# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第七十八条の十二 (Article 78-12)

- 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: 第七十八条の十二 (Article 78-12)（準用） — address `art-78-12`
- 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-78-12
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-12
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### 第七十八条の十二（準用） — Applications, Mutatis Mutandis
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-78-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-12</sup>

  **第一項**  第七十条の二、第七十一条及び第七十二条の規定は、第四十二条の二第一項本文の指定について準用する。この場合において、第七十条の二第四項中「前条」とあるのは、「第七十八条の二」と読み替えるものとするほか、必要な技術的読替えは、政令で定める。
  <sup>art-78-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-12/par-1</sup>
  The provisions of Article 70-2, Article 71 and Article 72 apply mutatis mutandis to the designation set forth in the main clause of Article 42-2, paragraph (1). In this case, the term "the preceding Article" in Article 70-2, paragraph (4) is deemed to be replaced with "Article 78-2", and other necessary technical replacement of terms is provided by a Cabinet Order.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-78-12/par-1: 第七十条の二 → 介護保険法 第七十条の二 (Article 70-2), art-70-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-70-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-70-2
- art-78-12/par-1: 第七十一条 → 介護保険法 第七十一条 (Article 71), art-71 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-71
- art-78-12/par-1: 第七十二条 → 介護保険法 第七十二条 (Article 72), art-72 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-72
- art-78-12/par-1: 第四十二条の二第一項 → 介護保険法 第四十二条の二第一項 (Article 42-2, paragraph (1)), art-42-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-42-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-42-2/par-1
- art-78-12/par-1: 第七十条の二第四項 → 介護保険法 第七十条の二第四項 (Article 70-2, paragraph (4)), art-70-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-70-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-70-2/par-4
- art-78-12/par-1: 前条 → 介護保険法 第七十条 (Article 70), art-70 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-70 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-70
- art-78-12/par-1: 第七十八条の二 → 介護保険法 第七十八条の二 (Article 78-2), art-78-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-2

## Cited by

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

- 介護保険法 第七十八条の二第十一項（指定地域密着型サービス事業者の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-2/par-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-2/par-11
- 介護保険法 第七十八条の二の二第一項（共生型地域密着型サービス事業者の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-2-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-2-2/par-1
- 介護保険法 第七十八条の十五第一項（公募指定の有効期間等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-15/par-1
- 介護保険法 第七十八条の十五第二項（公募指定の有効期間等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-15/par-2
- 介護保険法 第七十八条の十五第四項（公募指定の有効期間等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-15/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-15/par-4
- 介護保険法 附則第五条第一項（指定又は許可の取消しに関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4201-42/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4201-42/art-5/par-1
- 介護保険法 附則第五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-72/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-72/art-5/par-1
- 介護保険法 附則第六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-72/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-72/art-6/par-1
- 健康保険法 第八十九条第三項（指定訪問看護事業者の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/health-insurance-act/art-89/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/211AC0000000070/art-89/par-3
- 生活保護法 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/en/public-assistance-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/appdx-2

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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-20261018T212610-009, 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
