# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百十五条の三 (Article 115-3) - 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: 第百十五条の三 (Article 115-3)（指定介護予防サービスの事業の基準） — address `art-115-3` - 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-115-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-3 - 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. --- ### 第百十五条の三（指定介護予防サービスの事業の基準） — (Standards of the business of Designated Preventive Service of Long-Term Care) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-115-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-3 **第一項** 指定介護予防サービス事業者は、次条第二項に規定する指定介護予防サービスに係る介護予防のための効果的な支援の方法に関する基準及び指定介護予防サービスの事業の設備及び運営に関する基準に従い、要支援者の心身の状況等に応じて適切な指定介護予防サービスを提供するとともに、自らその提供する指定介護予防サービスの質の評価を行うことその他の措置を講ずることにより常に指定介護予防サービスを受ける者の立場に立ってこれを提供するように努めなければならない。 art-115-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-3/par-1 A Designated Provider of Preventive Service of Long-Term Care must act in compliance with the standards concerning effective methods of support for Preventive Long-Term Care Service pertaining to Designated Preventive Service of Long-Term Care as prescribed in paragraph (2) of the following Article and standards concerning facilities and management of a business of Designated Preventive Service of Long-Term Care, offer appropriate Designated Preventive Service of Long-Term Care according to the mental and physical condition, etc., of a Person Requiring Long-Term Care, and always engage in offering said services from the viewpoint of the person that receives Designated Preventive Service of Long-Term Care by implementing self-evaluation of the quality of the Provider's own Designated Preventive Service of Long-Term Care and other measures. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 指定介護予防サービス事業者は、指定介護予防サービスを受けようとする被保険者から提示された被保険者証に、認定審査会意見が記載されているときは、当該認定審査会意見に配慮して、当該被保険者に当該指定介護予防サービスを提供するように努めなければならない。 art-115-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-3/par-2 A Designated Provider of Preventive Long-Term Care Service, when an Opinion of the Certification Committee is entered on the Certificate of Insured Person that is presented by an Insured Person that intends to receive Designated Preventive Service of Long-Term Care, must engage in offering said Designated Preventive Service of Long-Term Care of said Insured Person in consideration of said Opinion of the Certification Committee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-115-3/par-1: 次条第二項 → 介護保険法 第百十五条の四第二項 (Article 115-4, paragraph (2)), art-115-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-4/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百十五条の二の二第四項（共生型介護予防サービス事業者の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-2-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-2-2/par-4 --- ## 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