# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第三十五条 (Article 35) - 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: 第三十五条 (Article 35)（出産扶助の方法） — address `art-35` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-35 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-35 - 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. --- ### 第三十五条（出産扶助の方法） — (Method of Maternity Assistance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-35 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-35 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-35 **第一項** 出産扶助は、金銭給付によつて行うものとする。ただし、これによることができないとき、これによることが適当でないとき、その他保護の目的を達するために必要があるときは、現物給付によつて行うことができる。 art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-35/par-1 Maternity assistance shall be provided by way of performance in money; provided, however, that when this method cannot be used, when it is not appropriate to use this method, or when it is necessary in order to achieve the purpose of public assistance, maternity assistance may be provided by way of performance in kind. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項ただし書に規定する現物給付のうち、助産の給付は、第五十五条第一項の規定により指定を受けた助産師に委託して行うものとする。 art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-35/par-2 Out of the performance in kind prescribed in the proviso to the preceding paragraph, the furnishing of midwifery shall be provided by way of entrusting such midwifery to a midwife who has been designated pursuant to the provisions of Article 55, paragraph (1). machine translation, not official **第三項** 第三十四条第七項及び第八項の規定は、出産扶助について準用する。 art-35/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-35/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-35/par-3 The provisions of paragraphs (7) and (8) of Article 34 shall apply mutatis mutandis to maternity assistance. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-35/par-2: 前項 → 生活保護法 第三十五条第一項 (Article 35, paragraph (1)), art-35/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-35/par-1 - art-35/par-2: 第五十五条第一項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条第一項 (Article 55, paragraph (1)), art-55/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55/par-1 - art-35/par-3: 第三十四条第七項 → 生活保護法 第三十四条第七項 (Article 34, paragraph (7)), art-34/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-34/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-34/par-7 - art-35/par-3: 第八項 → 生活保護法 第三十四条第八項 (Article 34, paragraph (8)), art-34/par-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-34/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-34/par-8 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 第三十五条第二項（出産扶助の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-35/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-35/par-2 - 生活保護法 第三十七条の二第一項（保護の方法の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-37-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-37-2/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-20261019T143855-001, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 生活保護法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19