Article 69Surrender of Motor Vehicle Inspection Certificates, etc.
第六十九条（自動車検査証の返納等）
When any of the following grounds has arisen with respect to a motor vehicle, the user of the motor vehicle must surrender the motor vehicle inspection certificate to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism within 15 days from the day on which the ground arose (where the ground is the dismantling of an end-of-life automobile, the day on which the user learned that a dismantling report record had been made):
when the motor vehicle has been destroyed, dismantled (excluding where it is dismantled for maintenance or modification), or its use as a motor vehicle has been abolished;
当該自動車が滅失し、解体し（整備又は改造のために解体する場合を除く。）、又は自動車の用途を廃止したとき。
when the chassis of the motor vehicle has ceased to be the one that existed at the time of the new registration of the motor vehicle (in the case of a light motor vehicle subject to inspection or a two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle, at the time of the designation of the vehicle number);
when provisional cancellation of registration for export based on an application under Article 15-2, paragraph (1), or temporary cancellation of registration based on an application under Article 16, paragraph (1), has been made with respect to the motor vehicle;
when a certificate of notification of scheduled export has been issued with respect to the motor vehicle based on a notification under paragraph (3) of the following Article.
A person who has been ordered to suspend the use of a motor vehicle pursuant to Article 54, paragraph (2) or Article 54-2, paragraph (6) must, without delay, surrender the motor vehicle inspection certificate to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
第五十四条第二項又は第五十四条の二第六項の規定により自動車の使用の停止を命ぜられた者は、遅滞なく、当該自動車検査証を国土交通大臣に返納しなければならない。
When the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has revoked the suspension of use pursuant to Article 54, paragraph (3), or when the period of suspension of use of a motor vehicle under Article 54-2, paragraph (6) has expired and the motor vehicle has come to conform to the safety standards, the Minister must return the surrendered motor vehicle inspection certificate.
国土交通大臣は、第五十四条第三項の規定により使用の停止の取消をしたとき又は第五十四条の二第六項の規定による自動車の使用の停止の期間が満了し、かつ、当該自動車が保安基準に適合するに至つたときは、返納を受けた自動車検査証を返付しなければならない。
The user of a light motor vehicle subject to inspection or a two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle for which a vehicle number has been designated may, when the user has ceased to use the motor vehicle for operation, surrender the motor vehicle inspection certificate to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and receive the issuance of a certificate of surrender of motor vehicle inspection certificate.
Article 69-2Notification Relating to Dismantling, etc. or Export
第六十九条の二（解体等又は輸出に係る届出）
The owner of a light motor vehicle subject to inspection or a two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle (excluding those prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) must, when a ground set forth in paragraph (1), item (i) or (ii) of the preceding Article has arisen with respect to the motor vehicle, notify the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism to that effect, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, within 15 days from the day on which the ground arose (where the ground is the dismantling of an end-of-life automobile, the day on which the owner learned that a dismantling report record had been made).
Article 15, paragraphs (2) and (3) apply mutatis mutandis to the case where notification is made under the preceding paragraph in connection with the dismantling of an end-of-life automobile. In this case, the term "registered motor vehicle" in those provisions is deemed to be replaced with "light motor vehicle subject to inspection or two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle".
The owner of a light motor vehicle subject to inspection or a two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle (excluding those prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) who intends to export the motor vehicle must, during the period from the day that is a period prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism before the scheduled date of that export until the time of that export, notify the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism to that effect, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and receive the issuance of a certificate of notification of scheduled export under the following paragraph; provided, however, that in the case where the motor vehicle falls under a case prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism as one in which it is expected that the motor vehicle will be re-imported into Japan after being temporarily exported and there is little necessity of requiring that notification, the owner must notify the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism to that effect in advance, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
検査対象軽自動車又は二輪の小型自動車（国土交通省令で定めるものを除く。）の所有者は、その自動車を輸出しようとするときは、当該輸出の予定日から国土交通省令で定める期間さかのぼつた日から当該輸出をする時までの間に、国土交通省令で定めるところにより、国土交通大臣にその旨の届出をし、かつ、次項の規定による輸出予定届出証明書の交付を受けなければならない。ただし、その自動車を一時的に輸出した後に本邦に再輸入することが見込まれる場合であつて当該届出をさせる必要性に乏しいものとして国土交通省令で定めるものに該当する場合には、国土交通省令で定めるところにより、あらかじめ、その旨を国土交通大臣に届け出なければならない。
The Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is to, when a notification has been made under the main clause of the preceding paragraph, issue to the person who made the notification a certificate of notification of scheduled export that states that export of the motor vehicle is scheduled and whose validity period lasts until the scheduled date of that export.
Article 15-2, paragraphs (3) and (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the case where a notification has been made under the main clause of paragraph (3) concerning the export of a light motor vehicle subject to inspection or a two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle. In this case, in paragraph (3) of that Article, "certificate of provisional cancellation of registration for export" is deemed to be replaced with "certificate of notification of scheduled export" and "make cancellation of registration for export" with "record that fact in the light motor vehicle inspection file or two-wheeled motor vehicle inspection file prescribed in Article 72, paragraph (1)", and in paragraph (4) of that Article, "paragraph (2)" is deemed to be replaced with "Article 69-2, paragraph (4)" and "certificate of provisional cancellation of registration for export" with "certificate of notification of scheduled export".
When the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has received the surrender of a certificate of notification of scheduled export pursuant to Article 15-2, paragraph (4) as applied mutatis mutandis in the preceding paragraph or on any other ground, the Minister is to record that fact in the light motor vehicle inspection file or two-wheeled motor vehicle inspection file prescribed in Article 72, paragraph (1).
Article 69-3Mutatis Mutandis Application
第六十九条の三（準用規定）
Article 18 applies mutatis mutandis to a light motor vehicle subject to inspection or a two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle whose motor vehicle inspection certificate has been surrendered. In this case, in that Article, "motor vehicle registration file" is deemed to be replaced with "light motor vehicle inspection file or two-wheeled motor vehicle inspection file prescribed in Article 72, paragraph (1)", in paragraph (1) of that Article, "Article 16, paragraph (2) or (4)" with "Article 69-2, paragraph (1) or (3)", and in paragraph (2) of that Article, "the following paragraph" with "Article 18, paragraph (3) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 69-3".
第七十条（再交付）
The user of a motor vehicle or light motor vehicle exempt from inspection may, if the motor vehicle inspection certificate, the inspection mark or the extraordinary inspection pass mark has been lost or damaged or has become difficult to identify, or in any other case prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, receive reissuance of it.
Article 71Preliminary Inspection
第七十一条（予備検査）
The owner of a motor vehicle prescribed in Article 4 that has not been registered, or of a light motor vehicle subject to inspection or a two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle for which a vehicle number has not been designated, may present the motor vehicle and undergo a preliminary inspection conducted by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
If, as a result of a preliminary inspection, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism finds that the motor vehicle conforms to the safety standards, the Minister must issue a motor vehicle preliminary inspection certificate to the owner of the motor vehicle.
The validity period of a motor vehicle preliminary inspection certificate is three months.
自動車予備検査証の有効期間は、三月とする。
When the location of the base of operations has been determined for a motor vehicle for which a motor vehicle preliminary inspection certificate has been issued, the user of the motor vehicle may submit the motor vehicle preliminary inspection certificate to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and receive the issuance of a motor vehicle inspection certificate.
自動車予備検査証の交付を受けた自動車についてその使用の本拠の位置が定められたときは、その使用者は、国土交通大臣に当該自動車予備検査証を提出して、自動車検査証の交付を受けることができる。
Article 59, paragraphs (2) and (3) and Article 62, paragraph (5) apply mutatis mutandis to an application for the issuance under the preceding paragraph. In this case, in paragraph (5) of Article 62, "user" is deemed to be replaced with "owner" and "motor vehicle inspection certificate under Article 67, paragraph (1)" with "motor vehicle preliminary inspection certificate under Article 67, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 71, paragraph (8)".
The latter part of Article 60, paragraph (1) applies to the case where the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism issues a motor vehicle inspection certificate pursuant to paragraph (4), and paragraph (2) of that Article applies mutatis mutandis to the issuance under paragraph (4).
The main clause of Article 63, paragraph (2) and paragraphs (3) and (4) of that Article apply mutatis mutandis to a motor vehicle for which a motor vehicle preliminary inspection certificate has been issued. In this case, "user" in these provisions and in the provisions of Article 62, paragraph (1), latter part and paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 63, paragraph (3) is deemed to be replaced with "owner", and "motor vehicle inspection certificate" with "motor vehicle preliminary inspection certificate".
Article 67 applies mutatis mutandis to the case where there has been a change in the particulars recorded on a motor vehicle preliminary inspection certificate. In this case, "user" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "owner".
Article 61, paragraph (4) and the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to a motor vehicle preliminary inspection certificate. In this case, "user" in the preceding Article is deemed to be replaced with "owner".