
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law for Abolition of the Law for Compensation to Shipowners for Payment of Retirement Allowance to Seamen of the Civilian Merchant Marine Committee
The Law for Compensation to Shipowners for Payment of Retirement Allowance to Seamen of the Civilian Merchant Marine Committee (Law No.97 of 1949;hereinafter referred to as "the old Law" ) shall be abolished.
Supplementary Provisions:
1 This Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.
2 Any shipowner, who has been paid the total sum of the compensation calculated for the seamen under Article 1 paragraph 1 of the old Law in accordance with the provision of the same paragraph, shall without delay pay the said seamen the sum calculated in accordance with the standard as decided in the Attached Table of the same Law.