# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第七十六条 (Article 76) - 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: 第七十六条 (Article 76) — address `art-76` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-76 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-76 - 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. --- ### 第七十六条 art-76 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-76 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-76 **第一項** 特別支援学校には、小学部及び中学部を置かなければならない。ただし、特別の必要のある場合においては、そのいずれかのみを置くことができる。 art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-76/par-1 Special needs education schools must have elementary school courses and junior high school courses; provided, however, that in cases where there is a special need, they may have only one of those courses. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 特別支援学校には、小学部及び中学部のほか、幼稚部又は高等部を置くことができ、また、特別の必要のある場合においては、前項の規定にかかわらず、小学部及び中学部を置かないで幼稚部又は高等部のみを置くことができる。 art-76/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-76/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-76/par-2 Special needs education schools may have kindergarten courses or high school courses, beyond elementary school courses and junior high school courses, and in cases where there is a special need, they may have kindergarten courses or high school courses without having elementary school courses and junior high school courses, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-76/par-2: 前項 → 学校教育法 第七十六条第一項 (Article 76, paragraph (1)), art-76/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-76/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第七十六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-76/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-76/par-2 - 所得税法 第九条第一項第二号（非課税所得） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/income-tax-act/art-9/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/340AC0000000033/art-9/par-1/item-2 - 租税特別措置法 第九十一条の三第一項（都道府県が行う高等学校の生徒に対する学資としての資金の貸付けに係る消費貸借契約書等の印紙税の非課税） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/special-taxation-measures-act/art-91-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-91-3/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