# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第十八条の二 (Article 18-2) - 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: 第十八条の二 (Article 18-2)（登録識別情報の通知） — address `art-18-2` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18-2 - 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. --- ### 第十八条の二（登録識別情報の通知） — Notification of Registration Identification Information caption: machine translation, not official art-18-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18-2 **第一項** 国土交通大臣は、新規登録、変更登録、移転登録又は一時抹消登録をしたときは、国土交通省令で定めるところにより、速やかに、当該登録の申請者に対し、当該登録に係る登録識別情報を通知しなければならない。ただし、当該申請者があらかじめ登録識別情報の通知を希望しない旨の申出をした場合その他の国土交通省令で定める場合は、この限りでない。 art-18-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18-2/par-1 Upon carrying out new registration, registration of change, transfer registration or temporary cancellation of registration, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism must promptly notify the applicant for that registration of the registration identification information relating to that registration, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism; provided, however, that this does not apply where the applicant has indicated in advance that the applicant does not wish to be notified of registration identification information and in other cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項ただし書の規定による申出をした者は、国土交通省令で定めるところにより、いつでも、国土交通大臣に対し、登録識別情報を通知することを請求することができる。 art-18-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18-2/par-2 A person who has made the indication under the proviso to the preceding paragraph may, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, request the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism at any time to notify the person of registration identification information. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-18-2/par-2: 前項 → 道路運送車両法 第十八条の二第一項 (Article 18-2, paragraph (1)), art-18-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18-2/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第十八条の二第二項（登録識別情報の通知） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18-2/par-2 - 道路運送車両法 第百二条第一項第三号（手数料の納付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-102/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-102/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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