# 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-5031-66/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-5031-66/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5031-66/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（検討） — Review caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5031-66/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-5031-66/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5031-66/art-2 **第一項** 政府は、この法律の公布後速やかに、全世代対応型の持続可能な社会保障制度を構築する観点から、社会保障制度の改革及び少子化に対処するための施策について、その実施状況の検証を行うとともに、総合的な検討に着手し、その検討の結果に基づいて速やかに法制の整備その他の必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-1 The government is to, promptly after the promulgation of this Act, from the perspective of building a sustainable social security system that accommodates all generations, verify the implementation status of the reform of the social security system and of measures to address the declining birthrate, commence an integrated review, and promptly take legislative measures and other necessary measures based on the results of that review. machine translation, not official **第二項** 政府は、この法律の施行後五年を目途として、この法律による改正後のそれぞれの法律（以下この項において「改正後の各法律」という。）の施行の状況等を勘案し、必要があると認めるときは、改正後の各法律の規定について検討を加え、その結果に基づいて必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-2 The government is to, with a target of five years after this Act comes into effect, taking into account the conditions of the enforcement, etc. of the respective Acts as amended by this Act (hereinafter referred to in this paragraph as "the respective Acts as amended"), when it finds it necessary, review the provisions of the respective Acts as amended, and take necessary measures based on the results of that review. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-2: この項 → 生活保護法 附則第二条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (2)), suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5031-66/art-2/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-5031-66/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5031-66/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 生活保護法 附則第二条第二項（検討） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5031-66/art-2/par-2 --- ## 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-20261019T143855-021, 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