Supplementary Provisions, Article 159Affairs of the State, etc.
第百五十九条（国等の事務）
Beyond the provisions of each law before the amendment by this Act, before this Act comes into force, affairs of the State, other local governments and other public organs that are executed or managed by local government organs pursuant to laws or Cabinet Orders based on these laws (referred to in Article 161 of supplementary provisions as "affairs of the State, etc.") are to be processed by local governments as affairs of said local government pursuant to laws or Cabinet Orders based on these, after this Act comes into force.
この法律による改正前のそれぞれの法律に規定するもののほか、この法律の施行前において、地方公共団体の機関が法律又はこれに基づく政令により管理し又は執行する国、他の地方公共団体その他公共団体の事務（附則第百六十一条において「国等の事務」という。）は、この法律の施行後は、地方公共団体が法律又はこれに基づく政令により当該地方公共団体の事務として処理するものとする。
affairs of the State, etc.
「国等の事務」
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.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 159, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Supplementary Provisions, Article 161