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Public assistance under this Act, which every citizen (国民) who meets the requirements this Act sets may receive without discrimination and on an equal footing.
The prefectural governor (都道府県知事), city mayor, or mayor of a town or village managing a welfare office (福祉事務所), who is to decide on and provide public assistance to a person under Article 19, paragraphs (1) to (3) — generally the one whose welfare office covers the place where the person lives, or, in the cases those paragraphs set, where the person is, or where they lived or were before being placed in a facility or in a private household's care.
A person in a condition of needing public assistance, whether or not they are currently receiving it.
現に保護を受けているといないとにかかわらず、保護を必要とする状態にある者
A hospital, clinic or pharmacy designated under Article 49 — by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare for those the State has established, and by the prefectural governor (都道府県知事) for the rest — to provide the medical care for medical assistance (医療扶助) under this Act.
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.
The expenses needed to provide public assistance.
The money and goods given or lent as public assistance.
保護として給与し、又は貸与される金銭及び物品
Giving public assistance by giving or lending goods, giving medical care, providing services, or any means other than giving or lending money (金銭給付).
物品の給与又は貸与、医療の給付、役務の提供その他金銭給付以外の方法で保護を行うこと
The date Act No. 104 of 2013, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
平成二十六年改正後生活保護法
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 104 of 2013.
The programme a public assistance administrator (保護の実施機関) is to run under Article 55-8 to maintain and improve the health of public assistance recipients (被保護者), by giving them the information they need, health guidance, encouragement to see a doctor and other means.
The office expenses of a public assistance facility (保護施設) that come with admitting a public assistance recipient (被保護者) to it or entrusting their admission to it, or with having them use it or entrusting that to it, under the proviso to Article 30, paragraph (1), Article 33, paragraph (2) or Article 36, paragraph (2).
The mayor of a town or village that has not set up a welfare office (福祉事務所), who is to give the necessary public assistance, as an emergency measure, to a person requiring public assistance (要保護者) in the town or village whose situation is so particularly urgent that they cannot be left alone.
The office expenses that come with admitting a public assistance recipient (被保護者) to a residential facility for daily living support (日常生活支援住居施設) or another suitable facility, entrusting their admission to such a facility, or entrusting their care to a private household, under the proviso to Article 30, paragraph (1).
An intensive care home for the elderly (特別養護老人ホーム) under Article 20-5 of the Act on Social Welfare for the Elderly with 30 or more places, whose purpose is to give the people requiring long-term care (要介護者) admitted to it bathing, toileting, eating and other daily-life care, functional training, health management and care in the course of medical treatment under a facility service plan (施設サービス計画).
同条第二十七項に規定する介護老人福祉施設
The persons and facilities to which long-term care assistance (介護扶助) in kind may be entrusted once designated under Article 54-2, paragraph (1): those who, as a business, give in-home care services (居宅介護) or draw up in-home care support plans (居宅介護支援計画); specified welfare equipment dealers (特定福祉用具販売事業者); community-based and other facilities covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly (地域密着型介護老人福祉施設, 介護老人福祉施設); long-term care health facilities (介護老人保健施設); integrated facilities for medical and long-term care (介護医療院); those who, as a business, give care prevention services (介護予防) or draw up care prevention support plans (介護予防支援計画); specified care prevention welfare equipment dealers (特定介護予防福祉用具販売事業者); and care prevention and daily life support providers (介護予防・日常生活支援事業者).
その事業として居宅介護を行う者及びその事業として居宅介護支援計画（第十五条の二第三項に規定する居宅介護支援計画をいう。第五十四条の二第一項及び別表第二において同じ。）を作成する者、その事業として介護保険法第八条第十三項に規定する特定福祉用具販売を行う者（第五十四条の二第一項及び別表第二において「特定福祉用具販売事業者」という。）、地域密着型介護老人福祉施設、介護老人福祉施設、介護老人保健施設及び介護医療院、その事業として介護予防を行う者及びその事業として介護予防支援計画（第十五条の二第六項に規定する介護予防支援計画をいう。第五十四条の二第一項及び別表第二において同じ。）を作成する者、その事業として同法第八条の二第十一項に規定する特定介護予防福祉用具販売を行う者（第五十四条の二第一項及び別表第二において「特定介護予防福祉用具販売事業者」という。）並びに介護予防・日常生活支援事業者（その事業として同法第百十五条の四十五第一項第一号に規定する第一号事業を行う者をいう。以下同じ。）
地域密着型介護老人福祉施設
An intensive care home for the elderly (特別養護老人ホーム) under Article 20-5 of the Act on Social Welfare for the Elderly with 29 or fewer places, whose purpose is to give the people requiring long-term care (要介護者) admitted to it — limited to those in a care-need category a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets or otherwise unable to live at home as such an Order provides — bathing, toileting, eating and other daily-life care, functional training, health management and care in the course of medical treatment under a community-based facility service plan (地域密着型施設サービス計画).
介護保険法第八条第二十二項に規定する地域密着型介護老人福祉施設
The programme a public assistance administrator (保護の実施機関) is to run under Article 55-7 that counsels public assistance recipients (被保護者) on problems of support in getting work and gives them the information and advice they need, other than what falls under the career path support programme for children (子どもの進路選択支援事業).
子どもの進路選択支援事業
A programme a public assistance administrator (保護の実施機関) may run under Article 55-10, paragraph (1) that, by home visits or other suitable means, counsels children who are public assistance recipients (被保護者), and their parents or guardians, on problems of education, work and daily habits in choosing the children's future path, gives them the information and advice they need, and liaises with the bodies concerned.
A programme a public assistance administrator (保護の実施機関) may run under Article 55-10, paragraph (1) that, over a period a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, gives public assistance recipients (被保護者) for whom finding employment is extremely difficult the training they need to build the knowledge and skills for work.
A programme a public assistance administrator (保護の実施機関) may run under Article 55-10, paragraph (1) that helps public assistance recipients (被保護者) understand their income, spending and other household finances properly and become more willing to improve them.
A programme a public assistance administrator (保護の実施機関) may run under Article 55-10, paragraph (1) that, over a period a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, gives public assistance recipients (被保護者) who need support to secure a stable place to live the information and advice they need through home visits, and other help such an Order specifies for living day to day in their present home.
In Article 27-3, a meeting that a public assistance administrator (保護の実施機関) may organise, made up of the relevant bodies, etc. (関係機関等) it recognises as concerned with supporting public assistance recipients (被保護者), to exchange the information needed to help recipients become self-reliant and to consider the support they need to live their daily and social lives in the community.
介護予防・日常生活支援事業者
A person who, as a business, carries out category 1 projects (第一号事業) as defined in Article 115-45, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act — one of the long-term care providers (介護機関) to which long-term care assistance (介護扶助) may be entrusted.
その事業として同法第百十五条の四十五第一項第一号に規定する第一号事業を行う者
In Article 80-2, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, public assistance administrators (保護の実施機関), prefectural governors (都道府県知事), municipal mayors (市町村長), designated medical care providers (指定医療機関) and others that a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies as using recipient numbers, etc. (受給者番号等) to carry out the work of deciding on and providing public assistance and related work.
受給者番号等
In Article 80-2, the public expense payer number (公費負担者番号) that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets for each public assistance administrator (保護の実施機関) to identify it in the work of deciding on and providing public assistance, and the recipient number (受給者番号) that each public assistance administrator sets for each public assistance recipient (被保護者) to manage information about them.
公費負担者番号（厚生労働大臣が保護の決定・実施に関する事務等において保護の実施機関を識別するための番号として、保護の実施機関ごとに定めるものをいう。）及び受給者番号（保護の実施機関が被保護者に係る情報を管理するための番号として、被保護者ごとに定めるものをいう。）
介護老人保健施設
A long-term care health facility as defined in Article 8, paragraph (28) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act: a facility licensed by the prefectural governor (都道府県知事) under Article 94, paragraph (1) of that Act to give nursing, care under medical supervision, functional training, other necessary medical care and help with daily life, under a facility service plan (施設サービス計画), to people requiring long-term care (要介護者) who mainly need support to maintain and restore their physical and mental functions so that they can live at home, and whose need for treatment is of the degree a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets.
同条第二十八項に規定する介護老人保健施設
Facility care services as Article 15-2, paragraph (4) defines them: daily-life care for residents of a community-based facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly (地域密着型介護老人福祉施設入所者生活介護), long-term care welfare facility services (介護福祉施設サービス), long-term care health facility services (介護保健施設サービス) and integrated medical and long-term care facility services (介護医療院サービス), as defined in Article 8 of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act.
第十五条の二第四項に規定する施設介護
Care prevention services (介護予防) as Article 15-2, paragraph (5) defines them: the preventive long-term care services under Article 8-2 of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act that the paragraph lists — such as preventive home-visit bathing, nursing and rehabilitation, preventive day rehabilitation and short stays, and preventive rental of welfare equipment — and services equivalent to them.
同条第五項に規定する介護予防
In-home care services as Article 15-2, paragraph (2) of the Public Assistance Act defines them: the in-home long-term care services under Article 8 of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act that the paragraph lists — such as home-visit care, home-visit nursing, day care, short stays and rental of welfare equipment — and services equivalent to them.
第十五条の二第二項に規定する居宅介護
This Act as amended by Article 14 of Act No. 77 of 2005.
An integrated facility for medical and long-term care as defined in Article 8, paragraph (29) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act: a facility licensed by the prefectural governor (都道府県知事) under Article 107, paragraph (1) of that Act to give medical management, nursing, care under medical supervision, functional training, other necessary medical care and help with daily life, under a facility service plan (施設サービス計画), to people requiring long-term care (要介護者) who mainly need medical care over a long period, and whose need for treatment is of the degree a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets.
同条第二十九項に規定する介護医療院
A corporation that a local government (地方公共団体) sets up under the Local Independent Administrative Agency Act to carry out, efficiently and effectively, public work in its area that must be done reliably, that the local government need not do itself, and that it judges might not get done if left to the private sector, as Article 2(1) of that Act defines it.
地方独立行政法人法（平成十五年法律第百十八号）第二条第一項に規定する地方独立行政法人
The expenses of paying the benefit for employment and self-support (就労自立給付金) under Article 55-4.
就労自立給付金の支給に要する費用
The expenses of paying the school enrollment and job-search preparation benefit (進学・就職準備給付金) under Article 55-5.
進学・就職準備給付金の支給に要する費用
A designated city (指定都市) or core city (中核市), which under Article 84-2, paragraph (1) handles the work this Act gives prefectures that a Cabinet Order (政令) names, the provisions on prefectures then applying to it.
A person who is currently receiving public assistance.
生活保護法第六条第一項に規定する被保護者
In Articles 2 and 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 76 of 2022, the Act that revised other laws when the Children and Families Agency (こども家庭庁) was set up, each law that Act amended, as amended by it, together with the orders made under it.
In Articles 2 and 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 76 of 2022, the Act that revised other laws when the Children and Families Agency (こども家庭庁) was set up, each law that Act amended, as it stood before the amendment, together with the orders made under it.
In Article 27-3, the bodies whose work concerns supporting public assistance recipients (被保護者) in the area — in welfare, employment, education, housing and other fields — persons entrusted with work under Article 55-7, paragraph (2) (as applied by Article 55-8, paragraph (3) and Article 55-10, paragraph (2)), organisations concerned with that support, people whose duties concern it, and others the public assistance administrator (保護の実施機関) recognises as concerned with supporting recipients.
A facility used for the business set out in Article 2, paragraph (3), item (viii) of the Social Welfare Act, or another facility, that the prefectural governor (都道府県知事) has found to meet the requirements a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets as needed for giving public assistance recipients (被保護者) support in daily life.
社会福祉法第二条第三項第八号に規定する事業の用に供する施設その他の施設であつて、被保護者に対する日常生活上の支援の実施に必要なものとして厚生労働省令で定める要件に該当すると都道府県知事が認めたもの
The way a public assistance recipient (被保護者) is confirmed, by the medical institution giving them medical care, as receiving medical assistance (医療扶助): they ask the public assistance administrator (保護の実施機関) about their eligibility for medical assistance, including the information needed to claim the cost of care, by sending the electronic certificate for user verification (利用者証明用電子証明書) recorded on their Individual Number Card (個人番号カード) or by another method a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) sets, receive the answer online, and pass it to the institution, which then confirms their status.
被保護者が、保護の実施機関に対し、個人番号カード（行政手続における特定の個人を識別するための番号の利用等に関する法律（平成二十五年法律第二十七号）第二条第七項に規定する個人番号カードをいう。）に記録された利用者証明用電子証明書（電子署名等に係る地方公共団体情報システム機構の認証業務に関する法律（平成十四年法律第百五十三号）第二十二条第一項に規定する利用者証明用電子証明書をいう。）を送信する方法その他の厚生労働省令で定める方法により、被保護者の医療扶助の受給資格に係る情報（医療の給付に係る費用の請求に必要な情報を含む。）の照会を行い、電子情報処理組織を使用する方法その他の情報通信の技術を利用する方法により、保護の実施機関から回答を受けて当該情報を医療の給付を受ける医療機関に提供し、当該医療機関から医療扶助を受給する被保護者であることの確認を受けること
介護予防支援計画
A plan, as Article 15-2, paragraph (6) defines it, setting the kinds and content of the care prevention services, etc. (介護予防等) a person requiring support (要支援者) who lives at home will use, so that they can use them properly, drawn up by those whom the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) under Article 8-2, paragraph (16) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act specifies among the staff of a community comprehensive support center (地域包括支援センター) under Article 115-46, paragraph (1) of that Act and the employees of an office providing designated in-home long-term care support (指定居宅介護支援) under Article 46, paragraph (1) of that Act.
第十五条の二第六項に規定する介護予防支援計画
居宅介護支援計画
A plan, as Article 15-2, paragraph (3) defines it, setting the kinds and content of the in-home care services, etc. (居宅介護等) — in-home care services (居宅介護) and the other health, medical and welfare services needed to live day to day at home — that a person requiring long-term care (要介護者) who lives at home will use, so that they can use them properly.
第十五条の二第三項に規定する居宅介護支援計画
特定介護予防福祉用具販売事業者
In Article 54-2, paragraph (1) and Appended Table 2 (別表第二), a person who, as a business, makes the sale defined in Article 8-2, paragraph (11) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act (特定介護予防福祉用具販売): selling, in the manner a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, to a person requiring support at home (居宅要支援者), welfare equipment that helps prevent the need for long-term care and is used for bathing or toileting, or that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare otherwise specifies.
特定福祉用具販売事業者
In Article 54-2, paragraph (1) and Appended Table 2 (別表第二), a person who, as a business, makes the sale of specified welfare equipment (特定福祉用具販売) defined in Article 8, paragraph (13) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act: selling, in the manner a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, to a person requiring long-term care at home (居宅要介護者), welfare equipment used for bathing or toileting, or that the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare otherwise specifies.
In Article 54-2, paragraphs (3), (4) and (7), a long-term care provider (介護機関) designated under Article 54-2, paragraph (1), or deemed designated under paragraph (2) of that Article, that holds a designation or permission listed in column 2 of Appended Table 2 (別表第二); its designation under paragraph (1) lapses in the cases column 3 of that table lists and is suspended in those column 4 lists.
In Article 55-11, a public assistance recipient (被保護者) found to be among those a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies, such as one who, in the light of their situation, is quite likely to no longer need public assistance in future.
提供データベース
In Article 80-2, paragraph (4), a database of recipient numbers, etc. (受給者番号等) that includes those of other people, systematically organised so that the information can be searched by computer, and whose information is meant to be provided to others; no one may build one as a business except in the cases that paragraph lists.
調査等
In Article 81-2, the survey, analysis and evaluation that a prefectural governor (都道府県知事) is to endeavour to make, from a wide-area perspective beyond the bounds of individual municipalities, of the medical assistance (医療扶助) and the health management support programme for public assistance recipients (被保護者健康管理支援事業) carried out by municipal mayors (市町村長).
旧法
The earlier Public Assistance Act (Act No. 17 of 1946), which paragraph (2) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of this Act repealed.
A petition, request for examination, objection or other administrative appeal filed under the old appeal system.
This Act as it stood before Article 14 of Act No. 77 of 2005 amended it.
In Article 81 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 123 of 2005, the Public Assistance Act as amended by Article 79 of those supplementary provisions.
In Article 130-2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 83 of 2006, the Long-Term Care Insurance Act (Act No. 123 of 1997) as it stood before Article 26 of that Act amended it, which, with the related former provisions of other laws, stayed in force until 31 March 2024 for long-term care sanatorium medical facilities (介護療養型医療施設) designated when Article 26 came into effect.
In Article 30, paragraph (2) and Article 31 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 83 of 2014, the Public Assistance Act as amended by Article 10 of Act No. 83 of 2014.
In Articles 2 to 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 44 of 2018, the Public Assistance Act as amended by Article 3 of Act No. 44 of 2018.
A person requiring long-term care as defined in Article 7, paragraph (3) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act: a person in a condition of need for long-term care (要介護状態) who is aged 65 or over, or aged 40 to 64 where the physical or mental disability causing it arose from a specified disease (特定疾病).
介護保険法（平成九年法律第百二十三号）第七条第三項に規定する要介護者
A person requiring support as defined in Article 7, paragraph (4) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act: a person in a condition needing support (要支援状態) who is aged 65 or over, or aged 40 to 64 where the physical or mental disability causing it arose from a specified disease (特定疾病).
同条第四項に規定する要支援者
In Article 29, the mutual aid associations organised under Acts (法律), the Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations (国家公務員共済組合連合会), the National Federation of Mutual Aid Associations for Municipal Personnel (全国市町村職員共済組合連合会), the Pension Fund Association for Local Government Officials (地方公務員共済組合連合会) and the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan (日本私立学校振興・共済事業団), as Article 3, paragraph (2) of the National Pension Act lists them: bodies from which public assistance administrators (保護の実施機関) and welfare office directors (福祉事務所長) may ask to see documents or be given information.
施術者
An amma-massage practitioner (あん摩マツサージ指圧師), acupuncturist (はり師), moxa-cauterist (きゆう師) or judo therapist (柔道整復師): the practitioners whose treatment (施術), within the scope the Act on Amma-Massage Practitioners, Acupuncturists, and Moxa-cauterists, etc. and the Judo Therapists Act allow them, may be given as medical assistance (医療扶助).
介護予防・日常生活支援
Support equivalent to that given through the category 1 home-visit projects (第一号訪問事業), category 1 day-service projects (第一号通所事業) and category 1 daily life support projects (第一号生活支援事業) of Article 115-45, paragraph (1), item (i), (a) to (c) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act, as Article 15-2, paragraph (7) defines it: one of the forms long-term care assistance (介護扶助) takes.
同条第七項に規定する介護予防・日常生活支援
In Article 49-3, the six-year period after which the designation of a medical institution under Article 49 lapses unless it is renewed; where an application for renewal is not decided by the end of the period, the old designation stays in force until it is.
In Article 55-5, paragraph (1), item (i) and Article 55-6, an educational or training facility (教育訓練施設) that a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies, taking into account the content of its education and training and other circumstances.
支給機関
In Articles 55-6 and 69, the prefectural governor (都道府県知事), city mayor or mayor of a town or village managing a welfare office (福祉事務所) who pays the benefit for employment and self-support (就労自立給付金) under Article 55-4, paragraph (1) or the benefit for preparing for higher education or employment (進学・就職準備給付金) under Article 55-5, paragraph (1).
In Article 55-11, the employment preparation support programme for persons in need (生活困窮者就労準備支援事業), the household finance improvement support programme for persons in need (生活困窮者家計改善支援事業), or the part under item (ii) of Article 3, paragraph (6) of the Act on Self-Reliance Support for Persons in Need of the residence support programme for persons in need (生活困窮者居住支援事業), as Article 3, paragraphs (4) to (6) of that Act define them.
生活困窮者自立支援法第三条第四項に規定する生活困窮者就労準備支援事業、同条第五項に規定する生活困窮者家計改善支援事業又は同条第六項に規定する生活困窮者居住支援事業（同項第二号に係る部分に限る。）
The expenses needed for the equipment of a public assistance facility (保護施設), paid by the prefecture or municipality that set the facility up.
The office expenses needed to carry out this Act.
A facility, as defined in Article 38 of the Child Welfare Act, that takes in women without a spouse, or in a similar situation, together with the children in their custody, protects them and supports their lives toward independence, and helps those who have left.
In Article 80-2, paragraphs (1) and (2), the work of deciding on or providing public assistance, the work of running the health management support programme for public assistance recipients (被保護者健康管理支援事業), and work related to either.
指定都市
A designated city under Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act: a city with a population of 500,000 or more designated by Cabinet Order (政令).
An association or foundation that is not a legal person but has a set representative or manager, which this Act treats as a corporation.
A ruling, decision or other disposition on an administrative appeal.
In the supplementary provisions of Act No. 87 of 1999, work of the State, of another local government or of another public body that an organ of a local government managed or carried out under an Act (法律) or a Cabinet Order (政令) before that Act comes into effect, which the local government then handles as its own affairs.
The government agency ranking above the one that made a decision, which hears administrative appeals against that decision.
In Articles 19 and 21 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 77 of 2005, facility care services (施設介護) as Article 15-2, paragraph (4) of the Public Assistance Act defined them before Article 14 of that Act amended it.
This Act as it stood before Article 4 of Act No. 20 of 2006 amended it.
This Act as amended by Act No. 72 of 2011.
In Article 123, paragraph (2) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 105 of 2011, the Public Assistance Act as amended by Article 31 of Act No. 105 of 2011.
In Article 5, paragraph (1) and Article 6, paragraph (1) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 104 of 2013, the Act on Promotion of Wide-Area Administration in Special Districts for Consolidated Local Governments (Act No. 116 of 2006) as amended by Article 16 of those supplementary provisions.
In Article 5, paragraph (1) and Article 6, paragraph (1) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 104 of 2013, the Act on Promotion of Wide-Area Administration in Special Districts for Consolidated Local Governments (Act No. 116 of 2006) as it stood before Article 16 of those supplementary provisions amended it.
A person who is currently receiving public assistance.
生活保護法第六条第一項に規定する被保護者
In Article 15-2, paragraph (3), in-home care services (居宅介護) and the other health, medical and welfare services a person needs to live day to day at home.
In Article 15-2, paragraph (6), care prevention services (介護予防) and the other health, medical and welfare services that help ease, or keep from worsening, a condition in which a person, because of a physical or mental disability, constantly needs care for all or part of the basic acts of daily life such as bathing, toileting and eating, or has difficulty carrying on daily life.
後発医薬品
In Article 34, paragraph (3), a drug approved for manufacture and sale under Article 14 or Article 19-2 of the Act on Securing Quality, Efficacy and Safety of Products Including Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices that has been found to be the same in active ingredients, quantity, dosage and administration, and efficacy and effects as a drug listed in Article 14-4, paragraph (1) of that Act, and that a Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Order (厚生労働省令) specifies.
医薬品、医療機器等の品質、有効性及び安全性の確保等に関する法律（昭和三十五年法律第百四十五号）第十四条又は第十九条の二の規定による製造販売の承認を受けた医薬品のうち、同法第十四条の四第一項各号に掲げる医薬品と有効成分、分量、用法、用量、効能及び効果が同一性を有すると認められたものであつて厚生労働省令で定めるもの
In Article 37-2, the public assistance benefit (保護金品) for educational assistance (教育扶助) delivered under Article 32, paragraph (2) to a public assistance recipient (被保護者) or to the person with parental authority (親権者) or guardian of a minor (未成年後見人) over them.
開設者であつた者等
In Article 54, paragraph (1), a person that was a designated medical care provider (指定医療機関), or that was the establisher (開設者), administrator (管理者), a doctor, a pharmacist or another employee of one.
In Chapter 7 as Article 54-2, paragraph (5) applies Articles 50 to 54 to them, a long-term care provider (介護機関) designated under Article 54-2, paragraph (1), or deemed designated under paragraph (2) of that Article, other than a care prevention and daily life support provider (介護予防・日常生活支援事業者).
In Chapter 7 as Article 54-2, paragraph (6) applies Articles 50 to 54 to them, a care prevention and daily life support provider (介護予防・日常生活支援事業者) designated as a long-term care provider (介護機関) under Article 54-2, paragraph (1), or deemed designated under paragraph (2) of that Article.
In Chapter 7 as Article 55, paragraph (2) applies Articles 50, 50-2, 51 and 54 to them, a midwife (助産師) designated by the prefectural governor (都道府県知事) under Article 55, paragraph (1) to provide midwifery for maternity assistance (出産扶助) under this Act.
In Chapter 7 as Article 55, paragraph (2) applies Articles 50, 50-2, 51 and 54 to them, an amma-massage practitioner (あん摩マツサージ指圧師), acupuncturist (はり師), moxa-cauterist (きゆう師) or judo therapist (柔道整復師) designated by the prefectural governor (都道府県知事) under Article 55, paragraph (1) to give treatment (施術) for medical assistance (医療扶助) under this Act.
In Article 78, paragraph (2), a designated medical care provider (指定医療機関), a long-term care provider (介護機関) designated under Article 54-2, paragraph (1) (including one deemed designated under paragraph (2) of that Article), or a midwife (助産師), amma-massage practitioner (あん摩マツサージ指圧師), acupuncturist (はり師), moxa-cauterist (きゆう師) or judo therapist (柔道整復師) designated under Article 55, paragraph (1).
中核市
A core city under Article 252-22, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act: a city with a population of 200,000 or more designated by Cabinet Order (政令), which may take over some of the work a prefecture otherwise does.
のぞみの園
In Article 84-3, the facility that the National Center for Persons with Severe Intellectual Disabilities, Nozominosono (独立行政法人国立重度知的障害者総合施設のぞみの園), an incorporated administrative agency, sets up under Article 11, item (i) of the Act on the National Center for Persons with Severe Intellectual Disabilities, "Nozominosono," Independent Administrative Agency.
A facility, as defined in Article 5(11) of the Act on Providing Comprehensive Support for the Daily Life and Life in Society of Persons with Disabilities, that gives persons with disabilities residential support (施設入所支援) together with other facility-based disability welfare services (施設障害福祉サービス), other than Nozomi-no-Sono (のぞみの園) and the facilities a Ministerial Order (主務省令) under paragraph (1) of that Article specifies.