Supplementary Provisions, Article 4Preparatory Acts Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act
第四条（介護保険法の一部改正に伴う準備行為）
Municipalities (including special city wards; the same applies in Article 15 and Article 20 of the Supplementary Provisions) and Business Offices or facilities providing In-Home Service, etc. prescribed in Article 23 of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act may, even before the Effective Date, carry out preparatory acts necessary for the implementation of the affairs pertaining to the electronic eligibility confirmation prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (10) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 (excluding the amending provisions listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions) (hereinafter referred to as the "New Long-Term Care Insurance Act").
市町村（特別区を含む。附則第十五条及び第二十条において同じ。）及び介護保険法第二十三条に規定する居宅サービス等を提供する事業所又は施設は、施行日前においても、第三条の規定（附則第一条第二号に掲げる改正規定を除く。）による改正後の介護保険法（以下「新介護保険法」という。）第七条第十項に規定する電子資格確認に係る事務の実施に必要な準備行為をすることができる。
(Submission of Documents)
A Municipality may, when it determines necessity with regard to an insurance benefit, demand or request submission or presentation of documents and other items…
市町村は、保険給付に関して必要があると認めるときは、当該保険給付を受ける者若しくは当該保険給付に係る居宅サービス等（居宅サービス（これに相当するサービスを含む。）、地域密着型サービス（これに相当するサービスを含む。）、居宅介護支援（これに相当するサービスを含む。）、施設サービス、介護予防サービス（これに相当するサービ…
Open this provisionEffective Date
the provisions in Article 3 amending the table of contents of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act (excluding the part replacing "Facility Covered by Long-Term Care Insurance" with "Facility Covered by…
第三条中介護保険法の目次の改正規定（「介護保険施設」を「介護保険施設等」に、「第百二十条の二」を「第百二十条の六」に改める部分を除く。）、同法第六十九条の二第一項第五号、第六十九条の三ただし書、第六十九条の七及び第六十九条の八の改正規定、同法第五章第一節第二款の款名の改正規定…
Open this provisionMunicipality
「市町村」
A city, town or village, together with a special ward (特別区): the bodies that run long-term care insurance (介護保険) under this Act, whose insured persons Article 9 names.
Short name set inArticle 9, paragraph (1)
In-Home Service, etc.machine translation
「居宅サービス等」
In-home services, community-based services, in-home long-term care support, preventive long-term care services, community-based preventive services and preventive long-term care support, each including equivalent services, and facility services (施設サービス).
Defined inArticle 23, paragraph (1)
New Long-Term Care Insurance Actmachine translation
「新介護保険法」
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 51 of 2026, the Long-Term Care Insurance Act (Act No. 123 of 1997) as amended by Article 3 of that Act, leaving out the amendment listed in Article 1, item (ii) of those supplementary provisions.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)
special ward
特別区
A ward (区) of a metropolis (都) (Local Autonomy Act, Article 281, paragraph (1)). Today the only special wards are the 23 wards of Tokyo. A special ward is a basic local government in its own right: it does, in general, the work a city, town or village (市町村) does elsewhere, apart from what the metropolis does across all the wards as one (Article 281-2, paragraph (2)). Where a law or order gives a city (市) work to do, its provisions on that work also apply to a special ward, for the work the ward does (Article 281, paragraph (2), and Article 283, paragraph (2)); a Cabinet Order (政令) can make special rules where they cannot apply as they stand (Article 283, paragraph (3)).
Written by AI using Local Autonomy Act, Arts. 281, 281-2, 283 as a reference.