# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第三十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 31) - 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: 第三十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 31) — address `suppl-4261-83/art-31` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4261-83/art-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4261-83/art-31 - 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. --- ### 第三十一条 suppl-4261-83/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4261-83/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4261-83/art-31 **第一項** 新生活保護法第五十四条の二第一項の指定（介護予防・日常生活支援事業者に係る指定に限る。）の手続その他の行為は、第三号施行日前においても行うことができる。 suppl-4261-83/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4261-83/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4261-83/art-31/par-1 Procedures and other acts for designation under Article 54-2, paragraph (1) of the New Public Assistance Act (limited to designation of a care prevention and daily life support provider) may be carried out even before the item (iii) Effective Date. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4261-83/art-31/par-1: 新生活保護法第五十四条の二第一項 → 生活保護法 第五十四条の二第一項 (Article 54-2, paragraph (1)), art-54-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-54-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-54-2/par-1 ## 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-4261-83/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4261-83/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 生活保護法 附則第三十条第一項（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-4261-83/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4261-83/art-30/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-20261019T155555-001, 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