# 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)（学校教育法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-4261-51/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-4261-51/art-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4261-51/art-2
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### 第二条（学校教育法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the School Education Act
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4261-51/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/suppl-4261-51/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4261-51/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行の際現に第四条の規定による改正前の学校教育法第四条第一項の規定によりされている指定都市（地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百五十二条の十九第一項の指定都市をいう。以下同じ。）の設置する高等学校又は中等教育学校に係る認可の申請は、第四条の規定による改正後の学校教育法第四条第四項の規定によりされた届出とみなす。
<sup>suppl-4261-51/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/suppl-4261-51/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4261-51/art-2/par-1</sup>
An application for approval pertaining to a high school or secondary education school established by a designated city (meaning a designated city under Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947); the same applies hereinafter) that is being made, at the time this Act comes into effect, under the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (1) of the School Education Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 4 is deemed to be a notification made under the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (4) of the School Education Act as amended by the provisions of Article 4.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4261-51/art-2/par-1: 地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百五十二条の十九第一項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十二条の十九第一項 (Article 252-19, paragraph (1)), art-252-19/par-1 — not held in this collection
- suppl-4261-51/art-2/par-1: 学校教育法第四条第四項 → 学校教育法 第四条第四項 (Article 4, paragraph (4)), art-4/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/art-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-4/par-4

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 学校教育法 附則第七条第一項（処分、申請等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/suppl-4261-51/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4261-51/art-7/par-1
- 学校教育法 附則第九条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/suppl-4261-51/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4261-51/art-9/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-20261019T143843-007, 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
