# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)

- 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-4101-101/art-1`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-17
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/suppl-4101-101/art-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4101-101/art-1
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### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4101-101/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/suppl-4101-101/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4101-101/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、平成十一年四月一日から施行する。ただし、第一条中学校教育法第五十五条の次に一条を加える改正規定は平成十年十月一日から、次条の規定は公布の日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-4101-101/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/suppl-4101-101/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4101-101/art-1/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect on April 1, 1999; provided, however, that the provision of Article 1 amending the School Education Act by adding one article after Article 55 comes into effect on October 1, 1998, and the provisions of the following Article come into effect on the date of promulgation.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4101-101/art-1/par-1: 次条 → 学校教育法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-4101-101/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/suppl-4101-101/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4101-101/art-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-20261019T143843-004, 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