# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第六十四条 (Article 64) - 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: 第六十四条 (Article 64)（審査庁） — address `art-64` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-64 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-64 - 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. --- ### 第六十四条（審査庁） — (Examining Agency) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-64 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-64 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-64 **第一項** 第十九条第四項の規定により市町村長が保護の決定及び実施に関する事務の全部又は一部をその管理に属する行政庁に委任した場合における当該事務に関する処分並びに第五十五条の四第二項（第五十五条の五第二項において準用する場合を含む。第六十六条第一項において同じ。）の規定により市町村長が就労自立給付金又は進学・就職準備給付金の支給に関する事務の全部又は一部をその管理に属する行政庁に委任した場合における当該事務に関する処分についての審査請求は、都道府県知事に対してするものとする。 art-64/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-64/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-64/par-1 In the case where a municipal mayor has delegated all or a part of the affairs concerning decisions on and the implementation of public assistance to an administrative agency under his/her management pursuant to the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (4), a request for review of any disposition concerning said affairs, and in the case where a municipal mayor has delegated all or a part of the affairs concerning the payment of the benefit for employment and self-support or the school enrollment and job-search preparation benefit to an administrative agency under his/her management pursuant to the provisions of Article 55-4, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 55-5, paragraph (2); the same applies in Article 66, paragraph (1)), a request for review of any disposition concerning those affairs, shall be filed with the prefectural governor. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-64/par-1: 第十九条第四項 → 生活保護法 第十九条第四項 (Article 19, paragraph (4)), art-19/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-19/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-19/par-4 - art-64/par-1: 第五十五条の四第二項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の四第二項 (Article 55-4, paragraph (2)), art-55-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-4/par-2 - art-64/par-1: 第五十五条の五第二項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の五第二項 (Article 55-5, paragraph (2)), art-55-5/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-5/par-2 - art-64/par-1: 第六十六条第一項 → 生活保護法 第六十六条第一項 (Article 66, paragraph (1)), art-66/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-66/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-20261019T143855-005, 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