I hereby give My Sanction, with the advisee of the Privy Council and through the resolution of the House of Peers, to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendment of the Imperial Ordinance No. 351 of 1946, retating to the prolongation of the term of office of the members under Art. 1, items 3, 5 and 6 of the Regulations of the House of Peers, and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor This twentieth day of the twelfth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (December 20, 1946) Countersigned: Prime Minister and concurrently Minister for Foreign Affairs YOSHIDA Shigeru Minister of State Baron SHIDEHARA Kijuro Minister of Justice KIMURA Tokutaro Minister for Home Affairs OMURA Seiichi Minister of Education TANAKA Kotaro Minister of Agriculture and Forestry WADA Hiroo Minister of State SAITO Takao Minister of Communications HITOTSUMATSU Sadayoshi Minister of Commerce and Industry HOSHIJIMA Niro Minister of Welfare KAWAI Yoshinari Minister of State UEHARA Etsujiro Minister of Transportation HIRATSUKA Tsunejiro Minister of Finance ISHIBASHI Tanzan Minister of State KANAMORI Tokujiro Minister of State ZEN Keinosuke Imperial Ordinance No. 612 A part of the Imperial Ordinance No. 351 of 1946, shall be amended as follows: "February 10, 1947" shall read "the day previous to the enforcement day of the Japaneses Constitution." Supplementary Provision: The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.