# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第百四十三条 (Article 143)

- 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: 第百四十三条 (Article 143) — address `art-143`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-17
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-143
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-143
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### 第百四十三条
<sup>art-143 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-143 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-143</sup>

**第一項**  第十三条第一項（同条第二項、第百三十三条第一項及び第百三十四条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による閉鎖命令又は第百三十六条第二項の規定による命令に違反した者は、六月以下の拘禁刑又は二十万円以下の罰金に処する。
<sup>art-143/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-143/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-143/par-1</sup>
A person that violates the closing orders under the provisions of Article 13, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of that Article, Article 133, paragraph (1), and Article 134, paragraph (2)), or the orders under the provisions of Article 136, paragraph (2), is to be punished by imprisonment for not more than 6 months or a fine of not more than 200,000 yen.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-143/par-1: 第十三条第一項 → 学校教育法 第十三条第一項 (Article 13, paragraph (1)), art-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-13/par-1
- art-143/par-1: 同条第二項 → 学校教育法 第十三条第二項 (Article 13, paragraph (2)), art-13/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-13/par-2
- art-143/par-1: 第百三十三条第一項 → 学校教育法 第百三十三条第一項 (Article 133, paragraph (1)), art-133/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-133/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-133/par-1
- art-143/par-1: 第百三十四条第二項 → 学校教育法 第百三十四条第二項 (Article 134, paragraph (2)), art-134/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-134/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-134/par-2
- art-143/par-1: 第百三十六条第二項 → 学校教育法 第百三十六条第二項 (Article 136, paragraph (2)), art-136/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-136/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-136/par-2

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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch school-education-act-20261019T143843-001, translated 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