I hereby give My sanction to the Law concerning the Validity of the Provisions of Orders in Force at the Time of Coming into Force of the Constitution of Japan, etc., for which the concurrence of the Imperial Diet has been obtained, and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed. HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This seventeenth day of the fourth month of the twenty-second year of Showa (April17, 1947)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law No.72 The Law concerning the Validity of the Provisions of Orders in Force at the Time of Coming into Force of the Constitution of Japan, etc.
Article 1. The provisions of the orders which are in force at the time of the coming into force of the Constitution of Japan and which stipulate matters of a character to be stipulated by laws shall have the same validity as laws till December 31, 1947.
Article 2. The "Imperial Ordinance" in other laws (including the provisions of the orders having the same validity as laws under the provisions of the preceding Article) shall read "Government Ordinance"
Article 3. The following laws and orders shall be abrogated:
Law No.84, 1890 (Law concerning Penalties for Infringements of the Provisions of Orders).
Law No.62, 1905 (Law concerning Cases where a Person other than the Head of a Household has been conferred a Peerage).
Law No.39, 1910 (Law concerning the Household Registers of a Person who has changed from the Status of a Member of the Imperial Family to that of a Subject, and of a Person who by marriage has changed from the Status of a Subject to that of a Member of the Imperial Family).
Law No.83, 1926 (Law concerning the Rights and Duties of the Royal and Peerage Families in Korea).
Law No.51, 1927 (Law concerning the Household Registers of a Person who has changed from the Membership of the Royal or a Peerage Family in Korea to that of a Household in Japan Proper, and of a Person who has left a Household in Japan Proper and has become a Member of the Royal or a Peerage Family in Korea).
Ministerial Regulation, 1869 (concerning the Status of Shizoku (warrior class)).
Cabinet Ordinance (Dajokan Fukoku) No.29, 1871 (concerning the Request for classing Hereditary Sotsu (soldier) with Shizoku).
Cabinet Ordinance No.44, 1871 (concerning the Request for classing Goshi (village warrior) with Shizoku).
Cabinet Ordinance No.73, 1873 (concerning the Matter of classing with the Commoners those Members of the Peerage and Shizoku who establish Households of their own).
Cabinet Ordinance No.3, 1879 (concerning the Abolishment of the Title of Shizoku after the Death of the Head of a Shizoku Household).
Supplementary Provisions:
The present Law shall come into force as from the day of the enforcement of the Constitution of Japan.
Such matters as may be necessary for the enforcement of this Law shall be provided for by Government Ordinance.