# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第十三条 (Article 13) - 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: 第十三条 (Article 13)（保険金額） — address `art-13` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-13 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-13 - 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. --- ### 第十三条（保険金額） — (Amount of Insurance Coverage) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-13 **第一項** 責任保険の保険金額は、政令で定める。 art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-13/par-1 Cabinet Order provides for the amount of insurance coverage under liability insurance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定に基づき政令を制定し、又は改正する場合においては、政令で、当該政令の施行の際現に責任保険の契約が締結されている自動車についての責任保険の保険金額を当該制定又は改正による変更後の保険金額とするために必要な措置その他当該制定又は改正に伴う所要の経過措置を定めることができる。 art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-13/par-2 Upon the enactment or amendment of Cabinet Order based on the preceding paragraph, Cabinet Order may prescribe the necessary measures for changing the amount of insurance coverage under the liability insurance associated with an automobile insured under a contract for liability insurance that has already been concluded at the time that the Cabinet Order enters into force to the amount of insurance coverage provided for after the enactment or amendment, and may prescribe any other necessary transitional measures to coordinate with the enactment or amendment thereof. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-13/par-2: 前項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十三条第一項 (Article 13, paragraph (1)), art-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-13/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十三条第二項（保険金額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-13/par-2 - 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