# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第八十一条 (Article 81)

- 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: 第八十一条 (Article 81)（先取特権の順位） — address `art-81`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-81
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-81
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### 第八十一条（先取特権の順位） — (Priority of Statutory Liens)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-81 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-81</sup>

  **第一項**  第七十八条の自動車事故対策事業賦課金及び第七十九条の過怠金の先取特権の順位は、国税及び地方税に次ぐ。
  <sup>art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-81/par-1</sup>
  Statutory liens involving shared charges under the Program for Automobile Accident Countermeasures referred to in Article 78 and monetary penalties as referred to in Article 79 follow national taxes and local taxes in order of priority.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-81/par-1: 第七十八条 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第七十八条 (Article 78), art-78 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-78 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-78
- art-81/par-1: 第七十九条 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第七十九条 (Article 79), art-79 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-79

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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