# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) - 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)（指定医療機関等の申請に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4251-104/art-8` - 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-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条（指定医療機関等の申請に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Applications for Designated Medical Care Providers, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4251-104/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-8 **第一項** 平成二十六年改正後生活保護法第四十九条、第五十四条の二第一項又は第五十五条第一項の指定を受けようとする者は、施行日前においても、平成二十六年改正後生活保護法第四十九条の二第一項（同条第四項（平成二十六年改正後生活保護法第五十四条の二第四項において準用する場合を含む。）並びに平成二十六年改正後生活保護法第五十四条の二第四項及び第五十五条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定の例により、その申請をすることができる。 suppl-4251-104/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-8/par-1 A person who intends to be designated under Article 49, Article 54-2, paragraph (1) or Article 55, paragraph (1) of the Public Assistance Act as Amended in 2014 may file an application for the designation even before the Effective Date, in accordance with the provisions of Article 49-2, paragraph (1) of the Public Assistance Act as Amended in 2014 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (4) of that Article (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54-2, paragraph (4) of the Public Assistance Act as Amended in 2014), and as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54-2, paragraph (4) and Article 55, paragraph (2) of the Public Assistance Act as Amended in 2014). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4251-104/art-8/par-1: 平成二十六年改正後生活保護法第四十九条 → 生活保護法 第四十九条 (Article 49), art-49 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-49 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-49 - suppl-4251-104/art-8/par-1: 第五十四条の二第一項 → 生活保護法 第五十四条の二第一項 (Article 54-2, paragraph (1)), art-54-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-54-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-54-2/par-1 - suppl-4251-104/art-8/par-1: 第五十五条第一項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条第一項 (Article 55, paragraph (1)), art-55/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55/par-1 - suppl-4251-104/art-8/par-1: 平成二十六年改正後生活保護法第四十九条の二第一項 → 生活保護法 第四十九条の二第一項 (Article 49-2, paragraph (1)), art-49-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-49-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-49-2/par-1 - suppl-4251-104/art-8/par-1: 同条第四項 → 生活保護法 第四十九条の二第四項 (Article 49-2, paragraph (4)), art-49-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-49-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-49-2/par-4 - suppl-4251-104/art-8/par-1: 平成二十六年改正後生活保護法第五十四条の二第四項 → 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 - suppl-4251-104/art-8/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 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 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-20261019T143855-018, 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