I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordinance fixing the Enforcement date of the Law No. 28 of the twenty-first year of Showa (the Law mending a Part of the Law concerning the Organization of Cities) and of the Law No. 29 of the twenty-first year of Showa (the Law amending a Part of the Law concerning the Organization of Towns and Villages) 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. 466
Law No. 28 of the twenty-first year of Showa and Law No. 29 of the twenty-first year of Showa shall, with the exception of the provisions of the same Laws in respect to civic right (including the provisions of unpaid office) and in respect to the election of the members of the assembly of a city town or village (excepting the provisions of Pars. 10 and 11 of the Additional Provisions of Law No. 28 of the twenty-first year of Showa and of Pars. 8 and 9 of Law No. 29 of the twenty-first year of Showa), come into force as from October 5, 1946.