# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第七十七条 (Article 77) - 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: 第七十七条 (Article 77)（費用等の徴収） — address `art-77` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-77 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-77 - 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. --- ### 第七十七条（費用等の徴収） — Collection of Expenses, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-77 **第一項** 被保護者に対して民法の規定により扶養の義務を履行しなければならない者があるときは、その義務の範囲内において、保護費を支弁した都道府県又は市町村の長は、その費用の全部又は一部を、その者から徴収することができる。 art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-77/par-1 When there is a person who must perform a duty of support for a public assistance recipient pursuant to the provisions of the Civil Code, the governor or mayor of the prefecture or municipality that has paid the public assistance expenses may collect all or a part of said expenses from said person within the scope of his/her duty. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合において、扶養義務者の負担すべき額について、保護の実施機関と扶養義務者の間に協議が調わないとき、又は協議をすることができないときは、保護の実施機関の申立により家庭裁判所が、これを定める。 art-77/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-77/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-77/par-2 In the case under the preceding paragraph, if the public assistance administrator and the person responsible for support fail to reach an agreement by a conference or are unable to hold a conference with regard to the amount to be borne by the person responsible for support, a family court shall decide on the amount following a motion by the public assistance administrator. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-77/par-2: 前項 → 生活保護法 第七十七条第一項 (Article 77, paragraph (1)), art-77/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-77/par-1 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-2 - 住民基本台帳法 別表第三 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-3 - 住民基本台帳法 別表第四 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-4 - 住民基本台帳法 別表第五第四十号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-5/item-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-5/item-40 - 生活保護法 第二十八条第一項（報告、調査及び検診） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-28/par-1 - 生活保護法 第二十八条第二項（報告、調査及び検診） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-28/par-2 - 生活保護法 第二十九条第一項（資料の提供等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-29/par-1 - 生活保護法 第七十七条第二項（費用等の徴収） — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-77/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-77/par-2 - 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-20261019T143855-006, 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