# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第七十七条の二 (Article 77-2) - 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: 第七十七条の二 (Article 77-2) — address `art-77-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-77-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-77-2 - 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. --- ### 第七十七条の二 art-77-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-77-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-77-2 **第一項** 急迫の場合等において資力があるにもかかわらず、保護を受けた者があるとき（徴収することが適当でないときとして厚生労働省令で定めるときを除く。）は、保護に要する費用を支弁した都道府県又は市町村の長は、第六十三条の保護の実施機関の定める額の全部又は一部をその者から徴収することができる。 art-77-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-77-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-77-2/par-1 When there is a person who has received public assistance despite having resources, in a case such as an emergency (excluding cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as ones in which collection is not appropriate), the governor or mayor of the prefecture or municipality that has paid the expenses required for the public assistance may collect from that person all or part of the amount determined by the public assistance administrator under Article 63. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定による徴収金は、この法律に別段の定めがある場合を除き、国税徴収の例により徴収することができる。 art-77-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-77-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-77-2/par-2 Except as otherwise provided for in this Act, the amounts to be collected under the preceding paragraph may be collected according to the example of the collection of national taxes. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-77-2/par-1: 第六十三条 → 生活保護法 第六十三条 (Article 63), art-63 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-63 - art-77-2/par-2: 前項 → 生活保護法 第七十七条の二第一項 (Article 77-2, paragraph (1)), art-77-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-77-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-77-2/par-1 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-2 - 住民基本台帳法 別表第三 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-3 - 住民基本台帳法 別表第四 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-4 - 住民基本台帳法 別表第五第四十号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-5/item-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-5/item-40 - 生活保護法 第七十七条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-77-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-77-2/par-2 - 生活保護法 第七十八条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-78/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-78/par-4 - 生活保護法 第七十八条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-78-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-78-2/par-1 - 生活保護法 第七十八条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-78-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-78-2/par-2 - 生活保護法 第七十八条の二第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-78-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-78-2/par-3 - 生活保護法 附則第四条第一項（費用の徴収に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/suppl-4301-44/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/suppl-4301-44/art-4/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-20261019T143855-006, translated 2026-10-20 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch public-assistance-act-20261019T143855-007, 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