# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百二十四条 (Article 124) - 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: 第百二十四条 (Article 124)（市町村の一般会計における負担） — address `art-124` - 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-124 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-124 - 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. --- ### 第百二十四条（市町村の一般会計における負担） — (Costs Imposed on the General Fund of a Municipality) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-124 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-124 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-124 **第一項** 市町村は、政令で定めるところにより、その一般会計において、介護給付及び予防給付に要する費用の額の百分の十二・五に相当する額を負担する。 art-124/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-124/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-124/par-1 A Municipality, pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order, bears an amount equivalent to 12.5 percent of the amount of expenses necessary for Long-Term Care Benefits and Prevention Benefits by said general fund. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第百二十一条第二項の規定は、前項に規定する介護給付及び予防給付に要する費用の額について準用する。 art-124/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-124/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-124/par-2 The provisions of Article 121, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the amount of expenses necessary for Long-Term Care Benefits and Prevention Benefits as prescribed in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of Article 21, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the amount of expenses necessary for Long-Term Care Benefits and Prevention Benefits as prescribed in the preceding paragraph." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb **第三項** 市町村は、政令で定めるところにより、その一般会計において、介護予防・日常生活支援総合事業に要する費用の額の百分の十二・五に相当する額を負担する。 art-124/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-124/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-124/par-3 A Municipality, pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order, bears the cost of the amount equivalent to 12.5 percent of the amount of expenses necessary for the Comprehensive Project for Long-Term Care Prevention and Daily Life Support by said general fund. machine translation, not official **第四項** 市町村は、政令で定めるところにより、その一般会計において、特定地域支援事業支援額の百分の二十五に相当する額を負担する。 art-124/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-124/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-124/par-4 A Municipality, pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order, bears the cost of the amount equivalent to 25 percent of the specified community support project support amount by the general fund. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-124/par-2: 第百二十一条第二項 → 介護保険法 第百二十一条第二項 (Article 121, paragraph (2)), art-121/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-121/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-121/par-2 - art-124/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第百二十四条第一項 (Article 124, paragraph (1)), art-124/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-124/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-124/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百二十四条第二項（市町村の一般会計における負担） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-124/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-124/par-2 - 介護保険法 第百四十八条第二項（市町村相互財政安定化事業） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-148/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-148/par-2 - 介護保険法 附則第十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4261-83/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4261-83/art-14/par-1 --- ## 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 124, paragraph (2) — 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-20261018T212610-028, 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