# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第二十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 28) - 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: 第二十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 28)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4121-111/art-28` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4121-111/art-28 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4121-111/art-28 - 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. --- ### 第二十八条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4121-111/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4121-111/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4121-111/art-28 **第一項** この法律の施行前にした行為及び附則第二十六条の規定によりなおその効力を有することとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4121-111/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4121-111/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4121-111/art-28/par-1 With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in the case where the provisions then in force are to remain in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 26 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 附則第二十九条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4121-111/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4121-111/art-29/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-20261019T143855-012, 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