# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第八十二条 (Article 82) - 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: 第八十二条 (Article 82)（町村の一部事務組合等） — address `art-82` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-82 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-82 - 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. --- ### 第八十二条（町村の一部事務組合等） — (Partial-Affairs Association, etc. of Towns and Villages) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-82 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-82 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-82 **第一項** 町村が一部事務組合又は広域連合を設けて福祉事務所を設置した場合には、この法律の適用については、その一部事務組合又は広域連合を福祉事務所を設置する町村とみなし、その一部事務組合の管理者（地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百八十七条の三第二項の規定により管理者に代えて理事会を置く同法第二百八十五条の一部事務組合にあつては、理事会）又は広域連合の長（同法第二百九十一条の十三において準用する同法第二百八十七条の三第二項の規定により長に代えて理事会を置く広域連合にあつては、理事会）を福祉事務所を管理する町村長とみなす。 art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-82/par-1 When towns or villages have established a welfare office by setting up a partial-affairs association or a wide area union, said partial-affairs association or wide area union shall be deemed to be a town or village with a welfare office and the manager of said partial-affairs association (or, for a partial-affairs association under Article 285 of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947) that has a board of directors in place of a manager pursuant to Article 287-3, paragraph (2) of that Act, the board of directors) or the head of said wide area union (or, for a wide area union that has a board of directors in place of a head pursuant to Article 287-3, paragraph (2) of that Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 291-13 of that Act, the board of directors) shall be deemed to be the mayor of a town or village managing a welfare office, with regard to application of this Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-82/par-1: 地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百八十七条の三第二項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百八十七条の三第二項 (Article 287-3, paragraph (2)), art-287-3/par-2 — not held in this collection - art-82/par-1: 同法第二百八十五条 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百八十五条 (Article 285), art-285 — not held in this collection - art-82/par-1: 同法第二百九十一条の十三 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百九十一条の十三 (Article 291-13), art-291-13 — not held in this collection --- ## 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-20261019T143855-008, 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