I hereby give, with the advice of the Imperial Family Council and that of the Privy Council, My sanction to the Ordinance regarding the abolition of the Imperial Household Ordinances and their Accessories, and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This first day of the fifth month of the twenty second year of Showa (May 1, 1947)
Countersigned: Minister of Imperial Household Viscount MATSUDAIRA Yoshitami
Prime Minister and concurrently Minister for Foreign Affairs YOSHIDA Shigeru
Minister of State Baron SHIDEHARA Kijuro
Minister of Justice KIMURA Tokutaro
Minister of State SAITO Takao
Minister of Communications HITOTSUMATSU Sadayoshi
Minister of State HOSHIJIMA Niro
Minister of Welfare KAWAI Yoshinari
Minister for Home Affairs UEHARA Etsujiro
Minister of Finance ISHIBASHI Tanzan
Minister of State KANAMORI Tokujiro
Minister of Transportation MASUDA Kaneshichi
Minister of Commerce and Industry ISHII Mitsujiro
Minister of Education TAKAHASHI Seiichiro
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry KIMURA Kozaemon
Minister of State TANAKA Man'itsu
Minister of State TAKASE Sotaro
Imperial Household Ordinance No. 12