# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)

- 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) — address `suppl-3411-90/art-5`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
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### 第五条
<sup>suppl-3411-90/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-5</sup>

**第一項**  原動機付自転車に係る自動車共済の契約（被共済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共済契約であつて、農業協同組合法に基づき同法第十条第一項第八号の事業を行なう農業協同組合又は農業協同組合連合会との間に締結されたものをいう。）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「旧共済契約」という。）の当事者は、当該原動機付自転車につき自動車損害賠償責任共済の契約が締結されたときは、旧共済契約を解除することができる。
<sup>suppl-3411-90/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3411-90/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3411-90/art-5/par-1</sup>
The parties to a contract of automobile mutual insurance for a motorized bicycle (meaning a mutual insurance contract intended to indemnify the loss that a person insured under mutual insurance 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, and concluded with an agricultural cooperative or federation of agricultural cooperatives that carries out the business referred to in Article 10, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the Agricultural Co-operatives Act pursuant to that Act) that was concluded before October 1, 1966 (hereinafter referred to as an "old mutual insurance contract") may cancel the old mutual insurance contract when a contract for mutual automobile liability insurance is concluded for that motorized bicycle.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  前条第二項から第六項までの規定は、原動機付自転車に係る旧共済契約について準用する。この場合において、これらの規定中「旧保険契約」とあるのは「旧共済契約」と、「旧保険契約の保険者」とあるのは「農業協同組合又は農業協同組合連合会」と、「保険契約者」とあるのは「共済契約者」と、「保険金額」とあるのは「共済金額」と、「責任保険契約」とあるのは「自動車損害賠償責任共済の契約」と読み替えるものとする。
<sup>suppl-3411-90/art-5/par-2 · 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</sup>
The provisions of paragraphs (2) through (6) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to an old mutual insurance contract for a motorized bicycle. In this case, in those provisions, "old insurance contract" is deemed to be replaced with "old mutual insurance contract"; "insurer under the old insurance contract" with "agricultural cooperative or federation of agricultural cooperatives"; "policyholder" with "mutual insurance policyholder"; "amount of insurance coverage" with "amount insured under mutual insurance"; and "liability insurance contract" with "contract for mutual automobile liability insurance".
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3411-90/art-5/par-2: 前条第二項から第六項まで → 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第四条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (2)), 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
- suppl-3411-90/art-5/par-2: 前条第二項から第六項まで → 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
- suppl-3411-90/art-5/par-2: 前条第二項から第六項まで → 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-5/par-2: 前条第二項から第六項まで → 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第四条第五項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (5)), 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
- suppl-3411-90/art-5/par-2: 前条第二項から第六項まで → 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第四条第六項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (6)), 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

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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-20261013T115725-005, 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
