I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordinance fixing the Enforcement Date of the Petroleum Distribution Public Corporation Law, and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This fourteenth day of the fourth month of the twenty-second year of Showa (April 14, 1947)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Commerce and Industry ISHII Mitsujiro
Imperial Ordinance No. 128
The provisions of Articles 36 and 37 of the Petroleum Distribution Public Corporation Law shall come into force as from April 16, 1947 and other provisions as from April 17, 1947.