# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第八十七条 (Article 87) - 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: 第八十七条 (Article 87) — address `art-87` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-87 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-87 - 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. --- ### 第八十七条 art-87 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-87 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-87 **第一項** 法人（法人でない社団又は財団で代表者又は管理人の定めがあるもの（以下この条において「人格のない社団等」という。）を含む。以下この項において同じ。）の代表者（人格のない社団等の管理人を含む。）又は法人若しくは人の代理人、使用人その他の従業者が、その法人又は人の業務に関して、前二条の違反行為をしたときは、行為者を罰するほか、その法人又は人に対しても、各本条の罰金刑を科する。 art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-87/par-1 When a representative person of a juridical person (including an association or foundation without legal personality for which a representative person or administrator is provided (hereinafter referred to as an "association or foundation without legal personality" in this Article); the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) (including an administrator of an association or foundation without legal personality), or an agent, employee or other worker of a juridical person or individual, has committed a violation under the preceding two Articles in connection with the business of that juridical person or individual, in addition to punishing the offender, the fine prescribed in each respective Article shall also be imposed on that juridical person or individual. machine translation, not official **第二項** 人格のない社団等について前項の規定の適用がある場合においては、その代表者又は管理人がその訴訟行為につき当該人格のない社団等を代表するほか、法人を被告人又は被疑者とする場合の刑事訴訟に関する法律の規定を準用する。 art-87/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-87/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-87/par-2 If the provisions of the preceding paragraph apply to an association or foundation without legal personality, its representative person or administrator represents that association or foundation without legal personality with respect to the act of litigation, and the provisions of laws concerning criminal procedure that apply where a juridical person is the accused or a suspect apply mutatis mutandis. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-87/par-1: この条 → 生活保護法 第八十七条 (Article 87), art-87 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-87 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-87 - art-87/par-1: この項 → 生活保護法 第八十七条第一項 (Article 87, paragraph (1)), art-87/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-87/par-1 - art-87/par-1: 前二条 → 生活保護法 第八十五条の三 (Article 85-3), art-85-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-85-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-85-3 - art-87/par-1: 前二条 → 生活保護法 第八十六条 (Article 86), art-86 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-86 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-86 - art-87/par-2: 前項 → 生活保護法 第八十七条第一項 (Article 87, paragraph (1)), art-87/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-87/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 第八十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-87/par-1 - 生活保護法 第八十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/art-87/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-87/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