Based on this regulation, many local public entities (prefecture or municipality) enact respectively their own ordinances with names such as "Ordinance for the Protection of Cultural Properties "; the Board of Education carries out the prefectural or municipal designations with an attempt to protect those important cultural properties other than the nation designated cultural properties.
この規定に基づき、地方公共団体（都道府県、区市町村）の多くがそれぞれ「文化財保護条例」等の名称の条例を制定し、国指定の文化財以外の重要な文化財について、教育委員会が指定等を行い保護を図っている。