# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第七十八条の十六 (Article 78-16) - 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: 第七十八条の十六 (Article 78-16)（市町村長指定期間等の公示） — address `art-78-16` - 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-78-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-16 - 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. --- ### 第七十八条の十六（市町村長指定期間等の公示） — Public Notice of the Period Designated by the Mayor of a Municipality, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-78-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-16 **第一項** 市町村長は、市町村長指定期間、市町村長指定区域及び市町村長指定定期巡回・随時対応型訪問介護看護等を定めようとするときは、あらかじめ、その旨並びに市町村長指定区域及び市町村長指定定期巡回・随時対応型訪問介護看護等に係る効力が生ずる日を公示しなければならない。 art-78-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-16/par-1 A mayor of a Municipality, when intending to specify the Period Designated by the Mayor of a Municipality, the Area Designated by the Mayor of a Municipality, and the Periodic Patrol and On-Demand Home-Visit Long-Term Care and Nursing, etc., Specified by the Mayor of a Municipality, must give public notice in advance of that fact and the date on which the effect arises with regard to the Area Designated by the Mayor of a Municipality and the Periodic Patrol and On-Demand Home-Visit Long-Term Care and Nursing, etc., Specified by the Mayor of a Municipality. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定は、市町村長指定期間、市町村長指定区域又は市町村長指定定期巡回・随時対応型訪問介護看護等の変更について準用する。 art-78-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-16/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to a change in the Period Designated by the Mayor of a Municipality, the Area Designated by the Mayor of a Municipality, or the Periodic Patrol and On-Demand Home-Visit Long-Term Care and Nursing, etc., Specified by the Mayor of a Municipality. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-78-16/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第七十八条の十六第一項 (Article 78-16, paragraph (1)), art-78-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-16/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第七十八条の十六第二項（市町村長指定期間等の公示） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-16/par-2 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch long-term-care-insurance-act-20261018T212610-010, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 209 — 介護保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18