# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百五十八条 (Article 158) - 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: 第百五十八条 (Article 158)（納付の猶予） — address `art-158` - 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-158 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-158 - 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. --- ### 第百五十八条（納付の猶予） — (Grace Period of Levy) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-158 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-158 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-158 **第一項** 機構は、やむを得ない事情により、医療保険者が納付金を納付することが著しく困難であると認められるときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、当該医療保険者の申請に基づき、厚生労働大臣の承認を受けて、その納付すべき期限から一年以内の期間を限り、その一部の納付を猶予することができる。 art-158/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-158/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-158/par-1 The Organization, when it is determined that payment is significantly difficult for a medical insurer to pay the Levy due to compelling reasons, may, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, based on the application of said medical insurer and after obtaining the approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, defer payment of a portion of said Levy for a period within one year from the due date of said Levy. machine translation, not official **第二項** 機構は、前項の規定による猶予をしたときは、その旨、猶予に係る納付金の額、猶予期間その他必要な事項を医療保険者に通知しなければならない。 art-158/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-158/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-158/par-2 The Organization, when granting a deferment pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, must provide notification of said fact, the amount of Levy pertaining to the deferment, the grace period, and other necessary matters to said medical insurer. machine translation, not official **第三項** 機構は、第一項の規定による猶予をしたときは、その猶予期間内は、その猶予に係る納付金につき新たに第百五十六条第一項の規定による督促及び同条第三項の規定による徴収の請求をすることができない。 art-158/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-158/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-158/par-3 The Organization, when granting a deferment pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), may not, during the grace period, present additional demands for payment of said Levy pertaining to said deferment pursuant to the provisions of Article 156, paragraph (1), and may not present a demand for collection pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of the same Article. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-158/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第百五十八条第一項 (Article 158, paragraph (1)), art-158/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-158/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-158/par-1 - art-158/par-3: 第一項 → 介護保険法 第百五十八条第一項 (Article 158, paragraph (1)), art-158/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-158/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-158/par-1 - art-158/par-3: 第百五十六条第一項 → 介護保険法 第百五十六条第一項 (Article 156, paragraph (1)), art-156/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-156/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-156/par-1 - art-158/par-3: 同条第三項 → 介護保険法 第百五十六条第三項 (Article 156, paragraph (3)), art-156/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-156/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-156/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百五十八条第二項（納付の猶予） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-158/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-158/par-2 - 介護保険法 第百五十八条第三項（納付の猶予） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-158/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-158/par-3 --- ## 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-20261018T212610-031, 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