# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第八十三条の二 (Article 83-2) - 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: 第八十三条の二 (Article 83-2)（厚生労働大臣への通知） — address `art-83-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-83-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-83-2 - 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. --- ### 第八十三条の二（厚生労働大臣への通知） — Notification to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare caption: machine translation, not official art-83-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-83-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-83-2 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、指定医療機関について第五十一条第二項の規定によりその指定を取り消し、又は期間を定めてその指定の全部若しくは一部の効力を停止した場合において、健康保険法第八十条各号のいずれかに該当すると疑うに足りる事実があるときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、厚生労働大臣に対し、その事実を通知しなければならない。 art-83-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-83-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-83-2/par-1 When a prefectural governor has rescinded the designation of a designated medical care provider, or has suspended the whole or part of the effect of the designation for a specified period, pursuant to the provisions of Article 51, paragraph (2), and there are facts sufficient to suspect that the provider falls under any of the items of Article 80 of the Health Insurance Act, the governor must notify the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare of those facts, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-83-2/par-1: 第五十一条第二項 → 生活保護法 第五十一条第二項 (Article 51, paragraph (2)), art-51/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-51/par-2 - art-83-2/par-1: 健康保険法第八十条 → 健康保険法 第八十条 (Article 80), art-80 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/health-insurance-act/art-80 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-80 ## 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-20261019T143855-008, 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