I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendments to the School Education Law.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This nineteenth day of the fourth month of the twenty-fifth year of Showa (April 19, 1950)
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law for Partial Amendments to the School Education Law
The School Education Law (Law No.28 of 1947) shall be partially amended as follows:
In Article 44 paragraph 1, "the night course, or the part-time course" shall be amended as "the course in which lessons are given in the evening or at other special time or period (hereinafter referred to as the part-time course)" , and paragraph 2 of the same Article shall be amended as follows:
The high school may have the part-time course only.
The proviso to Article 46 shall be amended as follows:
However, in cases where the part-time course is offered, it shall cover not less than four years.
The following two paragraphs shall be added to Article 50:
The high school may, in addition to those mentioned in the preceding paragraph, have school-nurses, assistant teachers, technical personnel and other necessary personnel.
The technical personnel shall be engaged in technical matters.
In Article 51, "paragraphs 2 to 4 inclusive, 6 and 7 of Article 28 and Article 34" shall be amended as "Article 28 paragraphs 3 to 7 inclusive and Article 34" .
In Article 58 paragraph 2, "others" shall be amended as "lecturers, technical personnel and other necessary personnel" , and the following one paragraph shall be added to the same Article:
The lecturers shall perform duties equivalent to those of the professors and assistant professors.
The following one Article shall be added next to Article 68:
Article 68-(2). The university may confer the title of emeritus professor in accordance with what may be determined by the University concerned on persons who have served with the university as president, professor, assistant professor or lecturer for many years and who have rendered distinguished services to the university in education or sciences.
In Article 70, "and Article 45" shall be amended as "Article 45, and Article 50 paragraph 3" .
In Article 83 paragraph 1, "(excluding those which are provided for in other laws in regard to conducting the education in question)" shall be added next to "education" , and in paragraph 2 of the same Article, "and other educational facilities other than the schools mentioned in Article 1" shall be added next to "Miscellaneous schools" .
Article 84 paragraph 1 shall be amended as follows:
In cases where the prefectural competent authorties have recognized any institution other than schools or miscellaneous schools to be conducting miscellaneous school education, the authorities may recommend the persons concerned to apply for the approval of the establishment of miscellaneous schools within a fixed period. The period, however, shall not be less than a month.
When the persons concerned mentioned in the preceding paragraph consecutively conduct miscellaneous school education without complying with the recommendation under the provision of the same paragraph, or when they consecutively conduct miscellaneous school education in cases where they were unable to get the approval, although they applied for the approval of the establishment of miscellaneous schools in accordance with the recommendation under the provision of the same paragraph, the prefectural competent authorities may order the persons concerned to discontinue the educational work in question.
In Article 84 paragraph 2, "the foregoing paragraph" shall be amended as "the preceding two paragraphs" ;and the following one paragraph shall be added to the same Article:
The governors of To, Do, Fu and prefectures shall, in case they issue the order under the provision of paragrgph 2, hear the opinion of the Private School Council in advance.
In Article 89, "or an order under the provision of Article 84 paragraph 2" shall be added next to "the closing order" .
In Article 94, "Degree Ordinance" shall beamended as:
Imperial Ordinance concerning the Emeritus Professors of National Comprehensive Universities, ete.
Imperial Ordinance concerning the Emeritus Professors of Fishery Training Institute.
Imperial Ordinance concerning the Emeritus Professors of Nautical College
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Article 96 shall be amended as follows:
The following one Article shall be added next to Article 108:
Article 108-(2). In case of conferring the title of emeritus professor in accordance with the provision of Article 68-(2), the services as head (including President and Rector;hereinafter the same in this Article) or teacher of a university, the preparatory course of a university, the higher course of a higher school, a college or a teacher training school under the provisions of the former University Ordinance, the former Higher School Ordinance, the former College Ordinance, or the former Regulations governing the Organization of the Teacher Training Schools, and of any of such schools equivalent to the above as are designated by the Minister of Education, may, for the time being, be taken into consideration.
The schools mentioned in the preceding paragraph may confer the title of emeritus professor, in accordance with the provision of Article68-(2), upon persons who have served as heads or teachers of the school concerned.
Supplementary Provisions:
1. This Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation, and shall be applicableas from April 1, 1950.
2. The Private School Law (Law No.270 of 1949) shall be partially amended as follows:
In Article 5 paragraph 1 item (1), "the evening course and the course in which teaching is conducted at special period or time" shall be amended as "the course in which lessons are given in the evening or at other special time or period" .