Having met the requirements for the court noble law under the joint signature of the chief adviser to the emperor, the law became the legal basis for 'delegating the administration of the country' to the Edo bakufu, which had the real authority to enact the law.
これに関白が連署して公家法としての要件を得る事によってこの法度の実際の制定権力である江戸幕府への「大政委任」の法的根拠を与えたといえる。