I hereby give, with the advice of the Privy Council, My sanction to the Ordinance regarding the amendment of the Imperial Family Lineage Ordinance, and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (December 27, 1946)
Countersigned: Minister of Imperial Household Viscount MATSUDAIRA Yoshitami
Imperial Household Ordinance No. 28
The following amendment shall be made to the Imperial Family Lineage Ordinance:
In Article31, "O" shall read "Naishinno, O, or Jo-o."
Supplementary Provision:
The present Ordinance shall come into effect as from the day of its promulgation.