# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 14) - 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: 第十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 14) — address `suppl-4291-52/art-14` - 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-4291-52/art-14 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4291-52/art-14 - 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. --- ### 第十四条 suppl-4291-52/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4291-52/art-14 **第一項** 施行日の前日において現に病院又は診療所を開設しており、かつ、当該病院又は診療所の名称中に病院、病院分院、産院、療養所、診療所、診察所、医院その他これらに類する文字（以下この条において「病院等に類する文字」という。）を用いている者が、当該病院若しくは診療所を廃止して新介護保険法第八条第二十九項に規定する介護医療院（以下「介護医療院」という。）を開設した場合又は当該病院若しくは診療所の病床数を減少させて介護医療院を開設した場合において、当該介護医療院の名称中に介護医療院という文字を用いることその他厚生労働省令で定める要件に該当するものである間は、医療法第三条第一項の規定にかかわらず、当該介護医療院の名称中に病院等に類する文字（当該病院若しくは診療所を廃止した際又は当該病院若しくは診療所の病床数を減少させた際に当該病院又は診療所の名称中に用いていたものに限る。）を引き続き用いることができる。 suppl-4291-52/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4291-52/art-14/par-1 In the case where a person who, on the day before the Effective Date, has actually established a hospital or clinic and uses in the name of that hospital or clinic the words hospital, hospital branch, maternity home, sanatorium, clinic, examination room, medical office or other words similar to these (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "words similar to hospital, etc.") abolishes that hospital or clinic and establishes an integrated facility for medical and long-term care prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (29) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as an "integrated facility for medical and long-term care"), or reduces the number of beds of that hospital or clinic and establishes an integrated facility for medical and long-term care, for as long as that integrated facility for medical and long-term care meets the requirements specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, such as using the words integrated facility for medical and long-term care in its name, the person may, notwithstanding Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Medical Care Act, continue to use words similar to hospital, etc. in the name of that integrated facility for medical and long-term care (limited to those that were used in the name of that hospital or clinic when that hospital or clinic was abolished or when the number of its beds was reduced). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4291-52/art-14/par-1: この条 → 介護保険法 附則第十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 14), suppl-4291-52/art-14 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4291-52/art-14 - suppl-4291-52/art-14/par-1: 新介護保険法第八条第二十九項 → 介護保険法 第八条第二十九項 (Article 8, paragraph (29)), art-8/par-29 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-8/par-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-8/par-29 - suppl-4291-52/art-14/par-1: 医療法第三条第一項 → 医療法 第三条第一項 (Article 3, paragraph (1)), art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-3/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 附則第十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4291-52/art-14/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-20261018T212610-048, 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