# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第三十七条 (Article 37) - 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: 第三十七条 (Article 37)（葬祭扶助の方法） — address `art-37` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-37 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-37 - 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. --- ### 第三十七条（葬祭扶助の方法） — (Method of Funeral Assistance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-37 **第一項** 葬祭扶助は、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-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-37/par-1 Funeral 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, funeral assistance may be provided by way of performance in kind. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 葬祭扶助のための保護金品は、葬祭を行う者に対して交付するものとする。 art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-37/par-2 The public assistance benefit for funeral assistance shall be delivered to the person conducting the funeral. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 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