# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（調査の嘱託に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4251-104/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-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. 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. --- ### 第四条（調査の嘱託に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Commissioning of Investigations caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4251-104/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-4 **第一項** 施行日前にされた第一条の規定による改正前の生活保護法（以下「旧法」という。）第二十九条の規定による調査の嘱託については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4251-104/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-4/par-1 The provisions then in force continue to govern a commission of an investigation made before the Effective Date pursuant to the provisions of Article 29 of the Public Assistance Act prior to the amendment by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "old Act"). machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 附則第十三条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-13/par-1 --- ## 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-20261019T143855-017, 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