# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第六十四条 (Article 64) - 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: 第六十四条 (Article 64) — address `art-64` - 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-64 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-64 - 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. --- ### 第六十四条 art-64 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-64 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-64 **第一項** 市町村は、自己の故意の犯罪行為若しくは重大な過失により、又は正当な理由なしに介護給付等対象サービスの利用若しくは居宅介護住宅改修費若しくは介護予防住宅改修費に係る住宅改修の実施に関する指示に従わないことにより、要介護状態等若しくはその原因となった事故を生じさせ、又は要介護状態等の程度を増進させた被保険者の当該要介護状態等については、これを支給事由とする介護給付等は、その全部又は一部を行わないことができる。 art-64/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-64/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-64/par-1 With regard to the Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc., of an Insured Person that caused the accident that caused a Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc., or the cause of said condition, or who increased the degree of Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc., by not obeying instructions for the use of Service Covered by Long-Term Care Benefits, etc., or for a Home Modification pertaining to an Allowance for Home Modification for In-Home Long-Term Care or Allowance for Preventive Long-Term Care Home Modification due to an intentional criminal act or gross negligence or without justifiable reasons, a Municipality may not pay the whole or a part of a Long-Term Care Benefit, etc., for which the reason for payment is said Condition of Need for Long-Term Care, etc. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## 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