# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第七十二条 (Article 72) - 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: 第七十二条 (Article 72)（繰替支弁） — address `art-72` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-72 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-72 - 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. --- ### 第七十二条（繰替支弁） — (Diversion of Funds) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-72 **第一項** 都道府県、市及び福祉事務所を設置する町村は、政令の定めるところにより、その長の管理に属する福祉事務所の所管区域内の保護施設、指定医療機関その他これらに準ずる施設で厚生労働大臣の指定するものにある被保護者につき他の都道府県又は市町村が支弁すべき保護費及び保護施設事務費を一時繰替支弁しなければならない。 art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-72/par-1 A prefecture, city, or a town or village with a welfare office shall, pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order, temporarily divert funds to cover the public assistance expenses and office expenses for a public assistance facility to be paid by another prefecture or municipality to a public assistance recipient in a public assistance facility, designated medical care provider or a facility equivalent thereto, which is designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, within the jurisdictional district of the welfare office under the management of the governor or mayor. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 都道府県、市及び福祉事務所を設置する町村は、その長が第十九条第二項の規定により行う保護（同条第五項の規定により委託を受けて行う保護を含む。）に関する保護費、保護施設事務費及び委託事務費を一時繰替支弁しなければならない。 art-72/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-72/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-72/par-2 A prefecture, city, or a town or village with a welfare office shall divert funds temporarily to cover the public assistance expenses, office expenses for a public assistance facility, and office expenses for entrustment concerning public assistance provided by the governor or mayor pursuant to the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (2) (including public assistance provided by being entrusted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (5) of the same Article). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 町村は、その長が第十九条第六項の規定により行う保護に関する保護費、保護施設事務費及び委託事務費を一時繰替支弁しなければならない。 art-72/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-72/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-72/par-3 A town or village shall divert funds temporarily to cover the public assistance expenses, office expenses for a public assistance facility, and office expenses for entrustment concerning public assistance provided by the mayor pursuant to the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (6) Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-72/par-2: 第十九条第二項 → 生活保護法 第十九条第二項 (Article 19, paragraph (2)), art-19/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-19/par-2 - art-72/par-2: 同条第五項 → 生活保護法 第十九条第五項 (Article 19, paragraph (5)), art-19/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-19/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-19/par-5 - art-72/par-3: 第十九条第六項 → 生活保護法 第十九条第六項 (Article 19, paragraph (6)), art-19/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-19/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-19/par-6 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 第四十二条第一項（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） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-42/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 - This site's parser, version 210 — 生活保護法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19