# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) - 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)（助産機関等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4251-104/art-7` - 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-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（助産機関等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Midwifery Care Providers, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4251-104/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-7 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に旧法第五十五条において準用する旧法第四十九条の指定を受けている助産師、あん摩マッサージ指圧師及び柔道整復師は、施行日に、平成二十六年改正後生活保護法第五十五条第一項の指定を受けたものとみなす。 suppl-4251-104/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-7/par-1 A midwife, massage and finger pressure practitioner and judo therapist who is, at the time this Act comes into effect, designated under Article 49 of the old Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 55 of the old Act is deemed to have been designated under Article 55, paragraph (1) of the Public Assistance Act as Amended in 2014 on the Effective Date. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4251-104/art-7/par-1: 平成二十六年改正後生活保護法第五十五条第一項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条第一項 (Article 55, paragraph (1)), art-55/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 附則第十三条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4251-104/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4251-104/art-13/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-20261019T143855-017, translated 2026-10-20 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch public-assistance-act-20261019T143855-018, 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