# 国家賠償法 / State Redress Act — 第三条 (Article 3) - Law: 国家賠償法 (State Redress Act), 昭和二十二年法律第百二十五号 - English title "State Redress Act": 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: 第三条 (Article 3) — address `art-3` - Text in force since: 1947-10-27 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/state-redress-act/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000125/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条 art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/state-redress-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000125/art-3 **第一項** 前二条の規定によつて国又は公共団体が損害を賠償する責に任ずる場合において、公務員の選任若しくは監督又は公の営造物の設置若しくは管理に当る者と公務員の俸給、給与その他の費用又は公の営造物の設置若しくは管理の費用を負担する者とが異なるときは、費用を負担する者もまた、その損害を賠償する責に任ずる。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/state-redress-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000125/art-3/par-1 In cases where the State or a public entity assumes the responsibility to compensate for loss or damage pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two Articles, when the person responsible for the appointment or supervision of public employees or the installation or administration of public structures differs from the person that bears the costs such as the public employees' salary or remuneration, or the costs of the placement or administration of public structures, the person that bears those costs also assumes the responsibility to compensate for that loss or damage. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合において、損害を賠償した者は、内部関係でその損害を賠償する責任ある者に対して求償権を有する。 art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/state-redress-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000125/art-3/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the person that compensates for the loss or damage has the right to obtain reimbursement from the person liable to compensate for that loss or damage based on internal relationships. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-3/par-1: 前二条 → 国家賠償法 第一条 (Article 1), art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/state-redress-act/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000125/art-1 - art-3/par-1: 前二条 → 国家賠償法 第二条 (Article 2), art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/state-redress-act/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000125/art-2 - art-3/par-2: 前項 → 国家賠償法 第三条第一項 (Article 3, paragraph (1)), art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/state-redress-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000125/art-3/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 国家賠償法 第三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/state-redress-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000125/art-3/par-2 - 国家賠償法 第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/state-redress-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000125/art-4/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 国家賠償法 — the text in force from 1947-10-27 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000125/19471027_000000000000000), retrieved 2026-10-09 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — State Redress Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3785/tb), retrieved 2026-10-09 - This site's parser, version 163 — 国家賠償法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09