# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百五十五条 (Article 155) - 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: 第百五十五条 (Article 155)（納付金の額の決定、通知等） — address `art-155` - 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-155 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-155 - 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. --- ### 第百五十五条（納付金の額の決定、通知等） — (Determination and Notification of Amount of Levy) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-155 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-155 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-155 **第一項** 機構は、各年度につき、各医療保険者が納付すべき納付金の額を決定し、当該各医療保険者に対し、その者が納付すべき納付金の額、納付の方法及び納付すべき期限その他必要な事項を通知しなければならない。 art-155/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-155/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-155/par-1 The Organization must determine the amount of Levy to be paid by each medical insurer for each fiscal year, and notify each said medical insurer of the amount of Levy to be paid by said medical insurer, the method of payment, the due date of payment, and other necessary matters. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により納付金の額が定められた後、納付金の額を変更する必要が生じたときは、機構は、当該各医療保険者が納付すべき納付金の額を変更し、当該各医療保険者に対し、変更後の納付金の額を通知しなければならない。 art-155/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-155/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-155/par-2 When the amount of Levy is required to change after an amount is determined for the Levy pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Organization must change the amount of Levy to be paid by each said medical insurer and notify each said medical insurer of the new amount of Levy. machine translation, not official **第三項** 機構は、医療保険者が納付した納付金の額が、前項の規定による変更後の納付金の額に満たない場合には、その不足する額について、同項の規定による通知とともに納付の方法及び納付すべき期限その他必要な事項を通知し、同項の規定による変更後の納付金の額を超える場合には、その超える額について、未納の納付金その他この法律の規定による機構の徴収金があるときはこれに充当し、なお残余があれば還付し、未納の徴収金がないときはこれを還付しなければならない。 art-155/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-155/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-155/par-3 The Organization, in a case when the amount of Levy paid by medical insurers is deficit with regard to the amount of Levy after a change pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, must notify the method of payment, the due date of payment, and other necessary matters for said amount of deficit together with the notification pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph. In a case when said paid amount exceeds the revised amount of Levy after a change pursuant to the provisions of the same paragraph, when there is unpaid Levy and other levies of the Organization pursuant to the provisions of this Act, said excess amount shall be allocated to the unpaid Levy, and if there is still an excess amount remaining, the amount must be reimbursed, and in the case that there are no unpaid levies, said excess amount must be reimbursed. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-155/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第百五十五条第一項 (Article 155, paragraph (1)), art-155/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-155/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-155/par-1 - art-155/par-3: 前項 → 介護保険法 第百五十五条第二項 (Article 155, paragraph (2)), art-155/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-155/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-155/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百五十五条第二項（納付金の額の決定、通知等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-155/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-155/par-2 - 介護保険法 第百五十五条第三項（納付金の額の決定、通知等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-155/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-155/par-3 - 介護保険法 附則第五十二条の四第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4241-62/art-52-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4241-62/art-52-4/par-2 - 介護保険法 附則第六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4291-52/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4291-52/art-6/par-2 --- ## 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-20261018T212610-030, 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