# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第七十九条 (Article 79) - 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: 第七十九条 (Article 79)（返還命令） — address `art-79` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-79 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-79 - 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. --- ### 第七十九条（返還命令） — (Order for Refund) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-79 **第一項** 国又は都道府県は、左に掲げる場合においては、補助金又は負担金の交付を受けた保護施設の設置者に対して、既に交付した補助金又は負担金の全部又は一部の返還を命ずることができる。 art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-79/par-1 In any of the following cases, the State or a prefecture may order the founder of a public assistance facility to whom a subsidy or contribution has been delivered to refund all or a part of the already delivered subsidy or contribution: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "In any of the following cases, the State or a prefecture may order the establisher of a public assistance facility to whom a subsidy or contribution has been delivered to refund all or a part of the already delivered subsidy or contribution:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/24/tb **一** 補助金又は負担金の交付条件に違反したとき。 art-79/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-79/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-79/par-1/item-1 When the establisher has violated the conditions for delivery of a subsidy or contribution Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 詐偽その他不正な手段をもつて、補助金又は負担金の交付を受けたとき。 art-79/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-79/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-79/par-1/item-2 When the establisher has received delivery of a subsidy or contribution by fraud or other wrongful means Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 保護施設の経営について、営利を図る行為があつたとき。 art-79/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-79/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-79/par-1/item-3 When there has been a profit-making act with regard to the management of the public assistance facility Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 保護施設が、この法律若しくはこれに基く命令又はこれらに基いてする処分に違反したとき。 art-79/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-79/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-79/par-1/item-4 When the public assistance facility has violated this Act, an order based on this Act, or a disposition based on this Act or such order Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 附則第十四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/suppl-3251-144/par-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-3251-144/par-14 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Public Assistance Act (生活保護法), Article 79, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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