# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) - 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-4201-65` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-4201-65 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-4201-65 - 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. --- ## 附　則 平成二〇年六月一三日法律第六五号 suppl-4201-65 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-4201-65 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-4201-65 ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4201-65/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-4201-65/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-4201-65/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から起算して六月を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。 suppl-4201-65/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-4201-65/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-4201-65/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect as of the day specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding six months from the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official ### 第四十条（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Application of Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4201-65/art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-4201-65/art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-4201-65/art-40 **第一項** この法律（附則第一条各号に掲げる規定にあっては、当該規定。以下この条において同じ。）の施行前にした行為及びこの附則の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4201-65/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-4201-65/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-4201-65/art-40/par-1 With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act (or, for the provisions set forth in the items of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, those provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) comes into effect and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4201-65/art-40/par-1: 附則第一条 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1), suppl-4201-65/art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-4201-65/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-4201-65/art-1 - suppl-4201-65/art-40/par-1: この条 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第四十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 40), suppl-4201-65/art-40 — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-4201-65/art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-4201-65/art-40 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第四十条第一項（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-4201-65/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-4201-65/art-40/par-1 --- ## 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-20261013T115725-011, 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