# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百十五条の六 (Article 115-6) - 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: 第百十五条の六 (Article 115-6)（都道府県知事等による連絡調整又は援助） — address `art-115-6` - 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-115-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-6 - 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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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百十五条の六（都道府県知事等による連絡調整又は援助） — Coordination or Assistance by Prefectural Governors, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-115-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-6 **第一項** 都道府県知事又は市町村長は、指定介護予防サービス事業者による第百十五条の四第五項に規定する便宜の提供が円滑に行われるため必要があると認めるときは、当該指定介護予防サービス事業者及び指定介護予防支援事業者、他の指定介護予防サービス事業者その他の関係者相互間の連絡調整又は当該指定介護予防サービス事業者及び当該関係者に対する助言その他の援助を行うことができる。 art-115-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-6/par-1 A prefectural governor or the mayor of a Municipality, when he or she determines it is necessary in order for the provision of convenience prescribed in Article 115-4, paragraph (5) by a Designated Provider of Preventive Long-Term Care Service to be carried out smoothly, may provide coordination among said Designated Provider of Preventive Long-Term Care Service, the Designated Preventive Long-Term Care Support Provider, other Designated Providers of Preventive Long-Term Care Service and other relevant persons, or advice and other assistance to said Designated Provider of Preventive Long-Term Care Service and said relevant persons. machine translation, not official **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、同一の指定介護予防サービス事業者について二以上の都道府県知事が前項の規定による連絡調整又は援助を行う場合において、当該指定介護予防サービス事業者による第百十五条の四第五項に規定する便宜の提供が円滑に行われるため必要があると認めるときは、当該都道府県知事相互間の連絡調整又は当該指定介護予防サービス事業者に対する都道府県の区域を超えた広域的な見地からの助言その他の援助を行うことができる。 art-115-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-6/par-2 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, in a case where two or more prefectural governors provide the coordination or assistance pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph with regard to the same Designated Provider of Preventive Long-Term Care Service, when he or she determines it is necessary in order for the provision of convenience prescribed in Article 115-4, paragraph (5) by said Designated Provider of Preventive Long-Term Care Service to be carried out smoothly, may provide coordination among said prefectural governors or advice and other assistance to said Designated Provider of Preventive Long-Term Care Service from a wide-area perspective beyond the prefectural area. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-115-6/par-1: 第百十五条の四第五項 → 介護保険法 第百十五条の四第五項 (Article 115-4, paragraph (5)), art-115-4/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-4/par-5 - art-115-6/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第百十五条の六第一項 (Article 115-6, paragraph (1)), art-115-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-6/par-1 - art-115-6/par-2: 第百十五条の四第五項 → 介護保険法 第百十五条の四第五項 (Article 115-4, paragraph (5)), art-115-4/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-4/par-5 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百十五条の六第二項（都道府県知事等による連絡調整又は援助） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-6/par-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-20261018T212610-017, 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