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Article 19Obligation to Display Motor Vehicle Registration Number Plates

第十九条(自動車登録番号標の表示の義務)

A motor vehicle must not be put to operation unless it displays the motor vehicle registration number plate issued by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or a motor vehicle registration number plate issuing agent under Article 25 pursuant to Article 11, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of that Article and Article 14, paragraph (2)), in the position specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and by a method specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism as one that, by not covering the plate or otherwise, does not impede the identification of the motor vehicle registration number stated on the plate.

自動車は、第十一条第一項(同条第二項及び第十四条第二項において準用する場合を含む。)の規定により国土交通大臣又は第二十五条の自動車登録番号標交付代行者から交付を受けた自動車登録番号標を国土交通省令で定める位置に、かつ、被覆しないことその他当該自動車登録番号標に記載された自動車登録番号の識別に支障が生じないものとして国土交通省令で定める方法により表示しなければ、運行の用に供してはならない。

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