I hereby give My sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the partial amendments of the Regulations governing the Temporary Establishment of the Investigation Bureau of the Ministry for Home Affairs, and cause the same to be promulgated. Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor. This second day of the fifth month of the twenty-second year of Showa (May 2, 1947) Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru Minister of Justice KIMURA Tokutaro Minister for Home Affairs UEHARA Etsujiro Imperial Ordinance No. 204

Article 1. The following amendments shall partially be made to the Temporary Establishment of the Investigation Bureau of the Ministry for Home Affairs: "No. 4" shall read "No. 5" and "No. 5" shall read "No. 6", and the following paragraph shall be added as "No. 4": 4. Affairs concerning the Enforcement of the Registration Ordinance of Foreigners.

Article 2. The following partial amendments shall be made to the Temporary Establishment of the Personnel of Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Hokkaido Government and Prefectural Governments: "Article 1-6" shall read "Article 1-7", "Article 1-7" shall read "Article 1-8" and "Article 1-8" shall read "Article 1-9".

Article 1-6. The following personnel shall be established throughout the Metropolitan Police Board, Hokkaido Government and Prefectural Governments to make them engage in the affairs concerning Police in consequence of result of the Economic Control: Local Secretaries: full time 7000 persons 3rd Class Economic Superintendents 1200 persons Economic Sub-Superintendents 5800 persons Economic Superintendents and Economic Sub-Superintendents are assigned from among Local Secretaries of 3rd Class and shall engage, under the direction of the superior official, in the business mentioned in the preceding paragraph. The full strength of the personnel of the Metro-politan Police Board, Hokkaido Government, and Prefectural Governments mentioned in paragraph 1, shall be decided by the Minister for Home Affairs.

Supplementary Provisions: The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation The following partial amendments shall be made to the Imperial Ordinance No. 528 of 1923 (concerning the Judicial Police and the Official, Sanction given to those who are to discharge their duties as the Judicial Police Officials). In Article 3, "No 8" shall read "No. 8-2" and "No. 13" shall read "No. 14", and the following shall be added next to No. 8: 8-2. Local Secretaries who are Economic Superintendents. The following item shall be added to the same Article: 14. Local Secretaries who are Economic Sub-Superintendents. The following item shall be added to Article 4: 10. Regarding those mentioned in the preceding Article, No. 8-2 and No. 14, they are the crimes concerning Economic Control.