# 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-5061-21/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-5061-21/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5061-21/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. 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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-5061-21/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-5061-21/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5061-21/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、令和七年四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-5061-21/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-5061-21/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5061-21/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2025; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect as of the dates specified respectively in those items. machine translation, not official **一** 第一条中生活困窮者自立支援法第八条の改正規定、第二条中生活保護法目次の改正規定（「進学準備給付金」を「進学・就職準備給付金」に改める部分に限る。）並びに同法第八章の章名、第五十五条の五、第五十五条の六、第五十七条から第五十九条まで、第六十四条、第六十五条第一項、第六十六条第一項、第七十条第五号、第七十一条第五号、第七十三条第三号及び第四号、第七十五条第一項第二号、第七十六条の三、第七十八条第三項、第八十一条の二第一項、第八十五条第二項並びに別表第一の改正規定並びに附則第三条及び第五条から第九条までの規定　公布の日 suppl-5061-21/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-5061-21/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5061-21/art-1/par-1/item-1 The provisions of Article 1 revising Article 8 of the Act on Self-Reliance Support for Persons in Need, the provisions of Article 2 revising the table of contents of the Public Assistance Act (limited to the part revising "school enrollment preparation benefit" to "school enrollment and job-search preparation benefit"), and the provisions revising the title of Chapter VIII, Article 55-5, Article 55-6, Article 57 through Article 59, Article 64, Article 65, paragraph (1), Article 66, paragraph (1), Article 70, item (v), Article 71, item (v), Article 73, items (iii) and (iv), Article 75, paragraph (1), item (ii), Article 76-3, Article 78, paragraph (3), Article 81-2, paragraph (1), Article 85, paragraph (2), and Appended Table 1 of that Act; and the provisions of Article 3, and Article 5 through Article 9, of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official **二** 略 suppl-5061-21/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-5061-21/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5061-21/art-1/par-1/item-2 Omitted machine translation, not official **三** 第二条の規定（第一号に掲げる改正規定を除く。）及び第四条中社会福祉法附則第十六項の改正規定　令和六年十月一日 suppl-5061-21/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-5061-21/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5061-21/art-1/par-1/item-3 The provisions of Article 2 (excluding the amending provisions listed in item (i)) and the provision of Article 4 amending paragraph (16) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Social Welfare Act: October 1, 2024. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5061-21/art-1/par-1/item-1: 附則第三条 → 生活保護法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-5061-21/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-5061-21/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5061-21/art-3 - suppl-5061-21/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第五条から第九条まで → 生活保護法 附則第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9), suppl-5061-21/art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-5061-21/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5061-21/art-9 - suppl-5061-21/art-1/par-1/item-3: 第一号 → 生活保護法 附則第一条第一項第一号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (i)), suppl-5061-21/art-1/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-5061-21/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5061-21/art-1/par-1/item-1 ## 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三号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-5061-21/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5061-21/art-1/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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-20261019T143855-022, translated 2026-10-20 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch public-assistance-act-20261019T143855-023, 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