# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第三十三条 (Article 33) - 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: 第三十三条 (Article 33)（住宅扶助の方法） — address `art-33` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-33 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-33 - 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. --- ### 第三十三条（住宅扶助の方法） — (Method of Housing Assistance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-33 **第一項** 住宅扶助は、金銭給付によつて行うものとする。但し、これによることができないとき、これによることが適当でないとき、その他保護の目的を達するために必要があるときは、現物給付によつて行うことができる。 art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-33/par-1 Housing assistance shall be provided by way of performance in money; provided, however, that when this method cannot be used, when it is not appropriate to use this method, or when it is necessary in order to achieve the purpose of public assistance, housing assistance may be provided by way of performance in kind. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 住宅扶助のうち、住居の現物給付は、宿所提供施設を利用させ、又は宿所提供施設にこれを委託して行うものとする。 art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-33/par-2 Out of the housing assistance, residence as performance in kind shall be provided by having the public assistance recipient use a facility providing accommodation or by entrusting such actions to a facility providing accommodation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第三十条第二項の規定は、前項の場合に準用する。 art-33/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-33/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-33/par-3 The provisions of Article 30, paragraph (2) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the case under the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 住宅扶助のための保護金品は、世帯主又はこれに準ずる者に対して交付するものとする。 art-33/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-33/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-33/par-4 The public assistance benefit for housing assistance shall be delivered to the householder or a person equivalent thereto. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-33/par-3: 第三十条第二項 → 生活保護法 第三十条第二項 (Article 30, paragraph (2)), art-30/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-30/par-2 - art-33/par-3: 前項 → 生活保護法 第三十三条第二項 (Article 33, paragraph (2)), art-33/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-33/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 第三十七条の二第一項（保護の方法の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-37-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-37-2/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 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 - This site's parser, version 210 — 生活保護法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19