Emergency meeting - emergency meeting

When the House of Representatives is dissolved, the House of Councillors is closed, but in times of national emergency, the Cabinet may call for the House of Councillors to convene an emergency session. This is called an emergency session (Article 54 of the Constitution). Because it is an emergency, irregular session convened out of necessity, the consent of the House of Representatives must be obtained within ten days after the next Diet session opens. If consent is not obtained, measures taken in an emergency session will become void (Article 54, Clause 3 of the Constitution). Emergency sessions have been convened twice since the Constitution of Japan came into force (in 1952 and 1953), but both were not for emergencies but were convened due to the need to implement and enforce laws and the budget.

[Masaaki Ikeda]

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衆議院の解散と同時に参議院は閉会となるが、国に緊急の必要があるとき、内閣は参議院に緊急の集会を求めることができる。これを緊急集会という（憲法54条）。やむをえず開かれた応急・変則的な集会であるから、次の国会開会後10日以内に衆議院の同意を得なければならない。同意がなければ、緊急集会でとられた措置は効力を失う（憲法54条3項）。日本国憲法施行後、緊急集会は二度（1952年、53年）開かれているが、いずれも緊急事態におけるものではなく、法律・予算の施行・執行上の必要から開かれたものであった。

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