A police officer may order the driver of a vehicle carrying an excessive load (meaning a load carried by a vehicle which exceeds the weight prescribed in Article 57, paragraph (1) (or that exceeds the permitted weight, if the permission under paragraph (3) of that Article has been granted); the same applies hereinafter) to take the necessary stop-gap measures so that the vehicle is no longer carrying an excessive load.
Notwithstanding Article 57, paragraph (1), if it is found that an order under the preceding paragraph is insufficient to stop a vehicle from carrying an excessive load, and if a police officer finds that, in light of the degree to which the vehicle is overloaded and road or traffic conditions, there is nothing to prevent the driver from driving the vehicle while abiding by the instructions that the officer gives, the officer may order the driver of the vehicle to drive in compliance with measures that need to be taken in order to prevent hazards on a section of road for vehicle traffic, route, or road, to abide by other instructions that the police officer gives, and to take other necessary measures so that the vehicle is no longer carrying an excessive load. In such a case, the police officer must issue written road use instructions to the driver of the vehicle.
警察官は、前項の規定による命令によつては車両に係る積載が過積載とならないようにすることができないと認められる場合において、当該車両に係る過積載の程度及び道路又は交通の状況を勘案して当該車両を警察官が指示した事項を遵守して運転させることに支障がないと認めるときは、当該車両の運転者に対し、第五十七条第一項の規定にかかわらず、車両の通行の区間及び経路、道路における危険を防止するためにとるべき必要な措置その他の事項であつて警察官が指示したものを遵守して当該車両を運転し、及び当該車両に係る積載が過積載とならないようにするため必要な措置をとることを命ずることができる。この場合において、警察官は、当該車両の運転者に対し、通行指示書を交付しなければならない。
A driver of a vehicle who has been issued written road use instructions pursuant to the preceding paragraph must carry the instructions at all times while driving the vehicle based on an order under that paragraph.
Cabinet Office Order provides for the format of, and other necessary particulars concerning, the written road use instructions referred to in paragraph (2).