# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第七十九条 (Article 79)

- 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: 第七十九条 (Article 79)（過怠金） — address `art-79`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-79
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-79
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### 第七十九条（過怠金） — (Monetary Penalties)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-79</sup>

  **第一項**  政府は、第七十二条第一項第二号の規定による損害の塡補をしたときは、損害賠償の責に任ずる者に対して、政令で定める金額を過怠金として徴収することができる。
  <sup>art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-79/par-1</sup>
  Having indemnified for damage under Article 72, paragraph (1), item (ii), the government may collect the amount that Cabinet Order prescribes as a monetary penalty from the person that is liable for damages.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-79/par-1: 第七十二条第一項第二号 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第七十二条第一項第二号 (Article 72, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-72/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-72/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-72/par-1/item-2

## Cited by

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

- 自動車損害賠償保障法 第八十条第一項（徴収金の滞納処分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-80/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-80/par-1
- 自動車損害賠償保障法 第八十一条第一項（先取特権の順位） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-81/par-1

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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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch automobile-accident-compensation-act-20261013T115725-003, 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
