# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第六十七条 (Article 67) - 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: 第六十七条 (Article 67)（保険給付の支払の一時差止） — address `art-67` - 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-67 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-67 - 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. --- ### 第六十七条（保険給付の支払の一時差止） — (Temporary Suspension of Payment of Insurance Benefit) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-67 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-67 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-67 **第一項** 市町村は、保険給付を受けることができる第一号被保険者である要介護被保険者等が保険料を滞納しており、かつ、当該保険料の納期限から厚生労働省令で定める期間が経過するまでの間に当該保険料を納付しない場合においては、当該保険料の滞納につき災害その他の政令で定める特別の事情があると認める場合を除き、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、保険給付の全部又は一部の支払を一時差し止めるものとする。 art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-67/par-1 A Municipality, when an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc., that is a Primary Insured Person that can receive an insurance benefit becomes a person delinquent in the payment of an insurance premium and fails to pay said insurance premium from the due date of payment of said insurance premium until the period as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare expires, is to temporarily suspend the payment of the whole or a part of an insurance benefit, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, except for a case when it is determined that said delinquency of payment of an insurance premium is due to a disaster or other special circumstance as determined by a Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 市町村は、前項に規定する厚生労働省令で定める期間が経過しない場合においても、保険給付を受けることができる第一号被保険者である要介護被保険者等が保険料を滞納している場合においては、当該保険料の滞納につき災害その他の政令で定める特別の事情があると認める場合を除き、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、保険給付の全部又は一部の支払を一時差し止めることができる。 art-67/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-67/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-67/par-2 A Municipality, in a case when an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc., who is a Primary Insured Person that can receive an insurance benefit becomes a person delinquent in the payment of an insurance premium although the period as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare as prescribed in the preceding paragraph has not yet expired, except for a case when it is determined that said delinquency of an insurance premium is due to a disaster or other special circumstance as determined by a Cabinet Order as prescribed, may temporarily suspend the whole or a part of an insurance benefit pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 市町村は、前条第一項又は第二項の規定により支払方法変更の記載を受けている要介護被保険者等であって、前二項の規定による保険給付の全部又は一部の支払の一時差止がなされているものが、なお滞納している保険料を納付しない場合においては、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、あらかじめ、当該要介護被保険者等に通知して、当該一時差止に係る保険給付の額から当該要介護被保険者等が滞納している保険料額を控除することができる。 art-67/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-67/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-67/par-3 A Municipality, in a case when an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc., that has received an Entry of Change of Payment Method pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of the preceding Article and whose insurance benefit has been temporarily suspended in whole or in part pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs and who has not yet paid the delinquent insurance premium, may notify in advance said Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc., pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, and deduct the amount of delinquent insurance premium of said Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, etc., from the amount of insurance benefit pertaining to said temporary suspension. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-67/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第六十七条第一項 (Article 67, paragraph (1)), art-67/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-67/par-1 - art-67/par-3: 前条第一項 → 介護保険法 第六十六条第一項 (Article 66, paragraph (1)), art-66/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-66/par-1 - art-67/par-3: 第二項 → 介護保険法 第六十六条第二項 (Article 66, paragraph (2)), art-66/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-66/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-66/par-2 - art-67/par-3: 前二項 → 介護保険法 第六十七条第一項 (Article 67, paragraph (1)), art-67/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-67/par-1 - art-67/par-3: 前二項 → 介護保険法 第六十七条第二項 (Article 67, paragraph (2)), art-67/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-67/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-67/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第六十六条第一項（保険料滞納者に係る支払方法の変更） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-66/par-1 - 介護保険法 第六十七条第二項（保険給付の支払の一時差止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-67/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-67/par-2 - 介護保険法 第六十七条第三項（保険給付の支払の一時差止） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-67/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-67/par-3 --- ## 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