# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第七十三条 (Article 73) - 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: 第七十三条 (Article 73)（都道府県の負担） — address `art-73` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-73 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-73 - 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. --- ### 第七十三条（都道府県の負担） — (Expenses Borne by Prefectures) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-73 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-73 **第一項** 都道府県は、政令で定めるところにより、次に掲げる費用を負担しなければならない。 art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-73/par-1 A prefecture shall bear the following expenses pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order: machine translation, not official **一** 居住地がないか、又は明らかでない被保護者につき市町村が支弁した保護費、保護施設事務費及び委託事務費の四分の一 art-73/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-73/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-73/par-1/item-1 A quarter of the amount of the public assistance expenses, office expenses for a public assistance facility, and office expenses for entrustment paid by a municipality for a public assistance recipient who does not have a place of residence or whose place of residence is unclear Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 宿所提供施設又は児童福祉法（昭和二十二年法律第百六十四号）第三十八条に規定する母子生活支援施設（第四号において「母子生活支援施設」という。）にある被保護者（これらの施設を利用するに至る前からその施設の所在する市町村の区域内に居住地を有していた被保護者を除く。同号において同じ。）につきこれらの施設の所在する市町村が支弁した保護費、保護施設事務費及び委託事務費の四分の一 art-73/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-73/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-73/par-1/item-2 A quarter of the amount of the public assistance expenses, office expenses for a public assistance facility, and office expenses for entrustment paid for a public assistance recipient in a facility providing accommodation or a maternal and child living support facility prescribed in Article 38 of the Child Welfare Act (Act No. 164 of 1947) (referred to as a "maternal and child living support facility" in item (iv); excluding a public assistance recipient who has had a place of residence within the district of the municipality where said facility is located since prior to the start of his/her use of said facility; the same applies in that item) by the municipality where said facility is located machine translation, not official **三** 居住地がないか、又は明らかでない被保護者につき市町村が支弁した就労自立給付金費（就労自立給付金の支給に要する費用をいう。以下同じ。）及び進学・就職準備給付金費（進学・就職準備給付金の支給に要する費用をいう。以下同じ。）の四分の一 art-73/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-73/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-73/par-1/item-3 A quarter of the amount of the expenses for the benefit for employment and self-support (meaning expenses required for the payment of the benefit for employment and self-support; the same applies hereinafter) and the expenses for the school enrollment and job-search preparation benefit (meaning expenses required for the payment of the school enrollment and job-search preparation benefit; the same applies hereinafter) paid by a municipality for a public assistance recipient who does not have a place of residence or whose place of residence is unclear machine translation, not official **四** 宿所提供施設又は母子生活支援施設にある被保護者につきこれらの施設の所在する市町村が支弁した就労自立給付金費及び進学・就職準備給付金費の四分の一 art-73/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-73/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-73/par-1/item-4 A quarter of the amount of the expenses for the benefit for employment and self-support and the expenses for the school enrollment and job-search preparation benefit paid for a public assistance recipient in a facility providing accommodation or a maternal and child living support facility by the municipality where said facilities are located machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-73/par-1/item-2: 児童福祉法（昭和二十二年法律第百六十四号）第三十八条 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000164, 第三十八条 (Article 38), art-38 — not held in this collection - art-73/par-1/item-2: 第四号 → 生活保護法 第七十三条第一項第四号 (Article 73, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-73/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-73/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-73/par-1/item-4 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 第七十三条第一項第二号（都道府県の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-73/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-73/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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-20261019T143855-006, 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