# 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 / Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims — 第三条 (Article 3) - Law: 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 (Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims), 平成十三年法律第三十一号 - English title "Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims": 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: 第三条 (Article 3)（配偶者暴力相談支援センター） — address `art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三条（配偶者暴力相談支援センター） — (Spousal Violence Counseling and Support Centers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3 **第一項** 都道府県は、当該都道府県が設置する女性相談支援センターその他の適切な施設において、当該各施設が配偶者暴力相談支援センターとしての機能を果たすようにするものとする。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-1 Prefectures are to ensure that women's counseling and support centers and other appropriate facilities they have established function as spousal violence counseling and support centers. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 市町村は、当該市町村が設置する適切な施設において、当該各施設が配偶者暴力相談支援センターとしての機能を果たすようにするよう努めるものとする。 art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-2 Municipalities are to endeavor to ensure that appropriate facilities they have established function as spousal violence counseling and support centers. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 配偶者暴力相談支援センターは、配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護のため、次に掲げる業務を行うものとする。 art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-3 In order to prevent spousal violence and protect victims, spousal violence counseling and support centers are to undertake the following activities: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 被害者に関する各般の問題について、相談に応ずること又は女性相談支援員若しくは相談を行う機関を紹介すること。 art-3/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-3/item-1 providing victims with counseling regarding the various problems affecting them or introducing them to women's counseling and support officers or organizations that provide the counseling; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 被害者の心身の健康を回復させるため、医学的又は心理学的な指導その他の必要な指導を行うこと。 art-3/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-3/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-3/item-2 providing victims with medical or psychological guidance or other required guidance in order to help them with their psychological and physical recovery; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 被害者（被害者がその家族を同伴する場合にあっては、被害者及びその同伴する家族。次号、第六号、第五条、第八条の三及び第九条において同じ。）の緊急時における安全の確保及び一時保護を行うこと。 art-3/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-3/item-3 securing safety in an emergency and providing temporary protection for victims (when a victim is accompanied by family members, for the family members as well as the victim; the same applies in the following item, item (vi), Article 5, Article 8-3, and Article 9); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 被害者が自立して生活することを促進するため、就業の促進、住宅の確保、援護等に関する制度の利用等について、情報の提供、助言、関係機関との連絡調整その他の援助を行うこと。 art-3/par-3/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-3/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-3/item-4 providing information, advice, and liaison and coordination with relevant organizations, as well as other forms of assistance, concerning measures including employment promotion, housing procurement, and the use of systems for social assistance in order to facilitate independent living for victims; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **五** 第四章に定める保護命令の制度の利用について、情報の提供、助言、関係機関への連絡その他の援助を行うこと。 art-3/par-3/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-3/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-3/item-5 providing information, advice, and liaison with relevant organizations, as well as other forms of assistance concerning the use of the protection order system prescribed in Chapter IV; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **六** 被害者を居住させ保護する施設の利用について、情報の提供、助言、関係機関との連絡調整その他の援助を行うこと。 art-3/par-3/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-3/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-3/item-6 providing information, advice, and liaison and coordination with relevant organizations, as well as other forms of assistance concerning the use of facilities for housing and protecting victims. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 前項第三号の一時保護は、女性相談支援センターが、自ら行い、又は厚生労働大臣が定める基準を満たす者に委託して行うものとする。 art-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-4 Temporary protection referred to in item (iii) of the preceding paragraph is to be provided directly by women's counseling and support centers or entrusted to parties that meet criteria specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 前項の規定による委託を受けた者若しくはその役員若しくは職員又はこれらの者であった者は、正当な理由がなく、その委託を受けた業務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。 art-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-5 Parties currently or previously entrusted under the provisions of the preceding paragraph or their current or former officers or employees must not divulge any secret learned in the course of those entrusted duties, without legitimate grounds for doing so. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第六項** 配偶者暴力相談支援センターは、その業務を行うに当たっては、必要に応じ、配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護を図るための活動を行う民間の団体との連携に努めるものとする。 art-3/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-6 In performing their duties, spousal violence counseling and support centers are to endeavor to collaborate, as required, with private-sector organizations that are engaged in activities to prevent spousal violence and protect victims. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-3/par-3/item-3: 次号 → 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第三条第三項第四号 (Article 3, paragraph (3), item (iv)), art-3/par-3/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-3/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-3/item-4 - art-3/par-3/item-3: 第六号 → 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第三条第三項第六号 (Article 3, paragraph (3), item (vi)), art-3/par-3/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-3/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-3/item-6 - art-3/par-3/item-3: 第五条 → 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第五条 (Article 5), art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-5 - art-3/par-3/item-3: 第八条の三 → 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第八条の三 (Article 8-3), art-8-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-8-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-8-3 - art-3/par-3/item-3: 第九条 → 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-9 - art-3/par-4: 前項第三号 → 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第三条第三項第三号 (Article 3, paragraph (3), item (iii)), art-3/par-3/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-3/item-3 - art-3/par-5: 前項 → 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第三条第四項 (Article 3, paragraph (4)), art-3/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-4 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第三条第三項第三号（配偶者暴力相談支援センター） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-3/item-3 - 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第三条第四項（配偶者暴力相談支援センター） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-4 - 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第三条第五項（配偶者暴力相談支援センター） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-3/par-5 - 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第七条第一項（配偶者暴力相談支援センターによる保護についての説明等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-7/par-1 - 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第二十七条第一項第一号（都道府県及び市町村の支弁） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-27/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-27/par-1/item-1 - 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第二十七条第一項第二号（都道府県及び市町村の支弁） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-27/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-27/par-1/item-2 - 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 第三十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/spousal-violence-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/413AC0100000031/art-30/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/413AC0100000031/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-10-10 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4476/tb), retrieved 2026-10-10 - This site's parser, version 189 — 配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-10