# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百十五条の四十九 (Article 115-49) - 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: 第百十五条の四十九 (Article 115-49)（保健福祉事業） — address `art-115-49` - 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-115-49 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-49 - 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. --- ### 第百十五条の四十九（保健福祉事業） — (Health Care and Public Aid Projects) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-115-49 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-49 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-49 **第一項** 市町村は、地域支援事業のほか、要介護被保険者を現に介護する者の支援のために必要な事業、被保険者が要介護状態等となることを予防するために必要な事業、指定居宅サービス及び指定居宅介護支援の事業並びに介護保険施設の運営その他の保険給付のために必要な事業、被保険者が利用する介護給付等対象サービスのための費用に係る資金の貸付けその他の必要な事業を行うことができる。 art-115-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-49/par-1 A Municipality may implement, in addition to Community Support Projects, a project necessary for supporting a person that actually provides care for an Insured Person Requiring Long-Term Care, a project necessary for preventing an Insured Person from being in a Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc., a project of Designated In-Home Service or Designated In-Home Long-Term Care Support, a project necessary for management of a Facility Covered by Long-Term Care Insurance and other Insurance Benefits, a project necessary for the loan of funds for Services Subject to Long-Term Care Benefits, etc., that an Insured Person utilizes, and other projects. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百十五条の四十五第一項（地域支援事業） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-115-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-115-45/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