We hereby give Our sanction to the abrogation of the Regulations governing the Organization of the Research Institute for Resources Science and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: Hirohito Seal of the Emperor
This twelfth day of the fourth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (12 April 1946)
Countersigned: Baron Kijuro Shidehara Prime Minister
Yoshishige Abe Minister of Education
Imperial Ordinance No. 228
The Regulations governing the Organization of the Research Institute for Resources Science shall be abrogated.
Supplementary Provisions:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.
The following amendment shall be made to the Regulations governing the Organization of Ministry of Education:
In Article 6, Item 1, the terms "the Research Institute for Resources Science" shall be deleted.