# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第二十三条の十二 (Article 23-12) - 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: 第二十三条の十二 (Article 23-12)（説明又は資料提出の請求） — address `art-23-12` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-23-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-23-12 - 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. --- ### 第二十三条の十二（説明又は資料提出の請求） — (Request for Explanation or Submission of Materials) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-23-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-23-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-23-12 **第一項** 指定紛争処理機関は、紛争処理業務の実施に必要な限度において、保険会社又は組合に対して、文書若しくは口頭による説明又は資料の提出を求めることができる。 art-23-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-23-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-23-12/par-1 A designated dispute resolution organization may ask an insurer or cooperative to give a written or oral explanation or to submit materials, within the limits of what is necessary to implement dispute resolution services. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 保険会社又は組合は、前項の規定による求めがあつたときは、正当な理由がない限り、これを拒んではならない。 art-23-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-23-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-23-12/par-2 It is prohibited for an insurer or cooperative to refuse a request under the preceding paragraph without a legitimate reason for doing so. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-23-12/par-2: 前項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第二十三条の十二第一項 (Article 23-12, paragraph (1)), art-23-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-23-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-23-12/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 第二十三条の十二第二項（説明又は資料提出の請求） — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-23-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-23-12/par-2 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第九十一条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-91/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-91/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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