I hereby give My Sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendment of the Imperial Ordinance No. 312 (concerning the partial amendment of the Imperial Ordinance No. 101 of 1946) of 1946 under the Imperial Ordinance No. 542 of 1945 concerning the 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 twenty-sixth day of the eleventh month of the twenty-first year of Showa (November 26, 1946)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister for Home Affairs OMURA Seiichi
Imperial Ordinance No. 570
The following amendment is made to the Imperial Ordinance No. 312 of the 1946:
Next to "No. 101" in paragraph 4 of Supplementary Provisions, "Article 3" shall be added.
Supplementary Provision:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.