# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-4171-77/art-4` - 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-4171-77/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条 suppl-4171-77/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-4 **第一項** この法律（附則第一条各号に掲げる規定については、当該各規定。以下この条及び附則第十五条において同じ。）の施行の日前に行われた居宅サービス、居宅介護支援又は施設サービスに係るこの法律による改正前の介護保険法の規定による保険給付については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4171-77/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-4/par-1 With regard to insurance benefits under the provisions of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act prior to its amendment by this Act pertaining to In-Home Service, In-Home Long-Term Care Support or Facility Service provided before the date of enforcement of this Act (for the provisions set forth in the items of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, the respective provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this Article and Article 15 of the Supplementary Provisions), the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4171-77/art-4/par-1: 附則第一条 → 介護保険法 附則第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1), suppl-4171-77/art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-1 - suppl-4171-77/art-4/par-1: この条 → 介護保険法 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-4171-77/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-4 - suppl-4171-77/art-4/par-1: 附則第十五条 → 介護保険法 附則第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15), suppl-4171-77/art-15 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-15 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 介護保険法 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-4/par-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-20261018T212610-039, 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