# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第二十条の二 (Article 20-2) - 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: 第二十条の二 (Article 20-2)（責任保険の契約の解除等） — address `art-20-2` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-20-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-20-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十条の二（責任保険の契約の解除等） — (Cancellation of Contracts for Liability Insurance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-20-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-20-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-20-2 **第一項** 責任保険の契約の当事者は、次に掲げる場合に限り、責任保険の契約を解除することができる。 art-20-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-20-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-20-2/par-1 The parties to a contract for liability insurance may cancel that contract only: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 当該自動車が第十条に規定する自動車となつた場合 art-20-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-20-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-20-2/par-1/item-1 if the automobile comes to constitute an automobile as prescribed in Article 10; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 保険法第二十八条第一項の規定による場合 art-20-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-20-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-20-2/par-1/item-2 in a case under Article 28, paragraph (1) of the Insurance Act; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 当該自動車について他に責任保険の契約又は責任共済の契約が締結されており、かつ、その契約の保険期間又は共済期間の終期が当該責任保険の契約の保険期間の終期と同一であるかその終期より遅いものである場合 art-20-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-20-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-20-2/par-1/item-3 if another contract for liability insurance or contract for mutual liability insurance for the automobile is concluded, and the end of the coverage period or the period of coverage under mutual insurance under that contract is the same as or later than the end of the coverage period of the contract for liability insurance that would be canceled; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** その他国土交通省令で定める場合 art-20-2/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-20-2/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-20-2/par-1/item-4 in any other case that Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism prescribes. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 責任保険の契約の当事者は、その契約を合意により解除し、又はその契約に解除条件を附することができない。 art-20-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-20-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-20-2/par-2 The parties to a contract for liability insurance may not cancel that contract by mutual agreement, nor subject the contract to a condition subsequent. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-20-2/par-1/item-1: 第十条 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十条 (Article 10), art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-10 - art-20-2/par-1/item-2: 保険法第二十八条第一項 → e-Gov law 420AC0000000056, 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — not held in this collection ## 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