When a public assistance administrator or a welfare office director finds it necessary for deciding on or implementing public assistance or for the enforcement of the provisions of Article 77 or Article 78, it may, with regard to the matters specified in each of the following items for the person listed in that item, request a government agency, the Japan Pension Service or the mutual aid associations, etc. prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (2) of the National Pension Act (Act No. 141 of 1959) (referred to as "mutual aid associations, etc." in the following paragraph) to allow inspection of necessary documents or to provide materials, or request a report from a bank, a trust company, the employer of a person listed in each of the following items, or any other person concerned.
A person requiring public assistance or a person who was a public assistance recipient: name and address or residence, state of assets and income, health conditions, state of decisions on and implementation of public assistance by another public assistance administrator, and other matters specified by Cabinet Order (for a person who was a public assistance recipient, excluding name and address or residence, health conditions, and the state of decisions on and implementation of public assistance by another public assistance administrator, and limited to matters in the period during which that person received public assistance)
A person responsible for the support of a person listed in the preceding item: name and address or residence, state of assets and income, and other matters specified by Cabinet Order (for a person responsible for the support of a person who was a public assistance recipient, excluding name and address or residence, and limited to matters in the period during which that person who was a public assistance recipient received public assistance)
The head of a government agency listed in the left hand column of Appended Table 1, the Japan Pension Service or the mutual aid associations, etc. are to, when requested pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph by a public assistance administrator or a welfare office director with regard to the information listed in the right hand column of that table respectively, promptly allow inspection of documents in which that information is written or recorded, or provide materials.
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