I hereby promulgate the Law for Parital Amendments to the Prime Minister's Office Esstablishment Law, etc.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This twenty-eighth day of the fourth month of the twenty-seventh year of Showa (April 28, 1952)
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law for Partial Amendments to the Prime Minister's Office Establishment Law, etc.
(Partial Amendments to the Prime Minister's Office Establishment Law)
Article 1. The Prime Minister's Office Establishment Law (Law No.127 of 1949) shall be partially amended as follows:
Article 16-(2) shall be amended as follows:
In Article 17, "Reparations Agency" shall be deleted.
In the table of Article 18, the column of Reparations Agency shall be deleted.
(Abolitions of the Law for the Temporary Establishment of Board of Reparations and the Local Administration Investigation Committee Establishment Law)
Article 2. The Laws mentioned below shall be abolished:
(1) The Law for the Temporary Establishment of Board of Reparations (Law No.3 of 1948);
(2) The Local Administration Investigation Committee Establishment Law (Law No.281 of 1949).
(Partial Amendments to National Government Organization Law)
Article 3. The National Government Organization Law (Law No.120 of 1948) shall be partially amended as follows:
In the column of Agency of Item of "Prime Minister's Office" of Annexed Table No.1, "Reparations Agency" shall be deleted.
(Partial Amendments to Ministry of Finance Establishment Law)
Article 4. The Ministry of Finance Establishment Law (Law No.144 of 1949) shall be partially amended as follows:
Article 11 item (9) shall be amended as follows:
(9) Preservation and restoration of United National property (excluding that under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Transportation), and custody and disposition of German property.
Article 15 paragraph 2 shall he deleted.
(Partial Amendments to Cabinet Order concerning Liquidation of Property in Japan of the Mutual Aid Association of Transpotation Bureau of Government General of Korea)
Article 5. 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 2, Article 3 paragraph 2, and Article 5, "Prime Minister" shall be amended as "Minister of Finance" .
In Article 6, "Prime Minister" shall be amended as "Minister of Finance" and "Prime Minister's Office Ordinance" shall be amended as "Ministry of Finance Ordinance" .
In Article 8 paragraph 1, "Prime Minister's Office Ordinance" shall be amended as "Ministry of Finance Ordinance" .
In the proviso to Article 13 paragraph 2, next to "those who have unavoidable cause for their failure to apply for confirmation of the right" shall be added "or those who could not be confirmed by the special liquidator owing to unavoidable cause, even if they applied for confirmation of the right," .
Article 13 paragraph 3 shall be made paragraph 5 of the same Article and the rest moved down by one paragraph accordingly and next to paragraph 2 of the same Article shall be added the following two paragraphs:
3 The Federation of Mutual Aid Association may, in cases where the causes to revise the kind and the amount of annuities were obvious upon the authorities of data newly investigated, which were confirmed by the special liquidator after completion of the liquidation under the provisions of this Cabinet Order, revise the confirmation by the special liquidator in pursuance of the instruction from the Minister of Finance.
4 In cases where the revision was made in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the returned money, if any, shall be reverted to the National Treasury in pursuance of the instruction from the Minister of Finance.
(Partial Amendments to Law concerning Compensation for National Public Service Personnel in the Special Government Service)
Article 6. The Law concerning Compensation for National Public Service Personnel in the Special Government Service (Law No.252 of 1949) shall be partially amended as follows:
Article 1 item (11)-3 shall be deleted.
In Appendix No.1, "Chairman of the Local Administration Investigation Committee" and "Members of the Local Administration Investigation Committee" shall be deleted.
Supplementary Provisions:
1 This Law shall come into force as from the day of the first coming into force of the Treaty of Peace with Japan. However, the amended provisions of Article 16-(2) of the Prime Minister's Office Establishment Law in Article 1, provisions of Article 2 item (2) and Article 6 shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.
2 Such civil property as prescribed in Article 1 item (6) of the former Law for the Temporary Establishment of the Reparations Agency (excluding the looted property prescribed in the Ordinance concerning the Impounding and Reporting of Looted Property (Ministry of Home Affairs Ordinance No.25 of 1946), United Nations property prescribed in the Cabinet Order concerning Restoration, etc. of United Nations Property (Cabinet Order No.6 of 1951), German property prescribed in the German Property Custody Order (Cabinet Order No.252 of 1950) and the property to be liquidated under the Cabinet Order concerning Liquidation of Property in Japan of the Mutual Aid Association of Transportation Bureau of Gevernment General of Korea (Cabinet Order No.40 of 1951)) and as under the charge of the Prime Minister concerning the custody and the disposition thereof at the time of enforcement of this Law, shall, for the time being, be under the charge of the Minister of Finance, and the affairs thereof under the charge of the Property Custodian Bureau of the Ministry of Finance.
3 Such acts as disposition, procedure and the others taken in pursuance of the Cabinet Order concerning Liquidation of Property in Japan of the Mutual Aid Association of Transportation Bureau of Government General of Korea, before amendment, before the enforcement of this Law, shall be regarded as taken in pursuance of the same Cabinet Ordey, after amendment.
4 Personnel who may be retained outside of the limitation of the fixed number of personnel in the former Reparations Agency, until June 30, 1952, under the provisions of paragraph 4 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Law for Partial Amendments to the Law for the Fixed Number of Personnel in the Administrative Organs (Law No.115 of 1952) shall be retained outside of the limitation of the fixed number of personnel of the Ministry Proper of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister for Foreign Affairs YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Finance IKEDA Hayato