I hereby give My Sanction to the Imperial Ordinance fixing the date of enforcement of the Livelihood Protection Law and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This nineteenth day of the ninth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (September 19, 1946)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Justice KIMURA Tokutaro
Minister for Home Affairs OMURA Seiichi
Minister of Welfare KAWAI Yoshinari
Minister of Finance ISHIBASHI Tanzan
Imperial Ordinance No. 437
The Livelihood Protection Law shall come into force as from October 1, 1946.