# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百三十一条 (Article 131) - 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: 第百三十一条 (Article 131)（保険料の徴収の方法） — address `art-131` - 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-131 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-131 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百三十一条（保険料の徴収の方法） — (Insurance Premium Collection Method) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-131 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-131 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-131 **第一項** 第百二十九条の保険料の徴収については、第百三十五条の規定により特別徴収（国民年金法による老齢基礎年金その他の同法又は厚生年金保険法による老齢、障害又は死亡を支給事由とする年金たる給付であって政令で定めるもの及びその他これらの年金たる給付に類する老齢若しくは退職、障害又は死亡を支給事由とする年金たる給付であって政令で定めるもの（以下「老齢等年金給付」という。）の支払をする者（以下「年金保険者」という。）に保険料を徴収させ、かつ、その徴収すべき保険料を納入させることをいう。以下同じ。）の方法による場合を除くほか、普通徴収（市町村が、保険料を課せられた第一号被保険者又は当該第一号被保険者の属する世帯の世帯主若しくは当該第一号被保険者の配偶者（婚姻の届出をしていないが、事実上婚姻関係と同様の事情にある者を含む。以下同じ。）に対し、地方自治法第二百三十一条の規定により納入の通知をすることによって保険料を徴収することをいう。以下同じ。）の方法によらなければならない。 art-131/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-131/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-131/par-1 With regard to the collection of an insurance premium as set forth in Article 129, except for a case when the insurance premium is collected by a method of Special Collection (which means having a person that pays an old age basic pension pursuant to the provisions of the National Pension Act and other benefits as a pension for which old age, disability, or death is the reason of payment that are provided by a Cabinet Order, pursuant to the provisions of the same Act or the Employees' Pension Insurance Act, and other benefits as a pension for which old age or retirement, disability, or death is the reason of payment that are similar to those benefits as a pension and are provided by a Cabinet Order (hereinafter referred to as "old age, etc. pension benefit") (hereinafter referred to as "Pension Insurer") collect insurance premiums and pay said insurance premiums to be collected; the same applies hereinafter) pursuant to the provisions of Article 135, the insurance premium must be collected by a method of ordinary collection (which means that a Municipality collects an insurance premium by providing notification of the payment pursuant to the provisions of Article 231 of the Local Autonomy Act to a Primary Insured Person that is subject to an insurance premium, the householder of the household to which said Primary Insured Person belongs, or the spouse of said Primary Insured Person (including a person that has not submitted a notification of marriage, but is under virtually the same circumstances in a marital relationship; the same applies hereinafter); the same applies hereinafter). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-131/par-1: 第百二十九条 → 介護保険法 第百二十九条 (Article 129), art-129 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-129 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-129 - art-131/par-1: 第百三十五条 → 介護保険法 第百三十五条 (Article 135), art-135 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-135 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-135 - art-131/par-1: 地方自治法第二百三十一条 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百三十一条 (Article 231), art-231 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 附則第八十四条第一項（年金保険者の市町村に対する通知に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-5021-40/art-84/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5021-40/art-84/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-20261018T212610-029, 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