# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第五十一条の十五 (Article 51-15) - Law: 道路交通法 (Road Traffic Act), 昭和三十五年法律第百五号 - English title "Road Traffic 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: 第五十一条の十五 (Article 51-15)（放置違反金関係事務の委託） — address `art-51-15` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-15 - 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. --- ### 第五十一条の十五（放置違反金関係事務の委託） — (Asking Others to Handle Administrative Processes Related to Abandonment Penalties) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-51-15 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-15 **第一項** 公安委員会は、第五十一条の四に規定する放置違反金に関する事務（確認事務、納付命令、督促及び滞納処分を除く。）の全部又は一部を会社その他の法人に委託することができる。 art-51-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-15/par-1 A public safety commission may ask a company or other corporation to handle all or part of the administrative processes related to abandonment penalties as prescribed in Article 51-4 (other than checking and confirmation processes, payment orders, demands, and measures to collect arrears). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により公安委員会から事務の委託を受けた法人の役員若しくは職員又はこれらの職にあつた者は、当該事務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。 art-51-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-15/par-2 It is prohibited for the current or former officer or employee of a corporation that has been asked to handle administrative processes by the public safety commission pursuant to the preceding paragraph to divulge confidential information learned in connection with those processes. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-51-15/par-1: 第五十一条の四 → 道路交通法 第五十一条の四 (Article 51-4), art-51-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-4 - art-51-15/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第五十一条の十五第一項 (Article 51-15, paragraph (1)), art-51-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-15/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第五十一条の十五第二項（放置違反金関係事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-15/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-15/par-2 - 道路交通法 第百十七条の四第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117-4/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117-4/par-1/item-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 道路交通法 — the text in force from 2026-07-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000105/20260721_508AC0000000052), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Road Traffic Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13