# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第二十六条の三 (Article 26-3)

- 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: 第二十六条の三 (Article 26-3) — address `art-26-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-26-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-26-3
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### 第二十六条の三
<sup>art-26-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-26-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-26-3</sup>

  **第一項**  内閣総理大臣は、責任保険の保険料が能率的な経営の下における適正な原価を超えると認めるときは、保険会社又は損害保険料率算出団体に関する法律第二条第一項第三号に規定する損害保険料率算出団体に対して、責任保険の保険料率又は同項第六号に掲げる基準料率（第二十八条及び第二十九条の二において「基準料率」という。）の変更を命ずることができる。
  <sup>art-26-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-26-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-26-3/par-1</sup>
  On finding liability insurance premiums to exceed the costs that would reasonably arise under efficient management, the Prime Minister may order an insurer or a non-life insurance rating organization as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Act on Non-Life Insurance Rating Organizations to change liability insurance premium rates or the standard rates set forth in item (vi) of that paragraph (referred to as "standard rates" in Articles 28 and 29-2).
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-26-3/par-1: 損害保険料率算出団体に関する法律第二条第一項第三号 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000193, 第二条第一項第三号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-2/par-1/item-3 — not held in this collection
- art-26-3/par-1: 同項第六号 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000193, 第二条第一項第六号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-2/par-1/item-6 — not held in this collection
- art-26-3/par-1: 第二十八条 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第二十八条 (Article 28), art-28 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-28
- art-26-3/par-1: 第二十九条の二 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第二十九条の二 (Article 29-2), art-29-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-29-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-29-2

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 自動車損害賠償保障法 第二十八条第四項（同意） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-28/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-28/par-4
- 自動車損害賠償保障法 第九十一条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-91/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-91/par-2

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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
- 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
