# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) - 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（進学準備給付金の支給に関する特例） — address `suppl-4301-44/art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4301-44/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4301-44/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（進学準備給付金の支給に関する特例） — Special Provisions on Payment of the School Enrollment Preparation Benefit caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4301-44/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4301-44/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4301-44/art-2 **第一項** 第三条の規定による改正後の生活保護法（次条及び附則第四条において「第三条改正後生活保護法」という。）第五十五条の五の規定は、平成三十年一月一日から適用する。 suppl-4301-44/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4301-44/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4301-44/art-2/par-1 The provisions of Article 55-5 of the Public Assistance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 (referred to as the "Public Assistance Act as Amended by Article 3" in the following Article and Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions) apply as from January 1, 2018. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4301-44/art-2/par-1: 次条 → 生活保護法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-4301-44/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4301-44/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4301-44/art-3 - suppl-4301-44/art-2/par-1: 附則第四条 → 生活保護法 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-4301-44/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4301-44/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4301-44/art-4 - suppl-4301-44/art-2/par-1: 第五十五条の五 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の五 (Article 55-5), art-55-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-5 ## Cited by 1 provision cites 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-4301-44/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4301-44/art-1/par-1/item-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-20261019T143855-020, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 210 — 生活保護法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19