# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第二百五条の四 (Article 205-4)

- 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: 第二百五条の四 (Article 205-4) — address `art-205-4`
- 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-205-4
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-205-4
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### 第二百五条の四
<sup>art-205-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-205-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-205-4</sup>

**第一項**  第二百一条の二第六項の規定による命令に違反したときは、その違反行為をした者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
<sup>art-205-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-205-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-205-4/par-1</sup>
When a person violates an order pursuant to the provisions of Article 201-2, paragraph (6), the person who committed the violation is punished by imprisonment for one year or less or a fine of 500,000 yen or less.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-205-4/par-1: 第二百一条の二第六項 → 介護保険法 第二百一条の二第六項 (Article 201-2, paragraph (6)), art-201-2/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-201-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-201-2/par-6

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 介護保険法 第二百十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-211/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-211/par-1

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## 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-20261018T212610-033, 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
