# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20) - 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: 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5071-29/art-20` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-5071-29/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-5071-29/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5071-29/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-5071-29/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-5071-29/art-20 **第一項** この法律（附則第一条第三号に掲げる規定については、当該規定。以下この条において同じ。）の施行前にした行為並びに附則第十四条、第十六条第一項及び第十七条第一項の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-5071-29/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-5071-29/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-5071-29/art-20/par-1 With regard to the application of penal provisions to an act committed before this Act (or, for the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions, before those provisions; the same applies below in this Article) comes into effect, and to an act committed after this Act comes into effect in a case where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 14, Article 16, paragraph (1), and Article 17, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5071-29/art-20/par-1: この条 → 学校教育法 附則第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20), suppl-5071-29/art-20 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-5071-29/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-5071-29/art-20 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 附則第二十条第一項（罰則に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/suppl-5071-29/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/suppl-5071-29/art-20/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch school-education-act-20261019T143843-011, translated 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch school-education-act-20261019T143843-012, 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