# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第十二条 (Article 12) - Law: 自動車損害賠償保障法 (Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents), 昭和三十年法律第九十七号 - English title "Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents": 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: 第十二条 (Article 12) — address `art-12` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-12 - 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. --- ### 第十二条 art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-12 **第一項** 責任保険の契約は、自動車一両ごとに締結しなければならない。 art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-12/par-1 A person must conclude a separate contract for liability insurance for each automobile. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第二十三条の二第一項（報告及び立入検査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-23-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-23-2/par-1 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第二十三条の三第一項（責任保険の契約に関する規定等の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-23-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-23-3/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 自動車損害賠償保障法 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/330AC0000000097/20260401_508AC0000000002), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3135/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 189 — 自動車損害賠償保障法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13