# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百十五条の五十 (Article 115-50) - 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: 第百十五条の五十 (Article 115-50)（都道府県の援助等） — address `art-115-50` - 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-115-50 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-50 - 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. --- ### 第百十五条の五十（都道府県の援助等） — Assistance of Prefectures caption: machine translation, not official art-115-50 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-50 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-50 **第一項** 都道府県は、介護サービス事業者、指定事業者その他これらに類する者として厚生労働省令で定めるものに対し、介護サービス、第一号事業その他これらに類する事業として厚生労働省令で定めるものに従事する者の確保のための費用に対する補助金の交付その他の必要な援助を行うことができる。 art-115-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-50/par-1 A prefecture may provide Long-Term Care Service Providers, Designated Providers, and other persons similar thereto specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare with necessary assistance such as the grant of subsidies for the expenses of securing persons engaged in Long-Term Care Services, category 1 projects, and other similar projects specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official **第二項** 都道府県は、前項の規定により補助金の交付を行う場合には、当該補助金の交付に関する事務（交付の決定を除く。第百七十六条第一項第四号において同じ。）を連合会に委託することができる。 art-115-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-50/par-2 A prefecture, when granting subsidies pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, may entrust to the Association the affairs concerning the grant of said subsidies (excluding the decision on the grant; the same applies in Article 176, paragraph (1), item (iv)). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-115-50/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第百十五条の五十第一項 (Article 115-50, paragraph (1)), art-115-50/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-50/par-1 - art-115-50/par-2: 第百七十六条第一項第四号 → 介護保険法 第百七十六条第一項第四号 (Article 176, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-176/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-176/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-176/par-1/item-4 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百十五条の五十第二項（都道府県の援助等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-50/par-2 - 介護保険法 第百二十七条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-127-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-127-2/par-1 - 介護保険法 第百七十六条第一項第四号（連合会の業務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-176/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-176/par-1/item-4 --- ## 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-20261018T212610-026, translated 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch long-term-care-insurance-act-20261018T212610-027, 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