# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-4091-123/art-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/suppl-4091-123/art-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4091-123/art-3
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### 第三条
<sup>suppl-4091-123/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4091-123/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4091-123/art-3</sup>

**第一項**  政府は、この法律の施行後、保険給付に要する費用の動向、保険料負担の状況等を勘案し、必要があると認めるときは、居宅サービス、施設サービス等に要する費用に占める介護給付等の割合について、検討を加え、その結果に基づいて所要の措置を講ずるものとする。
<sup>suppl-4091-123/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4091-123/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4091-123/art-3/par-1</sup>
The government is, after the enforcement of this Act, when it finds it necessary in consideration of trends in the expenses required for Insurance Benefits, the state of the burden of insurance premiums, etc., to conduct a review of the proportion of Long-Term Care Benefit, etc. in the expenses required for In-Home Service, Facility Service, etc., and take required measures based on the results.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 介護保険法 附則第五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4091-123/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4091-123/art-5/par-1

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## 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-20261018T212610-034, 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
