# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) - 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日等） — address `suppl-3451-46/art-1` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3451-46/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3451-46/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日等） — Effective Date, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3451-46/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3451-46/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3451-46/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、昭和四十五年十月一日から施行する。 suppl-3451-46/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3451-46/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3451-46/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on October 1, 1970. machine translation, not official **第二項** 改正後の第十九条の二（改正後の第五十四条の五第一項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定はこの法律の施行後に締結される責任保険の契約又は責任共済の契約について、改正後の第五十五条及び第五十六条の規定はこの法律の施行後に締結される責任共済の契約に係る共済責任、再共済責任又は再再共済責任について適用する。 suppl-3451-46/art-1/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-3451-46/art-1/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-3451-46/art-1/par-2 Article 19-2 as amended (including where applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 54-5, paragraph (1) as amended) applies to contracts for liability insurance or contracts for mutual liability insurance concluded after this Act comes into effect, and Articles 55 and 56 as amended apply to mutual insurance liability, mutual reinsurance liability, or mutual re-reinsurance liability under contracts for mutual liability insurance concluded after this Act comes into effect. machine translation, not official --- ## 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-20261013T115725-005, 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