Supplementary Provisions, Article 6Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act
第六条（介護保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置）
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, when intending to establish the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 74, paragraph (3), Article 78-4, paragraph (3), Article 88, paragraph (3), Article 97, paragraph (4), Article 115-4, paragraph (3) and Article 115-14, paragraph (3) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 18 (referred to as the "New Long-Term Care Insurance Act" in the following paragraph and Article 46 of the Supplementary Provisions), may hear the opinion of the Social Security Council even before the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 18.
厚生労働大臣は、第十八条の規定による改正後の介護保険法（次項及び附則第四十六条において「新介護保険法」という。）第七十四条第三項、第七十八条の四第三項、第八十八条第三項、第九十七条第四項、第百十五条の四第三項及び第百十五条の十四第三項の厚生労働省令で定める基準を定めようとするときは、第十八条の規定の施行の日前においても社会保障審議会の意見を聴くことができる。
Within a period not exceeding one year counting from the date of enforcement of the provisions of Article 18, until the Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance prescribed in the provisions listed in the upper column of the following table is enacted and comes into effect, the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribed in the provisions listed in the lower column of the same table are deemed to be the standards specified by the Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance concerned.
第十八条の規定の施行の日から起算して一年を超えない期間内において、次の表の上欄に掲げる規定に規定する都道府県又は市町村の条例が制定施行されるまでの間は、同表の下欄に掲げる規定に規定する厚生労働省令で定める基準は、当該都道府県又は市町村の条例で定める基準とみなす。