I hereby give My Sanction to Rehabilitation Ordinance and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor This third day of the eleventh month of the twenty-first year of Showa (November 3, 1946) Countersigned: Prime Minister and concurrently Minister for Foreign Affairs YOSHIDA Shigeru Minister of State Baron SHIDEHARA Kijuro Ministet of Justice KIMURA Tokutaro Minister for Home Affairs OMURA Seiichi Minister of Education TANAKA Kotaro Minister of Agriculture and Forestry WADA Hiroo Minister of State SAITO Takao Minister of Communications HITOTSUMATSU Sadayoshi Minister of Commerce and Industry HOSHIJIMA Niro Minister of Welfare KAWAI Yoshinari Minister of State UEHARA Etsujiro Minister of Transportation HIRATSUKA Tsunejiro Minister of Finance ISHIBASHI Tanzan Minister of State KANAMORI Tokujiro Minister of State ZEN Keinosuke Imperial Ordinance No. 513 Rehabilitation Ordinance Rehabilitation shall be granted to those persons who by reason of fine or graver penalty passed upon them have lost their qualifications or have them suspended, and have passed not less than five years between the day on which the execution of the aforesaid penalty ceased or was remitted and the day before November 3, 1946; but this shall not apply in cases where they were again sentenced to fine or graver penalty on and after November 3, 1946. Supplementary Provision: The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.