# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第十七条 (Article 17) - 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: 第十七条 (Article 17) — address `art-17` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-17 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-17 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十七条 art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-17 **第一項** 保護者は、子の満六歳に達した日の翌日以後における最初の学年の初めから、満十二歳に達した日の属する学年の終わりまで、これを小学校、義務教育学校の前期課程又は特別支援学校の小学部に就学させる義務を負う。ただし、子が、満十二歳に達した日の属する学年の終わりまでに小学校の課程、義務教育学校の前期課程又は特別支援学校の小学部の課程を修了しないときは、満十五歳に達した日の属する学年の終わり（それまでの間においてこれらの課程を修了したときは、その修了した日の属する学年の終わり）までとする。 art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-17/par-1 Custodians have the obligation to enroll their child in an elementary school, the lower course of compulsory education school or an elementary school course of a special needs education school from the first school year that begins on or after the day following the day that the child reaches six years of age, until the end of the school year that includes the day on which the child reaches twelve years of age; provided, however, that when a child has not completed the program of an elementary school, the lower course of compulsory education school or an elementary school course of a special needs education school by the end of the school year that includes the day on which the child reaches twelve years of age, the period is to be extended until the end of the school year that includes the day on which the child reaches fifteen years of age (when the child completes the program during that period; until the end of the school year that includes the day on which the child completes the program). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 保護者は、子が小学校の課程、義務教育学校の前期課程又は特別支援学校の小学部の課程を修了した日の翌日以後における最初の学年の初めから、満十五歳に達した日の属する学年の終わりまで、これを中学校、義務教育学校の後期課程、中等教育学校の前期課程又は特別支援学校の中学部に就学させる義務を負う。 art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-17/par-2 Custodians have the obligation to enroll their child in a junior high school, the upper course of compulsory education school, the lower course of secondary education school, or a junior high school course of a special needs education school from the first school year that begins on or after the day following the day on which the child has completed the program of an elementary school, the lower course of compulsory education school or an elementary school course of a school for special needs education until the end of the school year that includes the day on which the child reaches fifteen years of age. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前二項の義務の履行の督促その他これらの義務の履行に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。 art-17/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-17/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-17/par-3 Necessary matters regarding the demand for performance of obligations referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, and other matters regarding the performance of such obligations, are to be prescribed by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Necessary matters regarding the demand for performance of obligations referred to in the preceding 2 paragraphs, and other matters regarding the performance of such obligations, are to be prescribed by Cabinet Order." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4743/tb --- ## Cites - art-17/par-3: 前二項 → 学校教育法 第十七条第一項 (Article 17, paragraph (1)), art-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-17/par-1 - art-17/par-3: 前二項 → 学校教育法 第十七条第二項 (Article 17, paragraph (2)), art-17/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-17/par-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-16/par-1 - 学校教育法 第十七条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-17/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-17/par-3 - 学校教育法 第十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-18/par-1 - 学校教育法 第百三十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-138/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-138/par-1 - 学校教育法 第百四十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-144/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-144/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — School Education Act (学校教育法), Article 17, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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