I hereby give My Sanction to the Ordinance for the Amendments of the Regulation governing the Organization of the Imperial Household and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor. This ninth day of the seventh month of the twenty-first year of Showa (July 9, 1946). Countersigned: Minister of Imperial Household Viscount MATSUDAIRA Yoshitam Prime Minister YOSHJDA Shigeru Minister for Home Affairs. OMURA Seiichi Imperial Household Ordinance No. 20 The following amendments are made to the Regulations governing the Organization of the Imperial Household: In Paragraph 2, of Article 41 the terms "officials attached to the Imperial Princes and Princesses and the main and branch families of Prince Li" shall read "sub ordinate officials." Supplementary Provision: The present Ordinance shall come into force from the date its promulgation.