Article 115-46Community General Support Center

①A community general support center is a facility that aims to provide comprehensive support for improvement of health and medical care and promotion of public aid of local residents, by implementing category 1 Preventive Long-Term Care Support projects (excluding those pertaining to Insured In-Home Persons Requiring Support) and the projects listed in Article 115-45, paragraph (2), item (i) through item (vi) (hereinafter referred to as "Comprehensive Support Project") and other projects as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and by providing assistance necessary for maintaining mental and physical health and for stabilization of the lives of local residents.

②A Municipality may establish a community general support center.

③A person entrusted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the following Article (excluding a person entrusted with only the projects listed in Article 115-45, paragraph (2), item (iv) through item (vi)) may, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, provide notice in advance to the mayor of the Municipality of matters as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and establish a community general support center, in order to implement a Comprehensive Support Project and other projects as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as set forth in paragraph (1).

④The founder of a community general support center must improve the quality of the projects it implements by evaluating, on its own, the quality of those projects and by taking other necessary measures.

⑤The founder of a community general support center must comply with standards as determined by Municipal Ordinance as necessary for the implementation of a Comprehensive Support Project.

⑥A Municipality, in establishing the Municipal Ordinance set forth in the preceding paragraph, is to establish the standards concerning the employees of a community general support center and the number of those employees in accordance with the standards determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and is to take into consideration the standards determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for other matters.

⑧Institution personnel of a community general support center (in a case when the institution personnel refers to a juridical person, said Officers) or the personnel or a person that were in said occupation must not divulge any confidential information that said person learned concerning said business without justifiable reasons.

⑨A Municipality must periodically evaluate the status of implementation of projects at community general support centers and, when it is determined to be necessary, take necessary measures such as changing the policy under paragraph (1) of the following Article.

⑩A Municipality, when a community general support center has been established and in other cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must endeavor to publish information on the content and operating status of the projects of said community general support center, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

⑪The provisions of Article 69-14 apply mutatis mutandis to a community general support center. In this case, the necessary technical replacement of terms is provided by a Cabinet Order.

⑫In addition to the provisions as prescribed in each of the preceding paragraphs, other necessary matters concerning a community general support center are prescribed by a Cabinet Order.