# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第三十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 37) - 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: 第三十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 37)（施行前の準備） — address `suppl-4221-71/art-37` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4221-71/art-37 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4221-71/art-37 - 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. --- ### 第三十七条（施行前の準備） — Preparations before Enforcement caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4221-71/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4221-71/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4221-71/art-37 **第一項** この法律（附則第一条第三号に掲げる規定については、当該規定。以下この条において同じ。）を施行するために必要な条例の制定又は改正、新自立支援法第五十一条の十九の規定による新自立支援法第五十一条の十四第一項の指定の手続、新自立支援法第五十一条の二十第一項の規定による新自立支援法第五十一条の十七第一項第一号の指定の手続、新児童福祉法第二十一条の五の十五の規定による新児童福祉法第二十一条の五の三第一項の指定の手続、新児童福祉法第二十四条の二十八第一項の規定による新児童福祉法第二十四条の二十六第一項第一号の指定の手続、新児童福祉法第三十四条の三第二項の届出その他の行為は、この法律の施行前においても行うことができる。 suppl-4221-71/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4221-71/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4221-71/art-37/par-1 The enactment or amendment of Prefectural or Municipal Ordinances necessary for enforcing this Act (for the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions, those provisions; the same applies hereafter in this Article), the procedures for the designation under Article 51-14, paragraph (1) of the New Services and Supports for Persons with Disabilities Act pursuant to the provisions of Article 51-19 of the New Services and Supports for Persons with Disabilities Act, the procedures for the designation under Article 51-17, paragraph (1), item (i) of the New Services and Supports for Persons with Disabilities Act pursuant to the provisions of Article 51-20, paragraph (1) of the New Services and Supports for Persons with Disabilities Act, the procedures for the designation under Article 21-5-3, paragraph (1) of the New Child Welfare Act pursuant to the provisions of Article 21-5-15 of the New Child Welfare Act, the procedures for the designation under Article 24-26, paragraph (1), item (i) of the New Child Welfare Act pursuant to the provisions of Article 24-28, paragraph (1) of the New Child Welfare Act, the notification under Article 34-3, paragraph (2) of the New Child Welfare Act, and other acts may be carried out even before this Act comes into effect. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4221-71/art-37/par-1: 附則第一条第三号 → 生活保護法 附則第一条第一項第三号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (iii)), suppl-4221-71/art-1/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4221-71/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4221-71/art-1/par-1/item-3 - suppl-4221-71/art-37/par-1: この条 → 生活保護法 附則第三十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 37), suppl-4221-71/art-37 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4221-71/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4221-71/art-37 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4221-71/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4221-71/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 生活保護法 附則第三十七条第一項（施行前の準備） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4221-71/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4221-71/art-37/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-20261019T143855-015, translated 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch public-assistance-act-20261019T143855-015, 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