# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第二十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 22) - 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: 第二十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 22)（生活保護法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-4231-105/art-22` - 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-22 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4231-105/art-22 - 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. --- ### 第二十二条（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-4231-105/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4231-105/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4231-105/art-22 **第一項** 第三十一条の規定の施行の日から起算して一年を超えない期間内において、同条の規定による改正後の生活保護法（附則第百二十三条第二項において「新生活保護法」という。）第三十九条第一項に規定する都道府県の条例が制定施行されるまでの間は、同条第二項に規定する厚生労働省令で定める基準は、当該都道府県の条例で定める基準とみなす。 suppl-4231-105/art-22/par-1 · 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 Until the Prefectural Ordinance prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (1) of the Public Assistance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 31 (referred to as the "New Public Assistance Act" in Article 123, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions) is enacted and enforced within a period not exceeding one year counted from the date of enforcement of the provisions of that Article, the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed in Article 39, paragraph (2) of the New Public Assistance Act are deemed to be the standards specified by the Prefectural Ordinance of the prefecture concerned. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4231-105/art-22/par-1: 附則第百二十三条第二項 → 生活保護法 附則第百二十三条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 123, paragraph (2)), 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 - suppl-4231-105/art-22/par-1: 第三十九条第一項 → 生活保護法 第三十九条第一項 (Article 39, paragraph (1)), art-39/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-39/par-1 - suppl-4231-105/art-22/par-1: 同条第二項 → 生活保護法 第三十九条第二項 (Article 39, paragraph (2)), art-39/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-39/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-39/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-20261019T143855-016, 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