# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（経過規定） — address `suppl-3411-90/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（経過規定） — Interim Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3411-90/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-3 **第一項** 農耕作業の用に供することを目的として製作した小型特殊自動車（以下「農耕作業用小型特殊自動車」という。）を自己のために運行の用に供する者がこの法律の施行前に当該農耕作業用小型特殊自動車を運行し、これによつて他人の生命又は身体を害した場合における損害賠償の責任に関しては、なお従前の例による。 suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-1 With regard to liability to compensate for damage in the case where a person who puts a small-sized special purpose vehicle manufactured for use in farm work (hereinafter referred to as a "small-sized special purpose vehicle for farm work") into operation for that person's own benefit conducted the operation of that small-sized special purpose vehicle for farm work before this Act comes into effect and thereby harmed the life or body of another person, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official **第二項** 農耕作業用小型特殊自動車に係る自動車損害賠償責任保険の契約（以下「責任保険契約」という。）であつてこの法律の施行の際現に締結されているものは、当該責任保険契約の保険期間の残存期間中、保有者（改正前の自動車損害賠償保障法（以下「旧法」という。）第二条第三項に規定する保有者をいう。）又は運転者（旧法第二条第四項に規定する運転者をいう。）が当該農耕作業用小型特殊自動車の運行によつて他人の生命又は身体に加えた損害の賠償責任を負うことにより受けることあるべき損害をてん補することを目的として、当該責任保険契約の当事者間において締結された保険契約として存続するものとする。ただし、保険金額については、新法第十三条第二項の規定による定めがなされた場合においては、当該変更後の保険金額と同じ額とする。 suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-2 A contract for automobile liability insurance concerning a small-sized special purpose vehicle for farm work (hereinafter referred to as a "liability insurance contract") that has actually been concluded at the time this Act comes into effect continues to exist, for the remaining coverage period of that liability insurance contract, as an insurance contract concluded between the parties to that liability insurance contract for the purpose of indemnifying the loss that a person in possession (meaning a person in possession as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents prior to the amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act")) or a driver (meaning a driver as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Former Act) may incur by becoming liable to compensate for damage inflicted on the life or body of another person through the operation of that small-sized special purpose vehicle for farm work; provided, however, that, as to the amount of insurance coverage, if a provision is made pursuant to Article 13, paragraph (2) of the New Act, the amount is the same as the amount of insurance coverage after that change. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項に規定するものを除き、同項の保険契約に係る保険関係については、責任保険に関する新法（第二十条の二第二項の規定を除く。）その他の法令の規定を準用する。 suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-3 Except for what is prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the provisions of the New Act concerning liability insurance (excluding Article 20-2, paragraph (2)) and other laws and regulations apply mutatis mutandis to the insurance relationship concerning the insurance contract referred to in that paragraph. machine translation, not official **第四項** 自動車損害賠償責任再保険に関する新法の規定の適用については、第二項の保険契約は責任保険契約とみなす。 suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-4 For the purpose of applying the provisions of the New Act concerning automobile liability reinsurance, the insurance contract referred to in paragraph (2) is deemed to be a liability insurance contract. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-3: 前項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第三条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (2)), suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-2 - suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-4: 第二項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第三条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (2)), suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第三条第三項（経過規定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-3 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第三条第四項（経過規定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-3/par-4 --- ## 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-20261013T115725-004, translated 2026-10-13 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch automobile-accident-compensation-act-20261013T121229-001, 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