# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百十五条の二十 (Article 115-20)

- 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: 第百十五条の二十 (Article 115-20)（公示） — address `art-115-20`
- 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-115-20
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-20
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### 第百十五条の二十（公示） — Public Notice
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-115-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-20</sup>

  **第一項**  市町村長は、次に掲げる場合には、遅滞なく、当該指定地域密着型介護予防サービス事業者の名称、当該指定に係る事業所の所在地その他の厚生労働省令で定める事項を都道府県知事に届け出るとともに、これを公示しなければならない。
  <sup>art-115-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-20/par-1</sup>
  A mayor of a Municipality must, without delay, in the following cases, notify the prefectural governor of the name of said Designated Provider of Community-Based Service for Preventive Long-Term Care, the location of the Business Office pertaining to said designation, and other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and also provide public notice thereof:
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **一**  第五十四条の二第一項本文の指定をしたとき。
    <sup>art-115-20/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-20/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-20/par-1/item-1</sup>
    when an appointment as service provider as set forth in the main clause of Article 54-2, paragraph (1) is made;
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **二**  第百十五条の十五第二項の規定による事業の廃止の届出があったとき。
    <sup>art-115-20/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-20/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-20/par-1/item-2</sup>
    when notification of abolishment of business pursuant to the provisions of Article 115-15, paragraph (2) has been provided;
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **三**  前条の規定により第五十四条の二第一項本文の指定を取り消し、又は指定の全部若しくは一部の効力を停止したとき。
    <sup>art-115-20/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-20/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-20/par-1/item-3</sup>
    when an appointment as service provider as set forth in the main clause of Article 54-2, paragraph (1) is rescinded, or the effect of the whole or a part of an appointment as service provider is suspended, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-115-20/par-1/item-1: 第五十四条の二第一項 → 介護保険法 第五十四条の二第一項 (Article 54-2, paragraph (1)), art-54-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-54-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-54-2/par-1
- art-115-20/par-1/item-2: 第百十五条の十五第二項 → 介護保険法 第百十五条の十五第二項 (Article 115-15, paragraph (2)), art-115-15/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-15/par-2
- art-115-20/par-1/item-3: 前条 → 介護保険法 第百十五条の十九 (Article 115-19), art-115-19 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-19
- art-115-20/par-1/item-3: 第五十四条の二第一項 → 介護保険法 第五十四条の二第一項 (Article 54-2, paragraph (1)), art-54-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-54-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-54-2/par-1

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 介護保険法 附則第十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-15/par-1
- 介護保険法 附則第九条第一項（介護保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4191-110/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4191-110/art-9/par-1

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## Sources

- 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch long-term-care-insurance-act-20261018T212610-020, 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