# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第八十一条の三 (Article 81-3) - 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: 第八十一条の三 (Article 81-3) — address `art-81-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-81-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81-3 - 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. --- ### 第八十一条の三 art-81-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-81-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81-3 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、前条第一項に規定するもののほか、市町村長に対し、保護並びに就労自立給付金及び進学・就職準備給付金の支給に関する事務の適正な実施のため、必要な助言その他の援助を行うことができる。 art-81-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-81-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81-3/par-1 In addition to what is prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, a prefectural governor may provide municipal mayors with necessary advice and other assistance for the appropriate implementation of affairs concerning public assistance and the payment of the benefit for employment and self-support and the school enrollment and job-search preparation benefit. machine translation, not official **第二項** 都道府県知事は、前条第一項及び前項に規定するもののほか、市町村長に対し、被保護者就労支援事業及び被保護者健康管理支援事業並びに子どもの進路選択支援事業、被保護者就労準備支援事業、被保護者家計改善支援事業及び被保護者地域居住支援事業の効果的かつ効率的な実施のため、必要な助言その他の援助を行うことができる。 art-81-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-81-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81-3/par-2 In addition to what is prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article and the preceding paragraph, a prefectural governor may provide municipal mayors with necessary advice and other assistance for the effective and efficient implementation of the employment support programme for public assistance recipients and the health management support programme for public assistance recipients, and the career path support programme for children, the employment preparation support programme for public assistance recipients, the household finance improvement support programme for public assistance recipients and the community living support programme for public assistance recipients. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-81-3/par-1: 前条第一項 → 生活保護法 第八十一条の二第一項 (Article 81-2, paragraph (1)), art-81-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-81-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81-2/par-1 - art-81-3/par-2: 前条第一項 → 生活保護法 第八十一条の二第一項 (Article 81-2, paragraph (1)), art-81-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-81-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81-2/par-1 - art-81-3/par-2: 前項 → 生活保護法 第八十一条の三第一項 (Article 81-3, paragraph (1)), art-81-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-81-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81-3/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 第八十一条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-81-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81-3/par-2 --- ## 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-20261019T143855-008, 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