# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19) - 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: 第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19) — address `suppl-4171-77/art-19` - 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-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4171-77/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条 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 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に第十四条の規定による改正前の生活保護法（以下「旧生活保護法」という。）第三十四条の二第二項の規定により被保護者に対する介護扶助（旧生活保護法第十五条の二第四項に規定する施設介護（附則第二十一条において「施設介護」という。）に限る。）を旧介護保険法第七条第二十一項に規定する介護老人福祉施設（入所定員が二十九人以下であるものに限る。）に委託して行っている場合は、当該委託の継続中、その者に対して保護を行うべき者については、その者に係る委託前の居住地によって定めるものとする。 suppl-4171-77/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4171-77/art-19/par-1 In the case where, at the time this Act comes into effect, long-term care assistance is actually being provided to a public assistance recipient pursuant to the provisions of Article 34-2, paragraph (2) of the Public Assistance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 14 (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Public Assistance Act") (limited to facility care services prescribed in Article 15-2, paragraph (4) of the Former Public Assistance Act (referred to as "facility care services" in Article 21 of the Supplementary Provisions)) by entrusting it to a Facility Covered by Public Aid Providing Long-Term Care to the Elderly prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (21) of the Former Long-Term Care Insurance Act (limited to one with a capacity of 29 persons or fewer), the person who is to provide public assistance to that person is to be determined, for the duration of that entrustment, by the place of residence of that person before the entrustment. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4171-77/art-19/par-1: 附則第二十一条 → 生活保護法 附則第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21), suppl-4171-77/art-21 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4171-77/art-21 ## Cited by 1 provision cites 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 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 210 — 生活保護法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19