# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第五十一条の六 (Article 51-6)

- 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: 第五十一条の六 (Article 51-6)（国家公安委員会への報告等） — address `art-51-6`
- Text in force since: 2026-07-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-6
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-6
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### 第五十一条の六（国家公安委員会への報告等） — (Reporting to the National Public Safety Commission; Other Actions)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-51-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-6</sup>

  **第一項**  公安委員会は、納付命令をしたとき、第五十一条の四第十三項の規定による督促をしたとき、又は同条第十六項の規定により納付命令を取り消したときその他当該納付命令の原因となつた車両の使用者について内閣府令で定める事由が生じたときは、その旨、当該使用者の氏名及び住所、当該車両の番号標の番号その他内閣府令で定める事項を国家公安委員会に報告しなければならない。この場合において、国家公安委員会は、放置車両に関する措置の適正を図るため、当該報告に係る事項を各公安委員会に通報するものとする。
  <sup>art-51-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-6/par-1</sup>
  Having issued a payment order, made a demand pursuant to Article 51-4, paragraph (13) or revoked a payment order pursuant to paragraph (16) of that Article or when any other reason that Cabinet Office Order prescribes has been found to exist with respect to the user of a vehicle that has been the cause of a payment order, a public safety commission must report this, the name and address of the user, the plate number of the vehicle, and the information that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to the National Public Safety Commission. In such a case, the National Public Safety Commission must report the information given in the report to each public safety commission in order to ensure the appropriateness of measures for abandoned vehicles.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Having issued a payment order, made a demand pursuant to Article 51-4, paragraph (13) or revoked a payment order pursuant to paragraph (16) of that Article or when any other reason that Cabinet Office Order prescribes has been found to exist with respect to the user of a vehicle that has been the cause of a payment order, a public safety commission must report this, the name and address of theuser, the plate number of the vehicle, and the information that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to the National Public Safety Commission. In such a case, the National Public Safety Commission must report the information given in the report to each public safety commission in order to ensure the appropriateness of measures for abandoned vehicles." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb</sup>

  **第二項**  国家公安委員会は、前項前段の規定により、督促をした旨の報告を受けたときは、当該報告に係る事項（内閣府令で定めるものに限る。）を国土交通大臣等（国土交通大臣若しくはその権限の委任を受けた地方運輸局長、運輸監理部長若しくは運輸支局長又は軽自動車検査協会（道路運送車両法第五章の二の規定により設立された軽自動車検査協会をいう。）をいう。次条及び第七十五条の十三第二項第一号において同じ。）に通知するものとする。当該督促に係る納付命令を取り消した旨の報告を受けたときも、同様とする。
  <sup>art-51-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-6/par-2</sup>
  When the National Public Safety Commission receives a report that a demand has been issued pursuant to the first sentence of the preceding paragraph, it must notify the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism or other relevant authority (meaning the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism; or the Director of the District Transportation Bureau, the Director of the Transportation Administration Department, or the Transportation Bureau Chief to whom the authority of the Minister has been delegated; or the Light Motor Vehicle Inspection Organization (meaning the Light Motor Vehicle Inspection Organization established pursuant to Chapter V-2 of the Road Transport Vehicle Act); the same applies in the following Article and Article 75-13, paragraph (2), item (i)) of the information given in the report (but only the information that Cabinet Office Order prescribes). The same applies if the National Public Safety Commission receives a report that a payment order for which a demand has been issued has been revoked.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-51-6/par-1: 第五十一条の四第十三項 → 道路交通法 第五十一条の四第十三項 (Article 51-4, paragraph (13)), art-51-4/par-13 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-4/par-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-4/par-13
- art-51-6/par-1: 同条第十六項 → 道路交通法 第五十一条の四第十六項 (Article 51-4, paragraph (16)), art-51-4/par-16 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-4/par-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-4/par-16
- art-51-6/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第五十一条の六第一項 (Article 51-6, paragraph (1)), art-51-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-6/par-1
- art-51-6/par-2: 次条 → 道路交通法 第五十一条の七 (Article 51-7), art-51-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-7
- art-51-6/par-2: 第七十五条の十三第二項第一号 → 道路交通法 第七十五条の十三第二項第一号 (Article 75-13, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-75-13/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-75-13/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-13/par-2/item-1

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 道路交通法 第五十一条の六第二項（国家公安委員会への報告等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-6/par-2
- 道路交通法 第五十一条の七第二項（放置違反金等の納付等を証する書面の提示） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-7/par-2

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — Slips in the Ministry of Justice's English of the Road Traffic Act, corrected, written 2026-10-13
- 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
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Road Traffic Act (道路交通法), Article 51-6, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-traffic-act-20261013T074321-004, translated 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