I hereby give My sanction to the Ordinance relating to the abolition of the Imperial Household Ordinances for the Organizations of tire Imperial Forestry and Estates Bureau, etc., and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This thirty-first day of the third month of the twenty-second year of Showa (March 31, 1947)
Countersigned: Minister of Imperial Household Viscount MATSUDAIRA Yoshitami
Imperial Household Ordinance No. 10
The following Imperial Household Ordinances shall be abolished:
The Imperial Household Ordinance for the Organization of the Imperial Forestry and Estates Bureau;
The Imperial Household Ordinance for the Disposition of the Imperial Forestry and Estates considered unnecessary to be retained;
The Imperial Household Ordinance No. 10, 1925. *
Supplementary Provisions:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.
The Director of the Maintenance, Works and Supplies Bureau shall take charge of matters relating to the administration of the Imperial estates for the time being.
As for the arrangement of affairs relating to the accounts of the Imperial Forestry and Estates Bureau, the Director of the Imperial Treasury Bureau shall perform the duties of the Chief of the Section in charge of the accounts of the said Bureau.
The Ordinance for the Disposition of the Imperial Forestry and Estates considered unnecessary to be retained, and its accessory regulations shall hold good for the dispositions of the Imperial forestry and estates considered unnecessary to be retained, which were made before the present Ordinance comes into force