# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第五十五条の二 (Article 55-2) - 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: 第五十五条の二 (Article 55-2)（医療保護施設への準用） — address `art-55-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-2 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条の二（医療保護施設への準用） — Application Mutatis Mutandis to Medical Facilities for Persons Requiring Public Assistance caption: machine translation, not official art-55-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-2 **第一項** 第五十二条及び第五十三条の規定は、医療保護施設について準用する。 art-55-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-2/par-1 The provisions of Articles 52 and 53 apply mutatis mutandis to medical facilities for persons requiring public assistance. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-55-2/par-1: 第五十二条 → 生活保護法 第五十二条 (Article 52), art-52 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-52 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-52 - art-55-2/par-1: 第五十三条 → 生活保護法 第五十三条 (Article 53), art-53 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-53 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-53 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 別表第三 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/appdx-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/appdx-3 --- ## 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-20261019T143855-004, 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