# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第八十七条 (Article 87)

- 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: 第八十七条 (Article 87) — address `art-87`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-87
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-87
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### 第八十七条
<sup>art-87 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-87 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-87</sup>

**第一項**  偽りその他不正の手段により、自動車損害賠償責任保険証明書若しくは自動車損害賠償責任共済証明書又は保険標章、共済標章若しくは保険・共済除外標章の交付又は再交付を受けたときは、その違反行為をした者は、六月以下の拘禁刑又は二十万円以下の罰金に処する。
<sup>art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-87/par-1</sup>
If a person has had a certificate of automobile liability insurance, a certificate of mutual automobile liability insurance, an insurance sticker, a mutual insurance sticker, or an insurance/mutual insurance exemption sticker issued or reissued by deception or other wrongful means, the person who committed the violation is subject to imprisonment for not more than six months or a fine of not more than 200,000 yen.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

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

- 自動車損害賠償保障法 第九十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-90/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-90/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-20261013T115725-003, 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
