# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第六十条 (Article 60) - 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: 第六十条 (Article 60)（介護予防サービス費等の額の特例） — address `art-60` - 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-60 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-60 - 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. --- ### 第六十条（介護予防サービス費等の額の特例） — (Exceptions to the Amount of Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Service) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-60 **第一項** 市町村が、災害その他の厚生労働省令で定める特別の事情があることにより、介護予防サービス（これに相当するサービスを含む。以下この条において同じ。）、地域密着型介護予防サービス（これに相当するサービスを含む。以下この条において同じ。）又は住宅改修に必要な費用を負担することが困難であると認めた居宅要支援被保険者が受ける前条第一項各号に掲げる予防給付について当該各号に定める規定を適用する場合（同条の規定により読み替えて適用する場合を除く。）においては、これらの規定中「百分の九十」とあるのは、「百分の九十を超え百分の百以下の範囲内において市町村が定めた割合」とする。 art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-60/par-1 In a case when a Municipality applies the provisions determined in each item of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article to a Prevention Benefit listed in those items that an Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support receives, for whom it is deemed to be difficult to pay necessary expenses for Preventive Long-Term Care Service (including equivalent services; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), Community-Based Service for Preventive Long-Term Care (including equivalent services; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), or Home Modification due to a disaster or other special reasons as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (excluding a case when they are applied with the terms replaced pursuant to the provisions of that Article), the term "90 percent" in these provisions is to be deemed to be replaced with "the percentage provided by a Municipality within the range exceeding 90 percent and 100 percent or less". machine translation, not official **第二項** 市町村が、災害その他の厚生労働省令で定める特別の事情があることにより、介護予防サービス、地域密着型介護予防サービス又は住宅改修に必要な費用を負担することが困難であると認めた居宅要支援被保険者が受ける前条第一項各号に掲げる予防給付について当該各号に定める規定を適用する場合（同項の規定により読み替えて適用する場合に限る。）においては、同項の規定により読み替えて適用するこれらの規定中「百分の八十」とあるのは、「百分の八十を超え百分の百以下の範囲内において市町村が定めた割合」とする。 art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-60/par-2 In a case when a Municipality applies the provisions determined in each item of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article to a Prevention Benefit listed in those items that an Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support receives, for whom it is deemed to be difficult to pay necessary expenses for Preventive Long-Term Care Service, Community-Based Service for Preventive Long-Term Care, or Home Modification due to a disaster or other special circumstance as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (limited to a case when they are applied with the terms replaced pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph), the phrase "80 percent" in these provisions applied with the terms replaced pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph is to be deemed to be replaced with "the percentage provided by a Municipality within the range exceeding 80 percent and 100 percent or less". machine translation, not official **第三項** 市町村が、災害その他の厚生労働省令で定める特別の事情があることにより、介護予防サービス、地域密着型介護予防サービス又は住宅改修に必要な費用を負担することが困難であると認めた居宅要支援被保険者が受ける前条第一項各号に掲げる予防給付について当該各号に定める規定を適用する場合（同条第二項の規定により読み替えて適用する場合に限る。）においては、同条第二項の規定により読み替えて適用するこれらの規定中「百分の七十」とあるのは、「百分の七十を超え百分の百以下の範囲内において市町村が定めた割合」とする。 art-60/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-60/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-60/par-3 In a case when a Municipality applies the provisions determined in each item of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article to a Prevention Benefit listed in those items that an Insured In-Home Person Requiring Support receives, for whom it is deemed to be difficult to pay necessary expenses for Preventive Long-Term Care Service, Community-Based Service for Preventive Long-Term Care, or Home Modification due to a disaster or other special circumstance as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (limited to a case when they are applied with the terms replaced pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article), the phrase "70 percent" in these provisions applied with the terms replaced pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article is to be deemed to be replaced with "the percentage provided by a Municipality within the range exceeding 70 percent and 100 percent or less". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-60/par-1: この条 → 介護保険法 第六十条 (Article 60), art-60 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-60 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-60 - art-60/par-1: 前条第一項 → 介護保険法 第五十九条の二第一項 (Article 59-2, paragraph (1)), art-59-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-59-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-59-2/par-1 - art-60/par-1: 同条 → 介護保険法 第五十九条の二 (Article 59-2), art-59-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-59-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-59-2 - art-60/par-2: 前条第一項 → 介護保険法 第五十九条の二第一項 (Article 59-2, paragraph (1)), art-59-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-59-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-59-2/par-1 - art-60/par-3: 前条第一項 → 介護保険法 第五十九条の二第一項 (Article 59-2, paragraph (1)), art-59-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-59-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-59-2/par-1 - art-60/par-3: 同条第二項 → 介護保険法 第五十九条の二第二項 (Article 59-2, paragraph (2)), art-59-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-59-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-59-2/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第六十条第一項（介護予防サービス費等の額の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-60/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch long-term-care-insurance-act-20261018T203319-005, 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