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. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor This fourth day of the sixth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (4 June 1946) Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru Imperial Ordinance No. 306 The following amendments shall be made to Imperial Ordinance No. 109 of the twenty-first year of Showa (1946): In the third item of Article 1, "the government office" shall read "shall be dismissed from government office or employment or the government office." Supplementary Provision: The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.