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.