# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第七十八条の十三 (Article 78-13) - 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: 第七十八条の十三 (Article 78-13)（公募指定） — address `art-78-13` - 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-78-13 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-13 - 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. --- ### 第七十八条の十三（公募指定） — Designation by Public Invitation caption: machine translation, not official art-78-13 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-13 **第一項** 市町村長は、第百十七条第一項の規定により当該市町村が定める市町村介護保険事業計画において定める当該市町村又は同条第二項第一号の規定により当該市町村が定める区域における定期巡回・随時対応型訪問介護看護等（認知症対応型共同生活介護、地域密着型特定施設入居者生活介護及び地域密着型介護老人福祉施設入所者生活介護以外の地域密着型サービスであって、定期巡回・随時対応型訪問介護看護、小規模多機能型居宅介護その他の厚生労働省令で定めるものをいう。以下この項において同じ。）の見込量の確保及び質の向上のために特に必要があると認めるときは、その定める期間（以下「市町村長指定期間」という。）中は、当該見込量の確保のため公募により第四十二条の二第一項本文の指定を行うことが適当な区域として定める区域（以下「市町村長指定区域」という。）に所在する事業所（定期巡回・随時対応型訪問介護看護等のうち当該市町村長が定めるもの（以下「市町村長指定定期巡回・随時対応型訪問介護看護等」という。）の事業を行う事業所に限る。以下「市町村長指定区域・サービス事業所」という。）に係る同項本文の指定を、公募により行うものとする。 art-78-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-13/par-1 A mayor of a Municipality, when it is determined to be particularly necessary for securing the prospective volume of, and improving the quality of, Periodic Patrol and On-Demand Home-Visit Long-Term Care and Nursing, etc. (meaning a Community-Based Service other than Communal Daily Long-Term Care for a Dementia Patient, Daily Life Long-Term Care for a Person Admitted to a Community-Based Specified Facility, and Daily Life Long-Term Care for a Person Admitted to a Community-Based Facility for the Elderly Covered by Public Aid Requiring Long-Term Care, that is Periodic Patrol and On-Demand Home-Visit Long-Term Care and Nursing, Multifunctional Long-Term Care in a Small Group Home, or another service specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) in said Municipality as provided for in the Municipal Insured Long-Term Care Service Plan that said Municipality provides pursuant to the provisions of Article 117, paragraph (1), or in the area that said Municipality provides pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2), item (i) of the same Article, is to make, by public invitation, during the period that the mayor specifies (hereinafter referred to as the "Period Designated by the Mayor of a Municipality"), the designation set forth in the main clause of that paragraph pertaining to a Business Office located in an area that the mayor specifies as an area in which it is appropriate to make the designation set forth in the main clause of Article 42-2, paragraph (1) by public invitation in order to secure said prospective volume (hereinafter referred to as the "Area Designated by the Mayor of a Municipality") (limited to a Business Office that conducts the business of those among Periodic Patrol and On-Demand Home-Visit Long-Term Care and Nursing, etc., that said mayor specifies (hereinafter referred to as "Periodic Patrol and On-Demand Home-Visit Long-Term Care and Nursing, etc., Specified by the Mayor of a Municipality"); hereinafter referred to as a "Business Office for an Area and Service Designated by the Mayor of a Municipality"). machine translation, not official **第二項** 市町村長指定期間中における市町村長指定区域・サービス事業所に係る第四十二条の二第一項本文の指定については、第七十八条の二の規定は適用しない。 art-78-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-13/par-2 With regard to the designation set forth in the main clause of Article 42-2, paragraph (1) pertaining to a Business Office for an Area and Service Designated by the Mayor of a Municipality during the Period Designated by the Mayor of a Municipality, the provisions of Article 78-2 do not apply. machine translation, not official **第三項** 市町村長は、当該市町村長指定期間の開始日の前日までにされた市町村長指定区域・サービス事業所に係る第七十八条の二第一項の指定の申請であって、当該市町村長指定期間の開始の際、指定をするかどうかの処分がなされていないものについては、前項の規定にかかわらず、当該申請に対する処分を行うものとする。 art-78-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-13/par-3 A mayor of a Municipality, with regard to an application for designation as set forth in Article 78-2, paragraph (1) pertaining to a Business Office for an Area and Service Designated by the Mayor of a Municipality that was filed by the day before the start date of said Period Designated by the Mayor of a Municipality and for which no disposition as to whether to make the designation has been made at the start of said Period Designated by the Mayor of a Municipality, is to make a disposition on said application, notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official **第四項** 前項の規定は、市町村長が市町村長指定区域を拡張する場合又は市町村長指定定期巡回・随時対応型訪問介護看護等を追加する場合について準用する。この場合において、必要な技術的読替えは、政令で定める。 art-78-13/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-13/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-13/par-4 The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to a case where a mayor of a Municipality expands an Area Designated by the Mayor of a Municipality or adds Periodic Patrol and On-Demand Home-Visit Long-Term Care and Nursing, etc., Specified by the Mayor of a Municipality. In this case, the necessary technical replacement of terms is provided by a Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-78-13/par-1: 第百十七条第一項 → 介護保険法 第百十七条第一項 (Article 117, paragraph (1)), art-117/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-117/par-1 - art-78-13/par-1: 同条第二項第一号 → 介護保険法 第百十七条第二項第一号 (Article 117, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-117/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-117/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-117/par-2/item-1 - art-78-13/par-1: この項 → 介護保険法 第七十八条の十三第一項 (Article 78-13, paragraph (1)), art-78-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-13/par-1 - art-78-13/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-78-13/par-2: 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-78-13/par-2: 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 - art-78-13/par-3: 第七十八条の二第一項 → 介護保険法 第七十八条の二第一項 (Article 78-2, paragraph (1)), art-78-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-2/par-1 - art-78-13/par-3: 前項 → 介護保険法 第七十八条の十三第二項 (Article 78-13, paragraph (2)), art-78-13/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-13/par-2 - art-78-13/par-4: 前項 → 介護保険法 第七十八条の十三第三項 (Article 78-13, paragraph (3)), art-78-13/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-13/par-3 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第七十八条の二第一項（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-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-2/par-1 - 介護保険法 第七十八条の十三第一項（公募指定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-13/par-1 - 介護保険法 第七十八条の十三第三項（公募指定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-13/par-3 - 介護保険法 第七十八条の十三第四項（公募指定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-13/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-13/par-4 - 介護保険法 第七十八条の十四第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-14/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 附則第九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-72/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-72/art-9/par-1 - 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 --- ## 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