# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第七十八条の七 (Article 78-7) - 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: 第七十八条の七 (Article 78-7)（報告等） — address `art-78-7` - 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-78-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-7 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七十八条の七（報告等） — Reports caption: machine translation, not official art-78-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-7 **第一項** 市町村長は、地域密着型介護サービス費の支給に関して必要があると認めるときは、指定地域密着型サービス事業者若しくは指定地域密着型サービス事業者であった者若しくは当該指定に係る事業所の従業者であった者（以下この項において「指定地域密着型サービス事業者であった者等」という。）に対し、報告若しくは帳簿書類の提出若しくは提示を命じ、指定地域密着型サービス事業者若しくは当該指定に係る事業所の従業者若しくは指定地域密着型サービス事業者であった者等に対し出頭を求め、又は当該職員に関係者に対して質問させ、若しくは当該指定地域密着型サービス事業者の当該指定に係る事業所、事務所その他指定地域密着型サービスの事業に関係のある場所に立ち入り、その設備若しくは帳簿書類その他の物件を検査させることができる。 art-78-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-7/par-1 The mayor of a Municipality, when it is determined to be necessary concerning payment of an Allowance for Community-Based Long-Term Care Service, may order a Designated Community-Based Service Provider, a person that was a Designated Community-Based Service Provider, or a person that was an employee of the Business Office pertaining to said appointment as service provider (herein referred to as a "Person, etc., that Was a Designated Community-Based Service Provider" in this paragraph) to report, or to submit or present record books and documents, request a Designated Community-Based Service Provider, an employee of the Business Office pertaining to said appointment as service provider or a Person, etc., that Was a Designated Community-Based Service Provider to appear, have its personnel ask questions of the relevant persons, or have them enter the Business Office pertaining to said appointment as service provider of said Designated Community-Based Service Provider, an office, or another place related to the business of Designated Community-Based Service, and inspect the facilities, record books and documents, or other items thereof. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第二十四条第三項の規定は前項の規定による質問又は検査について、同条第四項の規定は前項の規定による権限について準用する。 art-78-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-7/par-2 The provisions of Article 24, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to questions or inspections as prescribed in the preceding paragraph, and the provisions of paragraph (4) of the same Article apply mutatis mutandis to the authority granted as prescribed in the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-78-7/par-1: この項 → 介護保険法 第七十八条の七第一項 (Article 78-7, paragraph (1)), art-78-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-7/par-1 - art-78-7/par-2: 第二十四条第三項 → 介護保険法 第二十四条第三項 (Article 24, paragraph (3)), art-24/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-24/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-24/par-3 - art-78-7/par-2: 前項 → 介護保険法 第七十八条の七第一項 (Article 78-7, paragraph (1)), art-78-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-7/par-1 - art-78-7/par-2: 同条第四項 → 介護保険法 第二十四条第四項 (Article 24, paragraph (4)), art-24/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-24/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-24/par-4 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第七十八条の二第六項第二号の二（指定地域密着型サービス事業者の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-2/par-6/item-2-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-2/par-6/item-2-2 - 介護保険法 第七十八条の七第一項（報告等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-7/par-1 - 介護保険法 第七十八条の七第二項（報告等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-7/par-2 - 介護保険法 第七十八条の十第一項第九号（指定の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-10/par-1/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-10/par-1/item-9 - 介護保険法 第七十八条の十第一項第十号（指定の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-10/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-10/par-1/item-10 - 介護保険法 第二百九条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-209/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-209/par-1/item-1 --- ## 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-20261018T212610-008, 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