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.