# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第百八十七条 (Article 187) - 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: 第百八十七条 (Article 187)（会長） — address `art-187` - 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-187 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-187 - 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. --- ### 第百八十七条（会長） — (Chairperson) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-187 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-187 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-187 **第一項** 保険審査会に、公益を代表する委員のうちから委員が選挙する会長一人を置く。 art-187/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-187/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-187/par-1 A Certification Committee for Insurance is to have one chairperson that is elected by the committee members, from among the committee members representing the public interest. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 会長に事故があるときは、前項の規定に準じて選挙された者が、その職務を代行する。 art-187/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-187/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-187/par-2 In the event that a chairperson becomes unable to serve, a member that has been elected in accordance with the provisions as set forth in the preceding paragraph performs the duties of the chairperson. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-187/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第百八十七条第一項 (Article 187, paragraph (1)), art-187/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-187/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-187/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第百八十七条第二項（会長） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-187/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-187/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 - This site's parser, version 209 — 介護保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18