# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第四十条 (Article 40) - 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: 第四十条 (Article 40) — address `art-40` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-40 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-40 - 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. --- ### 第四十条 art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-40 **第一項** 市町村は、前二条の規定によることを不可能又は不適当と認めるときは、小学校又は義務教育学校の設置に代え、学齢児童の全部又は一部の教育事務を、他の市町村又は前条の市町村の組合に委託することができる。 art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-40/par-1 A municipality may, when it finds it impossible or inappropriate to follow under the provisions of the preceding two Articles, entrust the educational affairs in full or in part related to school-aged children to other municipalities or municipal partnerships, in place of establishing elementary schools or compulsory education schools. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合においては、地方自治法第二百五十二条の十四第三項において準用する同法第二百五十二条の二の二第二項中「都道府県知事」とあるのは、「都道府県知事及び都道府県の教育委員会」と読み替えるものとする。 art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-40/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the term "prefectural governor" in Article 252-2-2, paragraph (2) of the Local Autonomy Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the Article 252-14, paragraph (3) of that Act, is to be replaced with "prefectural governor and prefectural board of education". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-40/par-1: 前二条 → 学校教育法 第三十八条 (Article 38), art-38 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-38 - art-40/par-1: 前二条 → 学校教育法 第三十九条 (Article 39), art-39 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-39 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-39 - art-40/par-2: 前項 → 学校教育法 第四十条第一項 (Article 40, paragraph (1)), art-40/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-40/par-1 - art-40/par-2: 地方自治法第二百五十二条の十四第三項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十二条の十四第三項 (Article 252-14, paragraph (3)), art-252-14/par-3 — not held in this collection - art-40/par-2: 同法第二百五十二条の二の二第二項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十二条の二の二第二項 (Article 252-2-2, paragraph (2)), art-252-2-2/par-2 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第四十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-40/par-2 - 学校教育法 第四十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-41/par-1 - 学校教育法 第四十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-49/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 - This site's parser, version 210 — 学校教育法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19