We hereby give Our Sanction to the amendment to Imperial Ordinance No. 179 of 1909 relative to the collection of fees for the licence and inspection of weights and measures or manometres and to Imperial Ordinance No. 56 of 1915 relative to the fees of Comparison inspection of weights and measures or manometres and cause the said amendment to be promulgated.
Signed: Hirohito, Seal of the Emperor
This first day of the fifth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (1 May, 1946)
Countersigned: Baron Kijuro Shidehara Prime Minister
Sankuro Ogasawara Minister of Commerce and Industry
Imperial Ordinance No. 258
The following amendment shall be made to Imperial Ordinance No. 179 of 1909 and No. 56 of 1915.
The following proviso shall be added to Article 5 of Imperial Ordinance No. 179 of 1909 and Article 2 of Imperial Ordinance No. 56 repectively.
But it shall be permitted to be paid in cash in accordance with the law.
Supplementary Provision.
The present Ordinance shall come in force as from the day of its promulgation.