# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第十八条 (Article 18) - 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: 第十八条 (Article 18) — address `art-18` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-18 - 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. --- ### 第十八条 art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-18 **第一項** 前条第一項又は第二項の規定によつて、保護者が就学させなければならない子（以下それぞれ「学齢児童」又は「学齢生徒」という。）で、病弱、発育不完全その他やむを得ない事由のため、就学困難と認められる者の保護者に対しては、市町村の教育委員会は、文部科学大臣の定めるところにより、同条第一項又は第二項の義務を猶予又は免除することができる。 art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-18/par-1 Pursuant to the provisions provided for in paragraph (1) or (2) of the preceding Article, with regard to children whose custodians are obligated to enroll them in a school (referred to below as "school-aged child" or "school-aged student") but who are deemed to be unable to be enrolled in the school due to health impairment, incomplete growth development, and other unavoidable circumstances, the municipal board of education may postpone or exempt the custodian of such children from the obligation under paragraph (1) or (2) of that Article, as provided for by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-18/par-1: 前条第一項 → 学校教育法 第十七条第一項 (Article 17, paragraph (1)), art-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-17/par-1 - art-18/par-1: 第二項 → 学校教育法 第十七条第二項 (Article 17, paragraph (2)), art-17/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-17/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-17/par-2 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 210 — 学校教育法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19