Religious Corporations Act (Law No. 126 of 1951), Japanese Law Translation

The Religious Corporations Act, Japanese Law No. 126 of 1951, effective 3 April 1951, is the statute that gives a Japanese religious body juristic personality to own and administer property. This is the Japanese government's own official English translation, published by its Ministry of Justice translation service. As the primary legal text it is the correct source for what the statute itself provides, in its own language, rather than a later paraphrase; a claim about how the law has been applied or contested in a specific case needs a scholarly or judicial source to interpret alongside it.