# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百五十九条 (Article 159) - 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: 第百五十九条 (Article 159)（通知） — address `art-159` - 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-159 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-159 - 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. --- ### 第百五十九条（通知） — (Notification) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-159 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-159 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-159 **第一項** 市町村は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、機構に対し、各年度における医療保険納付対象額その他厚生労働省令で定める事項を通知しなければならない。 art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-159/par-1 A Municipality, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must notify the Organization of the Amount Subject to Medical Insurance Premium Payment in each fiscal year and other matters as determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. machine translation, not official **第二項** 市町村は、前項の規定による通知の事務を連合会に委託することができる。 art-159/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-159/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-159/par-2 A Municipality may entrust the affairs of said notification pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph to the Association. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-159/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第百五十九条第一項 (Article 159, paragraph (1)), art-159/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-159/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百五十九条第二項（通知） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-159/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-159/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-20261018T212610-031, 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