# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第五十五条 (Article 55) - 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: 第五十五条 (Article 55) — address `art-55` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-55 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-55 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条 art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-55 **第一項** 高等学校の定時制の課程又は通信制の課程に在学する生徒が、技能教育のための施設で当該施設の所在地の都道府県の教育委員会の指定するものにおいて教育を受けているときは、校長は、文部科学大臣の定めるところにより、当該施設における学習を当該高等学校における教科の一部の履修とみなすことができる。 art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-55/par-1 When a student enrolled in part-time courses or correspondence courses in high school is receiving an education in a facility for skill education, which is designated by the prefectural board of education in the location of the relevant facility, the school principal may deem studies in the relevant facility as taking partial courses of subjects in the relevant high school, as provided for by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の施設の指定に関し必要な事項は、政令で、これを定める。 art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-55/par-2 Necessary matters regarding the designation of facilities referred to in the preceding paragraph are to be prescribed by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-55/par-2: 前項 → 学校教育法 第五十五条第一項 (Article 55, paragraph (1)), art-55/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-55/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第五十五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-55/par-2 - 学校教育法 第七十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-70/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