# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第十四条 (Article 14) - 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: 第十四条 (Article 14)（免責） — address `art-14` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-14 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-14 - 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. --- ### 第十四条（免責） — (Release from Liability) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-14 **第一項** 保険会社は、第八十二条の三に規定する場合を除き、保険契約者又は被保険者の悪意によつて生じた損害についてのみ、てん補の責めを免れる。 art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-14/par-1 Except as prescribed in Article 82-3, an insurer is only released from liability to indemnify damage if it arises due to the bad faith of the policyholder or the insured. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-14/par-1: 第八十二条の三 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第八十二条の三 (Article 82-3), art-82-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-82-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-82-3 ## 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