I hereby give My Sanction to the Imperial Ordinance fixing the Date of Enforcement of the Commercial and Industrial Co-operative Union Law and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This twenty-ninth day of the eleventh month of the twenty-first year of Showa (November 29, 1946)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister for Home Affairs OMURA Seiichi
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry WADA Hiroo
Minister of Commerce and Industry HOSHIJIMA Niro
Minister of Finance ISHIBASHI Tanzan
Imperial Ordinance No. 581
The Commercial and Industrial Co-operative Union Law shall come into force as from December 1, 1946.