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Public Assistance Act

生活保護法（せいかつほごほう）

Amended by

Act on the Arrangement of Related Acts upon the Enforcement of the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc.

民法等の一部を改正する法律の施行に伴う関係法律の整備等に関する法律

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The date on which the Act Partially Amending the Civil Code, etc. (Act No. 45 of 2026) comes into force. The exact day is not fixed yet.

The same amending law also changes

3 provisions changed · 2 provisions in the supplementary provisions

Each provision the amendment changes, before and after in one: words it removes are struck through, words it adds are highlighted. The Japanese is the law; the icon beside each English column says whose English it is.

Article 30 · (Method of Livelihood Assistance)第三十条（生活扶助の方法）

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  • ChangedArticle 30, paragraph (3)

    A public assistance administrator may, in the case where a person who has parental authority or is a guardian of a minor for a public assistance recipient, or a specified assistant for a public assistance recipient, fails to exercise his/her rights appropriately, take one of the measures under the proviso to paragraph (1) by obtaining the permission of a family court, even if said person objects to it.

    保護の実施機関は、被保護者の親権者又は未成年後見人若しくは特定補助人がその権利を適切に行わない場合においては、その異議があつても、家庭裁判所の許可を得て、第一項但ただし書の措置をとることができる。

Article 81 · Request for Appointment of a Guardian of a Minor, etc.第八十一条（未成年後見人等の選任の請求）

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  • ChangedCaption

    (Request for Appointment of a Guardian) of a Minor, etc.

    未成年後見人等の選任の請求

  • ChangedArticle 81, paragraph (1)

    In the case where a public assistance recipient is a minor or a person who has received an adult wardadjudication of a disposition appointing a specified assistant, if there is no person to perform the duty of a person who has parental authority or a guardian of a minor and no person to perform the duty of a specified assistant, a public assistance administrator shall promptly request a family court to appoint a guardian of a minor or an assistant.

    被保護者が未成年者又は成年被後見人特定補助人を付する処分の審判を受けた者である場合において、親権者及び未成年後見人の職務を行う者並びに特定補助人の職務を行う者がないときは、保護の実施機関は、すみ速やかに、後見未成年後見人又は補助人の選任を家庭裁判所に請求しなければならない。

2 changes in the supplementary provisions (附則)

Supplementary Provisions, Article 2 · Transitional Measures Concerning Adult Wards, etc.附則第二条（成年被後見人等に関する経過措置）

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  • AddedSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)

    With regard to an adult ward, a guardian of an adult and a supervisor of a guardian of an adult prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Civil Code, etc. Amendment Act with respect to whom the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, and a person under curatorship, a curator and a supervisor of a curator prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Civil Code, etc. Amendment Act with respect to whom the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, the provisions then in force continue to govern, notwithstanding the provisions of the respective Acts as amended by this Act (including where those provisions are applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to other Acts).

    民法等改正法附則第二条第一項の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる同項に規定する成年被後見人、成年後見人及び成年後見監督人並びに民法等改正法附則第三条第一項の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる同項に規定する被保佐人、保佐人及び保佐監督人については、この法律による改正後のそれぞれの法律の規定（これらの規定を他の法律において準用する場合を含む。）にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。

Supplementary Provisions, Article 4 · Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions附則第四条（罰則に関する経過措置）

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  • AddedSupplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)

    With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (1) or Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Civil Code, etc. Amendment Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

    この法律の施行前にした行為及び民法等改正法附則第二条第一項又は第三条第一項の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。