# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百八十九条 (Article 189) - 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: 第百八十九条 (Article 189)（合議体） — address `art-189` - 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-189 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-189 - 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. --- ### 第百八十九条（合議体） — (Council) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-189 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-189 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-189 **第一項** 保険審査会は、会長、被保険者を代表する委員及び市町村を代表する委員の全員並びに会長以外の公益を代表する委員のうちから保険審査会が指名する二人をもって構成する合議体で、審査請求（要介護認定又は要支援認定に関する処分に対するものを除く。）の事件を取り扱う。 art-189/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-189/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-189/par-1 A Certification Committee for Insurance is a council consisting of two (2) members, and selected for appointment to said Certification Committee for Insurance from among the chairperson, all the members representing Insured Persons and members representing Municipalities, and from among the members representing the public interest except for the chairperson, and administers the cases of application for examination (except for those cases requiring action concerning Certification of Needed Long-Term Care or Certification of Needed Support). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 要介護認定又は要支援認定に関する処分に対する審査請求の事件は、公益を代表する委員のうちから、保険審査会が指名する者をもって構成する合議体で取り扱う。 art-189/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-189/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-189/par-2 A case of an application for examination regarding an action concerning Certification of Needed Long-Term Care or Certification of Needed Support is to be administered by a council consisting of persons designated by the Certification Committee for Insurance from among the members representing the public interest. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項の合議体を構成する委員の定数は、都道府県の条例で定める数とする。 art-189/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-189/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-189/par-3 The fixed number of members constituting the council referred to in the preceding paragraph is the number specified by Prefectural Ordinance. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-189/par-3: 前項 → 介護保険法 第百八十九条第二項 (Article 189, paragraph (2)), art-189/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-189/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-189/par-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百八十九条第三項（合議体） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-189/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-189/par-3 - 介護保険法 第百九十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-190/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-190/par-1 - 介護保険法 第百九十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-190/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-190/par-2 - 介護保険法 第百九十条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-190/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-190/par-3 - 介護保険法 附則第六条第三項（介護保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4251-44/art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4251-44/art-6/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-20261018T203319-040, translated 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch long-term-care-insurance-act-20261018T203319-040, 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