# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第七条 (Article 7) - 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: 第七条 (Article 7)（自動車損害賠償責任保険証明書） — address `art-7` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（自動車損害賠償責任保険証明書） — (Certificate of Automobile Liability Insurance ) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-7 **第一項** 保険会社は、保険料の支払があつたときは、保険契約者に対して、当該自動車につき自動車損害賠償責任保険証明書を交付しなければならない。 art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-7/par-1 Once an insurance premium has been paid, the insurer must issue to the policyholder certificate of automobile liability insurance for the automobile. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 保険契約者は、当該自動車損害賠償責任保険証明書の記載事項について変更があつたときは、自動車損害賠償責任保険証明書にその変更についての記入を受けなければならない。 art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-7/par-2 If any of the information appearing on the certificate of automobile liability insurance changes, the policyholder must have that change entered on the certificate of insurance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 保険会社は、前項の規定による記入の申出があつたときは、遅滞なく、その記入を行わなければならない。ただし、第二十二条第三項又は第四項の規定による請求をした場合において、その金額の支払がなかつたときは、この限りでない。 art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-7/par-3 Upon receipt of a request to enter a change under the preceding paragraph, the insurer must enter the change on the certificate of insurance without delay; provided, however, that this does not apply if the insurer has made a request under Article 22, paragraph (3) or (4) but the amount requested has not been paid. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 保険契約者は、自動車損害賠償責任保険証明書が滅失し、損傷し、又はその識別が困難となつたときは、保険会社に対して、その再交付を求めることができる。 art-7/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-7/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-7/par-4 If certificate of automobile liability insurance is lost or damaged or becomes difficult to decipher, the policyholder may require the insurer to re-issue it. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 自動車損害賠償責任保険証明書の記載事項その他自動車損害賠償責任保険証明書に関する細目は、国土交通省令で定める。 art-7/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-7/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-7/par-5 Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism provides for the information that is to appear on certificate of automobile liability insurance and other details concerning certificate of automobile liability insurance . Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第六項** 保険法（平成二十年法律第五十六号）第六条の規定は、責任保険については、適用しない。 art-7/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-7/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-7/par-6 Article 6 of the Insurance Act (Act No. 56 of 2008) does not apply to liability insurance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-7/par-3: 前項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第七条第二項 (Article 7, paragraph (2)), art-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-7/par-2 - art-7/par-3: 第二十二条第三項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第二十二条第三項 (Article 22, paragraph (3)), art-22/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-22/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-22/par-3 - art-7/par-3: 第四項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第二十二条第四項 (Article 22, paragraph (4)), art-22/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-22/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-22/par-4 - art-7/par-6: 保険法（平成二十年法律第五十六号）第六条 → e-Gov law 420AC0000000056, 第六条 (Article 6), art-6 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第七条第三項（自動車損害賠償責任保険証明書） — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-7/par-3 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第八条第一項（自動車損害賠償責任保険証明書の備付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-8/par-1 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第九条の二第一項（保険標章） — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-9-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-9-2/par-1 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第九条の四第一項（自動車損害賠償責任共済証明書及び共済標章） — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-9-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-9-4/par-1 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第九条の五第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-9-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-9-5/par-1 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十条第一項（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-10/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