# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第十六条の二 (Article 16-2)

- 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: 第十六条の二 (Article 16-2)（休業による損害等に係る保険金等の限度） — address `art-16-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-2
- 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.

---

### 第十六条の二（休業による損害等に係る保険金等の限度） — (Limit on Insurance Proceeds and Damages for Missed Work)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-16-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-2</sup>

  **第一項**  保険会社が被保険者に対して支払うべき保険金又は前条第一項の規定により被害者に対して支払うべき損害賠償額（第二十八条の四第一項を除き、以下「保険金等」という。）のうち被害者が療養のため労働することができないことによる損害その他の政令で定める損害に係る部分は、政令で定める額を限度とする。
  <sup>art-16-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-2/par-1</sup>
  The insurance proceeds that the insurer is to pay the insured and the damages that the insurer is to pay the injured party pursuant to paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (hereinafter, except in Article 28-4, paragraph (1), referred to as "insurance proceeds and damages") to compensate for damage due to the injured party's inability to work while in recuperation or for any other damage that Cabinet Order prescribes are limited to the amount prescribed by Cabinet Order.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

---

## Cites
- art-16-2/par-1: 前条第一項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16/par-1
- art-16-2/par-1: 第二十八条の四第一項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第二十八条の四第一項 (Article 28-4, paragraph (1)), art-28-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-28-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-28-4/par-1

## 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
