# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第十九条 (Article 19) - 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: 第十九条 (Article 19)（時効） — address `art-19` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-19 - 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. --- ### 第十九条（時効） — (Period of Prescription) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-19 **第一項** 第十六条第一項及び第十七条第一項の規定による請求権は、被害者又はその法定代理人が損害及び保有者を知つた時から三年を経過したときは、時効によつて消滅する。 art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-19/par-1 The right to file a claim under Article 16, paragraph (1) or Article 17, paragraph (1) is extinguished by prescription once three years have passed from the time when the injured party or the legal representative of the injured party learned of the damage and the person in possession. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-19/par-1: 第十六条第一項 → 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-19/par-1: 第十七条第一項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十七条第一項 (Article 17, paragraph (1)), art-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-17/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch automobile-accident-compensation-act-20261013T115725-001, translated 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