# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)

- 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（認可の申請に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4141-118/art-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-17
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-4141-118/art-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4141-118/art-2
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### 第二条（認可の申請に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Applications for Approval
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4141-118/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-4141-118/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4141-118/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行の際現に改正前の学校教育法第四条第一項の規定によりされている大学の学部若しくは大学院の研究科又は改正前の同法第六十九条の二第二項の大学の学科の設置廃止その他政令で定める事項についての認可の申請であって、改正後の同法第四条第二項各号の規定に該当するものは、改正後の同項後段の規定によりされた届出とみなす。
<sup>suppl-4141-118/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-4141-118/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4141-118/art-2/par-1</sup>
An application for approval that has been made pursuant to Article 4, paragraph (1) of the School Education Act before amendment and is pending at the time this Act comes into effect, regarding the establishment and abolition of, or other matters specified by Cabinet Order concerning, a university faculty or an academic unit of a graduate school, or a university department under Article 69-2, paragraph (2) of that Act before amendment, and that falls under any of the items of Article 4, paragraph (2) of that Act after amendment, is deemed to be a notification made pursuant to the latter sentence of that paragraph after amendment.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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-20261019T143843-005, translated 2026-10-20
- claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch school-education-act-20261019T143843-005, translated 2026-10-20
- This site's parser, version 210 — 学校教育法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19
