# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第八十四条の二 (Article 84-2) - 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: 第八十四条の二 (Article 84-2)（大都市等の特例） — address `art-84-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-84-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-84-2 - 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. --- ### 第八十四条の二（大都市等の特例） — (Special Provisions for Large Cities, etc.) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-84-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-84-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-84-2 **第一項** この法律中都道府県が処理することとされている事務で政令で定めるものは、地方自治法第二百五十二条の十九第一項の指定都市（以下「指定都市」という。）及び同法第二百五十二条の二十二第一項の中核市（以下「中核市」という。）においては、政令の定めるところにより、指定都市又は中核市（以下「指定都市等」という。）が処理するものとする。この場合においては、この法律中都道府県に関する規定は、指定都市等に関する規定として指定都市等に適用があるものとする。 art-84-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-84-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-84-2/par-1 In the case of a designated city under Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (hereinafter referred to as a "designated city") or a core city under Article 252-22, paragraph (1) of the same Act (hereinafter referred to as a "core city"), the affairs that are to be processed by a prefecture under this Act and which are specified by a Cabinet Order shall be processed by the designated city or core city (hereinafter referred to as the "Designated City, etc."), pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order. In this case, the provisions concerning a prefecture under this Act shall be deemed to apply to a Designated City, etc. as provisions concerning a Designated City, etc. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第六十六条第一項の規定は、前項の規定により指定都市等の長がした処分に係る審査請求について準用する。 art-84-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-84-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-84-2/par-2 The provisions of Article 66, paragraph (1) shall apply mutatis mutandis to a request for review pertaining to a disposition given by the mayor of a Designated City, etc. pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-84-2/par-1: 地方自治法第二百五十二条の十九第一項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十二条の十九第一項 (Article 252-19, paragraph (1)), art-252-19/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-84-2/par-1: 同法第二百五十二条の二十二第一項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十二条の二十二第一項 (Article 252-22, paragraph (1)), art-252-22/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-84-2/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-84-2/par-2: 前項 → 生活保護法 第八十四条の二第一項 (Article 84-2, paragraph (1)), art-84-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-84-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-84-2/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 - 生活保護法 附則第九項（国の無利子貸付け等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-3251-144/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-3251-144/par-9 --- ## 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