# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第三条 (Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Article 3) — address `art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条 art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-3 **第一項** 学校を設置しようとする者は、学校の種類に応じ、文部科学大臣の定める設備、編制その他に関する設置基準に従い、これを設置しなければならない。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-3/par-1 A person that intends to establish a school must establish it according to the type of school, and in compliance with the standards of establishment relating to equipment, organization, and others specified by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. 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 第九十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-94/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-94/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