Public Assistance ActAppended Table 1
(i) The Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications or a prefectural governor Information on the payment of benefits that are pensions under the Public Officers Pension Act (Act No. 48 of 1923) (including as applied mutatis mutandis under other Acts), as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
(ii) The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare The following information, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:
(i) Information on the payment of benefits under the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act (Act No. 50 of 1947)
(ii) Information on aid under the Act on Relief of War Victims and Survivors (Act No. 127 of 1952)
(iii) Information on the payment of allowances to families left at home under the Act on Aid to Families and Others Related to Unrepatriated Persons (Act No. 161 of 1953)
(iv) Information on the payment of medical treatment allowances under the Act on Special Aid to the Wounded and Sick Retired Soldiers (Act No. 168 of 1963)
(v) Information on the payment of benefits under the Employment Insurance Act (Act No. 116 of 1974)
(vi) Information on the payment of special survivors' benefits under the Act on Asbestos Health Damage Relief (Act No. 4 of 2006)
(vii) Information on the payment of vocational training attendance benefits under the Act on Support for the Employment of Specified Job Seekers through Implementation of Vocational Training, etc. (Act No. 47 of 2011)
(viii) Information on job placement or vocational guidance provided by a public employment security office
(iii) A municipal mayor The following information, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:
(i) Information on the payment of child-rearing pensions for disabled children, disability pensions or survivors' pensions under the Immunization Act (Act No. 68 of 1948)
(ii) Information on the payment of child allowances under the Child Allowance Act (Act No. 73 of 1971)
(iii) Information on the implementation of health promotion projects under the Health Promotion Act
(iv) Information on matters entered in a family register or a removed family register
(iv) The Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism The following information, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:
(i) Information on the placement of mariners, vocational guidance or vocational training for rating crew members provided by the Director of a District Transport Bureau (including the Director of a Transport Supervision Department) under the Mariners' Employment Security Act (Act No. 130 of 1948)
(ii) Information on motor vehicles registered in the motor vehicle registration file prescribed in Article 4 of the Road Transport Vehicle Act (Act No. 185 of 1951)
(iii) Information on the payment of occupational conversion benefits under the Act on Special Measures concerning Improvement and Reconstruction of Fisheries Management (Act No. 43 of 1976)
(iv) Information on the payment of benefits under the Act on Temporary Measures concerning Retired Fishers Incidental to Conclusion of International Agreement (Act No. 94 of 1977)
(v) Information on the payment of employment promotion benefits under the Act on Special Measures concerning Employment Promotion of Mariners (Act No. 96 of 1977)
(vi) Information on the payment of benefits under the Act on Special Measures concerning Regular Ferry Line Service for General Passengers Incidental to Construction of Connection Bridge Between Honshu and Shikoku (Act No. 72 of 1981)
(v) A district director The following information, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:
(i) Information on the written returns prescribed in Articles 27 through 29 of the Inheritance Tax Act (Act No. 73 of 1950), the late-filed returns prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (2) of the Act on General Rules for National Taxes (Act No. 66 of 1962) pertaining to those written returns, the amended returns prescribed in Article 19, paragraph (3) of that Act, or the notices of correction or notices of determination prescribed in Article 28, paragraph (1) of that Act
(ii) Information on the documents to be attached to a blue-form return pursuant to Article 149 of the Income Tax Act (Act No. 33 of 1965) (limited to a detailed statement on the calculation of the amount of business income)
(vi) A prefectural governor, a city mayor, or a mayor of a town or village managing a welfare office The following information, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:
(i) Information on the decision on and implementation of public assistance under this Act, or on the payment of the benefit for employment and self-support or the school enrollment and job-search preparation benefit
(ii) Information on the payment of child rearing allowances under the Child Rearing Allowance Act (Act No. 238 of 1961)
(iii) Information on the payment of self-support benefits for mother-and-child households or self-support benefits for father-and-child households under the Act on Welfare of Mothers and Fathers with Dependents and Widows (Act No. 129 of 1964)
(iv) Information on the payment of welfare allowances for children with disabilities or special allowances for persons with disabilities under the Act on Special Child Rearing Allowance (Act No. 134 of 1964)
(v) Information on the payment of the welfare allowance under Article 97, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the National Pension Act, etc. (Act No. 34 of 1985)
(vi) Information on the payment of housing security benefits for persons in need under the Act on Self-Reliance Support for Persons in Need
(vii) A prefectural governor or a municipal mayor The following information, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:
(i) Information on the amount of tax calculated pursuant to the provisions of a Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance based on the Local Tax Act (Act No. 226 of 1950) or any other Act concerning local taxes, or on the matters forming the basis of that calculation
(ii) Information on the provision of vocational training to job seekers under the Vocational Abilities Development Promotion Act (Act No. 64 of 1969)
(iii) Information on the payment of self-support medical expenses under the Act on Providing Comprehensive Support for the Daily Life and Life in Society of Persons with Disabilities
(viii) The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or the Japan Pension Service, or the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan, the Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations, a Local Public Servants Mutual Aid Association or the National Federation of Mutual Aid Associations for Municipal Personnel The following information, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:
(i) Information on the payment of benefits that are pensions under the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 245 of 1953)
(ii) Information on the payment of insurance benefits that are pensions under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Act No. 115 of 1954)
(iii) Information on the payment of benefits that are pensions under the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 128 of 1958)
(iv) Information on the payment of benefits that are pensions under the National Pension Act
(v) Information on the payment of benefits that are pensions under the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 152 of 1962)
(vi) Information on the payment of special disability benefits under the Act on Provision of Special Disability Benefit to Specified Persons with Disabilities (Act No. 166 of 2004)
(vii) Information on the payment of supplementing allowances for pensioners under the Act on the Payment of Supplementing Allowance for Pensioners (Act No. 102 of 2012)
(ix) The Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan, a National Public Servants Mutual Aid Association or a Local Public Servants Mutual Aid Association The following information, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:
(i) Information on the payment of short-term benefits under the Private School Personnel Mutual Aid Association Act
(ii) Information on the payment of short-term benefits under the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act
(iii) Information on the payment of short-term benefits under the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act
(x) A municipal mayor or a wide-area union for late-stage elderly medical care prescribed in Article 48 of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People The following information, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:
(i) Information on the payment of sickness allowances under the National Health Insurance Act (Act No. 192 of 1958), or on the implementation of projects necessary for maintaining and promoting the health of insured persons, such as health education, health counseling and health checkups, and support for the self-help efforts of insured persons concerning health management and disease prevention
(ii) Information on the implementation of specified health checkups or specified health guidance, the payment of sickness allowances, or the implementation of projects necessary for maintaining and promoting the health of insured persons, such as health education, health counseling, health checkups and health guidance, and support for the self-help efforts of insured persons concerning health management and disease prevention, under the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People
(xi) The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or a prefectural governor The following information, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:
(i) Information on the payment of special child rearing allowances under the Act on Special Child Rearing Allowance
(ii) Information on the payment of occupational conversion benefits under the Act on Comprehensively Advancing Labor Measures, and Stabilizing the Employment of Workers, and Enriching Workers' Vocational Lives (Act No. 132 of 1966)
(xii) A prefectural governor Information on the payment of compensation benefits (limited to disability compensation, survivors' compensation or child compensation allowances) under the Act on Compensation for Pollution-related Health Damage (Act No. 111 of 1973), as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
(xiii) A prefectural governor, or the mayor of Hiroshima City or the mayor of Nagasaki City Information on the payment of allowances and other payments under the Atomic Bomb Survivors' Assistance Act (Act No. 117 of 1994), as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
(xiv) The Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications The following information, as specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:
(i) Information on the payment of benefits that are pensions under the Act to Abolish the Diet Members' Mutual Aid Pension Act (Act No. 1 of 2006) or the Diet Members' Mutual Aid Pension Act (Act No. 70 of 1958) before its abolition, which remains in force pursuant to Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act to Abolish the Diet Members' Mutual Aid Pension Act
(ii) Information on the payment of benefits that are pensions under Article 13 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Court Enforcement Officer Act (Act No. 111 of 1966) before its amendment by the Act Partially Amending the Court Enforcement Officer Act (Act No. 18 of 2007), which are to continue to be paid as before pursuant to Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act
(xv) Any other person specified by Cabinet Order Information on any other matters specified by Cabinet Order
Note: When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare intends to establish an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in the following items, the Minister must consult the minister specified in the relevant item.
(i) The Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in the right-hand column of row (i), the right-hand column of row (vii) (limited to the part pertaining to item (i)), the right-hand column of row (viii) (limited to the part pertaining to item (v)), the right-hand column of row (ix) (limited to the part pertaining to item (iii)), and the right-hand column of row (xiv): the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications
(ii) The Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in the right-hand column of row (iii) (limited to the part pertaining to item (ii)), the right-hand column of row (vi) (limited to the part pertaining to items (ii) and (iii)), and the right-hand column of row (vii) (limited to the part pertaining to item (iii)): the Prime Minister
(iii) The Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in the right-hand column of row (iii) (limited to the part pertaining to item (iv)): the Minister of Justice
(iv) The Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in the right-hand column of row (iv): the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
(v) The Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in the right-hand column of row (v), the right-hand column of row (viii) (limited to the part pertaining to item (iii)), and the right-hand column of row (ix) (limited to the part pertaining to item (ii)): the Minister of Finance
(vi) The Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in the right-hand column of row (viii) (limited to the part pertaining to item (i)) and the right-hand column of row (ix) (limited to the part pertaining to item (i)): the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
(vii) The Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in the right-hand column of row (xii): the Minister of the Environment
“Article 28, paragraph (1) of that Act”