# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第四十条 (Article 40) - 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: 第四十条 (Article 40)（都道府県、市町村及び地方独立行政法人の保護施設） — address `art-40` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-40 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-40 - 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. --- ### 第四十条（都道府県、市町村及び地方独立行政法人の保護施設） — (Public Assistance Facilities of Prefectures, Municipalities and Local Incorporated Administrative Agencies) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-40 **第一項** 都道府県は、保護施設を設置することができる。 art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-40/par-1 A prefecture may establish public assistance facilities. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 市町村及び地方独立行政法人（地方独立行政法人法（平成十五年法律第百十八号）第二条第一項に規定する地方独立行政法人をいう。以下同じ。）は、保護施設を設置しようとするときは、あらかじめ、厚生労働省令で定める事項を都道府県知事に届け出なければならない。 art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-40/par-2 When a municipality or a local incorporated administrative agency (which means a local incorporated administrative agency prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Local Incorporated Administrative Agency Act [Act No. 118 of 2003]; the same shall apply hereinafter) intends to establish a public assistance facility, it shall notify the prefectural governor of the matters specified by an Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in advance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 保護施設を設置した都道府県、市町村及び地方独立行政法人は、現に入所中の被保護者の保護に支障のない限り、その保護施設を廃止し、又はその事業を縮少し、若しくは休止することができる。 art-40/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-40/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-40/par-3 A prefecture, municipality or local incorporated administrative agency that has established a public assistance facility may abolish said public assistance facility or downsize or suspend the operations of said public assistance facility as long as it does not impede the public assistance for the currently admitted public assistance recipients. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 都道府県及び市町村の行う保護施設の設置及び廃止は、条例で定めなければならない。 art-40/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-40/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-40/par-4 The establishment and abolition of a public assistance facility by a prefecture or municipality shall be prescribed by an ordinance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-40/par-2: 地方独立行政法人法（平成十五年法律第百十八号）第二条第一項 → e-Gov law 415AC0000000118, 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 附則第八条第一項（生活保護法等の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-3601-90/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-3601-90/art-8/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 - This site's parser, version 210 — 生活保護法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19