# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) - 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-4231-37/art-1` - 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-4231-37/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-37/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4231-37/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-37/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-37/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。 suppl-4231-37/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-37/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-37/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified in those items: machine translation, not official **一** 略 suppl-4231-37/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-37/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-37/art-1/par-1/item-1 Omitted machine translation, not official **二** 第六条、第十一条、第十三条、第十五条、第十六条、第十八条から第二十条まで、第二十六条、第二十九条、第三十二条、第三十三条（道路法第三十条及び第四十五条の改正規定に限る。）、第三十五条及び第三十六条の規定並びに附則第四条、第五条、第六条第二項、第七条、第十二条、第十四条、第十五条、第十七条、第十八条、第二十八条、第三十条から第三十二条まで、第三十四条、第三十五条、第三十六条第二項、第三十七条、第三十八条（構造改革特別区域法（平成十四年法律第百八十九号）第三十条第一項及び第二項の改正規定に限る。）、第三十九条、第四十条、第四十五条の二及び第四十六条の規定　平成二十四年四月一日 suppl-4231-37/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-37/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-37/art-1/par-1/item-2 The provisions of Article 6, Article 11, Article 13, Article 15, Article 16, Article 18 through Article 20, Article 26, Article 29, Article 32, Article 33 (limited to the provisions amending Article 30 and Article 45 of the Road Act), Article 35 and Article 36, and of Article 4, Article 5, Article 6, paragraph (2), Article 7, Article 12, Article 14, Article 15, Article 17, Article 18, Article 28, Article 30 through Article 32, Article 34, Article 35, Article 36, paragraph (2), Article 37, Article 38 (limited to the provisions amending Article 30, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Act on Special Districts for Structural Reform (Act No. 189 of 2002)), Article 39, Article 40, Article 45-2 and Article 46 of the Supplementary Provisions: April 1, 2012. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4231-37/art-1/par-1/item-2: 第六条第二項 → 介護保険法 附則第六条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6, paragraph (2)), suppl-4231-37/art-6/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-37/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-37/art-6/par-2 - suppl-4231-37/art-1/par-1/item-2: 第四十六条 → 介護保険法 附則第四十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 46), suppl-4231-37/art-46 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-37/art-46 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-37/art-46 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 附則第二十三条第一項（罰則に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-37/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-37/art-23/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-20261018T212610-043, 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