# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第九十九条の二 (Article 99-2) - 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: 第九十九条の二 (Article 99-2)（都道府県知事等による連絡調整又は援助） — address `art-99-2` - 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-99-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-99-2 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第九十九条の二（都道府県知事等による連絡調整又は援助） — Coordination or Assistance by Prefectural Governors, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-99-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-99-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-99-2 **第一項** 都道府県知事又は市町村長は、介護老人保健施設の開設者による第九十七条第六項に規定する便宜の提供が円滑に行われるため必要があると認めるときは、当該介護老人保健施設の開設者及び他の介護老人保健施設の開設者その他の関係者相互間の連絡調整又は当該介護老人保健施設の開設者及び当該関係者に対する助言その他の援助を行うことができる。 art-99-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-99-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-99-2/par-1 A prefectural governor or mayor of a Municipality, when it is determined to be necessary for an Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility to smoothly provide the conveniences prescribed in Article 97, paragraph (6), may provide coordination among said Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, Establishers of other Long-Term Care Health Facilities, and other relevant persons, or advice and other assistance to said Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility and said relevant persons. machine translation, not official **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、同一の介護老人保健施設の開設者について二以上の都道府県知事が前項の規定による連絡調整又は援助を行う場合において、当該介護老人保健施設の開設者による第九十七条第六項に規定する便宜の提供が円滑に行われるため必要があると認めるときは、当該都道府県知事相互間の連絡調整又は当該介護老人保健施設の開設者に対する都道府県の区域を超えた広域的な見地からの助言その他の援助を行うことができる。 art-99-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-99-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-99-2/par-2 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, in a case when two or more prefectural governors provide coordination or assistance pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph for the same Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility, when it is determined to be necessary for said Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility to smoothly provide the conveniences prescribed in Article 97, paragraph (6), may provide coordination among said prefectural governors, or advice and other assistance to said Establisher of a Long-Term Care Health Facility from a wide-area perspective beyond the areas of prefectures. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-99-2/par-1: 第九十七条第六項 → 介護保険法 第九十七条第六項 (Article 97, paragraph (6)), art-97/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-97/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-97/par-6 - art-99-2/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第九十九条の二第一項 (Article 99-2, paragraph (1)), art-99-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-99-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-99-2/par-1 - art-99-2/par-2: 第九十七条第六項 → 介護保険法 第九十七条第六項 (Article 97, paragraph (6)), art-97/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-97/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-97/par-6 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第九十九条の二第二項（都道府県知事等による連絡調整又は援助） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-99-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-99-2/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-20261018T212610-012, 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