# 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)（費用の徴収に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4301-44/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-4301-44/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4301-44/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（費用の徴収に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Collection of Expenses caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4301-44/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-4301-44/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4301-44/art-4 **第一項** 第三条改正後生活保護法第七十七条の二の規定は、この法律の施行の日以後に都道府県又は市町村の長が支弁した保護に要する費用に係る徴収金の徴収について適用する。 suppl-4301-44/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-4301-44/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4301-44/art-4/par-1 The provisions of Article 77-2 of the Public Assistance Act as Amended by Article 3 apply to the collection of amounts to be collected relating to expenses required for public assistance paid out on or after the day this Act comes into effect by the head of a prefecture or municipality. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4301-44/art-4/par-1: 第三条改正後生活保護法第七十七条の二 → 生活保護法 第七十七条の二 (Article 77-2), art-77-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-77-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-77-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 附則第二条第一項（進学準備給付金の支給に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-4301-44/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4301-44/art-2/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-20261019T143855-020, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 210 — 生活保護法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19