# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百十五条の四十 (Article 115-40) - 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: 第百十五条の四十 (Article 115-40)（報告等） — address `art-115-40` - 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-115-40 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-40 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百十五条の四十（報告等） — Reports caption: machine translation, not official art-115-40 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-40 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、調査事務の公正かつ適確な実施を確保するため必要があると認めるときは、指定調査機関に対し、調査事務に関し必要な報告を求め、又は当該職員に関係者に対して質問させ、若しくは指定調査機関の事務所に立ち入り、その設備若しくは帳簿書類その他の物件を検査させることができる。 art-115-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-40/par-1 A prefectural governor, when it is determined to be necessary for ensuring fair and appropriate conduct of Investigation Affairs, may request a Designated Investigative Agency to report concerning Investigation Affairs, direct personnel to ask questions to a relevant person, or enter the office of said Designated Investigative Agency in order to inspect said facilities, record books and documents, or other items. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第二十四条第三項の規定は前項の規定による質問又は検査について、同条第四項の規定は前項の規定による権限について準用する。 art-115-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-40/par-2 The provisions of Article 24, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to questions or inspections as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of paragraph (4) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority granted as prescribed in the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-115-40/par-2: 第二十四条第三項 → 介護保険法 第二十四条第三項 (Article 24, paragraph (3)), art-24/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-24/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-24/par-3 - art-115-40/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第百十五条の四十第一項 (Article 115-40, paragraph (1)), art-115-40/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-40/par-1 - art-115-40/par-2: 同条第四項 → 介護保険法 第二十四条第四項 (Article 24, paragraph (4)), art-24/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-24/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-24/par-4 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百十五条の四十第二項（報告等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-40/par-2 - 介護保険法 第百十五条の四十二第三項（指定情報公表センターの指定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-42/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-42/par-3 - 介護保険法 第二百六条の二第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-206-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-206-2/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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-20261018T203319-030, translated 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch long-term-care-insurance-act-20261018T203319-030, 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