# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第十六条の三 (Article 16-3) - 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: 第十六条の三 (Article 16-3)（支払基準） — address `art-16-3` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-3 - 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. --- ### 第十六条の三（支払基準） — (Criteria for Payment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-16-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-3 **第一項** 保険会社は、保険金等を支払うときは、死亡、後遺障害及び傷害の別に国土交通大臣及び内閣総理大臣が定める支払基準（以下「支払基準」という。）に従つてこれを支払わなければならない。 art-16-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-3/par-1 An insurer must abide by the criteria for payment that the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the Prime Minister set (hereinafter referred to as "criteria for payment") when paying insurance proceeds and damages, and must make separate payments for death, residual disability, and injury. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 国土交通大臣及び内閣総理大臣は、前項の規定により支払基準を定める場合には、公平かつ迅速な支払の確保の必要性を勘案して、これを定めなければならない。これを変更する場合も、同様とする。 art-16-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-3/par-2 When setting the criteria for payment pursuant to in the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the Prime Minister must take into consideration the need to ensure fair and prompt payment. The same applies if they change the criteria for payment. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-16-3/par-2: 前項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十六条の三第一項 (Article 16-3, paragraph (1)), art-16-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-3/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十六条の三第二項（支払基準） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-3/par-2 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第二十三条の二第一項（報告及び立入検査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-23-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-23-2/par-1 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第二十三条の三第一項（責任保険の契約に関する規定等の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-23-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-23-3/par-1 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第二十三条の三第二項（責任保険の契約に関する規定等の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-23-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-23-3/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 - 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