# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) - 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-4121-141` - 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-4121-141 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4121-141 - 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. --- ## 附　則 平成一二年一二月六日法律第一四一号 suppl-4121-141 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4121-141 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4121-141 ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4121-141/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4121-141/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4121-141/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から起算して六月を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。 suppl-4121-141/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4121-141/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4121-141/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect as of the day specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding six months from the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official ### 第二十二条（介護保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4121-141/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4121-141/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4121-141/art-22 **第一項** この法律の施行の日から二年六月を経過する日までの間は、介護保険法第七条第二十三項（介護保険法施行法（平成九年法律第百二十四号）第十条の規定により読み替えて適用される場合を含む。）中「療養病床のうち要介護者の心身の特性に応じた適切な看護が行われるものとして政令で定めるもの」とあるのは「療養病床のうち要介護者の心身の特性に応じた適切な看護が行われるものとして政令で定めるもの若しくは医療法等の一部を改正する法律（平成十二年法律第百四十一号）附則第二条第三項第五号に規定する経過的旧療養型病床群（その全部又は一部について専ら要介護者を入院させるものに限る。）」とし、「当該療養病床等」とあるのは「当該療養病床等（当該経過的旧療養型病床群のうちその一部について専ら要介護者を入院させるものにあっては、当該専ら要介護者を入院させる部分に限る。以下同じ。）」とする。 suppl-4121-141/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4121-141/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4121-141/art-22/par-1 Until the day on which two years and six months elapse from the date this Act comes into effect, in Article 7, paragraph (23) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act (including the case where it is applied with terms replaced pursuant to Article 10 of the Act for Enforcement of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act (Act No. 124 of 1997)), the phrase "medical care beds specified by Cabinet Order as those where appropriate nursing is provided in accordance with the mental and physical characteristics of Persons Requiring Long-Term Care" is deemed to be replaced with "medical care beds specified by Cabinet Order as those where appropriate nursing is provided in accordance with the mental and physical characteristics of Persons Requiring Long-Term Care, or a transitional former group of medical care beds prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3), item (v) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Medical Care Act, etc. (Act No. 141 of 2000) (limited to those in which Persons Requiring Long-Term Care are exclusively hospitalized in the whole or a part thereof)", and the phrase "those medical care beds, etc." is deemed to be replaced with "those medical care beds, etc. (in the case of a part of that transitional former group of medical care beds in which Persons Requiring Long-Term Care are exclusively hospitalized, limited to the part in which Persons Requiring Long-Term Care are exclusively hospitalized; the same applies hereinafter)". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4121-141/art-22/par-1: 介護保険法施行法（平成九年法律第百二十四号）第十条 → e-Gov law 409AC0000000124, 第十条 (Article 10), art-10 — not held in this collection --- ## 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-20261018T212610-037, 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