# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第八十条の三 (Article 80-3) - 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: 第八十条の三 (Article 80-3)（報告及び検査） — address `art-80-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-80-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-80-3 - 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. --- ### 第八十条の三（報告及び検査） — Reports and Inspections caption: machine translation, not official art-80-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-80-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-80-3 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、前条第五項及び第六項の規定による措置に関し必要があると認めるときは、その必要と認められる範囲内において、同条第三項若しくは第四項の規定に違反していると認めるに足りる相当の理由がある者に対し、必要な事項に関し報告を求め、又は当該職員に当該者の事務所若しくは事業所に立ち入つて質問させ、若しくは帳簿書類その他の物件を検査させることができる。 art-80-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-80-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-80-3/par-1 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary in relation to the measures under paragraphs (5) and (6) of the preceding Article, the Minister may, within the extent found necessary, request a person for whom there are reasonable grounds to find that the person is in violation of paragraph (3) or (4) of that Article to make a report on necessary matters, or may have personnel enter the office or business office of that person and question the person concerned or inspect the books and other documents or other articles. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第二十八条第三項の規定は前項の規定による質問又は検査について、同条第四項の規定は前項の規定による権限について、それぞれ準用する。 art-80-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-80-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-80-3/par-2 The provisions of Article 28, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to questions or inspections under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of paragraph (4) of that Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, respectively. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-80-3/par-1: 前条第五項 → 生活保護法 第八十条の二第五項 (Article 80-2, paragraph (5)), art-80-2/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-80-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-80-2/par-5 - art-80-3/par-1: 第六項 → 生活保護法 第八十条の二第六項 (Article 80-2, paragraph (6)), art-80-2/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-80-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-80-2/par-6 - art-80-3/par-1: 同条第三項 → 生活保護法 第八十条の二第三項 (Article 80-2, paragraph (3)), art-80-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-80-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-80-2/par-3 - art-80-3/par-1: 第四項 → 生活保護法 第八十条の二第四項 (Article 80-2, paragraph (4)), art-80-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-80-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-80-2/par-4 - art-80-3/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-80-3/par-2: 前項 → 生活保護法 第八十条の三第一項 (Article 80-3, paragraph (1)), art-80-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-80-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-80-3/par-1 - art-80-3/par-2: 同条第四項 → 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 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 第八十条の三第二項（報告及び検査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-80-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-80-3/par-2 - 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 --- ## 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-20261019T143855-007, 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