# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百二十二条の三 (Article 122-3) - 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: 第百二十二条の三 (Article 122-3) — address `art-122-3` - 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-122-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-122-3 - 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. --- ### 第百二十二条の三 art-122-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-122-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-122-3 **第一項** 国は、前二条に定めるもののほか、市町村によるその被保険者の地域における自立した日常生活の支援、要介護状態等となることの予防又は要介護状態等の軽減若しくは悪化の防止及び介護給付等に要する費用の適正化に関する取組を支援するため、政令で定めるところにより、市町村に対し、予算の範囲内において、交付金を交付する。 art-122-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-122-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-122-3/par-1 The national government, in addition to what is provided for in the preceding two Articles, grants subsidies to Municipalities within the scope of the budget, pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order, in order to support the initiatives of Municipalities for supporting independent daily life of their Insured Persons in the community, preventing them from falling into a Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc., or reducing or preventing deterioration of a Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc., and ensuring the appropriateness of the expenses required for Long-Term Care Benefit, etc. machine translation, not official **第二項** 国は、都道府県による第百二十条の二第一項の規定による支援及び同条第二項の規定による事業に係る取組を支援するため、政令で定めるところにより、都道府県に対し、予算の範囲内において、交付金を交付する。 art-122-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-122-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-122-3/par-2 The national government, in order to support the initiatives of prefectures pertaining to the support under the provisions of Article 120-2, paragraph (1) and the projects under the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article, grants subsidies to prefectures within the scope of the budget, pursuant to the provisions of a Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-122-3/par-1: 前二条 → 介護保険法 第百二十二条 (Article 122), art-122 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-122 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-122 - art-122-3/par-1: 前二条 → 介護保険法 第百二十二条の二 (Article 122-2), art-122-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-122-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-122-2 - art-122-3/par-2: 第百二十条の二第一項 → 介護保険法 第百二十条の二第一項 (Article 120-2, paragraph (1)), art-120-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-120-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-120-2/par-1 - art-122-3/par-2: 同条第二項 → 介護保険法 第百二十条の二第二項 (Article 120-2, paragraph (2)), art-120-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-120-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-120-2/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百二十七条第一項（国の補助） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-127/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-127/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-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