# 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 — 第八条の三 (Article 8-3) - 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: 第八条の三 (Article 8-3)（福祉事務所による自立支援） — address `art-8-3` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-8-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-8-3 - 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. --- ### 第八条の三（福祉事務所による自立支援） — (Self-Reliance Support by Welfare Offices) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-8-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-8-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-8-3 **第一項** 社会福祉法（昭和二十六年法律第四十五号）に定める福祉に関する事務所（次条において「福祉事務所」という。）は、生活保護法（昭和二十五年法律第百四十四号）、児童福祉法（昭和二十二年法律第百六十四号）、母子及び父子並びに寡婦福祉法（昭和三十九年法律第百二十九号）その他の法令の定めるところにより、被害者の自立を支援するために必要な措置を講ずるよう努めなければならない。 art-8-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-8-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-8-3/par-1 Offices handling welfare affairs as prescribed by the Social Welfare Act (Act No. 45 of 1951) (referred to as "welfare offices" in the following Article) must endeavor to take any necessary measures to support victims to become self-reliant pursuant to the provisions of the Public Assistance Act (Act No. 144 of 1950), the Child Welfare Act (Act No. 164 of 1947), the Act on Welfare of Mothers with Dependents, Fathers with Dependents, and Widows (Act No. 129 of 1964), and other laws and regulations. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-8-3/par-1: 次条 → 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 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-9 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 第三条第三項第三号（配偶者暴力相談支援センター） — https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-3/item-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