# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) - 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) — address `suppl-4291-52/art-8` - 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-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4291-52/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条 suppl-4291-52/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4291-52/art-8 **第一項** この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）の前日において旧介護老人保健施設に入所し、旧介護保険法第四十八条第一項の施設介護サービス費を受けていた介護保険法第四十一条第一項に規定する要介護被保険者（以下この条において「要介護旧入所者」という。）については、施行日以後引き続き前条の規定により新介護老人保健施設とみなされた当該旧介護老人保健施設に入所している間（当該旧介護老人保健施設に係る介護保険法第百四条第一項の規定による許可の取消しその他やむを得ない理由により、当該旧介護老人保健施設から継続して一以上の他の新介護老人保健施設に入所した要介護旧入所者にあっては、当該他の新介護老人保健施設に継続して入所している間を含む。）は、新介護保険法第八条第二十八項の要介護者であって、主としてその心身の機能の維持回復を図り、居宅における生活を営むことができるようにするための支援が必要である者である要介護被保険者とみなして、新介護保険法第四十八条の規定を適用する。 suppl-4291-52/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4291-52/art-8/par-1 With regard to an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care prescribed in Article 41, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act who, on the day preceding the date of enforcement of this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), was admitted to a Former Long-Term Care Health Facility and was receiving the Allowance for Long-Term Care Facility Service under Article 48, paragraph (1) of the Former Long-Term Care Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to in this Article as a "previously admitted Person Requiring Long-Term Care"), for the period during which the person continues to be admitted, on or after the Effective Date, to that Former Long-Term Care Health Facility deemed to be a New Long-Term Care Health Facility pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article (including, for a previously admitted Person Requiring Long-Term Care who, due to the rescission of the approval under Article 104, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act pertaining to that Former Long-Term Care Health Facility or any other unavoidable reason, has been admitted to one or more other New Long-Term Care Health Facility continuing from that Former Long-Term Care Health Facility, the period during which the person continues to be admitted to that other New Long-Term Care Health Facility), the person is deemed to be an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care who is a Person Requiring Long-Term Care prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (28) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act and who needs support mainly to maintain and recover his or her mental or physical functions and to enable him or her to lead a life at home, and Article 48 of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act applies. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4291-52/art-8/par-1: 介護保険法第四十一条第一項 → 介護保険法 第四十一条第一項 (Article 41, paragraph (1)), art-41/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-41/par-1 - suppl-4291-52/art-8/par-1: この条 → 介護保険法 附則第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8), suppl-4291-52/art-8 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4291-52/art-8 - suppl-4291-52/art-8/par-1: 前条 → 介護保険法 附則第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7), suppl-4291-52/art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4291-52/art-7 - suppl-4291-52/art-8/par-1: 介護保険法第百四条第一項 → 介護保険法 第百四条第一項 (Article 104, paragraph (1)), art-104/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-104/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-104/par-1 - suppl-4291-52/art-8/par-1: 新介護保険法第八条第二十八項 → 介護保険法 第八条第二十八項 (Article 8, paragraph (28)), art-8/par-28 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-8/par-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-8/par-28 - suppl-4291-52/art-8/par-1: 新介護保険法第四十八条 → 介護保険法 第四十八条 (Article 48), art-48 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-48 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 附則第七条第一項（介護老人保健施設に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4291-52/art-7/par-1 - 介護保険法 附則第八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4291-52/art-8/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-20261018T203319-060, 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