# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第二十七条の二 (Article 27-2) - 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: 第二十七条の二 (Article 27-2)（相談及び助言） — address `art-27-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-27-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-27-2 - 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. --- ### 第二十七条の二（相談及び助言） — (Consultation and Advice) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-27-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-27-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-27-2 **第一項** 保護の実施機関は、第五十五条の七第一項に規定する被保護者就労支援事業、第五十五条の八第一項に規定する被保護者健康管理支援事業、第五十五条の十第一項第一号に規定する子どもの進路選択支援事業、同項第二号に規定する被保護者就労準備支援事業、同項第三号に規定する被保護者家計改善支援事業及び同項第四号に規定する被保護者地域居住支援事業のほか、要保護者から求めがあつたときは、要保護者の自立を助長するために、要保護者からの相談に応じ、必要な助言をすることができる。 art-27-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-27-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-27-2/par-1 In addition to the employment support programme for public assistance recipients prescribed in Article 55-7, paragraph (1), the health management support programme for public assistance recipients prescribed in Article 55-8, paragraph (1), the career path support programme for children prescribed in Article 55-10, paragraph (1), item (i), the employment preparation support programme for public assistance recipients prescribed in item (ii) of the same paragraph, the household finance improvement support programme for public assistance recipients prescribed in item (iii) of the same paragraph and the community living support programme for public assistance recipients prescribed in item (iv) of the same paragraph, a public assistance administrator may, when requested by a person requiring public assistance, respond to consultation from the person requiring public assistance and give necessary advice in order to promote self-support for the person requiring public assistance. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-27-2/par-1: 第五十五条の七第一項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の七第一項 (Article 55-7, paragraph (1)), art-55-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-7/par-1 - art-27-2/par-1: 第五十五条の八第一項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の八第一項 (Article 55-8, paragraph (1)), art-55-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-8/par-1 - art-27-2/par-1: 第五十五条の十第一項第一号 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の十第一項第一号 (Article 55-10, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-55-10/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-10/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-10/par-1/item-1 - art-27-2/par-1: 同項第二号 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の十第一項第二号 (Article 55-10, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-55-10/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-10/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-10/par-1/item-2 - art-27-2/par-1: 同項第三号 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の十第一項第三号 (Article 55-10, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-55-10/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-10/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-10/par-1/item-3 - art-27-2/par-1: 同項第四号 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の十第一項第四号 (Article 55-10, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-55-10/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-10/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-10/par-1/item-4 --- ## 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, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, 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