I hereby give my sanction to the Ordinance concerning the partial amendments of the Full Number and Payment Regulations of the Guards of both Houses of Peers and Representatives and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: Hirohito, Seal of the Emperor This eighteenth day of the fifth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (18 May, 1946) Countersigned: Baron Kijuro Shidehara Prime Minister Imperial Ordinance No. 279 The following amendments shall be made to the Full Number and Payment Regulations of the Guards of both Houses of Peers and Representatives.

Article 2. Payments for the Guards other than those provided by this Ordinance shall be made according to the Government Official Salary Schedule Ordinance.

Article 4 and Article 5 shall be deleted. No. 2 of Article 5 shall be made Article 4, and No. 3 of Article 5 shall be made Article 5.

Article 7 to Article 9 inclusive shall be deleted.

Supplementary Provision: The present Imperial Ordinance shall be applied to the payment from the month of May, 1946 onwards.