# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第三十条 (Article 30) - 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: 第三十条 (Article 30)（生活扶助の方法） — address `art-30` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-30 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-30 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十条（生活扶助の方法） — (Method of Livelihood Assistance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-30 **第一項** 生活扶助は、被保護者の居宅において行うものとする。ただし、これによることができないとき、これによつては保護の目的を達しがたいとき、又は被保護者が希望したときは、被保護者を救護施設、更生施設、日常生活支援住居施設（社会福祉法第二条第三項第八号に規定する事業の用に供する施設その他の施設であつて、被保護者に対する日常生活上の支援の実施に必要なものとして厚生労働省令で定める要件に該当すると都道府県知事が認めたものをいう。第六十二条第一項及び第七十条第一号ハにおいて同じ。）若しくはその他の適当な施設に入所させ、若しくはこれらの施設に入所を委託し、又は私人の家庭に養護を委託して行うことができる。 art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-30/par-1 Livelihood assistance shall be provided at the home of a public assistance recipient; provided, however, that, when this method cannot be used, when it is difficult to achieve the purpose of public assistance by this method, or when the public assistance recipient has so desired, public assistance may be provided by having the public assistance recipient admitted into a relief facility, a rehabilitation facility, a residential facility for daily living support (meaning a facility used for the project prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3), item (viii) of the Social Welfare Act or any other facility that a prefectural governor has found to satisfy the requirements specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as necessary for the provision of support in daily life to public assistance recipients; the same applies in Article 62, paragraph (1) and Article 70, item (i), (c)) or any other appropriate facility, or entrusting such admission into any such facility, or entrusting nursing care to the home of a private individual. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項ただし書の規定は、被保護者の意に反して、入所又は養護を強制することができるものと解釈してはならない。 art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-30/par-2 The provisions of the proviso to the preceding paragraph shall not be interpreted as those that are able to force admission into a facility or provision of nursing care against the will of a public assistance recipient. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 保護の実施機関は、被保護者の親権者又は後見人がその権利を適切に行わない場合においては、その異議があつても、家庭裁判所の許可を得て、第一項但書の措置をとることができる。 art-30/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-30/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-30/par-3 A public assistance administrator may, in the case where a person who has parental authority or is a guardian for a public assistance recipient fails to exercise his/her rights appropriately, take one of the measures under the proviso to paragraph (1) by obtaining the permission of a family court, even if said person objects to it. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-30/par-1: 社会福祉法第二条第三項第八号 → e-Gov law 326AC0000000045, 第二条第三項第八号 (Article 2, paragraph (3), item (viii)), art-2/par-3/item-8 — not held in this collection - art-30/par-1: 第六十二条第一項 → 生活保護法 第六十二条第一項 (Article 62, paragraph (1)), art-62/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-62/par-1 - art-30/par-1: 第七十条第一号 → 生活保護法 第七十条第一項第一号 (Article 70, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-70/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-70/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-70/par-1/item-1 - art-30/par-2: 前項 → 生活保護法 第三十条第一項 (Article 30, paragraph (1)), art-30/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-30/par-1 - art-30/par-3: 第一項 → 生活保護法 第三十条第一項 (Article 30, paragraph (1)), art-30/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-30/par-1 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 児童手当法 第三条第三項第五号（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-3/par-3/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-3/par-3/item-5 - 生活保護法 第十九条第三項（実施機関） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-19/par-3 - 生活保護法 第三十条第二項（生活扶助の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-30/par-2 - 生活保護法 第三十条第三項（生活扶助の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-30/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-30/par-3 - 生活保護法 第三十一条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-31/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-31/par-5 - 生活保護法 第三十三条第三項（住宅扶助の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-33/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-33/par-3 - 生活保護法 第六十二条第一項（指示等に従う義務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-62/par-1 - 生活保護法 第七十条第一項第一号ロ（市町村の支弁） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-70/par-1/item-1/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-70/par-1/item-1/sub-2 - 生活保護法 第七十条第一項第一号ハ（市町村の支弁） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-70/par-1/item-1/sub-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-70/par-1/item-1/sub-3 - 生活保護法 第八十四条の三第一項（保護の実施機関についての特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-84-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-84-3/par-1 - 生活保護法 別表第三 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch public-assistance-act-20261019T143855-001, 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