After the Meiji Restoration, these provisions were abolished and each sect has issued Docho official certificates (mostly at the time of entrance into the priesthood) on the basis of their respective stipulations.
明治維新後はこうした規定は廃止され、各宗派それぞれの規定に基づいて（大抵は得度時に）度牒を交付する事になっている。