# 生活保護法 / Public Assistance Act — 第八十一条の二 (Article 81-2) - 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: 第八十一条の二 (Article 81-2)（都道府県の援助等） — address `art-81-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-81-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81-2 - 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. 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. --- ### 第八十一条の二（都道府県の援助等） — Assistance of Prefectures caption: machine translation, not official art-81-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-81-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81-2 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、市町村長が行う医療扶助及び被保護者健康管理支援事業について、市町村の区域を超えた広域的な見地から調査、分析及び評価（以下この条において「調査等」という。）を行い、市町村長に対し、医療扶助の適正な実施及び被保護者健康管理支援事業の効果的かつ効率的な実施に関する技術的事項について、当該調査等に基づく情報の提供その他必要な援助を行うよう努めるものとする。 art-81-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-81-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81-2/par-1 A prefectural governor is to make efforts to conduct surveys, analyses and evaluations (hereinafter referred to as "survey, etc." in this Article) of medical assistance and the health management support programme for public assistance recipients conducted by municipal mayors, from a broad perspective beyond the areas of municipalities, and to provide municipal mayors with information based on that survey, etc. and other necessary assistance regarding technical matters concerning the appropriate implementation of medical assistance and the effective and efficient implementation of the health management support programme for public assistance recipients. machine translation, not official **第二項** 都道府県知事は、調査等の実施に関し必要があると認めるときは、市町村長に対し、必要な情報の提供を求めることができる。 art-81-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-81-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81-2/par-2 When a prefectural governor finds it necessary for the implementation of the survey, etc., the governor may request municipal mayors to provide necessary information. machine translation, not official **第三項** 厚生労働大臣は、都道府県知事が調査等を円滑に行うため必要な支援を行うものとする。 art-81-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-81-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81-2/par-3 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to provide the support necessary for a prefectural governor to conduct the survey, etc. smoothly. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-81-2/par-1: この条 → 生活保護法 第八十一条の二 (Article 81-2), art-81-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-81-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 生活保護法 第八十一条の二第一項（都道府県の援助等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-81-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81-2/par-1 - 生活保護法 第八十一条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-81-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81-3/par-1 - 生活保護法 第八十一条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/art-81-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/art-81-3/par-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-20261019T143855-007, translated 2026-10-20 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch public-assistance-act-20261019T143855-008, 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