# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) - 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-4251-44/art-1` - 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-4251-44/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4251-44/art-1 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4251-44/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4251-44/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4251-44/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。 suppl-4251-44/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4251-44/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4251-44/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified in those items: machine translation, not official **一** 略 suppl-4251-44/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4251-44/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4251-44/art-1/par-1/item-1 Omitted machine translation, not official **二** 第一条、第五条、第七条（消防組織法第十五条の改正規定に限る。）、第九条、第十条、第十四条（地方独立行政法人法目次の改正規定（「第六章　移行型地方独立行政法人の設立に伴う措置（第五十九条―第六十七条）」を「／第六章　移行型地方独立行政法人の設立に伴う措置（第五十九条―第六十七条）／第六章の二　特定地方独立行政法人から一般地方独立行政法人への移行に伴う措置（第六十七条の二―第六十七条の七）／」に改める部分に限る。）、同法第八条、第五十五条及び第五十九条第一項の改正規定並びに同法第六章の次に一章を加える改正規定を除く。）、第十五条、第二十二条（民生委員法第四条の改正規定に限る。）、第三十六条、第四十条（森林法第七十条第一項の改正規定に限る。）、第五十条（建設業法第二十五条の二第一項の改正規定に限る。）、第五十一条、第五十二条（建築基準法第七十九条第一項の改正規定に限る。）、第五十三条、第六十一条（都市計画法第七十八条第二項の改正規定に限る。）、第六十二条、第六十五条（国土利用計画法第十五条第二項の改正規定を除く。）及び第七十二条の規定並びに次条、附則第三条第二項、第四条、第六条第二項及び第三項、第十三条、第十四条（地方公務員等共済組合法（昭和三十七年法律第百五十二号）第百四十一条の二の次に二条を加える改正規定中第百四十一条の四に係る部分に限る。）、第十六条並びに第十八条の規定　平成二十六年四月一日 suppl-4251-44/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4251-44/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4251-44/art-1/par-1/item-2 The provisions of Article 1, Article 5, Article 7 (limited to the provision amending Article 15 of the Fire and Disaster Management Organization Act), Article 9, Article 10, Article 14 (excluding the provisions amending the table of contents of the Local Independent Administrative Agency Act (limited to the part replacing "Chapter VI Measures Accompanying the Establishment of Transitional Local Independent Administrative Agencies (Articles 59 - 67)" with "/Chapter VI Measures Accompanying the Establishment of Transitional Local Independent Administrative Agencies (Articles 59 - 67)/Chapter VI-2 Measures Accompanying the Transition from Specified Local Independent Administrative Agencies to General Local Independent Administrative Agencies (Articles 67-2 - 67-7)/"), the provisions amending Article 8, Article 55 and Article 59, paragraph (1) of that Act, and the provision adding one Chapter after Chapter VI of that Act), Article 15, Article 22 (limited to the provision amending Article 4 of the Commissioned Welfare Volunteers Act), Article 36, Article 40 (limited to the provision amending Article 70, paragraph (1) of the Forest Act), Article 50 (limited to the provision amending Article 25-2, paragraph (1) of the Construction Business Act), Article 51, Article 52 (limited to the provision amending Article 79, paragraph (1) of the Building Standards Act), Article 53, Article 61 (limited to the provision amending Article 78, paragraph (2) of the City Planning Act), Article 62, Article 65 (excluding the provision amending Article 15, paragraph (2) of the National Land Use Planning Act) and Article 72, and of the following Article, Article 3, paragraph (2), Article 4, Article 6, paragraphs (2) and (3), Article 13, Article 14 (limited to the part pertaining to Article 141-4 in the provision adding two Articles after Article 141-2 of the Local Public Officers, etc. Mutual Aid Association Act (Act No. 152 of 1962)), Article 16 and Article 18 of the Supplementary Provisions: April 1, 2014. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4251-44/art-1/par-1/item-2: 第六条第二項 → 介護保険法 附則第六条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6, paragraph (2)), suppl-4251-44/art-6/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4251-44/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4251-44/art-6/par-2 - suppl-4251-44/art-1/par-1/item-2: 第三項 → 介護保険法 附則第六条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6, paragraph (3)), suppl-4251-44/art-6/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4251-44/art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4251-44/art-6/par-3 - suppl-4251-44/art-1/par-1/item-2: 第十八条 → 介護保険法 附則第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18), suppl-4251-44/art-18 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4251-44/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4251-44/art-18 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 附則第十条第一項（罰則に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4251-44/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4251-44/art-10/par-1 --- ## 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-20261018T212610-044, 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