# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)
- 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-4181-80/art-4`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-17
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/suppl-4181-80/art-4
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4181-80/art-4
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### 第四条
suppl-4181-80/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/suppl-4181-80/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4181-80/art-4
**第一項** この法律の施行前に旧学校教育法第一条に規定する盲学校、聾学校又は養護学校を卒業した者に対する職業安定法（昭和二十二年法律第百四十一号）第二十六条第一項及び船員職業安定法（昭和二十三年法律第百三十号）第二十条第三項の規定の適用については、その者は、新学校教育法第一条に規定する特別支援学校を卒業した者とみなす。
suppl-4181-80/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/suppl-4181-80/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4181-80/art-4/par-1
With regard to the application of Article 26, paragraph (1) of the Employment Security Act (Act No. 141 of 1947) and Article 20, paragraph (3) of the Mariners' Employment Security Act (Act No. 130 of 1948) to a person who graduated, before this Act comes into effect, from a school for the blind, school for hearing impaired children or school for handicapped children prescribed in Article 1 of the Former School Education Act, that person is deemed to be a person who graduated from a special needs education school prescribed in Article 1 of the New School Education Act.
machine translation, not official
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## Cites
- suppl-4181-80/art-4/par-1: 職業安定法（昭和二十二年法律第百四十一号）第二十六条第一項 → 職業安定法 第二十六条第一項 (Article 26, paragraph (1)), art-26/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-security-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000141/art-26/par-1
- suppl-4181-80/art-4/par-1: 船員職業安定法（昭和二十三年法律第百三十号）第二十条第三項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000130, 第二十条第三項 (Article 20, paragraph (3)), art-20/par-3 — not held in this collection
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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-20261019T143843-007, 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