# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第十条 (Article 10) - 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: 第十条 (Article 10)（資格取得の時期） — address `art-10` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-10 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-10 - 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. --- ### 第十条（資格取得の時期） — (Time of Acquisition of Qualifications) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-10 **第一項** 前条の規定による当該市町村が行う介護保険の被保険者は、次の各号のいずれかに該当するに至った日から、その資格を取得する。 art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-10/par-1 An Insured Person by Long-Term Care Insurance as provided by a Municipality pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article shall acquire said eligibility on the date when said Person first corresponds to any of the following items: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 当該市町村の区域内に住所を有する医療保険加入者が四十歳に達したとき。 art-10/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-10/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-10/par-1/item-1 when a Medical Insurance Subscriber who is domiciled in said Municipality becomes 40 years of age; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 四十歳以上六十五歳未満の医療保険加入者又は六十五歳以上の者が当該市町村の区域内に住所を有するに至ったとき。 art-10/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-10/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-10/par-1/item-2 when a Medical Insurance Subscriber who is 40 years of age or more but less than 65 years of age acquires domicile in said Municipality; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 当該市町村の区域内に住所を有する四十歳以上六十五歳未満の者が医療保険加入者となったとき。 art-10/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-10/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-10/par-1/item-3 when a person that is domiciled in said Municipality and is 40 years of age or more but less than 65 years of age becomes a Medical Insurance Subscriber; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 当該市町村の区域内に住所を有する者（医療保険加入者を除く。）が六十五歳に達したとき。 art-10/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-10/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-10/par-1/item-4 when a person that is domiciled in said Municipality (other than a Medical Insurance Subscriber) becomes 65 years of age. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-10/par-1: 前条 → 介護保険法 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-9 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第十二条第一項（届出等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-12/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 - This site's parser, version 209 — 介護保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18