# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第五十五条の七 (Article 55-7) - 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: 第五十五条の七 (Article 55-7)（被保護者就労支援事業） — address `art-55-7` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-7 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条の七（被保護者就労支援事業） — Employment Support Programme for Public Assistance Recipients caption: machine translation, not official art-55-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-7 **第一項** 保護の実施機関は、就労の支援に関する問題につき、被保護者からの相談に応じ、必要な情報の提供及び助言を行う事業（第五十五条の十第一項第一号に規定する子どもの進路選択支援事業に該当するものを除く。以下「被保護者就労支援事業」という。）を実施するものとする。 art-55-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-7/par-1 A public assistance administrator is to implement a programme (excluding one that falls under the career path support programme for children prescribed in Article 55-10, paragraph (1), item (i); hereinafter referred to as the "employment support programme for public assistance recipients") that responds to consultations from public assistance recipients on problems concerning employment support and provides necessary information and advice. machine translation, not official **第二項** 保護の実施機関は、被保護者就労支援事業の事務の全部又は一部を当該保護の実施機関以外の厚生労働省令で定める者に委託することができる。 art-55-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-7/par-2 A public assistance administrator may entrust all or part of the affairs of the employment support programme for public assistance recipients to a person other than that public assistance administrator who is specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項の規定による委託を受けた者若しくはその役員若しくは職員又はこれらの者であつた者は、その委託を受けた事務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。 art-55-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-7/par-3 A person entrusted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, or an officer or employee thereof, or a person who was any of these, must not divulge any secret learned in relation to the affairs entrusted to them. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-55-7/par-1: 第五十五条の十第一項第一号 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の十第一項第一号 (Article 55-10, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-55-10/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-10/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-10/par-1/item-1 - art-55-7/par-3: 前項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の七第二項 (Article 55-7, paragraph (2)), art-55-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-7/par-2 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 第二十七条の二第一項（相談及び助言） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-27-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-27-2/par-1 - 生活保護法 第二十七条の三第一項（調整会議） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-27-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-27-3/par-1 - 生活保護法 第五十五条の七第三項（被保護者就労支援事業） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-7/par-3 - 生活保護法 第五十五条の八第三項（被保護者健康管理支援事業） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-8/par-3 - 生活保護法 第五十五条の十第二項（子どもの進路選択支援事業等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-55-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-10/par-2 - 生活保護法 第七十条第一項第六号（市町村の支弁） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-70/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-70/par-1/item-6 - 生活保護法 第七十一条第一項第六号（都道府県の支弁） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-71/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-71/par-1/item-6 - 生活保護法 第八十五条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-85-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-85-2/par-1 --- ## 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-20261019T143855-004, 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