# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第七十一条 (Article 71)

- 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: 第七十一条 (Article 71) — address `art-71`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-71
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-71
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### 第七十一条
<sup>art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-71</sup>

  **第一項**  政府は、この法律の規定により、自動車事故対策事業として、次条第一項に規定する自動車損害賠償保障事業及び第七十七条の二第一項に規定する被害者保護増進等事業を行う。
  <sup>art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-71/par-1</sup>
  Under the provisions of this Act, the government conducts, as the Program for Automobile Accident Countermeasures, the Program Guaranteeing Compensation for Automobile Accidents prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article and the Program for Promoting the Protection of Injured Parties, etc. prescribed in Article 77-2, paragraph (1).
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-71/par-1: 次条第一項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第七十二条第一項 (Article 72, paragraph (1)), art-72/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-72/par-1
- art-71/par-1: 第七十七条の二第一項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第七十七条の二第一項 (Article 77-2, paragraph (1)), art-77-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-77-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-77-2/par-1

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 自動車損害賠償保障法 第七十八条第一項（自動車事故対策事業賦課金） — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-78/par-1

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## 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
