# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第七十八条の三 (Article 78-3) - 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: 第七十八条の三 (Article 78-3)（指定地域密着型サービスの事業の基準） — address `art-78-3` - 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-78-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-3 - 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. --- ### 第七十八条の三（指定地域密着型サービスの事業の基準） — (Standards of Designated Community-Based Service Business) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-78-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-3 **第一項** 指定地域密着型サービス事業者は、次条第二項又は第五項に規定する指定地域密着型サービスの事業の設備及び運営に関する基準に従い、要介護者の心身の状況等に応じて適切な指定地域密着型サービスを提供するとともに、自らその提供する指定地域密着型サービスの質の評価を行うことその他の措置を講ずることにより常に指定地域密着型サービスを受ける者の立場に立ってこれを提供するように努めなければならない。 art-78-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-3/par-1 A Designated Community-Based Service Provider must act in compliance with the standards concerning Facilities and Management of a Designated Community-Based Service Business as prescribed in paragraph (2) or paragraph (5) of the following Article, offer appropriate Designated Community-Based Service according to the mental and physical condition, etc., of a Person Requiring Long-Term Care, and always endeavor to offer said services from the viewpoint of the person that receives Designated Community-Based Service by implementing a self-evaluation of the quality of the Provider's own Designated Community-Based Service and other measures. machine translation, not official **第二項** 指定地域密着型サービス事業者は、指定地域密着型サービスを受けようとする被保険者から提示された被保険者証に、認定審査会意見が記載されているときは、当該認定審査会意見に配慮して、当該被保険者に当該指定地域密着型サービスを提供するように努めなければならない。 art-78-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-3/par-2 A Designated Community-Based Service Provider, when an Opinion of the Certification Committee is entered on the Certificate of Insured Person that is presented by an Insured Person that intends to receive Designated Community-Based Service, must engage in offering said Designated Community-Based Service of said Insured Person in consideration of said Opinion of the Certification Committee. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-78-3/par-1: 次条第二項 → 介護保険法 第七十八条の四第二項 (Article 78-4, paragraph (2)), art-78-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-4/par-2 - art-78-3/par-1: 第五項 → 介護保険法 第七十八条の四第五項 (Article 78-4, paragraph (5)), art-78-4/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-4/par-5 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第七十八条の二の二第四項（共生型地域密着型サービス事業者の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-2-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-2-2/par-4 --- ## 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-20261018T203319-010, 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