In addition to what is provided for in Article 89 through the preceding Article, a motor vehicle specified maintenance business operator must observe the matters prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism for improving technology relating to the maintenance of motor vehicles, promoting the practice of appropriate inspection and maintenance, and otherwise ensuring the proper operation of the business of the motor vehicle specified maintenance business.

If the Director of a District Transport Bureau finds that the facilities and employees of the place of business of a motor vehicle specified maintenance business operator do not conform to the standards under Article 80, paragraph (1), item (i), or that the operator is not observing the matters prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism referred to in the preceding Article with respect to the operation of its business, the Director may order that motor vehicle specified maintenance business operator to take the measures necessary to bring its facilities and employees into conformity with the standards or to improve the operation of its business.

If a motor vehicle specified maintenance business operator falls under any of the following items, the Director of a District Transport Bureau may order the suspension of the business for a period specified within three months, or revoke the certification:

①In order to improve the maintenance of motor vehicles, the Director of a District Transport Bureau, upon application, accredits excellent motor vehicle maintenance business operators, for each place of business having facilities, technology and a management organization that conform to the standards prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, with respect to persons engaged in the business of maintaining or modifying motor vehicles or parts thereof.

②A person who has received accreditation as an excellent motor vehicle maintenance business operator must display, at the place of business, a sign of the form prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism so that it is easily visible to the public.

③A person other than a person who has received accreditation as an excellent motor vehicle maintenance business operator must not display the sign referred to in the preceding paragraph or a sign similar thereto.

④If the Director of a District Transport Bureau finds that a person who has received the accreditation under paragraph (1) no longer has facilities, technology and a management organization that conform to the standards prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism referred to in that paragraph, the Director may revoke the accreditation.

⑤The types of accreditation under paragraph (1) and other implementing details of accreditation are prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

①Upon application by a motor vehicle specified maintenance business operator, the Director of a District Transport Bureau may designate a designated motor vehicle maintenance business for a place of business that has received certification of a motor vehicle specified maintenance business and that is found to have, with respect to the maintenance of motor vehicles, facilities, technology and a management organization conforming to the standards prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, and in addition to have facilities for the inspection of motor vehicles conforming to the standards prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and to reliably appoint motor vehicle inspectors under Article 94-4, paragraph (1) and have them examine the inspection and maintenance of motor vehicles under Article 94-5, paragraph (1).

②Article 78, paragraphs (2) through (4) and Article 80, paragraph (1) (limited to the portion relating to item (ii), (b) through (d)) apply mutatis mutandis to the designation under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the phrase "certification of a motor vehicle specified maintenance business pursuant to Article 93" in item (ii), (b) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "designation pursuant to Article 94-8, paragraph (1)", and the phrase "that certification" is deemed to be replaced with "that designation".

③In applying the provisions of paragraph (1), facilities for the inspection of motor vehicles used for two or more places of business of motor vehicle specified maintenance businesses may, if they meet the requirements prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism with respect to the method of management, location and other matters, be deemed to be facilities for the inspection of motor vehicles belonging to each of those two or more places of business.

①A person who has received the designation under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as a "designated motor vehicle maintenance business operator") must maintain the facilities referred to in that paragraph (including facilities for the inspection of motor vehicles; the same applies in the following paragraph), technology and management organization so as to conform to the standards prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article.

②If the Director of a District Transport Bureau finds that the facilities, technology and management organization referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article do not conform to the standards prescribed in that paragraph, the Director may order the designated motor vehicle maintenance business operator to take the measures necessary to rectify this.

①A designated motor vehicle maintenance business operator must, for each place of business, appoint a motor vehicle inspector from among persons who meet the requirements, such as a certain practical experience in the inspection of motor vehicles, prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

②A motor vehicle inspector cannot become a motor vehicle inspector of another place of business. However, this does not apply to another place of business of the same designated motor vehicle maintenance business operator that meets the requirements prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism with respect to location and other matters.

③When a designated motor vehicle maintenance business operator has appointed a motor vehicle inspector, it must notify the Director of a District Transport Bureau to that effect within 15 days from the day of the appointment. The same applies when it has changed this.

④If a motor vehicle inspector has committed a wrongful act in relation to the inspector's duties, or has otherwise violated this Act or the provisions of an order under this Act, the Director of a District Transport Bureau may order the designated motor vehicle maintenance business operator to dismiss the motor vehicle inspector.

⑤A person who has been dismissed from the position of motor vehicle inspector or light motor vehicle inspector by an order under the preceding paragraph or Article 76-32, paragraph (4), and for whom two years have not elapsed from the day of dismissal, cannot become a motor vehicle inspector.

①When a designated motor vehicle maintenance business operator has inspected a motor vehicle (excluding light motor vehicles exempt from inspection and special small motor vehicles) in accordance with the technical standards prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, has performed the necessary maintenance on the parts of that motor vehicle that are at risk of ceasing to conform to the safety standards and the parts that do not conform, and a motor vehicle inspector has certified that the motor vehicle conforms to the safety standards, the operator must, upon request, issue to the client a safety standards conformity certificate and a safety standards conformity mark (in the case of a motor vehicle that has received temporary cancellation of registration based on an application under Article 16, paragraph (1), and a light motor vehicle subject to inspection or two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle that has received issuance of a certificate of surrender of motor vehicle inspection certificate under Article 69, paragraph (4), a safety standards conformity certificate). However, for a motor vehicle that is to undergo an extraordinary inspection under Article 63, paragraph (2), the operator must not issue these unless the motor vehicle has undergone the extraordinary inspection.

②A designated motor vehicle maintenance business operator may, in lieu of issuing a safety standards conformity certificate under the preceding paragraph with respect to a motor vehicle (excluding light motor vehicles exempt from inspection, special small motor vehicles and other motor vehicles prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism), provide the matters to be stated in that safety standards conformity certificate to a registered information processing body by electronic or magnetic means, as provided by Cabinet Order, with the consent of the client.

③When the matters to be stated in a safety standards conformity certificate have been provided to a registered information processing body pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the designated motor vehicle maintenance business operator is deemed to have issued that safety standards conformity certificate to the client.

④In the case of paragraph (1), the motor vehicle inspector must examine whether that motor vehicle conforms to the safety standards in accordance with the standards prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and must not give the certification unless the inspector finds as a result that it conforms to them. In this case, a part that the motor vehicle inspector has found, as a result of performing the inspection under that paragraph of that motor vehicle in accordance with the technical standards prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, to conform to the safety standards is deemed, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, to conform to the safety standards in the inspection.

⑤A motor vehicle inspector must not give the certification under paragraph (1) for a motor vehicle that has received temporary cancellation of registration based on an application under Article 16, paragraph (1), or for a light motor vehicle subject to inspection or two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle that has received issuance of a certificate of surrender of motor vehicle inspection certificate under Article 69, paragraph (4), unless the particulars of structure, etc. of that motor vehicle are identical to the particulars of structure, etc. recorded in the motor vehicle registration file for that motor vehicle or stated in the certificate of surrender of motor vehicle inspection certificate, respectively.

⑥A validity period must be attached to a safety standards conformity certificate and a safety standards conformity mark, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

⑦When, at the time of a new inspection or preliminary inspection (limited to one relating to a passenger motor vehicle, etc. that has received temporary cancellation of registration based on an application under Article 16, paragraph (1), or a light motor vehicle subject to inspection or two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle that has received issuance of a certificate of surrender of motor vehicle inspection certificate under Article 69, paragraph (4)), a valid safety standards conformity certificate is submitted together with the certificate of surrender of motor vehicle inspection certificate relating to that motor vehicle (limited to one relating to a light motor vehicle subject to inspection or two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle that has received issuance of a certificate of surrender of motor vehicle inspection certificate under that paragraph), then, for the purposes of the application of Articles 59 and 60 and Article 71, that motor vehicle is deemed to have been presented to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (or to the Organization where Article 74-4 applies; the same applies in the following paragraph, paragraph (10) and paragraph (4) of the following Article) and to conform to the safety standards.

⑧When, at the time of a continuing inspection, a valid safety standards conformity certificate is submitted, then, for the purposes of the application of Article 62, that motor vehicle is deemed to have been presented to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and to conform to the safety standards.

⑨A person who applies for the inspection under the preceding two paragraphs may, where the matters prescribed in paragraph (2) have been provided to a registered information processing body pursuant to that paragraph, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, substitute for the submission of the safety standards conformity certificate a statement to that effect in the written application under the preceding two paragraphs.

⑩When it is stated in the written application under paragraph (7) or (8) that the matters to be stated in a safety standards conformity certificate have been provided to a registered information processing body pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is to inquire of the registered information processing body about the necessary matters, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

⑪When a motor vehicle that has received the certification of a motor vehicle inspector under paragraph (1) displays a valid safety standards conformity mark relating to that certification, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Article 58, paragraph (1) and Article 66, paragraph (1) do not apply to that motor vehicle.

⑫Article 71-2, paragraph (6) applies mutatis mutandis to a safety standards conformity certificate.