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<Law Era="Showa" Lang="en" LawType="ImperialOrder" Num="493" PromulgateDay="28" PromulgateMonth="10" Year="21">
  <PromulgateBody>
    <PromulgateStatement>I hereby give My Sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the Enforcement date of the Reconversion Finance Bank Law and cause the same to be promulgated.</PromulgateStatement>
    <ImperialSignature>Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor</ImperialSignature>
    <ApprovalDate>This twenty-sixth day of the tenth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (October 26, 1946)</ApprovalDate>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Countersigned: Prime Minister</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>YOSHIDA Shigeru</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Justice</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>KIMURA Tokutaro</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister for Home Affairs</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>OMURA Seiichi</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Agriculture and Forestry</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>WADA Hiroo</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Communications</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>HITOTSUMATSU Sadayoshi</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Commerce and Industry</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>HOSHIJIMA Niro</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Transportation</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>HIRATSUKA Tsunejiro</Name>
    </Signature>
    <Signature>
      <MinisterialTitle>Minister of Finance</MinisterialTitle>
      <Name>ISHIBASHI Tanzan</Name>
    </Signature>
  </PromulgateBody>
  <LawNum>Imperial Ordinance No. 493</LawNum>
  <LawBody>
    <LawTitle/>
    <MainProvision>
      <Paragraph Num="1">
        <ParagraphNum/>
        <ParagraphSentence>
          <Sentence>The Reconversion Finance Bank Law shall come into force as from the twenty-nineth day of the tenth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (October 29, 1946).</Sentence>
        </ParagraphSentence>
      </Paragraph>
    </MainProvision>
  </LawBody>
</Law>