# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第六十六条 (Article 66) - 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: 第六十六条 (Article 66)（再審査請求） — address `art-66` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-66 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-66 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第六十六条（再審査請求） — (Request for Re-examination) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-66 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-66 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-66 **第一項** 市町村長がした保護の決定及び実施に関する処分若しくは第十九条第四項の規定による委任に基づいて行政庁がした処分に係る審査請求についての都道府県知事の裁決又は市町村長がした就労自立給付金若しくは進学・就職準備給付金の支給に関する処分若しくは第五十五条の四第二項の規定による委任に基づいて行政庁がした処分に係る審査請求についての都道府県知事の裁決に不服がある者は、厚生労働大臣に対して再審査請求をすることができる。 art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-66/par-1 A person who is dissatisfied with a determination by the prefectural governor on a request for review of a disposition concerning a decision on and the implementation of public assistance that has been given by a municipal mayor or of a disposition given by an administrative agency based on the delegation under the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (4), or with a determination by the prefectural governor on a request for review of a disposition concerning the payment of the benefit for employment and self-support or the school enrollment and job-search preparation benefit that has been given by a municipal mayor or of a disposition given by an administrative agency based on the delegation under the provisions of Article 55-4, paragraph (2), may file a request for re-examination with the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前条第一項（各号を除く。）の規定は、再審査請求の裁決について準用する。この場合において、同項中「当該審査請求」とあるのは「当該再審査請求」と、「第二十三条」とあるのは「第六十六条第一項において読み替えて準用する同法第二十三条」と、「次の各号に掲げる場合の区分に応じそれぞれ当該各号に定める期間内」とあるのは「七十日以内」と読み替えるものとする。 art-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-66/par-2 The provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (excluding the items) apply mutatis mutandis to a determination on a request for re-examination. In this case, the phrase "that request for review" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "that request for re-examination", "Article 23 of the Administrative Complaint Review Act (Act No. 68 of 2014)" with "Article 23 of the Administrative Complaint Review Act (Act No. 68 of 2014) as applied mutatis mutandis with replacement of terms pursuant to Article 66, paragraph (1) of that Act", and "within the period specified in each of the following items for the category of cases set out in those items" with "within 70 days". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-66/par-1: 第十九条第四項 → 生活保護法 第十九条第四項 (Article 19, paragraph (4)), art-19/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-19/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-19/par-4 - art-66/par-1: 第五十五条の四第二項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の四第二項 (Article 55-4, paragraph (2)), art-55-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-4/par-2 - art-66/par-2: 前条第一項 → 生活保護法 第六十五条第一項 (Article 65, paragraph (1)), art-65/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-65/par-1 - art-66/par-2: 第二十三条 → 生活保護法 第二十三条 (Article 23), art-23 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-23 - art-66/par-2: 第六十六条第一項 → 生活保護法 第六十六条第一項 (Article 66, paragraph (1)), art-66/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-66/par-1 - art-66/par-2: 同法第二十三条 → 行政不服審査法 第二十三条 (Article 23), art-23 — https://japanlaw.org/en/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-23 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 第六十四条第一項（審査庁） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-64/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-64/par-1 - 生活保護法 第六十六条第二項（再審査請求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-66/par-2 - 生活保護法 第八十四条の二第二項（大都市等の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-84-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-84-2/par-2 --- ## 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-20261019T143855-005, translated 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch public-assistance-act-20261019T143855-005, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 210 — 生活保護法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19