I hereby give My Sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the Exceptions to the Custody of Government Goods Regulations and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor This twenty-first day of the eleventh month of the twenty-first year of Showa (November 21, 1946) Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru Minister of Commerce and Industry HOSHIJIMA Niro Minister of Finance ISHIBASHI Tanzan Imperial Ordinance No. 561 The Imperial Ordinance concerning the Exceptions to the Custody of Government Goods Regulations

Article 1. The Goods handled by the Foreign Trade Fund stipulated in the present Ordinance shall mean those to be acquired by the operation of the Foreign Trade Fund in accordance with the provisions of Article 3 of the Foreign Trade Special Account Law.

Article 2. Both Government accountants and their subordinates in charge of the goods are authorized to receive or deliver the goods handled by the Foreign Trade Fund by order based on the regulations provided by the Director-General of the Board of Trade, notwithstanding the provision of Article 6 of the Custody of Government Goods Regulations.

Article 3. With regard to the goods handled by the Foreign Trade Fund, the documents designated by the Director-General of the Board of Trade may be substituted until otherwise ordered, for the Commodity Receipts and Delivery Books, stipulated in paragraph 1, Article 10 of the Custody of Government Goods Regulations.

Supplementary Provision: The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the date of the enforcement of the Foreign Trade Fund Special Account Law.