# 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 / Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims — 第八条の二 (Article 8-2) - Law: 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 (Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims), 平成十三年法律第三十一号 - English title "Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims": 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: 第八条の二 (Article 8-2)（警察本部長等の援助） — address `art-8-2` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-8-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-8-2 - 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. --- ### 第八条の二（警察本部長等の援助） — (Assistance by the Chief of the Prefectural Police Headquarters) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-8-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-8-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-8-2 **第一項** 警視総監若しくは道府県警察本部長（道警察本部の所在地を包括する方面を除く方面については、方面本部長。第十五条第三項において同じ。）又は警察署長は、配偶者からの暴力を受けている者から、配偶者からの暴力による被害を自ら防止するための援助を受けたい旨の申出があり、その申出を相当と認めるときは、当該配偶者からの暴力を受けている者に対し、国家公安委員会規則で定めるところにより、当該被害を自ら防止するための措置の教示その他配偶者からの暴力による被害の発生を防止するために必要な援助を行うものとする。 art-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-8-2/par-1 If a request is received from a person subjected to spousal violence for assistance in personally preventing harm from spousal violence, and if that request is found to be reasonable, pursuant to the provisions of the Rules of the National Public Safety Commission, the Superintendent General of the Metropolitan Police Department, the chief of prefectural police headquarters (or the chief of area headquarters for an area that does not include the location of the Hokkaido Prefectural Police Headquarters; the same applies in Article 15, paragraph (3)), or the chief of a police station is to advise the person subjected to spousal violence on measures to personally prevent the harm and offer other necessary assistance to prevent the person from suffering harm from spousal violence. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-8-2/par-1: 第十五条第三項 → 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第十五条第三項 (Article 15, paragraph (3)), art-15/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-15/par-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/413AC0100000031/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4476/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - This site's parser, version 189 — 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10