# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第八十四条の五 (Article 84-5)

- 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: 第八十四条の五 (Article 84-5)（事務の区分） — address `art-84-5`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-84-5
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-84-5
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### 第八十四条の五（事務の区分） — (Classification of Affairs)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-84-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-84-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-84-5</sup>

**第一項**  別表第三の上欄に掲げる地方公共団体がそれぞれ同表の下欄に掲げる規定により処理することとされている事務は、地方自治法第二条第九項第一号に規定する第一号法定受託事務とする。
<sup>art-84-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-84-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-84-5/par-1</sup>
The affairs that are to be processed by the local governments listed in the left hand column of Appended Table 3 pursuant to the provisions listed respectively in the right hand column of the same table shall be the Item (i) Statutory Entrusted Affairs prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the Local Autonomy Act.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-84-5/par-1: 別表第三 → 生活保護法 別表第三 (Appended Table 3), appdx-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/appdx-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/appdx-3
- art-84-5/par-1: 地方自治法第二条第九項第一号 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二条第九項第一号 (Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i)), art-2/par-9/item-1 — not held in this collection

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## 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