# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百十五条の四十二 (Article 115-42) - 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: 第百十五条の四十二 (Article 115-42)（指定情報公表センターの指定） — address `art-115-42` - 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-115-42 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-42 - 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. --- ### 第百十五条の四十二（指定情報公表センターの指定） — (Appointment of Designated Public Information Center) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-115-42 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-42 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、その指定する者（以下「指定情報公表センター」という。）に、介護サービス情報の報告の受理及び公表並びに指定調査機関の指定に関する事務で厚生労働省令で定めるもの（以下「情報公表事務」という。）の全部又は一部を行わせることができる。 art-115-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-42/par-1 A prefectural governor may appoint a person (hereinafter referred to as "Designated Public Information Center") to perform the whole or a part of those affairs, as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, concerning acceptance and publication of reports of Long-Term Care Service information and appointment as service provider as a Designated Investigative Agency (hereinafter referred to as "Public Information Affairs"). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A prefectural governor may appoint a person (hereinafter referred to as "Designated Public Information Center") the whole or a part of those Investigation Affairs, as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, concerning acceptance of reports of Long-Term Care Service information and appointment as service provider as a Designated Investigative Agency (hereinafter referred to as "Public Information Business Office")." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb **第二項** 前項の指定は、都道府県の区域ごとに、その指定を受けようとする者の申請により、当該都道府県知事が行う。 art-115-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-42/par-2 Appointment as service provider as set forth in the preceding paragraph is provided in each prefectural area, by an application of a person that intends to obtain said appointment as service provider, by the governor of said prefecture. machine translation, not official **第三項** 第百十五条の三十八から前条までの規定は、指定情報公表センターについて準用する。この場合において、これらの規定中「調査事務」とあるのは「情報公表事務」と、「指定調査機関」とあるのは「指定情報公表センター」と、「職員（調査員を含む。同項において同じ。）」とあるのは「職員」と読み替えるものとするほか、必要な技術的読替えは、政令で定める。 art-115-42/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-42/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-42/par-3 The provisions of Article 115-38 to the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to a Designated Public Information Center. In this case, the terms "Investigation Affairs," "Designated Investigative Agency," and "personnel (including an investigator; the same applies in the same paragraph)" in these provisions are deemed to be replaced with "Public Information Affairs," "Designated Public Information Center," and "personnel" respectively, and the necessary technical replacement of terms is provided by a Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-115-42/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第百十五条の四十二第一項 (Article 115-42, paragraph (1)), art-115-42/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-42/par-1 - art-115-42/par-3: 第百十五条の三十八から前条まで → 介護保険法 第百十五条の三十八 (Article 115-38), art-115-38 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-38 - art-115-42/par-3: 第百十五条の三十八から前条まで → 介護保険法 第百十五条の三十九 (Article 115-39), art-115-39 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-39 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-39 - art-115-42/par-3: 第百十五条の三十八から前条まで → 介護保険法 第百十五条の四十 (Article 115-40), art-115-40 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-40 - art-115-42/par-3: 第百十五条の三十八から前条まで → 介護保険法 第百十五条の四十一 (Article 115-41), art-115-41 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-41 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百十五条の四十二第二項（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-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-42/par-2 - 介護保険法 第二百五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-205/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-205/par-2 - 介護保険法 第二百六条の二第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-206-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-206-2/par-1/item-1 - 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 - 介護保険法 第二百六条の二第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-206-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-206-2/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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 115-42, paragraph (1) — 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-20261018T203319-030, translated 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch long-term-care-insurance-act-20261019T014622-003, 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