I hereby give My Sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendments of matters relating to the application of the provisions of Article 101-(3) and Article 104 of the Law for the Election of the Members of the House of Resentatives, the Imperial Ordinance No. 96, of the twenty-first year of Showa (1946) under the Imperial Ordinance No. 542 of the twentieth of Showa (1945) concerning Orders to be issued in consequence of Our Acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This fourteenth day of the eleventh month of the twenty-first year of Showa (November 14, 1946)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister for Home Affairs OMURA Seiichi
Imperial Ordinance No. 540
The following amendments shall be made to a part of the Imperial Ordinance No. 96 of 1946.
Following "provisions of Article 104", shall be added "(including those cases of applying correspondingly to other Laws and Ordinances)"; and next to "candidates of the members," shall be added "candidates of Governor general of Tokyo-Metropolis, prefectural governors, including those of Governor-General of Hokkaido mayor or heads of wards."
Supplementary Provisions:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.
The provisions of the Imperial Ordinance No. 96 of 1946, after the present amendments, shall be applied as from the day of its promulgation, in regard to those elections to which are to be correspondingly applied to the provisions of Article 101 (3) and Article 104 of the Election Law for Members of the House of Representatives.