# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第二百二条 (Article 202)

- 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: 第二百二条 (Article 202)（被保険者等に関する調査） — address `art-202`
- 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-202
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-202
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### 第二百二条（被保険者等に関する調査） — (Investigation Concerning an Insured Person)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-202 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-202 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-202</sup>

**第一項**  市町村は、被保険者の資格、保険給付、地域支援事業及び保険料に関して必要があると認めるときは、被保険者、被保険者の配偶者若しくは被保険者の属する世帯の世帯主その他その世帯に属する者又はこれらであった者に対し、文書その他の物件の提出若しくは提示を命じ、又は当該職員に質問させることができる。
<sup>art-202/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-202/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-202/par-1</sup>
A Municipality, when it determines it necessary with respect to qualification of an Insured Person, an Insurance Benefit, Community Support Projects, or an insurance premium, may order an Insured Person, the spouse of an Insured Person, the householder of the family where an Insured Person resides, or other person who belongs to that family, or a person who was any of these, to submit or present documents and other items, or direct personnel to make inquiries.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  第二十四条第三項の規定は、前項の規定による質問について、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。
<sup>art-202/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-202/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-202/par-2</sup>
The provisions of Article 24, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to questions 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.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-202/par-2: 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-202/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第二百二条第一項 (Article 202, paragraph (1)), art-202/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-202/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-202/par-1
- art-202/par-2: 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

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 介護保険法 第二百二条第二項（被保険者等に関する調査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-202/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-202/par-2
- 介護保険法 第二百十四条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-214/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-214/par-3

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## 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
