Supplementary Provisions

This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2007.

①The schools for the blind, schools for hearing impaired children, and schools for handicapped children prescribed in Article 1 of the School Education Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "Former School Education Act") that exist at the time this Act comes into effect are to become special needs education schools prescribed in Article 1 of the School Education Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "New School Education Act") at the time this Act comes into effect. In this case, the approval for the establishment of such a school for the blind, school for hearing impaired children, or school for handicapped children under the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Former School Education Act is deemed to be approval for the establishment of a special needs education school under the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (1) of the New School Education Act.

②An application for approval, being made at the time this Act comes into effect under the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Former School Education Act, for the establishment or abolition of a school for the blind, school for hearing impaired children or school for handicapped children, for a change of founder, or for the matters specified by Cabinet Order as prescribed in that paragraph, is deemed to be an application for approval made under the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (1) of the New School Education Act.

An incorporated educational institution prescribed in Article 3 of the Private Schools Act (Act No. 270 of 1949) that, at the time this Act comes into effect, establishes a school for the blind, school for hearing impaired children or school for handicapped children prescribed in Article 1 of the Former School Education Act is not required, in the case where it intends to change its articles of endowment as a consequence of that school for the blind, school for hearing impaired children or school for handicapped children becoming a special needs education school pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, to obtain the approval for the change of the articles of endowment under Article 45, paragraph (1) of that Act, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph. In this case, that incorporated educational institution must notify the prefectural governor to that effect without delay.

With regard to the application of Article 26, paragraph (1) of the Employment Security Act (Act No. 141 of 1947) and Article 20, paragraph (3) of the Mariners' Employment Security Act (Act No. 130 of 1948) to a person who graduated, before this Act comes into effect, from a school for the blind, school for hearing impaired children or school for handicapped children prescribed in Article 1 of the Former School Education Act, that person is deemed to be a person who graduated from a special needs education school prescribed in Article 1 of the New School Education Act.

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern.