# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第六十三条 (Article 63)

- 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: 第六十三条 (Article 63)（保険給付の制限） — address `art-63`
- 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-63
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### 第六十三条（保険給付の制限） — (Limitation of Insurance Benefits)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-63 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-63</sup>

  **第一項**  刑事施設、労役場その他これらに準ずる施設に拘禁された者については、その期間に係る介護給付等は、行わない。
  <sup>art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-63/par-1</sup>
  With regard to a person that is confined to penal institution, work facility, or other facility mutatis mutandis as these, a Long-Term Care Benefit, etc., pertaining to said period of confinement is not paid.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "With regard to a person that is confined to penal institution, work facility, or other facility mutatis mutandis as these, a Long-Term Care Benefit, etc., pertaining to said period of confinement is not be paid." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3807/tb</sup>

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## 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 63, paragraph (1) — 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