# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第二十八条 (Article 28) - 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: 第二十八条 (Article 28) — address `art-28` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-28 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-28 - 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. --- ### 第二十八条 art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-28 **第一項** 第三十七条第六項、第八項及び第十三項から第十八項まで並びに第四十二条から第四十四条までの規定は、幼稚園に準用する。 art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-28/par-1 Provisions of Article 37, paragraphs (6), (8), and (13) through (18), and Articles 42 through 44 apply mutatis mutandis to kindergartens. machine translation, not official **第二項** 就学前の子どもに関する教育、保育等の総合的な提供の推進に関する法律第四章の規定は、幼稚園に準用する。この場合において、次の表の上欄に掲げる同法の規定中同表の中欄に掲げる字句は、それぞれ同表の下欄に掲げる字句と読み替えるものとする。 第二十七条の二第一項 園児について 園児（幼稚園に在籍する幼児をいう。以下同じ。）について 第二十七条の二第二項第三号 指定都市等所在施設 地方公共団体（公立大学法人を含む。）が設置する幼稚園 指定都市等の長 当該幼稚園が所在する都道府県の教育委員会 第二十七条の五第一項ただし書 都道府県知事又は市長 都道府県知事 第二十七条の六第一項 主務省令 文部科学省令 審議会等 教育、医療、心理、福祉又は法律に関する専門的な知識を有する者のうちから当該所管行政庁があらかじめ指定する者（以下「専門的な知識を有する者」という。） 第二十七条の六第二項及び第三項 審議会等 専門的な知識を有する者 第二十七条の七 主務省令 文部科学省令 主務大臣 文部科学大臣 art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-28/par-2 The provisions of Chapter IV of the Act on Advancement of Comprehensive Service Related to Education, Child Care, etc. of Preschool Children apply mutatis mutandis to kindergartens. In this case, the phrases listed in the middle column of the following table in the provisions of that Act listed in the left column of the table are deemed to be replaced with the phrases listed in the right column of the table, respectively. Article 27-2, paragraph (1) regarding a kindergarten child regarding a kindergarten child (meaning a young child enrolled in a kindergarten; the same applies hereinafter) Article 27-2, paragraph (2), item (iii) facilities located in designated cities, etc. kindergartens established by a local government (including public university corporations) head of a designated city, etc. board of education of the prefecture in which the relevant kindergarten is located Article 27-5, paragraph (1), proviso prefectural governor or mayor prefectural governor Article 27-6, paragraph (1) order of the competent ministry Order of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology council, etc. persons designated in advance by the relevant competent administrative agency from among those with expert knowledge of education, medicine, psychology, welfare, or law (hereinafter referred to as "person with expert knowledge") Article 27-6, paragraphs (2) and (3) council, etc. person with expert knowledge Article 27-7 order of the competent ministry Order of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology competent minister Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-28/par-1: 第三十七条第六項 → 学校教育法 第三十七条第六項 (Article 37, paragraph (6)), art-37/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-37/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-37/par-6 - art-28/par-1: 第八項 → 学校教育法 第三十七条第八項 (Article 37, paragraph (8)), art-37/par-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-37/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-37/par-8 - art-28/par-1: 第十三項から第十八項まで → 学校教育法 第三十七条第十三項 (Article 37, paragraph (13)), art-37/par-13 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-37/par-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-37/par-13 - art-28/par-1: 第十三項から第十八項まで → 学校教育法 第三十七条第十四項 (Article 37, paragraph (14)), art-37/par-14 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-37/par-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-37/par-14 - art-28/par-1: 第十三項から第十八項まで → 学校教育法 第三十七条第十五項 (Article 37, paragraph (15)), art-37/par-15 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-37/par-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-37/par-15 - art-28/par-1: 第十三項から第十八項まで → 学校教育法 第三十七条第十六項 (Article 37, paragraph (16)), art-37/par-16 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-37/par-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-37/par-16 - art-28/par-1: 第十三項から第十八項まで → 学校教育法 第三十七条第十七項 (Article 37, paragraph (17)), art-37/par-17 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-37/par-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-37/par-17 - art-28/par-1: 第十三項から第十八項まで → 学校教育法 第三十七条第十八項 (Article 37, paragraph (18)), art-37/par-18 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-37/par-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-37/par-18 - art-28/par-1: 第四十二条から第四十四条まで → 学校教育法 第四十二条 (Article 42), art-42 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-42 - art-28/par-1: 第四十二条から第四十四条まで → 学校教育法 第四十三条 (Article 43), art-43 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-43 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-43 - art-28/par-1: 第四十二条から第四十四条まで → 学校教育法 第四十四条 (Article 44), art-44 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-44 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-44 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第八十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-82/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch school-education-act-20261019T141625-001, translated 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch school-education-act-20261019T155543-001, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 学校教育法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19