# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)

- 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（学校教育法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-4231-37/art-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-17
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-4231-37/art-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4231-37/art-3
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### 第三条（学校教育法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the School Education Act
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4231-37/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-4231-37/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4231-37/art-3</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行の際現に第九条の規定による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市町村の設置する幼稚園に係る認可の申請は、第九条の規定による改正後の学校教育法第四条の二の規定によりされた届出とみなす。
<sup>suppl-4231-37/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-4231-37/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4231-37/art-3/par-1</sup>
An application for approval pertaining to a kindergarten established by a municipality that is being made, at the time this Act comes into effect, under the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (1) of the School Education Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 9 is deemed to be a notification made under the provisions of Article 4-2 of the School Education Act as amended by the provisions of Article 9.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  この法律の施行前に第九条の規定による改正前の学校教育法第十三条の規定によりされた市町村の設置する幼稚園に係る閉鎖命令は、第九条の規定による改正後の学校教育法第十三条第二項の規定において準用する同条第一項の規定によりされた閉鎖命令とみなす。
<sup>suppl-4231-37/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-4231-37/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4231-37/art-3/par-2</sup>
A closure order pertaining to a kindergarten established by a municipality that was issued before this Act comes into effect under the provisions of Article 13 of the School Education Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 9 is deemed to be a closure order issued under the provisions of Article 13, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis in Article 13, paragraph (2) of the School Education Act as amended by the provisions of Article 9.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4231-37/art-3/par-1: 学校教育法第四条の二 → 学校教育法 第四条の二 (Article 4-2), art-4-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-4-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-4-2
- suppl-4231-37/art-3/par-2: 学校教育法第十三条第二項 → 学校教育法 第十三条第二項 (Article 13, paragraph (2)), art-13/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-13/par-2
- suppl-4231-37/art-3/par-2: 同条第一項 → 学校教育法 第十三条第一項 (Article 13, paragraph (1)), art-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-13/par-1

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 学校教育法 附則第二十四条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-4231-37/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4231-37/art-24/par-1

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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-20261019T143843-007, 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
