# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第三十三条の二 (Article 33-2) - 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: 第三十三条の二 (Article 33-2)（要支援状態区分の変更の認定） — address `art-33-2` - 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-33-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-33-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十三条の二（要支援状態区分の変更の認定） — (Certification of Change of Category of Needed Support Condition) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-33-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-33-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-33-2 **第一項** 要支援認定を受けた被保険者は、その支援の必要の程度が現に受けている要支援認定に係る要支援状態区分以外の要支援状態区分に該当すると認めるときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、市町村に対し、要支援状態区分の変更の認定の申請をすることができる。 art-33-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-33-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-33-2/par-1 An Insured Person that has been issued a Certification of Needed Support, when it is determined that the degree of Needed Support Condition qualifies for a Category of Needed Support Condition other than the Category of Needed Support Condition pertaining to said Certification of Needed Support that is issued currently, may apply to the Municipality for a certification of change of Category of Needed Support Condition, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第二十八条第五項から第八項まで及び第三十二条の規定は、前項の申請及び当該申請に係る要支援状態区分の変更について準用する。この場合において、これらの規定に関し必要な技術的読替えは、政令で定める。 art-33-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-33-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-33-2/par-2 The provisions of Article 28, paragraph (5) to paragraph (8), and Article 32 apply mutatis mutandis to an application as prescribed in the preceding paragraph and change of Category of Needed Support Condition pertaining to said application. In this case, the necessary technical replacement of terms for these provisions is specified by a Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The provisions of Article 28, paragraph (5) to paragraph (8), and Article 33 apply mutatis mutandis to an application as prescribed in the preceding paragraph and change of Category of Needed Support Condition pertaining to said application. In this case, the necessary technical replacement of terms for these provisions is specifiedby a Cabinet Order." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb --- ## Cites - art-33-2/par-2: 第二十八条第五項から第八項まで → 介護保険法 第二十八条第五項 (Article 28, paragraph (5)), art-28/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-28/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-28/par-5 - art-33-2/par-2: 第二十八条第五項から第八項まで → 介護保険法 第二十八条第六項 (Article 28, paragraph (6)), art-28/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-28/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-28/par-6 - art-33-2/par-2: 第二十八条第五項から第八項まで → 介護保険法 第二十八条第七項 (Article 28, paragraph (7)), art-28/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-28/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-28/par-7 - art-33-2/par-2: 第二十八条第五項から第八項まで → 介護保険法 第二十八条第八項 (Article 28, paragraph (8)), art-28/par-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-28/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-28/par-8 - art-33-2/par-2: 第三十二条 → 介護保険法 第三十二条 (Article 32), art-32 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-32 - art-33-2/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第三十三条の二第一項 (Article 33-2, paragraph (1)), art-33-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-33-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-33-2/par-1 ## Cited by 11 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二号（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-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-24-2/par-1/item-2 - 介護保険法 第三十三条の二第二項（要支援状態区分の変更の認定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-33-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-33-2/par-2 - 介護保険法 第三十七条第一項（介護給付等対象サービスの種類の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-37/par-1 - 介護保険法 第三十八条第一項（都道府県の援助等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-38/par-1 - 介護保険法 第三十八条第二項（都道府県の援助等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-38/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-38/par-2 - 介護保険法 第三十八条第四項（都道府県の援助等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-38/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-38/par-4 - 介護保険法 第六十九条第一項（保険料を徴収する権利が消滅した場合の保険給付の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-69/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-69/par-1 - 介護保険法 第七十三条第二項（指定居宅サービスの事業の基準） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-73/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-73/par-2 - 介護保険法 第七十八条の十第一項第七号（指定の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-10/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-10/par-1/item-7 - 介護保険法 第二百五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-205/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-205/par-2 - 介護保険法 附則第三条第一項（介護保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-3/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-19 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Long-Term Care Insurance Act (介護保険法), Article 33-2, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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