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 The Imperial Household Ordinances and their Accessories shall be out of force on and after May 2.