# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百六十五条 (Article 165) - 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: 第百六十五条 (Article 165)（予算等の認可） — address `art-165` - 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-165 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-165 - 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. --- ### 第百六十五条（予算等の認可） — (Approval of Budgets) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-165 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-165 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-165 **第一項** 機構は、介護保険関係業務に関し、毎事業年度、予算、事業計画及び資金計画を作成し、当該事業年度の開始前に、厚生労働大臣の認可を受けなければならない。これを変更するときも、同様とする。 art-165/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-165/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-165/par-1 The Organization must prepare a budget, business plan, and fund plan for every fiscal year concerning business related to insured long-term care and obtain the approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare prior to beginning of said fiscal year; the same applies when amending these items. machine translation, not official **第二項** 機構が第百六十条第二項に規定する業務を行う場合における医療情報基盤・診療報酬審査支払機構法第三十三条第一項の規定の適用については、同項中「収支予算」とあるのは、「収支予算（介護保険法（平成九年法律第百二十三号）第百六十条第二項に規定する業務に関するものを含む。）」とする。 art-165/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-165/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-165/par-2 With regard to the application of Article 33, paragraph (1) of the Medical Information Infrastructure and Medical Fee Examination and Payment Organization Act in the case where the Organization conducts the operations prescribed in Article 160, paragraph (2), the phrase "income and expenditure budget" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "income and expenditure budget (including that pertaining to the operations prescribed in Article 160, paragraph (2) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act (Act No. 123 of 1997))". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-165/par-2: 第百六十条第二項 → 介護保険法 第百六十条第二項 (Article 160, paragraph (2)), art-160/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-160/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-160/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百六十四条第一項（区分経理） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-164/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-164/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-20261018T212610-031, 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