# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第十六条の四 (Article 16-4) - 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: 第十六条の四 (Article 16-4)（書面の交付） — address `art-16-4` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-4 - 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. --- ### 第十六条の四（書面の交付） — (Delivery of Documents) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-16-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-4 **第一項** 保険会社は、保険金等の請求があつたときは、遅滞なく、国土交通省令・内閣府令で定めるところにより、支払基準の概要その他の国土交通省令・内閣府令で定める事項を記載した書面を当該請求を行つた被保険者又は被害者に交付しなければならない。 art-16-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-4/par-1 When a claim is filed for insurance proceeds and damages, the insurer, without delay, must deliver to the insured or injured party that has filed the claim a document giving an outline of the criteria for payment and any other information that Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and Cabinet Office Order specify, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and Cabinet Office Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 保険会社は、保険金等の支払を行つたときは、遅滞なく、国土交通省令・内閣府令で定めるところにより、支払つた保険金等の金額、後遺障害の該当する等級、当該等級に該当すると判断した理由その他の保険金等の支払に関する重要な事項であつて国土交通省令・内閣府令で定めるものを記載した書面を前項に規定する請求を行つた被保険者又は被害者に交付しなければならない。 art-16-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-4/par-2 Having paid insurance proceeds and damages, an insurer, without delay, must deliver to the insured or injured party that has filed a claim as prescribed in the preceding paragraph a document detailing the amount of the insurance proceeds and damages paid, the applicable grade of residual disability, the reason for the decision that that grade is applicable, and any other material information concerning the payment of the insurance proceeds and damages that Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and Cabinet Office Order specifies, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and Cabinet Office Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 保険会社は、第三条ただし書に規定する事項の証明があつたことその他の理由により保険金等を支払わないこととしたときは、遅滞なく、国土交通省令・内閣府令で定めるところにより、支払を行わないこととした理由を記載した書面を第一項に規定する請求を行つた被保険者又は被害者に交付しなければならない。 art-16-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-4/par-3 On deciding not to pay insurance proceeds and damages because there is evidence of circumstances as prescribed in the proviso to Article 3 or based on other grounds, an insurer, without delay, must deliver to the insured or injured party that has filed a claim as prescribed in paragraph (1) a document giving grounds for not paying the insurance proceeds and damages, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and Cabinet Office Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 保険会社は、前三項の規定による書面の交付に代えて、政令で定めるところにより、被保険者又は被害者の承諾を得て、当該書面に記載すべき事項を電子情報処理組織を使用する方法その他の情報通信の技術を利用する方法であつて国土交通省令・内閣府令で定めるものにより提供することができる。この場合において、当該保険会社は、当該書面を交付したものとみなす。 art-16-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-4/par-4 With the consent of the insured or the injured party and pursuant to Cabinet Order, in lieu of delivering a document as under one of the preceding three paragraphs, an insurer may use one of the means of employing an electronic data processing system or of otherwise making use of information and communications technology which Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and Cabinet Office Order prescribes, to provide the relevant person with the information that it is required to give in that document. Having done so, the insurer is deemed to have delivered the relevant document. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-16-4/par-2: 前項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十六条の四第一項 (Article 16-4, paragraph (1)), art-16-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-4/par-1 - art-16-4/par-3: 第三条 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第三条 (Article 3), art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-3 - art-16-4/par-3: 第一項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十六条の四第一項 (Article 16-4, paragraph (1)), art-16-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-4/par-1 - art-16-4/par-4: 前三項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十六条の四第一項 (Article 16-4, paragraph (1)), art-16-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-4/par-1 - art-16-4/par-4: 前三項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十六条の四第二項 (Article 16-4, paragraph (2)), art-16-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-4/par-2 - art-16-4/par-4: 前三項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十六条の四第三項 (Article 16-4, paragraph (3)), art-16-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-4/par-3 ## Cited by 10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十六条の四第二項（書面の交付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-4/par-2 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十六条の四第三項（書面の交付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-4/par-3 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十六条の四第四項（書面の交付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-4/par-4 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十六条の五第一項（書面による説明等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-5/par-1 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十六条の六第一項（支払等の届出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-6/par-1 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十六条の七第一項第二号（国土交通大臣に対する申出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-7/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-7/par-1/item-2 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十六条の八第一項（指示等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-16-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-16-8/par-1 - 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