# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18) - 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: 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18)（生活保護法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-4171-77/art-18` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4171-77/art-18 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十八条（生活保護法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Public Assistance Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4171-77/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4171-77/art-18 **第一項** 附則第三条第一項の規定により、施行日から平成二十年四月一日までの間において条例で定める日までの間、新介護保険法第十八条第二号、第十九条第二項、第三十二条から第三十四条まで及び第四章第四節の規定が適用されない市町村の区域内に居住地（居住地がないか、又は明らかでない場合にあっては、現在地とする。次項及び次条において同じ。）を有する被保護者（生活保護法第六条第一項に規定する被保護者をいう。以下同じ。）に対しては、第十四条の規定による改正後の生活保護法（以下「新生活保護法」という。）第十五条の二第一項第五号に規定する介護予防、同項第六号に規定する介護予防福祉用具及び同項第七号に規定する介護予防住宅改修に係る介護扶助は行わない。 suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-1 Pursuant to the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, long-term care assistance pertaining to care prevention services prescribed in Article 15-2, paragraph (1), item (v) of the Public Assistance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 14 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Public Assistance Act"), welfare equipment for care prevention prescribed in item (vi) of that paragraph and home renovation for care prevention prescribed in item (vii) of that paragraph is not provided, until the date specified by Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance within the period from the Effective Date to April 1, 2008, to a public assistance recipient (meaning a public assistance recipient prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Public Assistance Act; the same applies hereinafter) who has a place of residence (or, where the person has no place of residence or it is unclear, the current location; the same applies in the following paragraph and the following Article) within the district of a municipality to which the provisions of Article 18, item (ii), Article 19, paragraph (2), Articles 32 through 34 and Chapter IV, Section 4 of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act do not apply. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の場合において、当該市町村の区域内に居住地を有する被保護者については、新介護保険法第七条第四項に規定する要支援者に該当する者を同条第三項に規定する要介護者に該当する者とみなして、新生活保護法第十五条の二の規定を適用する。 suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, with regard to a public assistance recipient who has a place of residence within the district of the municipality concerned, the provisions of Article 15-2 of the New Public Assistance Act apply by deeming a person who falls under a person requiring support prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (4) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act to be a person who falls under a person requiring long-term care prescribed in paragraph (3) of that Article. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-1: 次項 → 生活保護法 附則第十八条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18, paragraph (2)), suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-2 - suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-1: 次条 → 生活保護法 附則第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19), suppl-4171-77/art-19 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4171-77/art-19 - suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-1: 生活保護法第六条第一項 → 生活保護法 第六条第一項 (Article 6, paragraph (1)), art-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-6/par-1 - suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-1: 第十五条の二第一項第五号 → 生活保護法 第十五条の二第一項第五号 (Article 15-2, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-15-2/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-15-2/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-15-2/par-1/item-5 - suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-1: 同項第六号 → 生活保護法 第十五条の二第一項第六号 (Article 15-2, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-15-2/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-15-2/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-15-2/par-1/item-6 - suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-1: 同項第七号 → 生活保護法 第十五条の二第一項第七号 (Article 15-2, paragraph (1), item (vii)), art-15-2/par-1/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-15-2/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-15-2/par-1/item-7 - suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-2: 前項 → 生活保護法 附則第十八条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18, paragraph (1)), suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-1 - suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-2: 新生活保護法第十五条の二 → 生活保護法 第十五条の二 (Article 15-2), art-15-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-15-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-15-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 附則第十八条第一項（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-4171-77/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-1 - 生活保護法 附則第十八条第二項（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-4171-77/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4171-77/art-18/par-2 --- ## 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-20261019T143855-013, translated 2026-10-20 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch public-assistance-act-20261019T143855-013, 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