# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第七十六条 (Article 76) - 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: 第七十六条 (Article 76)（遺留金品の処分） — address `art-76` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-76 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-76 - 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. --- ### 第七十六条（遺留金品の処分） — (Disposal of Money and Goods Left Behind) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-76 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-76 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-76 **第一項** 第十八条第二項の規定により葬祭扶助を行う場合においては、保護の実施機関は、その死者の遺留の金銭及び有価証券を保護費に充て、なお足りないときは、遺留の物品を売却してその代金をこれに充てることができる。 art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-76/par-1 In the case of providing funeral assistance pursuant to the provisions of Article 18, paragraph (2), a public assistance administrator may allocate the money and securities left behind by the deceased to public assistance expenses, and if this is still not sufficient, he/she may allocate the proceeds from selling the goods left behind to public assistance expenses. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 都道府県又は市町村は、前項の費用について、その遺留の物品の上に他の債権者の先取特権に対して優先権を有する。 art-76/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-76/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-76/par-2 A prefecture or municipality shall have a right of priority over the statutory liens of the other creditors for the goods left behind with regard to the expenses under the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-76/par-1: 第十八条第二項 → 生活保護法 第十八条第二項 (Article 18, paragraph (2)), art-18/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-18/par-2 - art-76/par-2: 前項 → 生活保護法 第七十六条第一項 (Article 76, paragraph (1)), art-76/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-76/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 第七十六条第二項（遺留金品の処分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-76/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-76/par-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