# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第十九条 (Article 19) - 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: 第十九条 (Article 19)（市町村の認定） — address `art-19` - 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-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条（市町村の認定） — (Certification by a Municipality) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-19 **第一項** 介護給付を受けようとする被保険者は、要介護者に該当すること及びその該当する要介護状態区分について、市町村の認定（以下「要介護認定」という。）を受けなければならない。 art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-19/par-1 An Insured Person that intends to receive a Long-Term Care Benefit must obtain certification by a Municipality pertaining to the fact that said Insured Person qualifies as a Person Requiring Long-Term Care and as to the Category of Condition of Need for Long-Term Care for which said Insured Person qualifies (herein referred to as "Certification of Needed Long-Term Care"). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 予防給付を受けようとする被保険者は、要支援者に該当すること及びその該当する要支援状態区分について、市町村の認定（以下「要支援認定」という。）を受けなければならない。 art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-19/par-2 An Insured Person that intends to receive a Prevention Benefit must obtain certification by a Municipality pertaining to the fact that said Insured Person qualifies as a Person Requiring Support and as to the Category of Needed Support Condition for which said Insured Person qualifies (herein referred to as "Certification of Needed Support"). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 附則第三条第一項（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-4171-77/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-3/par-1 - 介護保険法 附則第三条第二項（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-4171-77/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-3/par-2 - 介護保険法 附則第八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-8/par-1 - 介護保険法 附則第十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-11/par-1 - 介護保険法 附則第十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4261-83/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4261-83/art-11/par-1 - 租税特別措置法 第四十一条の十九の三第一項（既存住宅に係る特定の改修工事をした場合の所得税額の特別控除） — https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/art-41-19-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-41-19-3/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 - This site's parser, version 209 — 介護保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18