# 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-4231-72/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-4231-72/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-72/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-4231-72/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-72/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-72/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、平成二十四年四月一日から施行する。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-4231-72/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-72/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-72/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect as of April 1, 2012; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect as of the dates specified respectively in those items. machine translation, not official **一** 第二条（老人福祉法目次の改正規定、同法第四章の二を削る改正規定、同法第四章の三を第四章の二とする改正規定及び同法第四十条第一号の改正規定（「第二十八条の十二第一項若しくは」を削る部分に限る。）に限る。）、第四条、第六条及び第七条の規定並びに附則第九条、第十一条、第十五条、第二十二条、第四十一条、第四十七条（東日本大震災に対処するための特別の財政援助及び助成に関する法律（平成二十三年法律第四十号）附則第一条ただし書の改正規定及び同条各号を削る改正規定並びに同法附則第十四条の改正規定に限る。）及び第五十条から第五十二条までの規定　公布の日 suppl-4231-72/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-72/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-72/art-1/par-1/item-1 The provisions of Article 2 (limited to the provision amending the table of contents of the Act on Social Welfare for the Elderly, the provision deleting Chapter IV-2 of that Act, the provision changing Chapter IV-3 of that Act to Chapter IV-2, and the provision amending Article 40, item (i) of that Act (limited to the part deleting "Article 28-12, paragraph (1) or")), Article 4, Article 6 and Article 7, and of Article 9, Article 11, Article 15, Article 22, Article 41, Article 47 (limited to the provision amending the proviso to Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act on Special Fiscal Aid and Subsidies for Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake (Act No. 40 of 2011), the provision deleting the items of that Article, and the provision amending Article 14 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act) and Article 50 through Article 52 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation; machine translation, not official **二** 第一条（介護保険法第十三条第一項第二号の改正規定に限る。）の規定並びに附則第三条、第二十七条（国民健康保険法（昭和三十三年法律第百九十二号）第百十六条の二第一項第六号の改正規定（「同条第二十二項」を「同法第八条第二十四項」に改める部分を除く。）に限る。）、第二十八条、第三十四条（高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律（昭和五十七年法律第八十号）第五十五条第一項第五号の改正規定（「同条第二十二項」を「同法第八条第二十四項」に改める部分を除く。）に限る。）及び第三十五条の規定　この法律の施行の日又は高齢者の居住の安定確保に関する法律等の一部を改正する法律（平成二十三年法律第三十二号）の施行の日のいずれか遅い日 suppl-4231-72/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-72/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-72/art-1/par-1/item-2 the provisions of Article 1 (limited to the provision amending Article 13, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act), and Article 3, Article 27 (limited to the provision amending Article 116-2, paragraph (1), item (vi) of the National Health Insurance Act (Act No. 192 of 1958) (excluding the part replacing "paragraph (22) of that Article" with "Article 8, paragraph (24) of that Act")), Article 28, Article 34 (limited to the provision amending Article 55, paragraph (1), item (v) of the Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People (Act No. 80 of 1982) (excluding the part replacing "paragraph (22) of that Article" with "Article 8, paragraph (24) of that Act")) and Article 35 of the Supplementary Provisions: the later of the date on which this Act comes into effect and the date on which the Act Partially Amending the Act on Securement of Stable Supply of Elderly Persons' Housing, etc. (Act No. 32 of 2011) comes into effect. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4231-72/art-1/par-1/item-1: 附則第九条 → 介護保険法 附則第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9), suppl-4231-72/art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-72/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-72/art-9 - suppl-4231-72/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第五十条から第五十二条まで → 介護保険法 附則第五十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 51), suppl-4231-72/art-51 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-72/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-72/art-51 - suppl-4231-72/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第五十条から第五十二条まで → 介護保険法 附則第五十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 52), suppl-4231-72/art-52 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-72/art-52 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-72/art-52 - suppl-4231-72/art-1/par-1/item-2: 附則第三条 → 介護保険法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-4231-72/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-72/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-72/art-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 介護保険法 附則第三条第一項（介護保険法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-72/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-72/art-3/par-1 - 介護保険法 附則第五十一条第一項（罰則に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-4231-72/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-4231-72/art-51/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