OFFICIAL GAZETTE w&mnnmmmm enqush edition wi*~*+-flB+B*mM No. 284 THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1947 Price 7.50 yen -V. the competent governmental or public office for LAW petition matter is indistinct. Art. 4. When the petition is filed, by mistake, to the I hereby give My sanction to the Petition Law other governmental or public office than that as for which the concurrence of the Imperial Diet has provoded for by the preceding paragraph, the said been obtained, and cause the same to be promulgated. office shall indicate the legal office to the petitioner, Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor or transmit the said petition of the legal office. This twelfth day of the third month of the twenty- Art. 5. The petition in conformity with the present spcond year of Showa (March 12, 1947) Law, shall be received and disposed of in sincerity Countersigned : by the governmental or public office. Prime Minister and concurrently Minister Art. 6. Any person shall not be treated otherwise for Foreign Affairs for filing a petition. / YOSHIDA Shigeru Supplementary Provision : Minister of State The present Law shall come into force as from Baron SHIDEHARA Kijuro the day of enforcement of the Japanese Constitution. Minister of Justice KIMURA Tokutaro Minister of State I hereby give My sanction to the Law concerning SAITO Takao Minister of Communications the Abolition of the Peer's Patrimony Law for which HITOTSUMATSU Sadayoshi the concurrence of the Imperial Diet has been obtained, Minister of State and cause the same to.be promulgated, HOSHIJIMA Niro Sighed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor Minister of Welfare This twelfth day of the third month of the twenty- KAWAI Ypshinari second year of Showa (March 12, 1947) Minister for Home Affairs Count ersigned : UEHARA Etsujiro Prime Minister Minister of Finance YOSHIDA Shigeru ISHIBASHI Tanzan Minister of Justice Minister of State KIMURA Tokutaro KANAMORI Tokujiro Minister of Finance •E'f- Minister of Transportation ISHIBASHI Tanzan MASUDA Kaneshichi Minister of Commerce and Industry Law No. 14 ISHII Mitsujiro Peer's Patrimony Law shall be abolished. < Minister of Education Supplementary Provisions : TAKAHASHI Seiichiro The present Law shall come into force as from Minister of Agriculture and Forestry the day of its promulgation. KIMURA Kozaemon Part of the Registration-Fee Law shall be revised Minister of State as follows: TANAKA Man-itsu Art. 2, par. 1, item 8 shall beamended as follows: 8. deleted. Law No. 13 Part of the Real Estate Registration Law shall Petition Law be revised as follows: Art. 1. The provisions of the present Law shall apply Art. 104 deleted. to the petition, of not otherwise provided for by Art. 143 deleted. alaw. With regard to the registration of the establish- Art. 2. The petition shall be made by a written form ment of a Peer's patrimony or that of being an Adminis- by entering the name (the title in the case of a trated estate which is made in accordance with the judicial person) and domicile (address, in the case provisions of Art. 104 of the old Real Estate Registra- of having not domicile) of the petitioner. tion Law, the registration officer shall cancel it in Art. 3. The petition shall be filed to the governmental virtue of his office, in case he registers for the first or public office which has the jurisdiction for time after the enforcement of the present Law in respect petition matters. The petition for the Emperor of the real estate of the above registration. shall be filed to the Cabinet. The necessary matters concerning the enforcement The petition may be filed to the Cabinet, if of the present Law, shall, excluding the provisions of -1 the preceding paragraph, be provided for by the effect that the individual concerned does not fall under Minister of the Imperial Household. the provisions of the Memorandum in accordance with the result of the examination by the Public Office Qualifications Examination Committee. Any person who has been ordered the suspension IMPERIAL ORDINANCE of political activity in accordance with the provisions of par. 2 most not take any active part in politics I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordi- until he obtains the confirmation to the effect that he nance concerning partial amendments to Imperial does not fall under the provisions of the Memorandum Ordinance No. 1 of 1947 (relating to the exclusion, in accordance with the provisions of the preceding retirement, etc. in respect to public offices) under Im- paragrap h. perial Ordinance No. 542 of 1945 concerning the Supplementary Provision : Orders to be issued in consequence of the Acceptance The present Ordinance shall come into force as of the Potsdam Declaration, and cause the same to be from the day of its promulgation. promulgated. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordi- This twelfth day of the third month of the twenty- nance concerning the abrogation of the Imperial Ordi- second year of Showa (March 12, 1947) nance No. 1 of 1898 governing the allowances to the Countersigned : mariners of the investigation vessel of navigational Prime Minister aids and the cable vessel and the Imperial Ordinance YOSHIDA Shigeru No. 334 of 1918 governing the extraordinary raising Minister for Home Affairs of the allowances of the mariners of the investigation UEHARA Etsujiro vessel of navigational aids and the cable vessel, and ^f cause the same to be promulgated. y Imperial Ordinance No. 77 Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor A part of Imperial Ordinance No. 1 of 1947 shall This twelfth day of the third month of the twenty- *k*, be amended as follows: In Art. 4, **in respect to a person in publicoffice second year of Showa (March 12, 1947) or a person who desires to hold public office" shall Countersigned be added after "the designation" and the following Prime Minister paragraph shall be added in the same Article: YOSHIDA Shigeru The PrimevMinister or prefectural governor Minister of Communications may, in respect to a person other than those HITOTSUMATSU Sadayoshi prescribed in the preceding paragraph who is Minister of Transportation -s regarded to fall clearly under the provisions of the MASUDA Kaneshichi Memorandum, designate him as a person who falls under the Memorandum in accordance with the Imperial Ordinance No, 78 result of the examination by the Public Office The following Imperial Ordinances shall be abro- Qualifications Examination Committee as prescribed gated: by the Prime Minister. Imperial Ordinance No. 1 of 1898: In Art. 15, par. 1, item 6, " the precedingArticle" Imperial Ordinance No. 334 of 1918, shall read "Art. 14," the following item shall be added Supplementary Provision : *$< in the same paragraph and the said Article shall be made Art. 16. The present Imperial Ordinance shall come into (7) Any person who has violated the provi- force as from the day of its promulgation. )r- sions of Art. 15, par. 1 or par. 4. Article 15. Any person who falls under the provi- I hereby give My.sanction to the Imperial Grdi- sions of the Memorandum must not file the notifica- > tion of recommendation of a candidate for any elective nance relating to the Registration for the Special position in the public service (including the notifica- Measures for the Establishment of Owner-farmers and tion of a candidate or the joint signature pertaining cause the same to be promulgated. to the notification of recommendation) or must not Signed: HXROHITO, Seal of the Emperor take an active part in election campaign or any other This twelfth day of the third month of the twenty- second year of Showa (March 12, 1947) political activities. Countersigned : ^ The Prime Minister or prefectural governor, shall, in cases where any person who is regarded to fall Prime Minister clearly under the provisions of the Memorandum takes YOSHIDA Shigeru any active part in politics, order the suspension of the Minister of Justice political activity, demand the questionnaire provided KIMURA Tokutaro in Art. 7, par. 1 from the individual concerned with- Minister of Agriculture and Forestry out delay and forward the same to the Public Office KIMURA Kozaemon Qualifications Examination Committee as prescribed Imperial Ordinance No. 79 by the Prime Minister. In cases prescribed in the preceding paragraph, The Imperial Ordinance relating to the Registration the Prime Minister or prefecture! governor shall des- for the Special Measures for the Establishment ignate the individual concerned as a person who falls of Owner-farmers under the Memorandum or give confirmation to the Article 1. The registrations prescribed by Article 44 of the Statute relating to the Special Measures for holder of registration, the column of the designa- the Establishment of Owner-fanners shall be gov- tion of the holder of registration in the Requisi- erned by those provided for in this Imperial Or- tion shall contain the full name or title and the dinance, domicile or office of the holder of the rights con- Article 2. In each Registry Office there shall be kept cerned in addition to the designation of the holder the following Books : of registration. 1. File-books of Requisitions for the registration In requesting the registration prescribed by of purchase of lands; the preceding paragraph, if in the registry folio 2. File-books of Requisitions for the registration for the immovables concerned, there shall have of purchase of buildings; been made the registration as to either ownership 3. File-books of Requisitions for the registration or any rights other than ownership, the matters . of purchase of trees; to be registered for the purpose of cancellation of / 4. File-books of Requisitions for the registration the registration concerned, and if, at the time of of sale of la^ds; acquisition of the immovables concerned, either 5.