# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第五十条 (Article 50) - Law: 生活保護法 (Public Assistance Act), 昭和二十五年法律第百四十四号 - English title "Public Assistance Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第五十条 (Article 50)（指定医療機関の義務） — address `art-50` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-50 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-50 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十条（指定医療機関の義務） — (Obligations of Designated Medical Care Providers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-50 **第一項** 指定医療機関は、厚生労働大臣の定めるところにより、懇切丁寧に被保護者の医療を担当しなければならない。 art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-50/par-1 A designated medical care provider shall provide medical care to public assistance recipients considerately and meticulously, in accordance with the rules provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official **第二項** 指定医療機関は、被保護者の医療について、厚生労働大臣又は都道府県知事の行う指導に従わなければならない。 art-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-50/par-2 A designated medical care provider shall follow any guidance provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or a prefectural governor with regard to medical care for public assistance recipients. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 第四十九条の二第三項第一号（指定の申請及び基準） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-49-2/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-49-2/par-3/item-1 - 生活保護法 第五十一条第二項第三号（指定の辞退及び取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-51/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-51/par-2/item-3 - 生活保護法 第五十四条の二第五項（介護機関の指定等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-54-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-54-2/par-5 - 生活保護法 第五十四条の二第六項（介護機関の指定等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-54-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-54-2/par-6 - 生活保護法 第五十五条第二項（助産機関及び施術機関の指定等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55/par-2 - 生活保護法 別表第三 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/appdx-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/appdx-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 生活保護法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/325AC0000000144/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Public Assistance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/24/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch public-assistance-act-20261019T143855-003, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 生活保護法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19