# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第百四十二条 (Article 142) - 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: 第百四十二条 (Article 142) — address `art-142` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-142 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-142 - 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. --- ### 第百四十二条 art-142 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-142 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-142 **第一項** この法律に規定するもののほか、この法律施行のため必要な事項で、地方公共団体の機関が処理しなければならないものについては政令で、その他のものについては文部科学大臣が、これを定める。 art-142/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-142/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-142/par-1 Beyond what is provided for in this Act, necessary matters for implementation of this Act, which local government institutions must process, are to be prescribed by Cabinet Order, and other matters are to be prescribed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## 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