I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordinance fixing the Enforcement Date of the Law No. 27 of the twenty-first year of Showa (the Law Amending a Part of the Law concerning the Organization of Urban and Rural Prefectures) and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor This fourth day of the tenth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (October 4, 1946) Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru Minister for Home Affairs OMURA Seiichi Imperial Ordinance No. 463 Law No. 27 of the twenty-first year of Showa shall, with the exception of the provisions in respect to the provisions concerning the election of the members of the assembly of a district of urban or rural prefecture (excepting the provisions of Pars. 15 and 16 of the Additional Provisions of the same Law), come into force as from October 5, 1946.