# 自動車損害賠償保障法 / Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)

- 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) — address `suppl-4071-137/art-5`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
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### 第五条
<sup>suppl-4071-137/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-4071-137/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-4071-137/art-5</sup>

**第一項**  改正後の自賠法第四十条第二項の規定により政府が農業協同組合等の負う共済責任、再共済責任又は再再共済責任を保険する場合における同項の規定の適用については、施行日から起算して十年を経過する日までの間は、同項中「原動機付自転車」とあるのは、「軽自動車及び原動機付自転車」とする。
<sup>suppl-4071-137/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-4071-137/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-4071-137/art-5/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of Article 40, paragraph (2) of the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents as Amended in the case where the government insures, pursuant to that paragraph, the mutual insurance liabilities, mutual reinsurance liabilities or mutual retrocession liabilities borne by an agricultural cooperative, etc., until the day on which ten years have passed from the Effective Date, the phrase "motorized bicycle" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "light motor vehicle and motorized bicycle".
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  農業協同組合等が軽自動車に係る責任共済、再共済又は再再共済の契約によって負う共済責任、再共済責任又は再再共済責任について改正後の自賠法第四十条第二項及び第五十条の規定を適用する場合においては、これらの規定は、施行日から起算して十年を経過した日以後に締結される当該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。
<sup>suppl-4071-137/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-4071-137/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-4071-137/art-5/par-2</sup>
In the case of applying the provisions of Article 40, paragraph (2) and Article 50 of the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents as Amended to the mutual insurance liabilities, mutual reinsurance liabilities or mutual retrocession liabilities that an agricultural cooperative, etc. bears under contracts for mutual liability insurance, mutual reinsurance agreements or mutual retrocession agreements concerning light motor vehicles, those provisions apply to the mutual insurance liabilities, mutual reinsurance liabilities or mutual retrocession liabilities relating to the contracts for the mutual liability insurance concerned that are concluded on or after the day on which ten years have passed from the Effective Date.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 自動車損害賠償保障法 附則第八条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/suppl-4071-137/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/suppl-4071-137/art-8/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-20261013T115725-007, 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
