# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第二百四条 (Article 204) - 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: 第二百四条 (Article 204)（実施規定） — address `art-204` - 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-204 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-204 - 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. --- ### 第二百四条（実施規定） — (Operative Provisions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-204 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-204 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-204 **第一項** この法律に特別の規定があるものを除くほか、この法律の実施のための手続その他その執行について必要な細則は、厚生労働省令で定める。 art-204/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-204/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-204/par-1 Excluding the special provisions as provided in this Act, the procedures for execution of this Act and other detailed regulations necessary with regard to execution are determined by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 附則第一条第一項第二号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4091-123/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4091-123/art-1/par-1/item-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