# 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-5011-11/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-5011-11/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-5011-11/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5011-11/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/suppl-5011-11/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-5011-11/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、平成三十二年四月一日から施行する。ただし、第二条中国立大学法人法附則に一条を加える改正規定、第四条中独立行政法人大学改革支援・学位授与機構法第三条の改正規定及び同法第十六条第一項の改正規定並びに次条並びに附則第四条第三項及び第四項、第九条、第十一条並びに第十二条の規定は、公布の日から施行する。 suppl-5011-11/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/suppl-5011-11/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-5011-11/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2020; provided, however, that the provisions in Article 2 adding an Article to the Supplementary Provisions of the National University Corporation Act, the provisions in Article 4 amending Article 3 of the Act on the National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education, Independent Administrative Agency and the provisions amending Article 16, paragraph (1) of that Act, and the provisions of the following Article, Article 4, paragraphs (3) and (4), and Articles 9, 11 and 12 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect on the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5011-11/art-1/par-1: 第十一条 → 学校教育法 附則第十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 11), suppl-5011-11/art-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/suppl-5011-11/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-5011-11/art-11 - suppl-5011-11/art-1/par-1: 第十二条 → 学校教育法 附則第十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12), suppl-5011-11/art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/suppl-5011-11/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-5011-11/art-12 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 附則第十一条第一項（罰則に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/school-education-act/suppl-5011-11/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-5011-11/art-11/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch school-education-act-20261019T143843-010, translated 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch school-education-act-20261019T143843-010, translated 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