# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第五条 (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 (Article 5)（責任保険又は責任共済の契約の締結強制） — address `art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（責任保険又は責任共済の契約の締結強制） — (Compulsory Conclusion of a Contract for the Liability Insurance or Mutual Liability Insurance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "(Compulsory Conclusion of a Contract for the Liability Insurance or Mutual Liaability Insurance)" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3135/tb art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-5 **第一項** 自動車は、これについてこの法律で定める自動車損害賠償責任保険（以下「責任保険」という。）又は自動車損害賠償責任共済（以下「責任共済」という。）の契約が締結されているものでなければ、運行の用に供してはならない。 art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-5/par-1 An automobile must not be put into operational use unless a contract for automobile liability insurance (hereinafter referred to as "liability insurance") or mutual automobile liability insurance (hereinafter referred to as "mutual liability insurance") as provided in this Act has been concluded for that automobile. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第十条第一項（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-10/par-1 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第八十六条の三第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-86-3/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-86-3/par-1/item-1 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第二条第一項（農業協同組合及び農業協同組合連合会に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-4071-137/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-4071-137/art-2/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百八条の三十三第一項（免許の拒否等に関する規定の適用の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-108-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-33/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Slips in the Ministry of Justice's English of the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents, corrected, written 2026-10-13 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents (自動車損害賠償保障法), Article 5 — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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