# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第八十一条 (Article 81) - 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: 第八十一条 (Article 81)（後見人選任の請求） — address `art-81` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-81 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81 - 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. --- ### 第八十一条（後見人選任の請求） — (Request for Appointment of a Guardian) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81 **第一項** 被保護者が未成年者又は成年被後見人である場合において、親権者及び後見人の職務を行う者がないときは、保護の実施機関は、すみやかに、後見人の選任を家庭裁判所に請求しなければならない。 art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81/par-1 In the case where a public assistance recipient is a minor or an adult ward, if there is no person to perform the duty of a person who has parental authority or a guardian, a public assistance administrator shall promptly request a family court to appoint a guardian. 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 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 - This site's parser, version 210 — 生活保護法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19