# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第十二条 (Article 12) - Law: 学校教育法 (School Education Act), 昭和二十二年法律第二十六号 - English title "School Education Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第十二条 (Article 12) — address `art-12` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-12 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十二条 art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-12 **第一項** 学校においては、別に法律で定めるところにより、幼児、児童、生徒及び学生並びに職員の健康の保持増進を図るため、健康診断を行い、その他その保健に必要な措置を講じなければならない。 art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-12/par-1 The school, as provided for separately by law, must conduct health checkups and other necessary measures for health, in order to maintain and promote the health of young children, pupils,students, and staff members Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第百三十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-133/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-133/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 学校教育法 — the text in force from 2026-06-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000026/20260617_508AC0000000037), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — School Education Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4743/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 210 — 学校教育法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19