# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第二十六条 (Article 26) - 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: 第二十六条 (Article 26)（保護の停止及び廃止） — address `art-26` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-26 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-26 - 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. --- ### 第二十六条（保護の停止及び廃止） — (Suspension and Abolition of Public Assistance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-26 **第一項** 保護の実施機関は、被保護者が保護を必要としなくなつたときは、速やかに、保護の停止又は廃止を決定し、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。第二十八条第五項又は第六十二条第三項の規定により保護の停止又は廃止をするときも、同様とする。 art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-26/par-1 A public assistance administrator shall, when a public assistance recipient no longer needs public assistance, decide promptly on the suspension or abolition of the public assistance, and notify the public assistance recipient of the result in writing. The same shall apply in the case of suspending or abolishing public assistance pursuant to the provisions of Article 28, paragraph (5) or Article 62, paragraph (3). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-26/par-1: 第二十八条第五項 → 生活保護法 第二十八条第五項 (Article 28, paragraph (5)), art-28/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-28/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-28/par-5 - art-26/par-1: 第六十二条第三項 → 生活保護法 第六十二条第三項 (Article 62, paragraph (3)), art-62/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-62/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-62/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 第八十一条の四第一項（情報提供等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-81-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81-4/par-1 - 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