I hereby give My sanction to the Ordinance regarding the enforcement of the Imperial Household Ordinance No.1, 1947, and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This twenty-eighth day of the fourth month of the twenty-second year of Showa (April 28, 1947)
Countersigned: Minister of Imperial Household Viscount MATSUDAIRA Yoshitami
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of Finance ISHIBASHI Tanzan
Imperial Household Ordinance No.11
The amount of,tax as part of Capital Levy equivalent to that to be paid in kind with the Imperial Household Properties, which are confined to immovables and stocks,in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 in Article 54 of the Regulations concerning the Enforcement of the Capital Levy Law (which means the Regulations applying to the Imperial Household Properties as provided for in Article 1 of the Ordinance No. 1, 1947, sic passim), shall be considered to be paid in at the time when the said payment in kind is authorized, despite of the provisions of Article 60 of the Regulations concerning the Enforcement of the Capital Levy Law.
Supplementary Provision:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from April 1, 1947.