This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation.

①With regard to liability to compensate for damage in the case where a person who puts a small-sized special purpose vehicle manufactured for use in farm work (hereinafter referred to as a "small-sized special purpose vehicle for farm work") into operation for that person's own benefit conducted the operation of that small-sized special purpose vehicle for farm work before this Act comes into effect and thereby harmed the life or body of another person, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

②A contract for automobile liability insurance concerning a small-sized special purpose vehicle for farm work (hereinafter referred to as a "liability insurance contract") that has actually been concluded at the time this Act comes into effect continues to exist, for the remaining coverage period of that liability insurance contract, as an insurance contract concluded between the parties to that liability insurance contract for the purpose of indemnifying the loss that a person in possession (meaning a person in possession as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents prior to the amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act")) or a driver (meaning a driver as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Former Act) may incur by becoming liable to compensate for damage inflicted on the life or body of another person through the operation of that small-sized special purpose vehicle for farm work; provided, however, that, as to the amount of insurance coverage, if a provision is made pursuant to Article 13, paragraph (2) of the New Act, the amount is the same as the amount of insurance coverage after that change.

③Except for what is prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the provisions of the New Act concerning liability insurance (excluding Article 20-2, paragraph (2)) and other laws and regulations apply mutatis mutandis to the insurance relationship concerning the insurance contract referred to in that paragraph.

④For the purpose of applying the provisions of the New Act concerning automobile liability reinsurance, the insurance contract referred to in paragraph (2) is deemed to be a liability insurance contract.

①The parties to a contract of automobile insurance for a motorized bicycle (meaning an insurance contract intended to indemnify the loss that the insured may incur by becoming liable to compensate for damage inflicted on the life or body of another person through the operation of a motorized bicycle) that was concluded before October 1, 1966 (hereinafter referred to as an "old insurance contract") may cancel the old insurance contract when a liability insurance contract is concluded for that motorized bicycle.

②When an old insurance contract has been cancelled pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the insurer under the old insurance contract must pay the policyholder a cancellation refund in the amount specified by Cabinet Order.

③When a liability insurance contract is concluded for the motorized bicycle concerned, the amount of insurance coverage under the old insurance contract is deemed to have increased to the amount specified by Cabinet Order.

④When a liability insurance contract is concluded for the motorized bicycle concerned, the policyholder under the old insurance contract may demand that the insurer under the old insurance contract pay the amount specified by Cabinet Order; provided, however, that this does not apply when the old insurance contract has been cancelled pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1).

⑤If the policyholder under an old insurance contract has made the demand under the main clause of the preceding paragraph, then on and after that time the amount of insurance coverage under the old insurance contract is to revert to the amount before it was increased pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3).

⑥If a liability insurance contract is concluded for a motorized bicycle covered by an old insurance contract, and loss arises that is to be indemnified under both the old insurance contract and the liability insurance contract, the loss is first indemnified under the liability insurance contract, and if the amount so indemnified is not sufficient to indemnify the whole of the loss, the shortfall is indemnified under the old insurance contract.

①The parties to a contract of automobile mutual insurance for a motorized bicycle (meaning a mutual insurance contract intended to indemnify the loss that a person insured under mutual insurance may incur by becoming liable to compensate for damage inflicted on the life or body of another person through the operation of a motorized bicycle, and concluded with an agricultural cooperative or federation of agricultural cooperatives that carries out the business referred to in Article 10, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the Agricultural Co-operatives Act pursuant to that Act) that was concluded before October 1, 1966 (hereinafter referred to as an "old mutual insurance contract") may cancel the old mutual insurance contract when a contract for mutual automobile liability insurance is concluded for that motorized bicycle.

②The provisions of paragraphs (2) through (6) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to an old mutual insurance contract for a motorized bicycle. In this case, in those provisions, "old insurance contract" is deemed to be replaced with "old mutual insurance contract"; "insurer under the old insurance contract" with "agricultural cooperative or federation of agricultural cooperatives"; "policyholder" with "mutual insurance policyholder"; "amount of insurance coverage" with "amount insured under mutual insurance"; and "liability insurance contract" with "contract for mutual automobile liability insurance".

With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern.