Where towns or villages have established a partial-affairs association or a wide-area union and set up a welfare office, then for the purpose of applying the provisions of this Act, that partial-affairs association or wide-area union is deemed to be the town or village that sets up a welfare office, and the administrator of that partial-affairs association (or, in the case of a partial-affairs association under Article 285 of the Local Autonomy Act in which a board of directors is established in place of an administrator pursuant to Article 287-3, paragraph (2) of that Act, the board of directors) or the head of the wide-area union (or, in the case of a wide-area union in which a board of directors is established in place of the head pursuant to Article 287-3, paragraph (2) of that Act as applied mutatis mutandis under Article 291-13 of that Act, the board of directors) is deemed to be the head of the town or village that administers a welfare office.
町村が一部事務組合又は広域連合を設けて福祉事務所を設置した場合には、この法律の規定の適用については、その一部事務組合又は広域連合を福祉事務所を設置する町村とみなし、その一部事務組合の管理者（地方自治法第二百八十七条の三第二項の規定により管理者に代えて理事会を置く同法第二百八十五条の一部事務組合にあつては、理事会）又は広域連合の長（同法第二百九十一条の十三において準用する同法第二百八十七条の三第二項の規定により長に代えて理事会を置く広域連合にあつては、理事会）を福祉事務所を管理する町村長とみなす。
welfare officemachine translation
「福祉事務所」
A welfare office (福祉に関する事務所) under the Social Welfare Act, which a prefecture or city must, and a town or village may, set up by ordinance (条例) to handle measures under the welfare laws.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (1)