# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第二百三条の四 (Article 203-4)
- 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: 第二百三条の四 (Article 203-4)（事務の区分） — address `art-203-4`
- 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-203-4
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-203-4
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### 第二百三条の四（事務の区分） — (Classification of Affairs)
caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System
art-203-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-203-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-203-4
**第一項** 第百五十六条第四項、第百七十二条第一項及び第三項並びに第百九十七条第四項の規定により都道府県が処理することとされている事務は、地方自治法第二条第九項第一号に規定する第一号法定受託事務とする。
art-203-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-203-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-203-4/par-1
Affairs that are executed by a prefecture pursuant to the provisions of Article 156, paragraph (4), Article 172, paragraphs (1) and (3), and Article 197, paragraph (4) are to be Type 1 statutory entrusted affairs prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the Local Autonomy Act.
machine translation, not official
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## Cites
- art-203-4/par-1: 第百五十六条第四項 → 介護保険法 第百五十六条第四項 (Article 156, paragraph (4)), art-156/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-156/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-156/par-4
- art-203-4/par-1: 第百七十二条第一項 → 介護保険法 第百七十二条第一項 (Article 172, paragraph (1)), art-172/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-172/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-172/par-1
- art-203-4/par-1: 第三項 → 介護保険法 第百七十二条第三項 (Article 172, paragraph (3)), art-172/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-172/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-172/par-3
- art-203-4/par-1: 第百九十七条第四項 → 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-203-4/par-1: 地方自治法第二条第九項第一号 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二条第九項第一号 (Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i)), art-2/par-9/item-1 — not held in this collection
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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