# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第四十二条 (Article 42) - 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: 第四十二条 (Article 42)（社会福祉法人及び日本赤十字社の保護施設の休止又は廃止） — address `art-42` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-42 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-42 - 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. --- ### 第四十二条（社会福祉法人及び日本赤十字社の保護施設の休止又は廃止） — (Suspension of Operations or Abolition of Public Assistance Facilities of Social Welfare Juridical Persons or the Japanese Red Cross Society) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-42 **第一項** 社会福祉法人又は日本赤十字社は、保護施設を休止し、又は廃止しようとするときは、あらかじめ、その理由、現に入所中の被保護者に対する措置及び財産の処分方法を明らかにし、かつ、第七十条、第七十二条又は第七十四条の規定により交付を受けた交付金又は補助金に残余額があるときは、これを返還して、休止又は廃止の時期について都道府県知事の認可を受けなければならない。 art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-42/par-1 When a social welfare juridical person or the Japanese Red Cross Society intends to suspend the operations of or abolish a public assistance facility, it shall obtain the approval of the prefectural governor in advance with regard to the time of the suspension or abolition, by clarifying the reasons therefor, the measures to be taken for the currently admitted public assistance recipients, and the method of disposing of property, and refunding the remainder of grants or subsidies that have been delivered pursuant to the provisions of Article 70, Article 72 or Article 74, if any. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-42/par-1: 第七十条 → 生活保護法 第七十条 (Article 70), art-70 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-70 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-70 - art-42/par-1: 第七十二条 → 生活保護法 第七十二条 (Article 72), art-72 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-72 - art-42/par-1: 第七十四条 → 生活保護法 第七十四条 (Article 74), art-74 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-74 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-74 ## 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 - This site's parser, version 210 — 生活保護法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19