# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第十八条の三 (Article 18-3) - 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: 第十八条の三 (Article 18-3)（登録識別情報の提供） — address `art-18-3` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18-3 - 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. 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. --- ### 第十八条の三（登録識別情報の提供） — Provision of Registration Identification Information caption: machine translation, not official art-18-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18-3 **第一項** 新規登録（一時抹消登録があつた自動車に係るものに限る。）、変更登録、移転登録、永久抹消登録、輸出抹消仮登録又は一時抹消登録の申請をする場合には、申請者は、国土交通省令で定めるところにより、登録識別情報を提供しなければならない。ただし、申請者が登録識別情報を提供できないことにつき正当な理由がある場合その他国土交通省令で定める場合は、この限りでない。 art-18-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18-3/par-1 When filing an application for new registration (limited to that relating to a motor vehicle for which temporary cancellation of registration has been made), registration of change, transfer registration, permanent cancellation of registration, provisional cancellation of registration for export, or temporary cancellation of registration, the applicant must provide registration identification information, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism; provided, however, that this does not apply where there is a justifiable reason why the applicant cannot provide 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** 一時抹消登録があつた自動車を譲渡する者は、国土交通省令で定めるところにより、登録識別情報を譲受人に提供しなければならない。 art-18-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18-3/par-2 A person who transfers a motor vehicle for which temporary cancellation of registration has been made must provide registration identification information to the transferee, as provided by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. machine translation, not official --- ## 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