# 介護保険法 / Long-Term Care Insurance Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（介護保険法の一部改正に伴う準備行為） — address `suppl-5081-51/art-4` - 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-5081-51/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5081-51/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条（介護保険法の一部改正に伴う準備行為） — Preparatory Acts Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5081-51/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-5081-51/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5081-51/art-4 **第一項** 市町村（特別区を含む。附則第十五条及び第二十条において同じ。）及び介護保険法第二十三条に規定する居宅サービス等を提供する事業所又は施設は、施行日前においても、第三条の規定（附則第一条第二号に掲げる改正規定を除く。）による改正後の介護保険法（以下「新介護保険法」という。）第七条第十項に規定する電子資格確認に係る事務の実施に必要な準備行為をすることができる。 suppl-5081-51/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-5081-51/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5081-51/art-4/par-1 Municipalities (including special city wards; the same applies in Article 15 and Article 20 of the Supplementary Provisions) and Business Offices or facilities providing In-Home Service, etc. prescribed in Article 23 of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act may, even before the Effective Date, carry out preparatory acts necessary for the implementation of the affairs pertaining to the electronic eligibility confirmation prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (10) of the Long-Term Care Insurance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 (excluding the amending provisions listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions) (hereinafter referred to as the "New Long-Term Care Insurance Act"). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5081-51/art-4/par-1: 介護保険法第二十三条 → 介護保険法 第二十三条 (Article 23), art-23 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/art-23 - suppl-5081-51/art-4/par-1: 附則第一条第二号 → 介護保険法 附則第一条第一項第二号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (ii)), suppl-5081-51/art-1/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/long-term-care-insurance-act/suppl-5081-51/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/409AC0000000123/suppl-5081-51/art-1/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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-20261018T212610-052, 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