# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百七十七条 (Article 177) - 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: 第百七十七条 (Article 177)（議決権の特例） — address `art-177` - 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-177 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-177 - 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. --- ### 第百七十七条（議決権の特例） — (Exception of Voting Rights) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-177 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-177 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-177 **第一項** 連合会が前条の規定により行う業務（以下「介護保険事業関係業務」という。）については、国民健康保険法第八十六条において準用する同法第二十九条の規定にかかわらず、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、規約をもって議決権に関する特段の定めをすることができる。 art-177/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-177/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-177/par-1 With regard to business that an Association conducts pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as "Business Relevant to A Long-Term Care Insurance Project"), notwithstanding the provisions of Article 29 of the National Health Insurance Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 86 of the same Act, a special provision concerning voting rights may be provided by the constitution. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-177/par-1: 前条 → 介護保険法 第百七十六条 (Article 176), art-176 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-176 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-176 - art-177/par-1: 国民健康保険法第八十六条 → 国民健康保険法 第八十六条 (Article 86), art-86 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-86 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-86 - art-177/par-1: 同法第二十九条 → 国民健康保険法 第二十九条 (Article 29), art-29 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-health-insurance-act/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/333AC0000000192/art-29 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百九十八条第一項（連合会に対する監督） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-198/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-198/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 - This site's parser, version 209 — 介護保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18