# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) - 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7)（病床転換の円滑化への配慮） — address `suppl-4091-123/art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4091-123/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4091-123/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（病床転換の円滑化への配慮） — Consideration for Smooth Conversion of Beds caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4091-123/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4091-123/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4091-123/art-7 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、基本指針を定めるに当たっては、医療に要する費用の適正化及び良質かつ効率的な介護サービスの確保の観点から高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律附則第二条に規定する病床の転換が円滑に行われるよう、介護医療院その他の厚生労働省令で定める施設の入所定員の増加について適切に配慮するものとする。 suppl-4091-123/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4091-123/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4091-123/art-7/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, in establishing the Basic Guidelines, is to give appropriate consideration to an increase in the capacity of residents of integrated facilities for medical and long-term care and other facilities specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, so that the conversion of beds prescribed in Article 2 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People is carried out smoothly, from the viewpoint of ensuring the appropriateness of expenses required for medical care and securing high-quality and effective Long-Term Care Service. machine translation, not official --- ## 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-20261018T212610-034, 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