# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百三十五条 (Article 135) - 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: 第百三十五条 (Article 135)（保険料の特別徴収） — address `art-135` - 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-135 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-135 - 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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Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 市町村は、前条第二項若しくは第三項の規定による通知が行われた場合（前項の規定により当該通知に係る第一号被保険者に対して課する当該年度の保険料の一部を特別徴収の方法によって徴収する場合を除く。）又は同条第四項から第六項までの規定による通知が行われた場合において、当該通知に係る第一号被保険者について、翌年度の初日から九月三十日までの間において当該通知に係る老齢等年金給付が支払われるときは、その支払に係る保険料額として、支払回数割保険料額の見込額（当該額によることが適当でないと認められる特別な事情がある場合においては、所得の状況その他の事情を勘案して市町村が定める額とする。）を、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、特別徴収の方法によって徴収するものとする。 art-135/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-135/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-135/par-3 In a case when notification is issued pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) of the preceding Article (except for a case when a portion of an insurance premium of said fiscal year which is imposed upon a Primary Insured Person pertaining to said notification is collected by the method of special collection pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph) or when a notification is issued pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4) to paragraph (6) of the same Article, a Municipality, when an Old Age, etc., Pension Benefit pertaining to said notification is paid to the Primary Insured Person pertaining to said notification during the period from the first day until September 30 of the following fiscal year, is to collect the prospective amount of an insurance premium that is divided by the number of payments (in a case when there are special reasons to determine said amount is inappropriate, it is to be the amount specified by a Municipality by taking into consideration the status of income and other circumstances) for the amount of said insurance premium pertaining to said payments by the method of special collection, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 前項の支払回数割保険料額の見込額は、当該第一号被保険者につき、当該年度の保険料額を基礎として厚生労働省令で定めるところにより算定した額を、当該年度の翌年度の初日（前条第五項の規定による通知に係る第一号被保険者については同年度の六月一日とし、同条第六項の規定による通知に係る第一号被保険者については同年度の八月一日とする。）から九月三十日までの間における当該老齢等年金給付の支払の回数で除して得た額とする。 art-135/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-135/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-135/par-4 The prospective amount of an insurance premium amount which is divided by the number of payments as set forth in the preceding paragraph, with respect to said Primary Insured Person, is the amount that is to be the amount obtained by dividing the amount which is calculated pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare based on said insurance premium amount of said fiscal year by the number of payments of said Old Age, etc., Pension Benefit during the period from the first day to September 30 of the year following of said fiscal year (with regard to a Primary Insured Person pertaining to a notification pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (5) of the preceding Article, the date is to be June 1 of the same fiscal year, and with regard to a Primary Insured Person pertaining to the notification pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (6) of the same Article, the date is to be August 1 of the same fiscal year). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 市町村は、第一項本文、第二項又は第三項の規定により特別徴収の方法によって保険料を徴収しようとする場合においては、第一項本文、第二項又は第三項に規定する第一号被保険者（以下「特別徴収対象被保険者」という。）について、当該特別徴収対象被保険者に係る年金保険者（以下「特別徴収義務者」という。）に当該保険料を徴収させなければならない。 art-135/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-135/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-135/par-5 A Municipality, in a case when it intends to collect an insurance premium by the method of special collection pursuant to the provisions of the main clause of paragraph (1), paragraph (2), or paragraph (3), with regard to a Primary Insured Person as prescribed in the main clause of paragraph (1), paragraph (2), or paragraph (3) (hereinafter referred to as "Insured Person Subject to Special Collection"), must direct said Pension Insurer pertaining to said Insured Person Subject to Special Collection (hereinafter referred to as a "Person Under Obligation of Special Collection") to collect said insurance premium. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第六項** 市町村は、同一の特別徴収対象被保険者について前条第一項から第六項までの規定による通知に係る老齢等年金給付（以下「特別徴収対象年金給付」という。）が二以上ある場合においては、政令で定めるところにより一の特別徴収対象年金給付について保険料を徴収させるものとする。 art-135/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-135/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-135/par-6 A Municipality, in a case when there are two or more Old Age, etc., Pension Benefit plans pertaining to a notification pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) to paragraph (6) of the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as "Pension Payment Subject to Special Collection") for the same Insured Person Subject to Special Collection, is to direct an agent to collect the insurance premium for each Pension Payment Subject to Special Collection, pursuant to a Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-135/par-1: 前条第一項 → 介護保険法 第百三十四条第一項 (Article 134, paragraph (1)), art-134/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-134/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-134/par-1 - art-135/par-1: 次項 → 介護保険法 第百三十五条第二項 (Article 135, paragraph (2)), art-135/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-135/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-135/par-2 - art-135/par-1: 第三項 → 介護保険法 第百三十五条第三項 (Article 135, paragraph (3)), art-135/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-135/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-135/par-3 - art-135/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第百三十五条第一項 (Article 135, paragraph (1)), art-135/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-135/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-135/par-1 - art-135/par-2: 次項 → 介護保険法 第百三十五条第三項 (Article 135, paragraph (3)), art-135/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-135/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-135/par-3 - 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No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百三十一条第一項（保険料の徴収の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-131/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-131/par-1 - 介護保険法 第百三十五条第一項（保険料の特別徴収） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-135/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-135/par-1 - 介護保険法 第百三十五条第二項（保険料の特別徴収） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-135/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-135/par-2 - 介護保険法 第百三十五条第三項（保険料の特別徴収） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-135/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-135/par-3 - 介護保険法 第百三十五条第四項（保険料の特別徴収） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-135/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-135/par-4 - 介護保険法 第百三十五条第五項（保険料の特別徴収） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-135/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-135/par-5 - 介護保険法 第百三十六条第一項（特別徴収額の通知等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-136/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-136/par-1 - 介護保険法 第百三十六条第二項（特別徴収額の通知等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-136/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-136/par-2 - 介護保険法 第百三十七条第四項（特別徴収の方法によって徴収した保険料額の納入の義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-137/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-137/par-4 - 介護保険法 第百四十一条の二第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-141-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-141-2/par-1 - 国民健康保険法 第七十六条の四第一項（介護保険法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-health-insurance-act/art-76-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-76-4/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第百十条第一項（介護保険法の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/elderly-medical-care-act/art-110/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-110/par-1 --- ## 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-20261018T212610-029, 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