Article 1.　The purpose of this Law is to prescribe the pay of the foreign public service officials (hereinafter referred to as the "foreign service officials" ).

Article 2.　With regard to the foreign service officials, salaries, year-end, foreign service, and extra-allowances shall be paid to ambassadors and ministers, and salaries, dependents', year-end, foreign service, extra, and special language allowances to the foreign service officials other than ambassadors and ministers.

2　The salaries of ambassadors and ministers shall be paid in accordance with the provisions under the Law concerning Compensation for the National Public Service Personnel in the Special Government Service (Law No.252 of 1949) unless otherwise stipulated in this Law.

3　The salaries and dependents'allowance of the foreign service officials other than ambassadors and ministers shall be paid in, accordance with the provisions (except those under Article 15) under the Law concerning Compensation of Employees in the Regular Government Service (Law No.95 of 1950) unless otherwise stipulated in this Law.

4　The year-end allowance of the foreign service officials shall be paid in accordance with the provisions under the Law for the Payment of the Year-end Allowance to the National Public Service Personnel (Law No.266 of 1950) except in the case provided for under Article 3.

Article 3.　The payment of salaries., dependents'allowance, and year-end allowance of foreign service officials may be made to the person designated by the official concerned.

Article 4.　With regard to salaries and allowances (except the year-end allowance) of foreign service officials, the monthly amounts thereof (one-twelfth of the full amount in the case of the remuneration fixed by year) shall be paid once monthly at the end of each month, irrespective of the provisions under Article 8 of the Law concerning Compensation for the National Public Service Personnel in the Special Government Service and the provisions under Article 19-(2) of the Law concerning Compensation of Employees in the Regular Government Service.

2　The foreign service allowance and extra-allowance shall be calculated on the monthly basis for the period from the 1st to the end of each month.

3　When the abovementioned allowances are paid, the amounts of such allowances shall, except where the payment is made for the said basic period of calculation from the 1st to the end of each month, be determined by making calculation at the daily rate according to the actual number of the month.

Article 5.　The foreign service allowance shall be paid to foreign service officials in order to enable them to meet the expenses for food, clothing, and habitation required for serving at the diplomatic and consular offices abroad and the amounts of the allowance shall be fixed, by taking into consideration the prices, the exchange rate, and the standard of living at the places where the said offices are located, in such a way as to enable the officials to keep up their appearances and to serve at their highest efficiency according to their respective duties and responsibilities.

Article 6.　The amount of the foreign service allowance payable to foreign service officials shall be determined as specified in the separate table according to the places and countries where diplomatic and consular offices are located and to the grades of the allowance.

2　The particulars needed for the grades of the foreign service allowance shall be prescribed by Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ordinance.

3　The figures given in the separate table are annual amounts.

Article 7.　The heads of diplomatic and consular offices abroad must submit periodically to the Minister for Foreign Affairs every year, under the provisions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ordinance, the report on the index number of prices and fluctuations of exchange rates at the places where the said offices are located on the basis of results of investigations as well as other particulars necessary for the consideration of amounts of the foreign service allowance.

2　The Minister for Foreign Affairs must present the report under the preceding paragraph to the Foreign Office Personnel Affairs Council (hereinafter referred to as the "Council" ) for inspection upon receipt thereof.

Article 8.　The Council shall study continually the amounts of the foreign service allowance in the light of the report in the preceding Article and other data, and may recommend the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reasonal amounts when and if the Council finds it necessary to revise the amounts of the allowance.

Article 9.　In case, when the Diet is in recess, there occurs a great change in prices and exchange rates or there arises a specific situation, necessitating an immediate revision of the amounts of the foreign service allowance or in consequence of the establishment of additionald plomatic or consular offices abroad, it becomes necessary to fix the amounts of the allowance applicable to the new places, the amounts of the allowance may be revised or fixed by Cabinet Order within the limits of appropriations in the budget as an interim measure until the amendment of relevant law by the earliest session of the Diet.

Article 10.　The foreign service allowance shall be paid from the day following the foreign service official's arrival at his post (the post prescribed by the Law for the Travelling Expenses of the National Public Service Personnel (Law No.114 of 1950);hereinafter the same) until the day previous to the departure from the post when ordered home (except the return to Japan for a short period on official business) or when transferred to a new post (hereinafter referred to as the "period for payment of the foreign service allowance" ).

2　In case any person is appointed as a foreign service official in a foreign country, the foreign service allowance shall be paid to him from the day of appointment.

3　In case any change takes place within the period for payment of the foreign service allowance in regard to the grading of the allowance, the foreign service official shall be paid the allowance according to the new grading from the day of occurrence of such change.

4　In case any foreign service official separates from the service or dies, the allowance shall be paid until the day of separation from the service or death.

5　With regard to any foreign service official who has been called home to attend official business or who has been permitted to return home on leave, within the period for payment of the foreign service allowance, in case the length of absence, from the departure from the post to the return thereto, exceeds 60 days, no allowance shall be paid for the days in excess thereof despite the provisions under paragraph 1.

Article 11.　In case any foreign service official has been ordered, for the temporary stationing, to a place other than his post of duty at the time of emergency such as the war time, the place where he is temporarily stationed, shall be regarded as his new post and the foreign service allowance prescribed for that place shall be paid (where the amounts of the allowance have not been fixed, the allowance for the old post shall be paid).

Article 12.　Kinds of extra allowances shall be extra allowances for spouses, those for acting chiefs of diplomatic and consular offices abroad and those for additional posts.

2　Extra allowances for spouses shall be paid to foreign service officials who have spouses with them.

3　Extra allowances for acting chiefs of diplomatic and consular offices abroad shall be paid to the foreign service officials who act as chiefs of diplomatic and consular offices abroad (hereinafter referred to as the "acting chiefs" ).

4　Extra allowances for additional posts shall be paid to the foreign service officials who are stationed with additional duties at places other than their posts or at other diplomatic and consular offices, in spite of the provisions in the lat ter part of Article 101 paragraph 1 of the National Public Service Law (Law No.120 of 1947).

Article 13.　The amount of payment of. extra allowances for spouses shall be equal to 40/100 of the amount of foreign service allowances for foreign service officials who are entitled to extra allowances for spouses (in cases of those who receive extra allowances for acting chiefs or extra allowances for additional posts, these allowances included).

Article 14.　Extra allowances for spouses shall be paid from the day following the arrival of spouses at the posts of foreign service officials during the period of payment of foreign service allowances for the latter (in cases where spouses get their status by marriage with foreign service officials at the posts of the latter, from the day of having become spouses) to the day when the period of payment of foreign service allowances for these foreign service officials comes to an end (in cases where the spouses leave for home before the day mentioned above, the day previous to their departure;in cases where the spouses lose their status or die before the day mentioned above, the day when they have lost their status or died).

2　Foreign service officials who leave their spouses at their former posts with the Foreign Minister's permission owing to unavoidable circumstances after the end of the period of payment of foreign service allowances may be paid allowances for spouses as before while the said circumstances last, not exceeding 180 days, in spite of the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

3　When foreign service officials who receive extra allowances for spouses are separated from their position or die, the allowances shall be paid until that day. However, in the case of death of the foreign service officials, if the Foreign Minister deems it especially necessary, extra allowances for spouses may be paid to their spouses during a period not exceeding 180 days from the day following their death.

Article 15.　Of the allowances for dependents of foreign service officials who receive extra allowances for spouses, those for their spouses shall not be paid.

Article 16.　The amount of payment of extra allowances for acting chiefs shall be equal to 20/100 of the amount of payment of foreign service allowances received by the foreign service officials who are to receive extra allowances for acting chiefs. The total of this amount and the amount of the foreign service allowances received by the said foreign service officials shall not exceed the foreign service allowances for the chiefs of diplomatic and consular offices abroad for whom the former act.

Article 17.　Extra allowances for acting chiefs shall be paid from the day following the acting chiefs, arrival at their posts or the day when foreign service officials act for chiefs of diplomatic and consular offices abroad to the day when the former stop acting for the latter, excepting when the period of acting is less than 15 days.

Article 18.　The amount of payment of extra allowances for additional posts shall be equal to 10/100 of the amount of the foreign service allowances actually received by the foreign service officials who are to receive extra allowances for additional posts.

Article 19.　Extra allowances for additional posts shall be paid from the day when foreign service officials with additional duties are stationed at places other than their posts or arrive at their destination in order to serve at other diplomatic and consular offices abroad, to the day when they leave these places.

Article 20.　Allowances for special languages shall be paid to the foreign service officials who have been ordered to study special languages in accordance with Cabinet Orders, the prescribed amount being within 20/100 of the amount of the foreign service allowances which the said foreign service officials actually receive.

Article 21.　In cases where there are fractions which do not reach the lowest unit of the foreign currency in which divided payments are made of the prescribed allowances for foreign service officials, the allowances may be paid with the fractions omitted.

2　In cases where there are fractions which do not reach the lowest unit of the foreign currency into which the allowances for foreign service officials prescribed in the Japanese currency are converted when remitted, the allowances may be paid with the fractions omitted.

Article 22.　Any one who pays allowances in violation of this Law or refuses to pay them or admits these acts on purpose shall be sentenced to a penal servitude for not more than a year or be punished with a fine not more than 30,000 yen.

Article 23.　The provisions of the preceding Article shall be applicable also to any one who has committed the crimes mentioned in the same Article outside the country.