# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) - 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-4251-104/art-1` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4251-104/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、平成二十六年七月一日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。 suppl-4251-104/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on July 1, 2014; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified in those items: machine translation, not official **一** 附則第八条、第十条、第十三条及び第十七条の規定　公布の日 suppl-4251-104/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-1/par-1/item-1 the provisions of Articles 8, 10, 13 and 17 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official **二** 第一条中生活保護法第三十四条の改正規定（同条第五項を同条第六項とし、同条第四項中「前二項」を「第二項及び前項」に改め、同項を同条第五項とし、同条第三項中「前項」を「第二項」に改め、同項を同条第四項とし、同条第二項の次に一項を加える部分に限る。）及び同法第六十条の改正規定　平成二十六年一月一日 suppl-4251-104/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-1/par-1/item-2 the provisions of Article 1 amending Article 34 of the Public Assistance Act (limited to the part replacing paragraph (5) of that Article with paragraph (6) of that Article, replacing "the preceding two paragraphs" in paragraph (4) of that Article with "paragraph (2) and the preceding paragraph" and making that paragraph paragraph (5) of that Article, replacing "the preceding paragraph" in paragraph (3) of that Article with "paragraph (2)" and making that paragraph paragraph (4) of that Article, and adding one paragraph after paragraph (2) of that Article) and the provisions amending Article 60 of that Act: January 1, 2014; machine translation, not official **三** 第二条の規定　平成二十七年四月一日 suppl-4251-104/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-1/par-1/item-3 the provisions of Article 2: April 1, 2015. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4251-104/art-1/par-1/item-1: 附則第八条 → 生活保護法 附則第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8), suppl-4251-104/art-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-8 - suppl-4251-104/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第十条 → 生活保護法 附則第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10), suppl-4251-104/art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-10 - suppl-4251-104/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第十三条 → 生活保護法 附則第十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13), suppl-4251-104/art-13 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-13 --- ## 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-20261019T143855-017, 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