# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第八十条の五 (Article 80-5) - 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: 第八十条の五 (Article 80-5)（関係者の連携及び協力） — address `art-80-5` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-80-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-80-5 - 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. --- ### 第八十条の五（関係者の連携及び協力） — Collaboration and Cooperation of Persons Concerned caption: machine translation, not official art-80-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-80-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-80-5 **第一項** 国、都道府県及び市町村並びに指定医療機関その他の関係者は、第三十四条第六項に規定する電子資格確認の仕組みの導入その他手続における情報通信の技術の利用の推進により、医療保険各法等（高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律（昭和五十七年法律第八十号）第七条第一項に規定する医療保険各法及び高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律をいう。）その他医療に関する給付を定める法令の規定により行われる事務が円滑に実施されるよう、相互に連携を図りながら協力するものとする。 art-80-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-80-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-80-5/par-1 The State, prefectures and municipalities, designated medical care providers and other persons concerned are to cooperate with one another while coordinating among themselves, through the introduction of the system of electronic eligibility confirmation prescribed in Article 34, paragraph (6) and otherwise promoting the use of information and communications technology in procedures, so that affairs carried out pursuant to the provisions of medical insurance laws, etc. (meaning the medical insurance laws prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People (Act No. 80 of 1982) and the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People) and other laws and regulations providing for benefits relating to medical care are implemented smoothly. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-80-5/par-1: 第三十四条第六項 → 生活保護法 第三十四条第六項 (Article 34, paragraph (6)), art-34/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-34/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-34/par-6 - art-80-5/par-1: 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律（昭和五十七年法律第八十号）第七条第一項 → 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-7/par-1 --- ## 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-20261019T143855-007, 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