# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) - 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-5031-44` - 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-5031-44 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5031-44 - 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. --- ## 附　則 令和三年五月二六日法律第四四号 suppl-5031-44 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-5031-44 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5031-44 ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5031-44/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-5031-44/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5031-44/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から起算して三月を経過した日から施行する。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-5031-44/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-5031-44/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5031-44/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on the day on which three months have elapsed from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions listed in the following items come into effect as of the dates specified in those items. machine translation, not official **一** 第二条の規定並びに次条及び附則第四条の規定　公布の日 suppl-5031-44/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-5031-44/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5031-44/art-1/par-1/item-1 the provisions of Article 2, and the provisions of the following Article and Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation; machine translation, not official ### 第四条（政令への委任） — Delegation to Cabinet Order caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5031-44/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-5031-44/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5031-44/art-4 **第一項** 前条に規定するもののほか、この法律の施行に関し必要な経過措置は、政令で定める。 suppl-5031-44/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-5031-44/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5031-44/art-4/par-1 Beyond what is provided for in the preceding Article, transitional measures necessary for the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5031-44/art-1/par-1/item-1: 附則第四条 → 介護保険法 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-5031-44/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-5031-44/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5031-44/art-4 ## Cited by 1 provision cites 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-5031-44/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5031-44/art-1/par-1/item-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-20261018T212610-051, 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