# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第二十五条 (Article 25) - 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: 第二十五条 (Article 25)（職権による保護の開始及び変更） — address `art-25` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-25 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-25 - 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. --- ### 第二十五条（職権による保護の開始及び変更） — (Commencement of and Change to Public Assistance Ex Officio) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-25 **第一項** 保護の実施機関は、要保護者が急迫した状況にあるときは、すみやかに、職権をもつて保護の種類、程度及び方法を決定し、保護を開始しなければならない。 art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-25/par-1 A public assistance administrator shall, when a person requiring public assistance is under urgent circumstances, decide promptly on the type, extent and method of public assistance and commence public assistance ex officio. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 保護の実施機関は、常に、被保護者の生活状態を調査し、保護の変更を必要とすると認めるときは、速やかに、職権をもつてその決定を行い、書面をもつて、これを被保護者に通知しなければならない。前条第四項の規定は、この場合に準用する。 art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-25/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-25/par-2 A public assistance administrator shall constantly investigate the status of the standard of living of a public assistance recipient, and when he/she finds a need for a change to the public assistance, he/she shall decide promptly on said change ex officio and notify the public assistance recipient of the result in writing. The provisions of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article shall apply mutatis mutandis to this case. machine translation, not official **第三項** 町村長は、要保護者が特に急迫した事由により放置することができない状況にあるときは、すみやかに、職権をもつて第十九条第六項に規定する保護を行わなければならない。 art-25/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-25/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-25/par-3 The mayor of a town or village shall, when a person requiring public assistance is in such a state that he/she cannot be left unattended due to particularly urgent circumstances, provide promptly the public assistance prescribed in Article 19, paragraph (6) ex officio. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-25/par-2: 前条第四項 → 生活保護法 第二十四条第四項 (Article 24, paragraph (4)), art-24/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-24/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-24/par-4 - art-25/par-3: 第十九条第六項 → 生活保護法 第十九条第六項 (Article 19, paragraph (6)), art-19/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-19/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-19/par-6 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 別表第三 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/appdx-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/appdx-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-20261019T141738-001, 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