# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) - 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)（生活保護法等の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-3601-90/art-8` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-3601-90/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-3601-90/art-8 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第八条（生活保護法等の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Public Assistance Act, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3601-90/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-3601-90/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-3601-90/art-8 **第一項** 第二十六条の規定、第二十七条の規定又は第二十八条の規定（児童福祉法第三十五条、第五十六条の二、第五十八条及び第五十八条の二の改正規定に限る。以下この条において同じ。）の施行の際現にこれらの規定による改正前の生活保護法第四十条第二項、老人福祉法第十五条第二項又は児童福祉法第三十五条第三項の規定による認可を受けている市町村又はその申請を行つている市町村は、それぞれ、当該認可又は申請に係る施設につき、第二十六条の規定、第二十七条の規定又は第二十八条の規定による改正後の生活保護法第四十条第二項、老人福祉法第十五条第二項又は児童福祉法第三十五条第三項の規定による届出を行つたものとみなす。 suppl-3601-90/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-3601-90/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-3601-90/art-8/par-1 If, at the time of the enforcement of the provisions of Article 26, Article 27 or Article 28 (limited, for Article 28, to the provisions amending Articles 35, 56-2, 58 and 58-2 of the Child Welfare Act; the same applies hereafter in this Article), a municipality currently holds approval under the provisions of Article 40, paragraph (2) of the Public Assistance Act, Article 15, paragraph (2) of the Act on Social Welfare for the Elderly or Article 35, paragraph (3) of the Child Welfare Act, as they were before amendment by those provisions, or has applied for such approval, that municipality is deemed, respectively, to have made the notification under the provisions of Article 40, paragraph (2) of the Public Assistance Act, Article 15, paragraph (2) of the Act on Social Welfare for the Elderly or Article 35, paragraph (3) of the Child Welfare Act, as amended by the provisions of Article 26, Article 27 or Article 28, for the facility to which that approval or application relates. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第二十七条の規定又は第二十八条の規定の施行の際現にこれらの規定による改正前の老人福祉法第十六条の規定による認可又は児童福祉法第三十五条第六項の規定による承認の申請を行つている市町村は、それぞれ、当該施設につき、第二十七条の規定又は第二十八条の規定による改正後の老人福祉法第十六条第一項又は児童福祉法第三十五条第六項の規定による届出を行つたものとみなす。 suppl-3601-90/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-3601-90/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-3601-90/art-8/par-2 A municipality that, at the time of the enforcement of the provisions of Article 27 or Article 28, has applied for approval under the provisions of Article 16 of the Act on Social Welfare for the Elderly or for authorization under the provisions of Article 35, paragraph (6) of the Child Welfare Act, as they were before amendment by those provisions, is deemed, respectively, to have made the notification under the provisions of Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Act on Social Welfare for the Elderly or Article 35, paragraph (6) of the Child Welfare Act, as amended by the provisions of Article 27 or Article 28, for the facility concerned. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3601-90/art-8/par-1: この条 → 生活保護法 附則第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8), suppl-3601-90/art-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-3601-90/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-3601-90/art-8 - suppl-3601-90/art-8/par-1: 老人福祉法第十五条第二項 → e-Gov law 338AC0000000133, 第十五条第二項 (Article 15, paragraph (2)), art-15/par-2 — not held in this collection - suppl-3601-90/art-8/par-1: 児童福祉法第三十五条第三項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000164, 第三十五条第三項 (Article 35, paragraph (3)), art-35/par-3 — not held in this collection - suppl-3601-90/art-8/par-1: 生活保護法第四十条第二項 → 生活保護法 第四十条第二項 (Article 40, paragraph (2)), art-40/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-40/par-2 - suppl-3601-90/art-8/par-2: 児童福祉法第三十五条第六項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000164, 第三十五条第六項 (Article 35, paragraph (6)), art-35/par-6 — not held in this collection - suppl-3601-90/art-8/par-2: 老人福祉法第十六条第一項 → e-Gov law 338AC0000000133, 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 附則第八条第一項（生活保護法等の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-3601-90/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-3601-90/art-8/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-20261019T143855-010, 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