# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第八十四条の四 (Article 84-4) - 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: 第八十四条の四 (Article 84-4)（緊急時における厚生労働大臣の事務執行） — address `art-84-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-84-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-84-4 - 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. --- ### 第八十四条の四（緊急時における厚生労働大臣の事務執行） — Execution of Affairs by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in an Emergency caption: machine translation, not official art-84-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-84-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-84-4 **第一項** 第五十四条第一項（第五十四条の二第五項及び第六項並びに第五十五条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定により都道府県知事の権限に属するものとされている事務は、被保護者の利益を保護する緊急の必要があると厚生労働大臣が認める場合にあつては、厚生労働大臣又は都道府県知事が行うものとする。この場合においては、この法律の規定中都道府県知事に関する規定（当該事務に係るものに限る。）は、厚生労働大臣に関する規定として厚生労働大臣に適用があるものとする。 art-84-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-84-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-84-4/par-1 Affairs that are under the authority of a prefectural governor pursuant to the provisions of Article 54, paragraph (1) (including the cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54-2, paragraphs (5) and (6) and Article 55, paragraph (2)) are to be performed by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or a prefectural governor in a case where the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds that there is an urgent necessity to protect the interests of public assistance recipients. In this case, the provisions of this Act concerning a prefectural governor (limited to those pertaining to those affairs) apply to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as provisions concerning the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の場合において、厚生労働大臣又は都道府県知事が当該事務を行うときは、相互に密接な連携の下に行うものとする。 art-84-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-84-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-84-4/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, when the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or a prefectural governor performs those affairs, they are to do so in close mutual cooperation. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-84-4/par-1: 第五十四条第一項 → 生活保護法 第五十四条第一項 (Article 54, paragraph (1)), art-54/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-54/par-1 - art-84-4/par-1: 第五十四条の二第五項 → 生活保護法 第五十四条の二第五項 (Article 54-2, paragraph (5)), art-54-2/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-54-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-54-2/par-5 - art-84-4/par-1: 第六項 → 生活保護法 第五十四条の二第六項 (Article 54-2, paragraph (6)), art-54-2/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-54-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-54-2/par-6 - art-84-4/par-1: 第五十五条第二項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条第二項 (Article 55, paragraph (2)), art-55/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55/par-2 - art-84-4/par-2: 前項 → 生活保護法 第八十四条の四第一項 (Article 84-4, paragraph (1)), art-84-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-84-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-84-4/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 第八十四条の四第二項（緊急時における厚生労働大臣の事務執行） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-84-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-84-4/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-20261019T143855-008, translated 2026-10-20 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch public-assistance-act-20261019T155555-001, 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