# 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)（検討） — address `suppl-5061-21/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-5061-21/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5061-21/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（検討） — Review caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5061-21/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-5061-21/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5061-21/art-2 **第一項** 政府は、この法律の施行後五年を目途として、この法律による改正後のそれぞれの法律の施行の状況を勘案し、必要があると認めるときは、生活困窮者自立支援法第三条第一項に規定する生活困窮者に対する支援等が公正で分かりやすいものであることを確保する観点も含めてこの法律による改正後のそれぞれの法律の規定について検討を加え、その結果に基づいて必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-5061-21/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-5061-21/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-5061-21/art-2/par-1 The Government, with a target of five years after this Act comes into effect, is to take into account the state of enforcement of each of the Acts as amended by this Act, and, when it finds this necessary, review the provisions of each of the Acts as amended by this Act, including from the viewpoint of ensuring that support, etc. for persons in need prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Act on Self-Reliance Support for Persons in Need is fair and easy to understand, and take the necessary measures based on the results of that review. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5061-21/art-2/par-1: 生活困窮者自立支援法第三条第一項 → e-Gov law 425AC0000000105, 第三条第一項 (Article 3, paragraph (1)), art-3/par-1 — not held in this collection --- ## 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-20261019T143855-023, 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