I hereby give my sanction with the advice of the Privy Council to the Ordinance concerning the partial amendments of Imperial Ordinance No. 109 of the twenty-first year of Showa (1946) (the amendments pertaining to the prohibition against assuming office and the dismissal from government office or employment under Imperial Ordinance of the twentieth year of Showa (1945) concerning the Orders to be issued in consequence of my acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration) and cause the same to be promulgated.