# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百九十七条 (Article 197) - 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: 第百九十七条 (Article 197)（報告の徴収等） — address `art-197` - 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-197 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-197 - 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. --- ### 第百九十七条（報告の徴収等） — (Collection of Reports) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-197 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-197 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-197 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣又は都道府県知事は、市町村に対し、保険給付の効果に関する評価のためその他必要があると認めるときは、その事業の実施の状況に関する報告を求めることができる。 art-197/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-197/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-197/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare or the prefectural governor may, when it is determined necessary for an evaluation concerning the effect of Insurance Benefits or other matter, request a Municipality to submit a report concerning the performance of said project. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、都道府県知事又は市町村長に対し、当該都道府県知事又は市町村長が第五章の規定により行う事務に関し必要があると認めるときは、報告を求め、又は助言若しくは勧告をすることができる。 art-197/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-197/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-197/par-2 The Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare may request a prefectural governor or the mayor of a Municipality, when it is determined to be necessary with respect to the affairs to be conducted pursuant to the provisions of Chapter V by said prefectural governor or mayor of said Municipality, to submit a report, or may provide advice or recommendation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 都道府県知事は、市町村長（指定都市及び中核市の長を除く。以下この項において同じ。）に対し、当該市町村長が第五章の規定により行う事務に関し必要があると認めるときは、報告を求め、又は助言若しくは勧告をすることができる。 art-197/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-197/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-197/par-3 A prefectural governor may request the mayor of a Municipality (excluding the mayors of designated cities and core cities; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph), when it is determined to be necessary with respect to the affairs to be conducted by said mayor of a Municipality pursuant to the provisions of Chapter V, to submit a report, or may provide advice or recommendation. machine translation, not official **第四項** 厚生労働大臣又は都道府県知事は、医療保険者に対し、納付金の額の算定に関して必要があると認めるときは、その業務に関する報告を徴し、又は当該職員に実地にその状況を検査させることができる。 art-197/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-197/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-197/par-4 The Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare or a prefectural governor, as pertaining to a medical insurer, when he or she determines the necessity for a calculation of an amount of payment, may collect reports concerning said operation, or direct personnel to investigate said conditions in practice. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 第二十四条第三項の規定は、前項の規定による検査について、同条第四項の規定は、前項の規定による権限について準用する。 art-197/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-197/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-197/par-5 The provisions of Article 24, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to an inspection pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of paragraph (4) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority granted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-197/par-3: この項 → 介護保険法 第百九十七条第三項 (Article 197, paragraph (3)), art-197/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-197/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-197/par-3 - art-197/par-5: 第二十四条第三項 → 介護保険法 第二十四条第三項 (Article 24, paragraph (3)), art-24/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-24/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-24/par-3 - art-197/par-5: 前項 → 介護保険法 第百九十七条第四項 (Article 197, paragraph (4)), art-197/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-197/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-197/par-4 - art-197/par-5: 同条第四項 → 介護保険法 第二十四条第四項 (Article 24, paragraph (4)), art-24/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-24/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-24/par-4 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百九十七条第三項（報告の徴収等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-197/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-197/par-3 - 介護保険法 第百九十七条第五項（報告の徴収等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-197/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-197/par-5 - 介護保険法 第二百三条の四第一項（事務の区分） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-203-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-203-4/par-1 - 介護保険法 第二百七条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-207/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-207/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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-20261018T212610-032, 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