# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第百二十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 123) - 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: 第百二十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 123)（検討） — address `suppl-4231-105/art-123` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4231-105/art-123 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4231-105/art-123 - 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. --- ### 第百二十三条（検討） — Review caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4231-105/art-123 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4231-105/art-123 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4231-105/art-123 **第一項** suppl-4231-105/art-123/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4231-105/art-123/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4231-105/art-123/par-1 **第二項** 政府は、新児童福祉法第二十一条の五の十五（新児童福祉法第二十四条の九において準用する場合を含む。）、新医療法第七条の二、第十八条及び第二十一条、新生活保護法第三十九条、新社会福祉法第六十五条並びに新障害者自立支援法第三十六条（新障害者自立支援法第三十八条において準用する場合を含む。）の規定の施行の状況等を勘案し、これらの規定に基づき国の行政機関の長が定める基準の在り方について検討を加え、必要があると認めるときは、その結果に基づいて必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-4231-105/art-123/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4231-105/art-123/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4231-105/art-123/par-2 Taking into consideration the status of enforcement of the provisions of Article 21-5-15 of the New Child Welfare Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 24-9 of the New Child Welfare Act), Articles 7-2, 18 and 21 of the New Medical Care Act, Article 39 of the New Public Assistance Act, Article 65 of the New Social Welfare Act and Article 36 of the New Services and Supports for Persons with Disabilities Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 38 of the New Services and Supports for Persons with Disabilities Act), etc., the government is to examine the way the standards that the heads of national administrative organs prescribe pursuant to those provisions should be and, when it finds it necessary, is to take necessary measures based on the results. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4231-105/art-123/par-2: 新生活保護法第三十九条 → 生活保護法 第三十九条 (Article 39), art-39 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-39 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-39 ## 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二号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4231-105/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4231-105/art-1/par-1/item-2 - 生活保護法 附則第二十二条第一項（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-4231-105/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4231-105/art-22/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-20261019T143855-016, 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