I hereby give My sasction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the Determination of the Enforcement Date of Law No. 16 of 1946 (the Law regarding the Partial Amendments to the Local Tax Law and Local Apportionment Tax Law), 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 Minister of Finance ISHIBASHI Tanzan Imperial Ordinance No. 471 The amended provisions of Article 1 and Article 85-(11) to 85-(14) of the Local Tax Law in Law No. 16, of 1946, shall come into force as from October 5, 1946.