# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)

- 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（中等教育学校の設置のため必要な行為） — address `suppl-4101-101/art-2`
- 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-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4101-101/art-2
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### 第二条（中等教育学校の設置のため必要な行為） — Acts Necessary for the Establishment of Secondary Education Schools
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>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</sup>

**第一項**  中等教育学校の設置のため必要な手続その他の行為は、この法律の施行前においても行うことができる。
<sup>suppl-4101-101/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/suppl-4101-101/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4101-101/art-2/par-1</sup>
Procedures and other acts necessary for the establishment of a secondary education school may be taken even before this Act comes into effect.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 学校教育法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — 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

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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