# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第七十条の三 (Article 70-3) - 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: 第七十条の三 (Article 70-3)（指定の変更） — address `art-70-3` - 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-70-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-70-3 - 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. --- ### 第七十条の三（指定の変更） — Change of Appointment as Service Provider caption: machine translation, not official art-70-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-70-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-70-3 **第一項** 第四十一条第一項本文の指定を受けて特定施設入居者生活介護の事業を行う者は、同項本文の指定に係る特定施設入居者生活介護の利用定員を増加しようとするときは、あらかじめ、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、当該特定施設入居者生活介護に係る同項本文の指定の変更を申請することができる。 art-70-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-70-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-70-3/par-1 A person who has received the designation prescribed in the main clause of Article 41, paragraph (1) and conducts the business of daily life long-term care for a person admitted to a Specified Facility, when intending to increase the maximum number of users of the daily life long-term care for a person admitted to a Specified Facility pertaining to the designation prescribed in the main clause of that paragraph, may apply in advance, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, for a change of the designation prescribed in the main clause of that paragraph pertaining to said daily life long-term care for a person admitted to a Specified Facility. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第七十条第四項から第六項までの規定は、前項の指定の変更の申請があった場合について準用する。この場合において、同条第四項及び第五項中「指定をしない」とあるのは、「指定の変更を拒む」と読み替えるものとする。 art-70-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-70-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-70-3/par-2 The provisions of Article 70, paragraphs (4) through (6) apply mutatis mutandis to a case when an application for the change of appointment as service provider as set forth in the preceding paragraph is submitted. In this case, the phrase "not to execute the appointment as service provider" in paragraph (4) of the same Article and the phrase "not to execute an appointment as service provider" in paragraph (5) of the same Article are deemed to be replaced with "to refuse the change of the appointment as service provider" and "to refuse the change of an appointment as service provider", respectively. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-70-3/par-1: 第四十一条第一項 → 介護保険法 第四十一条第一項 (Article 41, paragraph (1)), art-41/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-41/par-1 - art-70-3/par-2: 第七十条第四項から第六項まで → 介護保険法 第七十条第四項 (Article 70, paragraph (4)), art-70/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-70/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-70/par-4 - art-70-3/par-2: 第七十条第四項から第六項まで → 介護保険法 第七十条第五項 (Article 70, paragraph (5)), art-70/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-70/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-70/par-5 - art-70-3/par-2: 第七十条第四項から第六項まで → 介護保険法 第七十条第六項 (Article 70, paragraph (6)), art-70/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-70/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-70/par-6 - art-70-3/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第七十条の三第一項 (Article 70-3, paragraph (1)), art-70-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-70-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-70-3/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第七十条の三第二項（指定の変更） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-70-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-70-3/par-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-20261018T212610-006, 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