# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第十八条 (Article 18) - 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: 第十八条 (Article 18)（自動車登録ファイルの正確な記録を確保するための措置） — address `art-18` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18 - 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. --- ### 第十八条（自動車登録ファイルの正確な記録を確保するための措置） — Measures to Ensure Accurate Records in the Motor Vehicle Registration File caption: machine translation, not official art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18 **第一項** 国土交通大臣は、一時抹消登録をした自動車について、国土交通省令で定める期間が経過してもなお第十六条第二項又は第四項の規定による届出がなされないことその他の事情から判断して、当該自動車の所有者が正当な理由がなくてこれらの規定に違反しており、又は違反するおそれがあると認めるときは、これらの規定による届出をなすべき旨の催告その他の当該自動車に係る自動車登録ファイルの正確な記録を確保するために必要と認められる措置を講ずることができる。 art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18/par-1 Where, judging from circumstances such as that the notification under Article 16, paragraph (2) or (4) has not been made even though the period specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has elapsed, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism finds that the owner of a motor vehicle for which temporary cancellation of registration has been carried out is, without a justifiable reason, in violation of those provisions or likely to be in violation of them, the Minister may take measures found necessary to ensure accurate records in the motor vehicle registration file for that motor vehicle, such as a demand that the notification under those provisions be made. machine translation, not official **第二項** 一時抹消登録を受けた自動車について所有者の変更があつたときは、旧所有者は、次項の規定により当該所有者の変更について自動車登録ファイルに記録がなされた場合その他の国土交通省令で定める場合を除き、当該所有者の変更があつた旨を証明することができる契約書その他の資料を作成し、又は取得して、これを国土交通省令で定める期間保存し、国土交通大臣から求められたときは、これを提示し、又は提出しなければならない。 art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18/par-2 Where there has been a change of owner of a motor vehicle that has received temporary cancellation of registration, the former owner must prepare or obtain a contract or other materials capable of proving that the change of owner has occurred, retain them for the period specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and present or submit them when requested by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, except in the case where the change of owner has been recorded in the motor vehicle registration file under the following paragraph and other cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. machine translation, not official **第三項** 一時抹消登録を受けた自動車について所有者の変更があつたときは、新所有者は、政令で定めるところにより、当該所有者の変更について自動車登録ファイルに記録を受けることができる。 art-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18/par-3 Where there has been a change of owner of a motor vehicle that has received temporary cancellation of registration, the new owner may, as provided by Cabinet Order, have the change of owner recorded in the motor vehicle registration file. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-18/par-1: 第十六条第二項 → 道路運送車両法 第十六条第二項 (Article 16, paragraph (2)), art-16/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-16/par-2 - art-18/par-1: 第四項 → 道路運送車両法 第十六条第四項 (Article 16, paragraph (4)), art-16/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-16/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-16/par-4 - art-18/par-2: 次項 → 道路運送車両法 第十八条第三項 (Article 18, paragraph (3)), art-18/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18/par-3 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第十八条第二項（自動車登録ファイルの正確な記録を確保するための措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18/par-2 - 道路運送車両法 第六十九条の三第一項（準用規定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69-3/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第百十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-112/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-112/par-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-20261013T120733-004, 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