General Rules for Official Regulations of Each Ministry

...The latter will be outlined below. The National Administrative Organization Law was promulgated on July 10, 1948, and came into effect on June 1 of the following year, after the General Rules for the Ministry System under the Meiji Constitution (Imperial Ordinance promulgated in 1893) was abolished when the current Constitution came into force, and the Administrative Agency Law (promulgated in 1947) was enacted as a provisional law to replace it. The purpose of this law is to determine the standards for the organization of administrative agencies under the control of the Cabinet, and thus to arrange the national administrative organization necessary for the efficient execution of national administrative affairs (Article 1), and it requires, as the organizational principle, a systematic organization of all administrative agencies with clearly defined scopes of jurisdiction and authority (the principle of distribution and connection), and communication between administrative agencies and the exercise of administrative functions as a whole (the principle of coordination) (Article 2).

*Some of the terminology explained in the "General Rules for Official Regulations of Each Ministry" are listed below.

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…以下，後者を概観する。　国家行政組織法は，明治憲法下の各省官制通則(1893公布の勅令)の現行憲法施行による廃止，それに代わる暫定法としての行政官庁法(1947公布)の制定を経て，1948年7月10日に公布，翌年6月1日に施行された。同法は，内閣の統轄の下における行政機関の組織の基準を定め，もって国の行政事務の能率的な遂行のために必要な国家行政組織を整えることを目的とし(1条)，明確な範囲の所掌事務と権限を有する行政機関全体による系統的構成(分配と結合の原理)および行政機関相互間の連絡と一体としての行政機能の発揮(調整の原理)を組織構成原理として要請している(2条)。…

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