# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第三十六条 (Article 36) - 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: 第三十六条 (Article 36)（生業扶助の方法） — address `art-36` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-36 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-36 - 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. --- ### 第三十六条（生業扶助の方法） — (Method of Occupational Assistance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-36 **第一項** 生業扶助は、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-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-36/par-1 Occupational 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, occupational assistance may be provided by way of performance in kind. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項但書に規定する現物給付のうち、就労のために必要な施設の供用及び生業に必要な技能の授与は、授産施設若しくは訓練を目的とするその他の施設を利用させ、又はこれらの施設にこれを委託して行うものとする。 art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-36/par-2 Out of performance in kind prescribed in the proviso to the preceding paragraph, use of a facility necessary for the employment and provision of the skills necessary for occupational assistance shall be provided by having the person requiring public assistance use a vocational facility or any other facility aimed at training, or by entrusting such assistance to such a facility. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 生業扶助のための保護金品は、被保護者に対して交付するものとする。但し、施設の供用又は技能の授与のために必要な金品は、授産施設の長に対して交付することができる。 art-36/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-36/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-36/par-3 The public assistance benefit for occupational assistance shall be delivered to the public assistance recipient; provided however, that the public assistance benefit necessary for the use of a facility or the provision of skills may be delivered to the head of a vocational facility. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-36/par-2: 前項 → 生活保護法 第三十六条第一項 (Article 36, paragraph (1)), art-36/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-36/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 第三十六条第二項（生業扶助の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-36/par-2 - 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