# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百三条 (Article 103) - Law: 介護保険法 (Long-Term Care Insurance Act), 平成九年法律第百二十三号 - English title "Long-Term Care Insurance 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: 第百三条 (Article 103)（業務運営の勧告、命令等） — address `art-103` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-103 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-103 - 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. 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Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A prefectural governor, in a case of providing a recommendation pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, may provide public notice of the fact that the Organizer of said Long-Term Care Health Facility that is issued said recommendation did not act in compliance with said recommendation within the due date as set forth in the same paragraph." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb **第三項** 都道府県知事は、第一項の規定による勧告を受けた介護老人保健施設の開設者が、正当な理由がなくてその勧告に係る措置をとらなかったときは、当該介護老人保健施設の開設者に対し、期限を定めて、その勧告に係る措置をとるべきことを命じ、又は期間を定めて、その業務の停止を命ずることができる。 art-103/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-103/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-103/par-3 A prefectural governor, when an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility that was issued a recommendation pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) does not implement the measures pertaining to said recommendation without a justifiable basis, may order the Establisher of said Long-Term Care Health Facility to implement measures pertaining to said recommendation within a period specified by a due date or to suspend said operation for a period of time. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A prefectural governor, when an Organizer of a Long-Term Care Health Facility that was issued a recommendation pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) does not implement the measures pertaining to said recommendation without a justifiable basis, may order the Organizer of said Long-Term Care Health Facility to implement measures pertaining to said recommendation within a period specified by a due date or to suspend said operation for a period of time." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb **第四項** 都道府県知事は、前項の規定による命令をした場合においては、その旨を公示しなければならない。 art-103/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-103/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-103/par-4 A prefectural governor, when issuing an order pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, must issue public notice of said fact. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 市町村は、保険給付に係る介護保健施設サービスを行った介護老人保健施設について、第一項各号に掲げる場合のいずれかに該当すると認めるときは、その旨を当該介護老人保健施設の所在地の都道府県知事に通知しなければならない。 art-103/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-103/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-103/par-5 With regard to a Long-Term Care Health Facility that provided Long-Term Care Health Facility Service pertaining to an Insurance Benefit, a Municipality, when it is determined that said Long-Term Care Health Facility corresponds to any of the cases listed in the items of paragraph (1), must provide notification of said fact to the prefectural governor that governs the location of said Long-Term Care Health Facility. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-103/par-1/item-1: 第九十七条第二項 → 介護保険法 第九十七条第二項 (Article 97, paragraph (2)), art-97/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-97/par-2 - art-103/par-1/item-2: 第九十七条第三項 → 介護保険法 第九十七条第三項 (Article 97, paragraph (3)), art-97/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-97/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-97/par-3 - art-103/par-1/item-3: 第九十七条第六項 → 介護保険法 第九十七条第六項 (Article 97, paragraph (6)), art-97/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-97/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-97/par-6 - art-103/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第百三条第一項 (Article 103, paragraph (1)), art-103/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-103/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-103/par-1 - art-103/par-3: 第一項 → 介護保険法 第百三条第一項 (Article 103, paragraph (1)), art-103/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-103/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-103/par-1 - art-103/par-4: 前項 → 介護保険法 第百三条第三項 (Article 103, paragraph (3)), art-103/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-103/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-103/par-3 - art-103/par-5: 第一項 → 介護保険法 第百三条第一項 (Article 103, paragraph (1)), art-103/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-103/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-103/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百条第三項（報告等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-100/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-100/par-3 - 介護保険法 第百三条第二項（業務運営の勧告、命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-103/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-103/par-2 - 介護保険法 第百三条第三項（業務運営の勧告、命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-103/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-103/par-3 - 介護保険法 第百三条第四項（業務運営の勧告、命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-103/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-103/par-4 - 介護保険法 第百三条第五項（業務運営の勧告、命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-103/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-103/par-5 - 介護保険法 第百五条第一項（医療法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-105/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-105/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 介護保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/409AC0000000123/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-18 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Long-Term Care Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Long-Term Care Insurance Act (介護保険法), Article 103, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Long-Term Care Insurance Act (介護保険法), Article 103, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch long-term-care-insurance-act-20261018T212610-012, translated 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch long-term-care-insurance-act-20261018T212610-013, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 209 — 介護保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18