# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百十八条の八 (Article 118-8)

- 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: 第百十八条の八 (Article 118-8)（立入検査等） — address `art-118-8`
- 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-118-8
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118-8
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### 第百十八条の八（立入検査等） — Site Inspections; Related Matters
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-118-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-118-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118-8</sup>

**第一項**  厚生労働大臣は、この章の規定の施行に必要な限度において、匿名介護保険等関連情報利用者（国の他の行政機関を除く。以下この項及び次条において同じ。）に対し報告若しくは帳簿書類の提出若しくは提示を命じ、又は当該職員に匿名介護保険等関連情報利用者に対して質問させ、若しくは匿名介護保険等関連情報利用者の事務所その他匿名介護保険等関連情報の利用に関係のある場所に立ち入り、その帳簿書類その他の物件を検査させることができる。
<sup>art-118-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-118-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118-8/par-1</sup>
To the extent necessary for the enforcement of the provisions of this Chapter, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may order a user of anonymized long-term care insurance-related information (excluding other administrative organs of the State; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph and the following Article) to report, or to submit or present record books and documents, or may have its personnel question a user of anonymized long-term care insurance-related information, or enter the office of a user of anonymized long-term care insurance-related information or any other place related to the use of anonymized long-term care insurance-related information and inspect its record books and documents and other items.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  第二十四条第三項の規定は前項の規定による質問又は検査について、同条第四項の規定は前項の規定による権限について、それぞれ準用する。
<sup>art-118-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-118-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118-8/par-2</sup>
The provisions of Article 24, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to questions and inspections pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of paragraph (4) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority granted pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, respectively.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-118-8/par-1: この項 → 介護保険法 第百十八条の八第一項 (Article 118-8, paragraph (1)), art-118-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-118-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118-8/par-1
- art-118-8/par-1: 次条 → 介護保険法 第百十八条の九 (Article 118-9), art-118-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-118-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118-9
- art-118-8/par-2: 第二十四条第三項 → 介護保険法 第二十四条第三項 (Article 24, paragraph (3)), art-24/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-24/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-24/par-3
- art-118-8/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第百十八条の八第一項 (Article 118-8, paragraph (1)), art-118-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-118-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118-8/par-1
- art-118-8/par-2: 同条第四項 → 介護保険法 第二十四条第四項 (Article 24, paragraph (4)), art-24/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-24/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-24/par-4

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 介護保険法 第百十八条の八第一項（立入検査等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-118-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118-8/par-1
- 介護保険法 第百十八条の八第二項（立入検査等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-118-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-118-8/par-2
- 介護保険法 第二百六条の二第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-206-2/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-206-2/par-1/item-4

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## 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-20261018T212610-028, 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
