# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第九十六条 (Article 96) - 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: 第九十六条 (Article 96)（介護老人保健施設の基準） — address `art-96` - 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-96 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-96 - 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. --- ### 第九十六条（介護老人保健施設の基準） — (Standards of a Long-Term Care Health Facility) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-96 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-96 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-96 **第一項** 介護老人保健施設の開設者は、次条第三項に規定する介護老人保健施設の設備及び運営に関する基準に従い、要介護者の心身の状況等に応じて適切な介護保健施設サービスを提供するとともに、自らその提供する介護保健施設サービスの質の評価を行うことその他の措置を講ずることにより常に介護保健施設サービスを受ける者の立場に立ってこれを提供するように努めなければならない。 art-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-96/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-96/par-1 An Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility must act in compliance with the standards concerning facilities and management of a Long-Term Care Health Facility as prescribed in paragraph (3) of the following Article, offer appropriate Long-Term Care Health Facility Service according to the mental and physical condition, etc., of a Person Requiring Long-Term Care, and always engage in offering said services from the viewpoint of the person that receives Long-Term Care Health Facility Service by implementing self-evaluation of the quality of the Provider's own Long-Term Care Health Facility Service and other measures. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "An Organizer of a Long-Term Care Health Facility must act in compliance with the standards concerning facilities and management of a Long-Term Care Health Facility as prescribed in paragraph (3) of the following Article, offer appropriate Long-Term Care Health Facility Service according to the mental and physical condition, etc., of a Person Requiring Long-Term Care, and always engage in offering said services from the viewpoint of the person that receives Long-Term Care Health Facility Service by implementing self-evaluation of the quality of the Provider's own Long-Term Care Health Facility Service and other measures." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb **第二項** 介護老人保健施設の開設者は、介護保健施設サービスを受けようとする被保険者から提示された被保険者証に、認定審査会意見が記載されているときは、当該認定審査会意見に配慮して、当該被保険者に当該介護保健施設サービスを提供するように努めなければならない。 art-96/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-96/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-96/par-2 An Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, when an Opinion of the Certification Committee is entered on the Certificate of Insured Person that is presented by an Insured Person that intends to receive Long-Term Care Health Facility Service, must engage in offering said Long-Term Care Health Facility Service of said Insured Person in consideration of said Opinion of the Certification Committee. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "An Organizer of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, when an Opinion of the Certification Committee is entered on the Certificate of Insured Person that is presented by an Insured Person that intends to receive Long-Term Care Health Facility Service, must engage in offering said Long-Term Care Health Facility Service of said Insured Person in consideration of said Opinion of the Certification Committee." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb --- ## Cites - art-96/par-1: 次条第三項 → 介護保険法 第九十七条第三項 (Article 97, paragraph (3)), art-97/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-97/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-97/par-3 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Long-Term Care Insurance Act (介護保険法), Article 96, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Long-Term Care Insurance Act (介護保険法), Article 96, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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