# 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-4281-47/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-4281-47/art-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4281-47/art-1
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### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date
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<sup>suppl-4281-47/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-4281-47/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4281-47/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、平成二十九年四月一日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-4281-47/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-4281-47/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4281-47/art-1/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2017; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified respectively in those items:
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  **一**  第一条、第三条、第七条、第十条及び第十五条の規定並びに次条並びに附則第四条第一項及び第二項、第六条から第十条まで、第四十二条（東日本大震災復興特別区域法（平成二十三年法律第百二十二号）第四十八条第二項及び第三項の改正規定に限る。）、第四十四条並びに第四十六条の規定　公布の日
  <sup>suppl-4281-47/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-4281-47/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4281-47/art-1/par-1/item-1</sup>
  the provisions of Articles 1, 3, 7, 10 and 15, and the provisions of the following Article, Article 4, paragraphs (1) and (2), Articles 6 through 10, Article 42 (limited to the provisions amending Article 48, paragraphs (2) and (3) of the Act on Special Zones for Reconstruction in Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake (Act No. 122 of 2011)), Article 44 and Article 46 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation;
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## Cited by

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

- 学校教育法 附則第七条第一項（処分、申請等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-4281-47/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-4281-47/art-7/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-20261019T143843-009, translated 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
