# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第二十三条 (Article 23)

- 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: 第二十三条 (Article 23)（自動車登録ファイルの登録の回復） — address `art-23`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-23
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-23
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### 第二十三条（自動車登録ファイルの登録の回復） — Restoration of Registration in the Motor Vehicle Registration File
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-23</sup>

**第一項**  自動車登録ファイルの記録の全部又は一部が滅失した場合における登録の回復に関して必要な事項は、政令で定める。
<sup>art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-23/par-1</sup>
Necessary matters concerning the restoration of registration in the case where all or part of the records of the motor vehicle registration file have been lost are prescribed by Cabinet Order.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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-20261013T120733-005, 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