# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（検討） — address `suppl-4171-77/art-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4171-77/art-2
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### 第二条（検討） — Review
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4171-77/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4171-77/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  政府は、介護保険制度の被保険者及び保険給付を受けられる者の範囲について、社会保障に関する制度全般についての一体的な見直しと併せて検討を行い、その結果に基づいて、平成二十一年度を目途として所要の措置を講ずるものとする。
<sup>suppl-4171-77/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4171-77/art-2/par-1</sup>
The government is to conduct a review of the scope of Insured Persons under the long-term care insurance system and of persons who can receive insurance benefits, in conjunction with an integrated review of the entire system relating to social security, and, based on the results thereof, is to take required measures with fiscal year 2009 as the target.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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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-20261019T143855-013, 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