# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第八十五条 (Article 85) - 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: 第八十五条 (Article 85)（証明書の提示） — address `art-85` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-85 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-85 - 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. --- ### 第八十五条（証明書の提示） — (Presentation of Certificate) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-85 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-85 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-85 **第一項** 国土交通大臣は、第一条の目的を達成するため必要があると認めるときは、その職員に、道路その他自動車の所在する場所において、自動車を運転する者に対し、自動車損害賠償責任保険証明書又は自動車損害賠償責任共済証明書の提示を求めさせることができる。 art-85/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-85/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-85/par-1 On finding that it is necessary to do so in order to achieve the purpose referred to in Article 1, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism may have the relevant officials require any person driving an automobile to present certificate of automobile liability insurance or certificate of mutual automobile liability insurance, on the road or at any other place where the automobile is located. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の職員は、その身分を示す証明書を携帯し、関係者の請求があつたときは、これを提示しなければならない。 art-85/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-85/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-85/par-2 An official as referred to in the preceding paragraph must carry identification and present it at the request of any person concerned. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-85/par-1: 第一条 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第一条 (Article 1), art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-1 - art-85/par-2: 前項 → 自動車損害賠償保障法 第八十五条第一項 (Article 85, paragraph (1)), art-85/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-85/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-85/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第八十四条第二項（権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-84/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-84/par-2 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第八十五条第二項（証明書の提示） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-85/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-85/par-2 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第八十九条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-89/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-89/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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