# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21) - 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: 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21) — address `suppl-4171-77/art-21` - 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-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4171-77/art-21 - 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. --- ### 第二十一条 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 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に旧生活保護法第三十四条の二第二項の規定による介護扶助（施設介護に限る。）が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、同条第二十二項に規定する介護老人保健施設又は同条第二十三項に規定する介護療養型医療施設（以下この条において「介護扶助施設」という。）に委託して行われている被保護者であって、新介護保険法第七条第四項に規定する要支援者であるものは、施行日から起算して三年間に限り、施行日以後引き続き当該介護扶助施設に入所し、又は入院している間は、同条第三項に規定する要介護者とみなして、新生活保護法第十五条の二第一項の規定を適用する。 suppl-4171-77/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4171-77/art-21/par-1 With regard to a public assistance recipient who is a person requiring support prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (4) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act and for whom long-term care assistance (limited to facility care services) under the provisions of Article 34-2, paragraph (2) of the Former Public Assistance Act is actually being provided, at the time this Act comes into effect, 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, a long-term care health facility prescribed in paragraph (22) of that Article or a long-term care sanatorium-type medical facility prescribed in paragraph (23) of that Article (hereinafter referred to in this Article as a "long-term care assistance facility"), the provisions of Article 15-2, paragraph (1) of the New Public Assistance Act apply by deeming the person to be a person requiring long-term care prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (3) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act, for a period limited to three years counted from the Effective Date and while the person continues on or after the Effective Date to be admitted to or hospitalized in that long-term care assistance facility. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4171-77/art-21/par-1: この条 → 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 - suppl-4171-77/art-21/par-1: 新生活保護法第十五条の二第一項 → 生活保護法 第十五条の二第一項 (Article 15-2, paragraph (1)), art-15-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-15-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-15-2/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 附則第十九条第一項 — 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 - 生活保護法 附則第二十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4171-77/art-21/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