# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第五十一条の三 (Article 51-3) - 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: 第五十一条の三 (Article 51-3)（車両移動保管関係事務の委託） — address `art-51-3` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-3 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十一条の三（車両移動保管関係事務の委託） — (Asking Others to Handle Administrative Functions Involved in Moving and Storing Vehicles) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-51-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-3 **第一項** 警察署長は、第五十一条第五項及び第六項（同条第二十二項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による車両（積載物を含む。以下この項において同じ。）の移動及び保管に関する事務（当該車両の移動、返還、売却及び廃棄の決定、同条第十六項の規定による命令、滞納処分その他の政令で定めるものを除く。）の全部又は一部を内閣府令で定める法人に委託することができる。 art-51-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-3/par-1 The chief of a police station may ask a corporation that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to handle all or part of the administrative functions involved in moving and storing vehicles (including their loads; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) pursuant to Article 51, paragraphs (5) and (6) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (22) of that Article) (such functions exclude the decision to move, return, sell, or dispose of a vehicle, the issuance of orders under paragraph (16) of that Article, measures to collect arrears, and other functions that Cabinet Order prescribes). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により警察署長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-51-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-3/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 chief of the police station 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-51-3/par-1: 第五十一条第五項 → 道路交通法 第五十一条第五項 (Article 51, paragraph (5)), art-51/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51/par-5 - art-51-3/par-1: 第六項 → 道路交通法 第五十一条第六項 (Article 51, paragraph (6)), art-51/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51/par-6 - art-51-3/par-1: 同条第二十二項 → 道路交通法 第五十一条第二十二項 (Article 51, paragraph (22)), art-51/par-22 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51/par-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51/par-22 - art-51-3/par-1: この項 → 道路交通法 第五十一条の三第一項 (Article 51-3, paragraph (1)), art-51-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-3/par-1 - art-51-3/par-1: 同条第十六項 → 道路交通法 第五十一条第十六項 (Article 51, paragraph (16)), art-51/par-16 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51/par-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51/par-16 - art-51-3/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第五十一条の三第一項 (Article 51-3, paragraph (1)), art-51-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-3/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第五十一条の三第一項（車両移動保管関係事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-3/par-1 - 道路交通法 第五十一条の三第二項（車両移動保管関係事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-3/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 - 道路交通法 附則第四条第一項（保管車両等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4161-90/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4161-90/art-4/par-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