# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第七十八条の八 (Article 78-8) - 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: 第七十八条の八 (Article 78-8)（指定の辞退） — address `art-78-8` - 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-78-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-8 - 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. --- ### 第七十八条の八（指定の辞退） — Decline of Appointment as Service Provider caption: machine translation, not official art-78-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-8 **第一項** 第四十二条の二第一項本文の指定を受けて地域密着型介護老人福祉施設入所者生活介護の事業を行う者は、一月以上の予告期間を設けて、その指定を辞退することができる。 art-78-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-8/par-1 A person that performs the business of Daily Life Long-Term Care for a Person Admitted to a Community-Based Facility for the Elderly Covered by Public Aid Requiring Long-Term Care under the appointment as service provider as set forth in the main clause of Article 42-2, paragraph (1) may decline said appointment as service provider by offering one month or more of prior notice. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-78-8/par-1: 第四十二条の二第一項 → 介護保険法 第四十二条の二第一項 (Article 42-2, paragraph (1)), art-42-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-42-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-42-2/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 第七十八条の二第四項第七号（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-4/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-2/par-4/item-7 - 介護保険法 第七十八条の二第四項第七号の二（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-4/item-7-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-2/par-4/item-7-2 - 介護保険法 第七十八条の二第六項第二号（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 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-2/par-6/item-2 - 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 第七十八条の二第六項第二号の三（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-2-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-2/par-6/item-2-3 - 介護保険法 第七十八条の四第七項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-4/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-4/par-7 - 介護保険法 第七十八条の十一第一項第三号（公示） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-78-11/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-78-11/par-1/item-3 - 生活保護法 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/public-assistance-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/325AC0000000144/appdx-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-20261018T212610-008, 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