# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第五十五条の十一 (Article 55-11) - 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: 第五十五条の十一 (Article 55-11)（特定被保護者対象事業の利用） — address `art-55-11` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-11 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-11 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条の十一（特定被保護者対象事業の利用） — Use of Programmes for Specified Public Assistance Recipients caption: machine translation, not official art-55-11 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-11 **第一項** 保護の実施機関は、被保護者であつて、その状況に照らして将来的に保護を必要としなくなることが相当程度見込まれる者その他の厚生労働省令で定める者に該当すると認められるもの（以下この条において「特定被保護者」という。）について、その氏名その他必要な事項を特定被保護者対象事業（生活困窮者自立支援法第三条第四項に規定する生活困窮者就労準備支援事業、同条第五項に規定する生活困窮者家計改善支援事業又は同条第六項に規定する生活困窮者居住支援事業（同項第二号に係る部分に限る。）をいう。第三項において同じ。）を実施する同法第四条第三項に規定する都道府県等に通知することができる。 art-55-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-11/par-1 A public assistance administrator may notify the prefecture, etc. prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (3) of the Act on Self-Reliance Support for Persons in Need that carries out a programme for specified public assistance recipients (meaning the employment preparation support programme for persons in need prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (4) of the Act on Self-Reliance Support for Persons in Need, the household finance improvement support programme for persons in need prescribed in paragraph (5) of that Article, or the housing support programme for persons in need prescribed in paragraph (6) of that Article (limited to the part relating to item (ii) of that paragraph); the same applies in paragraph (3)) of the name and other necessary particulars of a public assistance recipient who is found to be a person for whom it is considerably expected, in light of his/her circumstances, that he/she will no longer need public assistance in the future, or to be any other person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (hereinafter in this Article referred to as a "specified public assistance recipient"). machine translation, not official **第二項** 保護の実施機関は、前項の規定による通知を行つた場合は、その旨を当該通知に係る特定被保護者に速やかに通知するものとする。 art-55-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-11/par-2 If a public assistance administrator has given notification under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the administrator is to promptly notify the specified public assistance recipient to whom that notification relates to that effect. machine translation, not official **第三項** 保護の実施機関は、特定被保護者が特定被保護者対象事業を利用する場合においては、その利用の状況を把握するとともに、自ら当該特定被保護者の自立を助長するために必要な措置を講じなければならない。 art-55-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-11/par-3 In the case where a specified public assistance recipient uses a programme for specified public assistance recipients, a public assistance administrator must ascertain the status of that use and must itself take the measures necessary to promote the self-support of that specified public assistance recipient. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-55-11/par-1: この条 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の十一 (Article 55-11), art-55-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-11 - art-55-11/par-1: 生活困窮者自立支援法第三条第四項 → e-Gov law 425AC0000000105, 第三条第四項 (Article 3, paragraph (4)), art-3/par-4 — not held in this collection - art-55-11/par-1: 同条第五項 → e-Gov law 425AC0000000105, 第三条第五項 (Article 3, paragraph (5)), art-3/par-5 — not held in this collection - art-55-11/par-1: 同条第六項 → e-Gov law 425AC0000000105, 第三条第六項 (Article 3, paragraph (6)), art-3/par-6 — not held in this collection - art-55-11/par-1: 同項第二号 → e-Gov law 425AC0000000105, 第三条第六項第二号 (Article 3, paragraph (6), item (ii)), art-3/par-6/item-2 — not held in this collection - art-55-11/par-1: 第三項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の十一第三項 (Article 55-11, paragraph (3)), art-55-11/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-11/par-3 - art-55-11/par-1: 同法第四条第三項 → e-Gov law 425AC0000000105, 第四条第三項 (Article 4, paragraph (3)), art-4/par-3 — not held in this collection - art-55-11/par-2: 前項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の十一第一項 (Article 55-11, paragraph (1)), art-55-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-11/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 第五十五条の十一第一項（特定被保護者対象事業の利用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-11/par-1 - 生活保護法 第五十五条の十一第二項（特定被保護者対象事業の利用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-11/par-2 --- ## 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-20261019T143855-005, translated 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch public-assistance-act-20261019T143855-005, 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