# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第五十五条の九 (Article 55-9) - 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: 第五十五条の九 (Article 55-9)（被保護者健康管理支援事業の実施のための調査及び分析等） — address `art-55-9` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-9 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条の九（被保護者健康管理支援事業の実施のための調査及び分析等） — Surveys and Analyses, etc. for Implementation of the Health Management Support Programme for Public Assistance Recipients caption: machine translation, not official art-55-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-9 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、被保護者健康管理支援事業の実施に資するため、被保護者の年齢別及び地域別の疾病の動向その他被保護者の医療に関する情報について調査及び分析を行い、保護の実施機関に対して、当該調査及び分析の結果を提供するものとする。 art-55-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-9/par-1 In order to contribute to the implementation of the health management support programme for public assistance recipients, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to conduct surveys and analyses of information concerning the medical care of public assistance recipients, such as trends in illnesses of public assistance recipients by age and by region, and provide the results of those surveys and analyses to public assistance administrators. machine translation, not official **第二項** 保護の実施機関は、厚生労働大臣に対して、前項の規定による調査及び分析の実施に必要な情報を、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより提供しなければならない。 art-55-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-9/par-2 A public assistance administrator must provide the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, with the information necessary for carrying out the investigation and analysis under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official **第三項** 厚生労働大臣は、第一項の規定による調査及び分析に係る事務の一部を厚生労働省令で定める者に委託することができる。この場合において、厚生労働大臣は、委託を受けた者に対して、当該調査及び分析の実施に必要な範囲内において、当該調査及び分析に必要な情報を提供することができる。 art-55-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-9/par-3 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may entrust part of the affairs relating to the investigation and analysis under the provisions of paragraph (1) to a person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. In this case, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may provide the person so entrusted with the information necessary for that investigation and analysis, within the scope necessary for carrying out that investigation and analysis. machine translation, not official **第四項** 前項の規定による委託を受けた者若しくはその役員若しくは職員又はこれらの者であつた者は、その委託を受けた事務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。 art-55-9/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-9/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-9/par-4 A person entrusted under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, an officer or employee of such a person, or a person who formerly was any of them, must not divulge any secret learned in connection with the affairs so entrusted. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-55-9/par-2: 前項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の九第一項 (Article 55-9, paragraph (1)), art-55-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-9/par-1 - art-55-9/par-3: 第一項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の九第一項 (Article 55-9, paragraph (1)), art-55-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-9/par-1 - art-55-9/par-4: 前項 → 生活保護法 第五十五条の九第三項 (Article 55-9, paragraph (3)), art-55-9/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-9/par-3 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 第五十五条の九第二項（被保護者健康管理支援事業の実施のための調査及び分析等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-9/par-2 - 生活保護法 第五十五条の九第三項（被保護者健康管理支援事業の実施のための調査及び分析等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-9/par-3 - 生活保護法 第五十五条の九第四項（被保護者健康管理支援事業の実施のための調査及び分析等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-55-9/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-55-9/par-4 - 生活保護法 第八十五条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-85-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-85-2/par-1 --- ## 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-20261019T143855-004, translated 2026-10-20 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch public-assistance-act-20261019T143855-005, translated 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