# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17)

- 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: 第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17) — address `suppl-5051-31/art-17`
- 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-5051-31/art-17
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5051-31/art-17
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### 第十七条
<sup>suppl-5051-31/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-5051-31/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5051-31/art-17</sup>

**第一項**  医療情報基盤・診療報酬審査支払機構法（昭和二十三年法律第百二十九号）による医療情報基盤・診療報酬審査支払機構は、附則第一条第六号に掲げる規定の施行の日前においても、第十四条の規定による改正後の介護保険法第百六十条第二項に規定する業務の実施に必要な準備行為をすることができる。
<sup>suppl-5051-31/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-5051-31/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5051-31/art-17/par-1</sup>
The Medical Information Infrastructure and Medical Fee Examination and Payment Organization under the Act on the Medical Information Infrastructure and Medical Fee Examination and Payment Organization (Act No. 129 of 1948) may carry out preparatory acts necessary for performing the operations prescribed in Article 160, paragraph (2) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 14, even before the date of enforcement of the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (vi) of the Supplementary Provisions.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5051-31/art-17/par-1: 附則第一条第六号 → 介護保険法 附則第一条第一項第六号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (vi)), suppl-5051-31/art-1/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-5051-31/art-1/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5051-31/art-1/par-1/item-6
- suppl-5051-31/art-17/par-1: 介護保険法第百六十条第二項 → 介護保険法 第百六十条第二項 (Article 160, paragraph (2)), art-160/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-160/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-160/par-2

## Cited by

2 provisions cite 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-5051-31/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5051-31/art-1/par-1/item-1
- 介護保険法 附則第十八条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-5051-31/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5051-31/art-18/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-20261018T203319-065, translated 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 211 — 介護保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18
