House of Councillors
参議院
The upper of the Diet's two chambers (Article 42). Its members serve six years, half of them elected every three years, and it is never dissolved (Article 46) — so it always has sitting members, where the House of Representatives can have none. That is not the same as always being open: when the House of Representatives is dissolved the House of Councillors is closed at the same time, and during that closure it sits only if the Cabinet calls it into emergency session because the country needs one (Article 54, paragraph (2)).
Provisions and sources it draws on
Where the laws use it
7 laws in force use it in this sense, in 17 provisions; there the word opens this explanation.
- 9 provisions
Article 42 Article 46 Article 54 and more
- 2 provisions
- 2 provisions
特定電気通信による情報の流通によって発生する権利侵害等への対処に関する法律
Supplementary Provisions, Article 2 Supplementary Provisions, Article 8
- 1 provision
- 1 provision
旅券法
- 1 provision
- 1 provision
行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律