# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第六十九条の八 (Article 69-8) - 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: 第六十九条の八 (Article 69-8)（介護支援専門員証の有効期間の更新） — address `art-69-8` - 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-69-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-69-8 - 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. --- ### 第六十九条の八（介護支援専門員証の有効期間の更新） — (Renewal of Effective Period of Long-Term Care Support Specialist Certification) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-69-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-69-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-69-8 **第一項** 介護支援専門員証の有効期間は、申請により更新する。 art-69-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-69-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-69-8/par-1 The effective period of a Long-Term Care Support Specialist Certification may be renewable by the submission of an application. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 介護支援専門員証の有効期間の更新を受けようとする者は、都道府県知事が厚生労働省令で定めるところにより行う研修（以下「更新研修」という。）を受けなければならない。ただし、現に介護支援専門員の業務に従事しており、かつ、更新研修の課程に相当するものとして都道府県知事が厚生労働省令で定めるところにより指定する研修の課程を修了した者については、この限りでない。 art-69-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-69-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-69-8/par-2 A person that intends to renew the effective period of a Long-Term Care Support Specialist Certification must undertake the training provided by a prefectural governor pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (herein referred to as "Training for Renewal"), provided however, that this provision does not apply to a person that currently engages in the business of a Long-Term Care Support Specialist and has completed the training program designated by the prefectural governor pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare as an equivalent to a program of Training for Renewal. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前条第三項の規定は、更新後の介護支援専門員証の有効期間について準用する。 art-69-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-69-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-69-8/par-3 The provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the effective period of a renewed Long-Term Care Support Specialist Certification. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-69-8/par-3: 前条第三項 → 介護保険法 第六十九条の七第三項 (Article 69-7, paragraph (3)), art-69-7/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-69-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-69-7/par-3 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-1 - 住民基本台帳法 別表第三 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-3 - 住民基本台帳法 別表第五第四十七号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-5/item-47 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-5/item-47 --- ## 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