# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百十六条 (Article 116) - 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: 第百十六条 (Article 116)（基本指針） — address `art-116` - 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-116 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-116 - 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. --- ### 第百十六条（基本指針） — (Basic Guidelines) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-116 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-116 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-116 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、地域における医療及び介護の総合的な確保の促進に関する法律（平成元年法律第六十四号）第三条第一項に規定する総合確保方針及び同法第十一条の二第一項に規定する医療情報化推進方針に即して、介護保険事業に係る保険給付の円滑な実施を確保するための基本的な指針（以下「基本指針」という。）を定めるものとする。 art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-116/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to establish Basic Guidelines (hereinafter referred to as "Basic Guidelines") for ensuring the smooth implementation of Insurance Benefits pertaining to the Insured Long-Term Care Project, in line with the comprehensive securing policy prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Act on Promotion of Comprehensive Securing of Medical and Long-Term Care in Communities (Act No. 64 of 1989) and the medical information digitization promotion policy prescribed in Article 11-2, paragraph (1) of that Act. machine translation, not official **第二項** 基本指針においては、次に掲げる事項について定めるものとする。 art-116/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-116/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-116/par-2 Basic Guidelines are to provide matters as listed in the following: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 介護給付等対象サービスを提供する体制の確保及び地域支援事業の実施に関する基本的事項 art-116/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-116/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-116/par-2/item-1 basic matters for ensuring a system to provide Services Subject to Long-Term Care Benefits, etc., and concerning implementation of a Community Support Project; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 次条第一項に規定する市町村介護保険事業計画において同条第二項第一号の介護給付等対象サービスの種類ごとの量の見込みを定めるに当たって参酌すべき標準その他当該市町村介護保険事業計画及び第百十八条第一項に規定する都道府県介護保険事業支援計画の作成に関する事項 art-116/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-116/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-116/par-2/item-2 for matters that concern the Municipal Insured Long-Term Care Service Plan as set forth in paragraph (1) of the following Article, standards to be considered when determining the prospective service amounts by type of Service Covered by Long-Term Care Benefits, etc., as set forth in paragraph (2), item (i) of the same Article, and matters concerning preparation of a Prefectural Insured Long-Term Care Service Plan as set forth in Article 118, paragraph (1); Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** その他介護保険事業に係る保険給付の円滑な実施を確保するために必要な事項 art-116/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-116/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-116/par-2/item-3 matters necessary for ensuring the efficient implementation of Insurance Benefits pertaining to an Insured Long-Term Care Project. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 厚生労働大臣は、基本指針を定め、又はこれを変更するに当たっては、あらかじめ、総務大臣その他関係行政機関の長に協議しなければならない。 art-116/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-116/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-116/par-3 The Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare must provide Basic Guidelines, and when changing said guidelines, must consult with the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications and other chairpersons of related administrative organizations. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare must provide Basic Guidelines, and when changing said guidelines, must consult with the Minister of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications and other chairpersons of related administrative organizations." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb **第四項** 厚生労働大臣は、基本指針を定め、又はこれを変更したときは、遅滞なく、これを公表しなければならない。 art-116/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-116/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-116/par-4 The Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare must provide Basic Guidelines and when providing said Guidelines, provide public notice of said Guidelines without delay. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-116/par-1: 地域における医療及び介護の総合的な確保の促進に関する法律（平成元年法律第六十四号）第三条第一項 → e-Gov law 401AC0000000064, 第三条第一項 (Article 3, paragraph (1)), art-3/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-116/par-1: 同法第十一条の二第一項 → e-Gov law 401AC0000000064, 第十一条の二第一項 (Article 11-2, paragraph (1)), art-11-2/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-116/par-2/item-2: 次条第一項 → 介護保険法 第百十七条第一項 (Article 117, paragraph (1)), art-117/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-117/par-1 - art-116/par-2/item-2: 同条第二項第一号 → 介護保険法 第百十七条第二項第一号 (Article 117, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-117/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-117/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-117/par-2/item-1 - art-116/par-2/item-2: 第百十八条第一項 → 介護保険法 第百十八条第一項 (Article 118, paragraph (1)), art-118/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-118/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第八条第三項（医療費適正化基本方針及び全国医療費適正化計画） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-8/par-3 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百二十五条第八項（高齢者保健事業） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-125/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-125/par-8 --- ## 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 116, paragraph (3) — 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-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