We hereby give Our sanction to the Ordinance for the Abrogation of the Prize Court Ordinance and Others and cause the said Ordinance to be promulgated. Signed: Hirohito, Seal of the Emperor This third day of the fifth-month of the twenty-first year of Showa (3 May, 1946) Countersigned: Baron Kijuro Shidehara Prime Minister Minister of Second Demobilization Department Shigeru Yoshida Minister of Foreign Affairs Imperial Ordinance No. 261 The Prize Court Ordinance and Imperial Ordinance No. 1, 143 issued in 1941 are hereby abolished. Supplementary Provision: The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.