# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百十五条の三十六 (Article 115-36) - 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: 第百十五条の三十六 (Article 115-36)（指定調査機関の指定） — address `art-115-36` - 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-115-36 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-36 - 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. --- ### 第百十五条の三十六（指定調査機関の指定） — (Appointment of Designated Investigative Agency) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-115-36 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-36 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、その指定する者（以下「指定調査機関」という。）に、前条第三項の調査の実施に関する事務（以下「調査事務」という。）を行わせることができる。 art-115-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-36/par-1 A prefectural governor may assign a person that the prefectural governor appoints (hereinafter referred to as "Designated Investigative Agency") to conduct affairs pertaining to an investigation as set forth in paragraph (3) of the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as "Investigation Affairs"). machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の指定は、都道府県の区域ごとに、その指定を受けようとする者の申請により、当該都道府県知事が行う。 art-115-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-36/par-2 Appointment as service provider as set forth in the preceding paragraph is provided in each prefectural area, by an application of a person that intends to obtain said appointment as service provider, by the governor of said prefecture. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-115-36/par-1: 前条第三項 → 介護保険法 第百十五条の三十五第三項 (Article 115-35, paragraph (3)), art-115-35/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-35/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-35/par-3 - art-115-36/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第百十五条の三十六第一項 (Article 115-36, paragraph (1)), art-115-36/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-36/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百十五条の三十六第二項（指定調査機関の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-36/par-2 - 介護保険法 附則第十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-15/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-20261018T203319-030, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 209 — 介護保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18