# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21) - 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: 第二十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 21) — address `suppl-4261-83/art-21` - 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-4261-83/art-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4261-83/art-21 - 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. --- ### 第二十一条 suppl-4261-83/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4261-83/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4261-83/art-21 **第一項** 第六号施行日から起算して一年を超えない期間内において第六号新介護保険法第七十八条の二第四項第一号並びに第七十八条の四第一項及び第二項に規定する市町村の条例（地域密着型通所介護に係る部分に限る。）が制定施行されるまでの間は、第六号新介護保険法第七十八条の二第五項及び第七十八条の四第三項に規定する厚生労働省令で定める基準をもって、当該市町村の条例で定められた基準とみなす。 suppl-4261-83/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4261-83/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4261-83/art-21/par-1 Until the Municipal Ordinance prescribed in Article 78-2, paragraph (4), item (i) and Article 78-4, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the item (vi) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act (limited to the part pertaining to Community-Based Outpatient Day Long-Term Care) is enacted and put into effect within a period not exceeding one year counting from the item (vi) Effective Date, the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as prescribed in Article 78-2, paragraph (5) and Article 78-4, paragraph (3) of the item (vi) New Long-Term Care Insurance Act are deemed to be the standards provided for by the Municipal Ordinance of the Municipality concerned. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4261-83/art-21/par-1: 第六号新介護保険法第七十八条の二第四項第一号 → 介護保険法 第七十八条の二第四項第一号 (Article 78-2, paragraph (4), item (i)), art-78-2/par-4/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-2/par-4/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-2/par-4/item-1 - suppl-4261-83/art-21/par-1: 第七十八条の四第一項 → 介護保険法 第七十八条の四第一項 (Article 78-4, paragraph (1)), art-78-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-4/par-1 - suppl-4261-83/art-21/par-1: 第二項 → 介護保険法 第七十八条の四第二項 (Article 78-4, paragraph (2)), art-78-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-4/par-2 - suppl-4261-83/art-21/par-1: 第六号新介護保険法第七十八条の二第五項 → 介護保険法 第七十八条の二第五項 (Article 78-2, paragraph (5)), art-78-2/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-2/par-5 - suppl-4261-83/art-21/par-1: 第七十八条の四第三項 → 介護保険法 第七十八条の四第三項 (Article 78-4, paragraph (3)), art-78-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-4/par-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 附則第一条第一項第六号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4261-83/art-1/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4261-83/art-1/par-1/item-6 --- ## 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-20261018T212610-047, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 211 — 介護保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18