# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第八十条の四 (Article 80-4) - 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: 第八十条の四 (Article 80-4)（医療情報基盤・診療報酬審査支払機構等への事務の委託） — address `art-80-4` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-80-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-80-4 - 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. --- ### 第八十条の四（医療情報基盤・診療報酬審査支払機構等への事務の委託） — Entrustment of Affairs to the Medical Information Infrastructure and Medical Fee Examination and Payment Organization, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-80-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-80-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-80-4 **第一項** 保護の実施機関は、医療の給付、被保護者健康管理支援事業の実施その他の厚生労働省令で定める事務に係る被保護者又は被保護者であつた者に係る情報の収集若しくは整理又は利用若しくは提供に関する事務を、医療情報基盤・診療報酬審査支払機構又は国民健康保険団体連合会に委託することができる。 art-80-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-80-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-80-4/par-1 A public assistance administrator may entrust affairs concerning the collection or organization, or the use or provision, of information pertaining to public assistance recipients or persons who were public assistance recipients in relation to the furnishing of medical care, the implementation of the health management support programme for public assistance recipients, and other affairs specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, to the Medical Information Infrastructure and Medical Fee Examination and Payment Organization or the Federation of National Health Insurance Associations. machine translation, not official **第二項** 保護の実施機関は、前項の規定により事務を委託する場合は、他の保護の実施機関、医療情報基盤・診療報酬審査支払機構法第一条に規定する保険者、法令の規定により医療に関する給付その他の事務を行う者であつて厚生労働省令で定めるもの並びに介護保険法第三条の規定により介護保険を行う市町村及び特別区と共同して委託するものとする。 art-80-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-80-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-80-4/par-2 When a public assistance administrator entrusts affairs pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, it is to do so jointly with other public assistance administrators, insurers prescribed in Article 1 of the Act on the Medical Information Infrastructure and Medical Fee Examination and Payment Organization, persons specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare who perform affairs such as benefits relating to medical care pursuant to the provisions of laws and regulations, and municipalities and special wards that operate long-term care insurance pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-80-4/par-2: 前項 → 生活保護法 第八十条の四第一項 (Article 80-4, paragraph (1)), art-80-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-80-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-80-4/par-1 - art-80-4/par-2: 介護保険法第三条 → 介護保険法 第三条 (Article 3), art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-3 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-1 - 生活保護法 第八十条の四第二項（医療情報基盤・診療報酬審査支払機構等への事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-80-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-80-4/par-2 - 生活保護法 附則第十条第一項（生活保護法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-5031-66/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5031-66/art-10/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-20261019T143855-007, 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