# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-3411-90/art-4` - 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-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-4 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四条 suppl-3411-90/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-4 **第一項** 原動機付自転車に係る自動車保険の契約（被保険者が原動機付自転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する保険契約をいう。）であつて昭和四十一年十月一日前に締結されたもの（以下「旧保険契約」という。）の当事者は、当該原動機付自転車につき責任保険契約が締結されたときは、旧保険契約を解除することができる。 suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-1 The parties to a contract of automobile insurance for a motorized bicycle (meaning an insurance contract intended to indemnify the loss that the insured may incur by becoming liable to compensate for damage inflicted on the life or body of another person through the operation of a motorized bicycle) that was concluded before October 1, 1966 (hereinafter referred to as an "old insurance contract") may cancel the old insurance contract when a liability insurance contract is concluded for that motorized bicycle. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により旧保険契約が解除されたときは、旧保険契約の保険者は、保険契約者に対して、政令で定める金額の解約返戻金を支払わなければならない。 suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-2 When an old insurance contract has been cancelled pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the insurer under the old insurance contract must pay the policyholder a cancellation refund in the amount specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official **第三項** 旧保険契約の保険金額は、当該原動機付自転車につき責任保険契約が締結されたときは、政令で定める金額まで増加したものとする。 suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-3 When a liability insurance contract is concluded for the motorized bicycle concerned, the amount of insurance coverage under the old insurance contract is deemed to have increased to the amount specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official **第四項** 旧保険契約の保険契約者は、当該原動機付自転車につき責任保険契約が締結されたときは、旧保険契約の保険者に対して、政令で定める金額の支払を請求することができる。ただし、第一項の規定により旧保険契約が解除されたときは、この限りでない。 suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-4 When a liability insurance contract is concluded for the motorized bicycle concerned, the policyholder under the old insurance contract may demand that the insurer under the old insurance contract pay the amount specified by Cabinet Order; provided, however, that this does not apply when the old insurance contract has been cancelled pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1). machine translation, not official **第五項** 旧保険契約の保険契約者が、前項本文の規定による請求をしたときは、その時以後、旧保険契約の保険金額は、第三項の規定により増加した時以前の金額に復するものとする。 suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-5 If the policyholder under an old insurance contract has made the demand under the main clause of the preceding paragraph, then on and after that time the amount of insurance coverage under the old insurance contract is to revert to the amount before it was increased pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3). machine translation, not official **第六項** 旧保険契約に係る原動機付自転車につき責任保険契約が締結された場合において、旧保険契約及び責任保険契約によりてん補すべき損害が生じたときは、まず責任保険契約による損害のてん補を行ない、そのてん補金額が損害の全部をてん補するに足りないときは、その足りない金額を旧保険契約によりてん補するものとする。 suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-6 If a liability insurance contract is concluded for a motorized bicycle covered by an old insurance contract, and loss arises that is to be indemnified under both the old insurance contract and the liability insurance contract, the loss is first indemnified under the liability insurance contract, and if the amount so indemnified is not sufficient to indemnify the whole of the loss, the shortfall is indemnified under the old insurance contract. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-2: 前項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)), suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-1 - suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-4: 第一項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)), suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-1 - suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-5: 前項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第四条第四項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (4)), suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-4 - suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-5: 第三項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第四条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (3)), suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-3 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-2 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第四条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-4 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第四条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-4/par-5 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-5/par-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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch automobile-accident-compensation-act-20261013T115725-005, 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