The regulation was to set the process of how descendants of the great-great grandchildren of the Imperial Family were to be demoted from nobility to subject, practically and automatically one after another, which was not covered in the expanded revised regulation.
準則は、増補では明確でなかった皇玄孫以降の子孫たちが順次臣籍に降下してゆく基準を具体的・機械的に定めるものであった。