# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第二十三条 (Article 23) - 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: 第二十三条 (Article 23)（文書の提出等） — address `art-23` - 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-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-23 - 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. --- ### 第二十三条（文書の提出等） — (Submission of Documents) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-23 **第一項** 市町村は、保険給付に関して必要があると認めるときは、当該保険給付を受ける者若しくは当該保険給付に係る居宅サービス等（居宅サービス（これに相当するサービスを含む。）、地域密着型サービス（これに相当するサービスを含む。）、居宅介護支援（これに相当するサービスを含む。）、施設サービス、介護予防サービス（これに相当するサービスを含む。）、地域密着型介護予防サービス（これに相当するサービスを含む。）若しくは介護予防支援（これに相当するサービスを含む。）をいう。以下同じ。）を担当する者若しくは保険給付に係る第四十五条第一項に規定する住宅改修を行う者又はこれらの者であった者（第二十四条の二第一項第一号において「照会等対象者」という。）に対し、文書その他の物件の提出若しくは提示を求め、若しくは依頼し、又は当該職員に質問若しくは照会をさせることができる。 art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-23/par-1 A Municipality may, when it determines necessity with regard to an insurance benefit, demand or request submission or presentation of documents and other items, or direct its personnel to ask questions and inquiries to a person that receives said insurance benefit, a person that is in charge of In-Home Service, etc. pertaining to said insurance benefit (which means In-Home Service (including equivalent services), Community-Based Service (including equivalent services), In-Home Long-Term Care Support (including equivalent services), Facility Service, Preventive Long-Term Care Service (including equivalent services), Community-Based Service for Preventive Long-Term Care (including equivalent services), or a Preventive Long-Term Care Support (including equivalent services); the same applies hereinafter) , or a person that provides a house modification for in-home care as prescribed in Article 45, paragraph (1) which pertains to an insurance benefit, or a person that was said person (hereinafter referred to as "Person, etc., Subject to Inquiry"). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-23/par-1: 第四十五条第一項 → 介護保険法 第四十五条第一項 (Article 45, paragraph (1)), art-45/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-45/par-1 - art-23/par-1: 第二十四条の二第一項第一号 → 介護保険法 第二十四条の二第一項第一号 (Article 24-2, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-24-2/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-24-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-24-2/par-1/item-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第二十四条の二第一項第一号（指定市町村事務受託法人） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-24-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-24-2/par-1/item-1 - 介護保険法 第六十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-65/par-1 - 介護保険法 附則第四条第一項（介護保険法の一部改正に伴う準備行為） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-5081-51/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5081-51/art-4/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