# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9)

- 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: 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9) — address `suppl-4171-77/art-9`
- 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-9
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-9
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### 第九条
<sup>suppl-4171-77/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-9</sup>

**第一項**  旧介護保険法第二十七条第二項後段（旧介護保険法第二十八条第四項、第二十九条第二項、第三十条第二項、第三十一条第二項及び第三十二条第二項（旧介護保険法第三十三条第四項及び第三十四条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）において準用する場合を含む。）の規定により旧介護保険法第二十七条第二項の調査の委託を受けた同条第一項に規定する指定居宅介護支援事業者等の役員若しくは同条第三項の介護支援専門員その他厚生労働省令で定める者又はこれらの職にあった者に係る当該委託業務に関して知り得た個人の秘密を漏らしてはならない義務については、施行日以後も、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4171-77/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-9/par-1</sup>
With regard to the obligation of an officer of a Designated In-Home Long-Term Care Support Provider, etc. prescribed in Article 27, paragraph (1) of the Former Long-Term Care Insurance Act that was entrusted with the investigation under Article 27, paragraph (2) of the Former Long-Term Care Insurance Act pursuant to the provisions of the second sentence of Article 27, paragraph (2) of the Former Long-Term Care Insurance Act (including the case where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 28, paragraph (4), Article 29, paragraph (2), Article 30, paragraph (2), Article 31, paragraph (2) and Article 32, paragraph (2) of the Former Long-Term Care Insurance Act (including the case where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 33, paragraph (4) and Article 34, paragraph (2) of the Former Long-Term Care Insurance Act)), or of a Long-Term Care Support Specialist under Article 27, paragraph (3) of the Former Long-Term Care Insurance Act or other person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, or of a person who held any of these positions, not to divulge personal confidential information learned in connection with said entrusted operations, the provisions then in force continue to govern even on or after the Effective Date.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

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

- 介護保険法 附則第五十五条第一項（罰則に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4171-77/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4171-77/art-55/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-20261018T212610-039, 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
