# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18) - 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: 第十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 18)（検討） — address `suppl-4251-44/art-18` - 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-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4251-44/art-18 - 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. --- ### 第十八条（検討） — Review caption: machine translation, not official 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 **第一項** 政府は、新介護保険法第四十七条、第五十九条、第七十九条、第八十一条、第百十五条の二十二、第百十五条の二十四及び第百十五条の四十六の規定の施行の状況等を勘案し、これらの規定に規定する基準及びこれらの規定に基づき国の行政機関の長が定める基準の在り方について検討を加え、必要があると認めるときは、その結果に基づいて必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-4251-44/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4251-44/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4251-44/art-18/par-1 The government is to, taking into consideration the condition, etc., of enforcement of the provisions of Article 47, Article 59, Article 79, Article 81, Article 115-22, Article 115-24 and Article 115-46 of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act, review how the standards prescribed in those provisions and the standards established by the head of a national administrative organ based on those provisions ought to be, and, when it finds it necessary, is to take the necessary measures based on the results. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4251-44/art-18/par-1: 新介護保険法第四十七条 → 介護保険法 第四十七条 (Article 47), art-47 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-47 - suppl-4251-44/art-18/par-1: 第五十九条 → 介護保険法 第五十九条 (Article 59), art-59 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-59 - suppl-4251-44/art-18/par-1: 第七十九条 → 介護保険法 第七十九条 (Article 79), art-79 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-79 - suppl-4251-44/art-18/par-1: 第八十一条 → 介護保険法 第八十一条 (Article 81), art-81 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-81 - suppl-4251-44/art-18/par-1: 第百十五条の二十二 → 介護保険法 第百十五条の二十二 (Article 115-22), art-115-22 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-22 - suppl-4251-44/art-18/par-1: 第百十五条の二十四 → 介護保険法 第百十五条の二十四 (Article 115-24), art-115-24 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-24 - suppl-4251-44/art-18/par-1: 第百十五条の四十六 → 介護保険法 第百十五条の四十六 (Article 115-46), art-115-46 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-46 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-46 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 附則第一条第一項第二号（施行期日） — 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 - 介護保険法 附則第六条第一項（介護保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4251-44/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4251-44/art-6/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch long-term-care-insurance-act-20261018T212610-045, 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