# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第十四条 (Article 14) - Law: 道路運送車両法 (Road Transport Vehicle Act), 昭和二十六年法律第百八十五号 - English title "Road Transport Vehicle Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - 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: 第十四条 (Article 14)（自動車登録番号の変更） — address `art-14` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-14 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-14 - 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. --- ### 第十四条（自動車登録番号の変更） — Change of Motor Vehicle Registration Number caption: machine translation, not official art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-14 **第一項** 国土交通大臣は、前二条の申請があつた場合その他の場合において、登録自動車についてその自動車登録番号が第九条の国土交通省令で定める基準に適合しなくなつたと認めるときは、その自動車登録番号を変更するものとする。 art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-14/par-1 Where the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, upon an application under the preceding two Articles or otherwise, finds that the motor vehicle registration number of a registered motor vehicle no longer conforms to the standards specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism as referred to in Article 9, the Minister is to change that motor vehicle registration number. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第九条、第十条及び第十一条第一項の規定は、前項の規定による自動車登録番号の変更について準用する。 art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-14/par-2 The provisions of Articles 9 and 10 and Article 11, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to the change of the motor vehicle registration number under the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-14/par-1: 前二条 → 道路運送車両法 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-12 - art-14/par-1: 前二条 → 道路運送車両法 第十三条 (Article 13), art-13 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-13 - art-14/par-1: 第九条 → 道路運送車両法 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-9 - art-14/par-2: 第九条 → 道路運送車両法 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-9 - art-14/par-2: 第十条 → 道路運送車両法 第十条 (Article 10), art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-10 - art-14/par-2: 第十一条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第十一条第一項 (Article 11, paragraph (1)), art-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-11/par-1 - art-14/par-2: 前項 → 道路運送車両法 第十四条第一項 (Article 14, paragraph (1)), art-14/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-14/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第十四条第二項（自動車登録番号の変更） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-14/par-2 - 道路運送車両法 第十九条第一項（自動車登録番号標の表示の義務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-19/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第二十条第一項第一号（自動車登録番号標の廃棄等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-20/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-20/par-1/item-1 - 道路運送車両法 第二十六条第一項第一号（禁止行為等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-26/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-26/par-1/item-1 - 道路運送車両法 第百九条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-109/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-109/par-1/item-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 道路運送車両法 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326AC0000000185/20260401_508AC0000000002), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 道路運送車両法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/529), retrieved 2026-09-18 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-transport-vehicle-act-20261013T120733-003, translated 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 189 — 道路運送車両法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13