# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第五十四条 (Article 54) - 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: 第五十四条 (Article 54)（報告等） — address `art-54` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-54 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-54 - 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. --- ### 第五十四条（報告等） — Reports caption: machine translation, not official art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-54 **第一項** 都道府県知事（厚生労働大臣の指定に係る指定医療機関については、厚生労働大臣又は都道府県知事）は、医療扶助に関して必要があると認めるときは、指定医療機関若しくは指定医療機関の開設者若しくは管理者、医師、薬剤師その他の従業者であつた者（以下この項において「開設者であつた者等」という。）に対して、必要と認める事項の報告若しくは診療録、帳簿書類その他の物件の提出若しくは提示を命じ、指定医療機関の開設者若しくは管理者、医師、薬剤師その他の従業者（開設者であつた者等を含む。）に対し出頭を求め、又は当該職員に、関係者に対して質問させ、若しくは当該指定医療機関について実地に、その設備若しくは診療録、帳簿書類その他の物件を検査させることができる。 art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-54/par-1 A prefectural governor (the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or a prefectural governor, in the case of a designated medical care provider designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare) may, when finding it necessary with regard to medical assistance, order a designated medical care provider, or a person who was the establisher, administrator, doctor, pharmacist or other worker of a designated medical care provider (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as a "former establisher, etc."), to report on matters found necessary or to submit or present clinical records, books and documents or other articles, request the establisher, administrator, doctor, pharmacist or other worker of a designated medical care provider (including a former establisher, etc.) to appear, or have a relevant official question persons concerned, or inspect on-site at the designated medical care provider its equipment or clinical records, books and documents or other articles. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第二十八条第三項及び第四項の規定は、前項の規定による検査について準用する。 art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-54/par-2 The provisions of Article 28, paragraphs (3) and (4) shall apply mutatis mutandis to an inspection under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-54/par-1: この項 → 生活保護法 第五十四条第一項 (Article 54, paragraph (1)), art-54/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-54/par-1 - art-54/par-2: 第二十八条第三項 → 生活保護法 第二十八条第三項 (Article 28, paragraph (3)), art-28/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-28/par-3 - art-54/par-2: 第四項 → 生活保護法 第二十八条第四項 (Article 28, paragraph (4)), art-28/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-28/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-28/par-4 - art-54/par-2: 前項 → 生活保護法 第五十四条第一項 (Article 54, paragraph (1)), art-54/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-54/par-1 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 第四十九条の二第二項第六号（指定の申請及び基準） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-49-2/par-2/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-49-2/par-2/item-6 - 生活保護法 第五十一条第二項第五号（指定の辞退及び取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-51/par-2/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-51/par-2/item-5 - 生活保護法 第五十一条第二項第六号（指定の辞退及び取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-51/par-2/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-51/par-2/item-6 - 生活保護法 第五十四条第一項（報告等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-54/par-1 - 生活保護法 第五十四条第二項（報告等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-54/par-2 - 生活保護法 第五十四条の二第五項（介護機関の指定等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-54-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-54-2/par-5 - 生活保護法 第五十四条の二第六項（介護機関の指定等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-54-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-54-2/par-6 - 生活保護法 第五十五条第二項（助産機関及び施術機関の指定等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55/par-2 - 生活保護法 第八十四条の四第一項（緊急時における厚生労働大臣の事務執行） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-84-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-84-4/par-1 - 生活保護法 第八十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-86/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-86/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-20261019T143855-003, 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