Every term this law . Its definitions bind only this law — each entry says where the definition applies and links to the sentence that settles it. 86 terms: 32 with the Ministry of Justice's English, 54 in our translation, marked as such.
保険会社
The insurer of liability insurance (責任保険): a non-life insurance company (損害保険会社) as defined in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Insurance Business Act, or a foreign non-life insurance company, etc. (外国損害保険会社等) as defined in paragraph (9) of that Article, that underwrites liability insurance.
Automobile liability insurance (自動車損害賠償責任保険) as this Act provides for it: an automobile may not be put into operation (運行) unless a contract for it, or for mutual liability insurance (責任共済), has been concluded.
Mutual automobile liability insurance (自動車損害賠償責任共済) as this Act provides for it: an automobile may not be put into operation (運行) unless a contract for it, or for liability insurance (責任保険), has been concluded.
Any of the cooperatives that bear the liability under mutual liability insurance (責任共済): an agricultural cooperative or federation of agricultural cooperatives (農業協同組合等), a consumer cooperative or federation of consumer cooperatives (消費生活協同組合等), or a business cooperative or federation of cooperatives (事業協同組合等), each carrying on that business under the Act that governs it.
自動車
An automobile as defined in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act, other than a small-sized special purpose vehicle (小型特殊自動車) built for farm work, and a motorized bicycle (原動機付自転車) as defined in paragraph (3) of that Article.
道路運送車両法（昭和二十六年法律第百八十五号）第二条第二項に規定する自動車（農耕作業の用に供することを目的として製作した小型特殊自動車を除く。）及び同条第三項に規定する原動機付自転車
The services set out in Article 23-6, paragraph (1): conciliation (調停) of disputes over the payment of insurance or mutual insurance money and damages at a party's application (紛争処理), and work incidental to it.
The general incorporated association or foundation (一般社団法人・一般財団法人) that the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (国土交通大臣) and the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣) have designated under Article 23-5, paragraph (1) to carry out dispute resolution services (紛争処理業務) for disputes over the payment of insurance or mutual insurance money and damages.
Using an automobile in the way its equipment is meant to be used, whether or not it is carrying people or goods.
人又は物を運送するとしないとにかかわらず、自動車を当該装置の用い方に従い用いること
The designation, under Article 23-5, paragraph (1), by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (国土交通大臣) and the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣) of a general incorporated association or foundation (一般社団法人・一般財団法人) that applies and meets the criteria there as the body that carries out dispute resolution services (紛争処理業務).
The insurance money an insurer (保険会社) must pay the insured, and the damages it must pay an injured party (被害者) who claims them from it under Article 16, paragraph (1) — everywhere in this Act after Article 16-2, except in Article 28-4, paragraph (1).
The owner of an automobile, or anyone else with the right to use it, who puts it into operation (運行) for their own benefit.
自動車の所有者その他自動車を使用する権利を有する者で、自己のために自動車を運行の用に供するもの
Conciliation (調停) by a designated dispute resolution organization (指定紛争処理機関) of a dispute (紛争) over the payment of insurance or mutual insurance money and damages, at the application of an insurer, cooperative, insured person, person covered by mutual insurance or injured party (被害者) who is a party to it.
An agricultural cooperative (農業協同組合) or federation of agricultural cooperatives (農業協同組合連合会) that carries on the business of mutual liability insurance (責任共済) under the Agricultural Co-operatives Act.
紛争
A dispute over the payment of insurance money and damages (保険金等) or of mutual insurance money and damages (共済金等), which a designated dispute resolution organization (指定紛争処理機関) helps settle.
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 83 of 2001, the insurance account (保険勘定) of the former special account for automobile liability reinsurance (自動車損害賠償責任再保険特別会計), set up under the special account act as it stood before Article 2 of that Act amended it (旧特別会計法).
The minister in charge of the businesses whose operators a business cooperative, etc. (事業協同組合等) admits as members, as its articles of incorporation (定款) set them; the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (国土交通大臣) and the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣) must consult this minister, with the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (農林水産大臣) and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働大臣), before setting or changing the criteria for payment (支払基準) and certain Orders as they apply to mutual liability insurance (責任共済).
審議会
The Council on Automobile Liability Insurance (自動車損害賠償責任保険審議会), established in the Financial Services Agency (金融庁).
In Article 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 90 of 1966, a contract of automobile liability insurance (自動車損害賠償責任保険) for a small-sized special purpose vehicle for farm work (農耕作業用小型特殊自動車).
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 90 of 1966, a motor insurance contract for a motorized bicycle (原動機付自転車), concluded before 1 October 1966, that makes good the insured's loss from being liable for death or injury the insured caused to others by operating it; either party may cancel it once a liability insurance (責任保険) contract is concluded for that motorized bicycle.
This Act as amended by Act No. 137 of 1995.
The criteria, set separately for death, residual disability and injury by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (国土交通大臣) and the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣), by which an insurer must pay insurance money and damages (保険金等).
The plan the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (国土交通大臣) draws up so that the Program for Promoting the Protection of Injured Parties, etc. (被害者保護増進等事業) is carried out stably and effectively, setting out what is to be taken into account, the program's goals and an outline of the work to meet them.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 137 of 1995, an agricultural cooperative (農業協同組合) or federation of agricultural cooperatives (農業協同組合連合会) that carries on a business of mutual liability insurance (責任共済), mutual reinsurance (再共済) or mutual retrocession (再再共済).
運転者
A person who drives an automobile, or helps drive one, on behalf of someone else.
他人のために自動車の運転又は運転の補助に従事する者
事業協同組合等
A business cooperative (事業協同組合) or federation of cooperatives (協同組合連合会) that carries on the business of mutual liability insurance (責任共済) under the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Cooperatives Act.
締約国登録自動車
An automobile registered in a contracting state as defined in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act on Special Provisions of the Road Transport Vehicle Act Incidental to Enforcement of the "Convention on Road Traffic": a vehicle registered by a contracting state other than Japan, or a subdivision of one, or a trailer it tows, that was imported under the customs rules for temporary importation, is for the use of the person who imported it, and has not passed one year since its import was permitted.
道路交通に関する条約の実施に伴う道路運送車両法の特例等に関する法律（昭和三十九年法律第百九号）第二条第二項に規定する締約国登録自動車
基準料率
In Articles 26-3, 28 and 29-2, the standard rates set out in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (vi) of the Act on Non-Life Insurance Rating Organization of Japan: premium rates that a non-life insurance rating organization (損害保険料率算出団体) calculates for its member insurers to use once the filings and other steps that Act requires are done.
Reinsurance by a cooperative of the liability that a cooperative takes on under contracts of mutual liability insurance (責任共済).
Reinsurance, a second time over, of the liability a cooperative takes on under contracts of mutual reinsurance (再共済) — reinsurance of reinsurance.
Reinsurance by a cooperative of the liability that a cooperative takes on under contracts of mutual liability insurance (責任共済).
Reinsurance, a second time over, of the liability a cooperative takes on under contracts of mutual reinsurance (再共済) — reinsurance of reinsurance.
The date Act No. 137 of 1995, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 137 of 1995, mutual automobile liability insurance (自動車損害賠償責任共済) as provided in Article 5 of the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents as amended by that Act.
消費生活協同組合等
A consumer cooperative (消費生活協同組合) or federation of consumer cooperatives (消費生活協同組合連合会) that carries on the business of mutual liability insurance (責任共済) under the Consumer Cooperatives Act.
道路
A road as defined in the Road Act, a motor vehicle road (自動車道) as defined in the Road Transportation Act, and any other place used for general traffic.
道路法（昭和二十七年法律第百八十号）による道路、道路運送法（昭和二十六年法律第百八十三号）による自動車道及びその他の一般交通の用に供する場所
The rules a designated dispute resolution organization (指定紛争処理機関) sets for its dispute resolution services (紛争処理業務), which need the approval of the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (国土交通大臣) and the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣), as do any changes to them.
In Article 28-4, the work that insurers (保険会社) and cooperatives (組合) do together of calculating, distributing and collecting premiums, insurance money and the like: what they receive, less what they pay the government and their business costs, is distributed among them by their allocation rates (配分率), and what they pay out, less what the government reimburses them, is collected from them by the same rates; a cooperative that has passed all its liability on to another cooperative by mutual reinsurance (再共済) or mutual retrocession (再再共済) takes no part.
新担保附社債信託法等
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 102 of 1997, the 46 laws that Article lists, beginning with the law on secured bond trusts (担保附社債信託法) and including the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents, as that Act amended them.
旧担保附社債信託法等
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 102 of 1997, the 46 laws that Article lists, beginning with the law on secured bond trusts (担保附社債信託法) and including the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents, as they stood before that Act amended them.
新担保附社債信託法等
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 131 of 1998, the 49 laws that Article lists, beginning with the law on secured bond trusts (担保附社債信託法) and including the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents, as that Act amended them.
旧担保附社債信託法等
In Article 2 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 131 of 1998, the 49 laws that Article lists, beginning with the law on secured bond trusts (担保附社債信託法) and including the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents, as they stood before that Act amended them.
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 83 of 2001, the account for grants applied to insurance premiums, etc. (保険料等充当交付金勘定) of the new special account (新特別会計) — the special account for the government's automobile accident compensation program (自動車損害賠償保障事業特別会計), as paragraph (3) of the supplementary provisions of the special account act as amended by Article 2 of that Act (新特別会計法), read as their paragraph (15) directs, provides for it.
登録情報処理機関
In Article 9, paragraphs (2) to (4), a vehicle registration agency (登録情報処理機関) as referred to in Article 7, paragraph (4) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act, to which a person may, through the insurer, provide electronically the details to be entered on a certificate of automobile liability insurance.
In Article 27-2, paragraph (1), the bylaws a consumer cooperative, etc. (消費生活協同組合等) sets for its business of mutual liability insurance (責任共済), which need authorization under Article 40, paragraph (5) of the Consumer Cooperatives Act; Article 27 is applied to them in place of an agricultural cooperative's mutual insurance rules (共済規程).
In Article 28-4, the share set for each insurer (保険会社) and cooperative (組合) in the agreement (規約) they draw up under paragraph (2) of that Article, by which what they jointly receive is distributed among them and what they jointly pay out is collected from them.
A petition, request for examination, objection or other administrative appeal filed under the old appeal system.
This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 83 of 2001 amended it.
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 83 of 2001.
新特別会計
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 83 of 2001, the special account for the government's automobile accident compensation program (自動車損害賠償保障事業特別会計) under the special account act as amended by Article 2 of that Act (新特別会計法), as paragraph (3) of that act's supplementary provisions, read as their paragraph (15) directs, provides for it.
新特別会計法
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 83 of 2001, the Act on the special account for the government's automobile accident compensation program (自動車損害賠償保障事業特別会計法), formerly the Act on the special account for automobile liability reinsurance (自動車損害賠償責任再保険特別会計法), as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 83 of 2001.
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 83 of 2001, the Act on the special account for automobile liability reinsurance (自動車損害賠償責任再保険特別会計法) as it stood before Article 2 of Act No. 83 of 2001 amended it.
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 83 of 2001, the automobile accident countermeasures account (自動車事故対策勘定) of the new special account (新特別会計) — the special account for the government's automobile accident compensation program (自動車損害賠償保障事業特別会計), to which part of the assets of the former insurance account (旧保険勘定) passed when that Act came into effect.
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 83 of 2001, the guarantee account (保障勘定) of the new special account (新特別会計) — the special account for the government's automobile accident compensation program (自動車損害賠償保障事業特別会計), as paragraph (3) of the supplementary provisions of the special account act as amended by Article 2 of that Act (新特別会計法), read as their paragraph (15) directs, provides for it; it receives the surpluses for fiscal 2001 of the former special account's guarantee and operations accounts, and their rights and obligations.
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 83 of 2001, the guarantee account (保障勘定) of the former special account for automobile liability reinsurance (自動車損害賠償責任再保険特別会計).
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 83 of 2001, the operations account (業務勘定) of the former special account for automobile liability reinsurance (自動車損害賠償責任再保険特別会計).
In Article 9, paragraphs (7) and (8), the period of validity of an automobile inspection certificate (自動車検査証) under Article 61, paragraph (1) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act that would be entered when a safety regulations conformity certificate (保安基準適合証) is submitted under Article 94-5, paragraph (8) of that Act.
In Article 16-5, paragraphs (3) and (4), an insurer's written explanation, under paragraph (1) of that Article, of matters about payment that the insured or the injured party (被害者) has asked about, or its delivery of a document under paragraph (2) saying that it will not explain and why.
書面による説明等
An insurer's written explanation under Article 16-5, paragraph (1), its delivery of a document under paragraph (2), or its written notice under paragraph (4) of that Article — which, with the consent of the insured or the injured party (被害者), it may give instead by electronic or other information and communications technology means.
保険事故
An insured event as defined in Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Insurance Act: a chance accident, specified in a non-life insurance contract, that may cause the loss the contract is to make good.
保険法第五条第一項に規定する保険事故
In Article 27, paragraph (1), item (iii), the policyholder of a mutual insurance contract (共済契約), the person insured under it, the person who is to receive the amount it insures, and anyone else concerned with it.
In Article 29-2, the non-life insurance rating organization (損害保険料率算出団体) that calculates standard rates (基準料率) for liability insurance (責任保険) and that the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣) designates, to which insurers and cooperatives must report loss ratios and other matters needed to calculate premium rates.
In Article 82-3, paragraphs (1) and (2), an insurer's or cooperative's indemnity for damage from an accident in the operation of an automobile, its payment of damages under Article 16, paragraph (1), and its provisional payout (仮渡金) under Article 17, paragraph (1) (each including as Article 23-3, paragraph (1) applies it to mutual liability insurance (責任共済)).
In Article 82-3, paragraphs (3) and (4), the payment of damages under Article 16, paragraph (1), or of a provisional payout (仮渡金) under Article 17, paragraph (1) (each including as Article 23-3, paragraph (1) applies it to mutual liability insurance (責任共済)).
A ruling, decision or other disposition on an administrative appeal.
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 90 of 1966, a small-sized special purpose vehicle (小型特殊自動車) built to be used for farm work.
In Article 5 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 90 of 1966, a motor mutual insurance contract for a motorized bicycle (原動機付自転車), concluded before 1 October 1966 with an agricultural cooperative (農業協同組合) or federation of agricultural cooperatives carrying on the business in Article 10, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the Agricultural Co-operatives Act, that makes good the insured's loss from being liable for death or injury caused to others by operating it; either party may cancel it once a mutual automobile liability insurance (自動車損害賠償責任共済) contract is concluded for that motorized bicycle.
In the supplementary provisions of Act No. 25 of 1984, the heads of the branch offices and other local offices of a District Maritime Bureau (海運局) or of the Maritime Supervision Department (海運監理部), as they were before that Act comes into effect.
In the supplementary provisions of Act No. 25 of 1984, the heads of the maritime branch offices (海運支局) and other local offices of a District Transport Bureau (地方運輸局) or of the Maritime Supervision Department (海運監理部), which take over from the branch office heads (支局長等) that were there before that Act comes into effect.
新自動車損害賠償責任保険審議会
In Article 37 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 102 of 1999, the Council on Automobile Liability Insurance (自動車損害賠償責任保険審議会) of the Financial Services Agency (金融庁) under the Financial Reconstruction Commission (金融再生委員会), as provided in Article 35, paragraph (2) of the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents as amended by Article 36 of those supplementary provisions; members of the earlier council of the Financial Supervisory Agency (金融監督庁) are treated as appointed to it.
In Article 37 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 102 of 1999, the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents as amended by Article 36 of those supplementary provisions.
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 83 of 2001, the special account for automobile liability reinsurance (自動車損害賠償責任再保険特別会計) under the special account act as it stood before Article 2 of that Act amended it (旧特別会計法).
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 83 of 2001, the Act on Special Provisions on Transfer of Money for National Government Bonds Consolidation Fund, in Relation to Financial Management of Fiscal 1994 (Act No. 43 of 1994) as it stood before Article 7 of those supplementary provisions amended it.
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 83 of 2001, the Act on Special Provisions on Transfer of Money for National Government Bonds Consolidation Fund, in Relation to Financial Management of Fiscal 1995 (Act No. 60 of 1995) as it stood before Article 8 of those supplementary provisions amended it.
In Articles 2 and 5 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 65 of 2022, the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents as amended by Article 1 of that Act.
指定都市
A designated city under Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act: a city with a population of 500,000 or more designated by Cabinet Order (政令).
This Act as it stood before Act No. 90 of 1966 amended it.
Cabinet Orders (政令) under the National Government Organization Act, or under the related Acts as amended by the 1983 amending law (Act No. 78 of 1983), by which certain government bodies are to be set up.
In Article 23 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 25 of 1984, a permission, approval or other disposition (処分), or a contract or other act, made by a Director of a District Maritime Bureau (海運局長), a Director of a Maritime Superintendent's Office (海運監理部長), the head of a branch or other local office of either (支局長等) or a Director of a District Land Transport Bureau (陸運局長) under an Act (法律) or an order under one. That Article treats such an act made before that Act came into effect, as a Cabinet Order (政令) — or, for one made by the head of a branch or local office, an Order of the Ministry of Transport (運輸省令) — provides, as made by the corresponding Director of a District Transport Bureau (地方運輸局長), Director of a Maritime Superintendent's Office or head of a local office under the Acts and orders as that Act amended them.
In Article 24 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 25 of 1984, an application, notification or other act made to a Director of a District Maritime Bureau (海運局長), a Director of a Maritime Superintendent's Office (海運監理部長), the head of a branch or other local office (支局長等) or a Director of a District Land Transport Bureau (陸運局長). That Article treats such an act made before that Act came into effect, as a Cabinet Order (政令) — or, for one made to the head of a branch or local office, an Order of the Ministry of Transport (運輸省令) — provides, as made to the corresponding Director of a District Transport Bureau (地方運輸局長), Director of a Maritime Superintendent's Office or head of a local office under the Acts and orders as that Act amended them.
In Article 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 137 of 1995, an agricultural cooperative, etc. (農業協同組合等) that was already carrying on a business of mutual liability insurance (責任共済), mutual reinsurance (再共済) or mutual retrocession (再再共済) when that Act came into effect.
In Article 2, paragraph (2) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 83 of 2001, the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents as it stood before Article 1 of that Act amended it, in the provisions that paragraph (1) of that Article keeps in force for reinsurance relationships between the government and insurers, and insurance relationships between the government and cooperatives, formed before that Act came into effect; the term appears in the words paragraph (2) reads into Article 28-4, paragraph (1) of the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents as amended by Article 1 of that Act.
改正法
In Article 2, paragraph (2) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 83 of 2001, short name for that Act itself — the 2001 Act amending the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents and the Act on the special account for automobile liability reinsurance (自動車損害賠償責任再保険特別会計法).
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 83 of 2001, the Act on Special Provisions on Transfer of Money for National Government Bonds Consolidation Fund, in Relation to Financial Management of Fiscal 1995 (Act No. 60 of 1995) as amended by Article 8 of those supplementary provisions.
In Article 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 83 of 2001, the Act on Special Provisions on Transfer of Money for National Government Bonds Consolidation Fund, in Relation to Financial Management of Fiscal 1994 (Act No. 43 of 1994) as amended by Article 7 of those supplementary provisions.
The date Act No. 106 of 2005, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
Short name, in the supplementary provisions of Act No. 67 of 2014, for the 2014 Act amending the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies (Act No. 66 of 2014), on whose effective date Act No. 67 of 2014 comes into effect.