# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) — address `suppl-4171-77/art-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/suppl-4171-77/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-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. --- ### 第八条 suppl-4171-77/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-8 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に旧介護保険法第十九条第一項に規定する要介護認定又は同条第二項に規定する要支援認定を受けている者は、施行日に、新介護保険法第十九条第一項に規定する要介護認定（以下「新要介護認定」という。）を受けたものとみなす。この場合において、当該新要介護認定を受けたものとみなされた者に係る介護保険法第二十八条第一項に規定する有効期間は、同項の規定にかかわらず、施行日におけるその者に係る同項に規定する有効期間又は旧介護保険法第三十三条第一項に規定する有効期間の残存期間と同一の期間とする。 suppl-4171-77/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-8/par-1 A person who, at the time of enforcement of this Act, actually has received the Certification of Needed Long-Term Care prescribed in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the Former Long-Term Care Insurance Act or the Certification of Needed Support prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to have received, on the Effective Date, the Certification of Needed Long-Term Care prescribed in Article 19, paragraph (1) of the New Long-Term Care Insurance Act (hereinafter referred to as "New Certification of Needed Long-Term Care"). In this case, the Effective Period prescribed in Article 28, paragraph (1) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act pertaining to a person deemed to have received said New Certification of Needed Long-Term Care is, notwithstanding that paragraph, to be the same period as the remaining period of the Effective Period prescribed in that paragraph pertaining to that person on the Effective Date, or of the Effective Period prescribed in Article 33, paragraph (1) of the Former Long-Term Care Insurance Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4171-77/art-8/par-1: 新介護保険法第十九条第一項 → 介護保険法 第十九条第一項 (Article 19, paragraph (1)), art-19/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-19/par-1 - suppl-4171-77/art-8/par-1: 介護保険法第二十八条第一項 → 介護保険法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-28/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