# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第四十四条 (Article 44) - 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: 第四十四条 (Article 44)（報告の徴収及び立入検査） — address `art-44` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-44 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-44 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四十四条（報告の徴収及び立入検査） — (Collection of Reports and On-Site Inspections) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-44 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-44 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-44 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、保護施設の管理者に対して、その業務若しくは会計の状況その他必要と認める事項の報告を命じ、又は当該職員に、その施設に立ち入り、その管理者からその設備及び会計書類、診療録その他の帳簿書類（その作成又は保存に代えて電磁的記録（電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によつては認識することができない方式で作られる記録であつて、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるものをいう。）の作成又は保存がされている場合における当該電磁的記録を含む。以下同じ。）の閲覧及び説明を求めさせ、若しくはこれを検査させることができる。 art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-44/par-1 A prefectural governor may order the manager of a public assistance facility to report on the state of its operations or accounting or any other matters that are found to be necessary, or have a relevant official enter the facility, have him/her request the manager to allow the inspection of and provide a statement of explanation with regard to the equipment as well as accounting documents, medical records and any other books and documents (including electromagnetic records [which mean records prepared in an electronic form, magnetic form or any other form that cannot be recognized by human senses, and which are provided for use in information processing by computers] in the case where electromagnetic records have been prepared or preserved in lieu of the preparation or preservation of such books and documents; the same shall apply hereinafter), or have him/her carry out an inspection thereof. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第二十八条第三項及び第四項の規定は、前項の規定による立入検査について準用する。 art-44/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-44/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-44/par-2 The provisions of Article 28, paragraphs (3) and (4) shall apply mutatis mutandis to an on-site inspection under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-44/par-2: 第二十八条第三項 → 生活保護法 第二十八条第三項 (Article 28, paragraph (3)), art-28/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-28/par-3 - art-44/par-2: 第四項 → 生活保護法 第二十八条第四項 (Article 28, paragraph (4)), art-28/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-28/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-28/par-4 - art-44/par-2: 前項 → 生活保護法 第四十四条第一項 (Article 44, paragraph (1)), art-44/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-44/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 第四十四条第二項（報告の徴収及び立入検査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-44/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-44/par-2 - 生活保護法 第四十七条第四項（保護施設の義務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-47/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-47/par-4 - 生活保護法 第七十四条第二項（都道府県の補助） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-74/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-74/par-2 - 生活保護法 第八十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-86/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-20261019T143855-002, 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