# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第八条 (Article 8) - 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: 第八条 (Article 8)（自動車損害賠償責任保険証明書の備付） — address `art-8` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条（自動車損害賠償責任保険証明書の備付） — (Carrying Certificate of Automobile Liability Insurance On Board) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-8 **第一項** 自動車は、自動車損害賠償責任保険証明書（前条第二項の規定により変更についての記入を受けなければならないものにあつては、その記入を受けた自動車損害賠償責任保険証明書。次条において同じ。）を備え付けなければ、運行の用に供してはならない。 art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-8/par-1 An automobile must not be put into operational use unless it has certificate of automobile liability insurance on board (or unless it has certificate of insurance into which a change has been entered on board, if a change is required to have been entered in the certificate of insurance pursuant to paragraph (2) of the preceding Article; the same applies in the following Article). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-8/par-1: 前条第二項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第七条第二項 (Article 7, paragraph (2)), art-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-7/par-2 - art-8/par-1: 次条 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-9 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第九条の五第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-9-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-9-5/par-1 - 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 第八十八条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-88/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-88/par-1/item-1 --- ## 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