# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)

- 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-4171-83/art-1`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-17
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-4171-83/art-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4171-83/art-1
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### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date
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<sup>suppl-4171-83/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-4171-83/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4171-83/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、平成十九年四月一日から施行する。ただし、第四条、第六十八条の二及び第六十九条の二の改正規定並びに附則第三条、第六条、第七条（税理士法（昭和二十六年法律第二百三十七号）第八条第一項第一号中「第六十八条の二第三項第二号」を「第六十八条の二第四項第二号」に改める改正規定に限る。）、第九条及び第十条の規定は、平成十七年十月一日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-4171-83/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-4171-83/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4171-83/art-1/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2007; provided, however, that the provisions amending Articles 4, 68-2 and 69-2, and the provisions of Articles 3, 6, 7 (limited to the provision amending Article 8, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Certified Public Tax Accountant Act (Act No. 237 of 1951) by replacing "Article 68-2, paragraph (3), item (ii)" with "Article 68-2, paragraph (4), item (ii)"), 9 and 10 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect on October 1, 2005.
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## Cites
- suppl-4171-83/art-1/par-1: 附則第三条 → 学校教育法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-4171-83/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-4171-83/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4171-83/art-3

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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-20261019T143843-006, 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
