# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第三条 (Article 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: 第三条 (Article 3)（自動車の種別） — address `art-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-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-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. --- ### 第三条（自動車の種別） — Classification of Motor Vehicles caption: machine translation, not official art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-3 **第一項** この法律に規定する普通自動車、小型自動車、軽自動車、大型特殊自動車及び小型特殊自動車の別は、自動車の大きさ及び構造並びに原動機の種類及び総排気量又は定格出力を基準として国土交通省令で定める。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-3/par-1 The distinction among ordinary motor vehicles, small-sized motor vehicles, light motor vehicles, large special motor vehicles and special small motor vehicles prescribed in this Act is to be specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, on the basis of the size and structure of the motor vehicle and the type and total displacement or rated output of its motor. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 租税特別措置法 第四十二条の十二の六第六項第一号（生産工程効率化等設備を取得した場合等の特別償却又は法人税額の特別控除） — https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/art-42-12-6/par-6/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-42-12-6/par-6/item-1 - 租税特別措置法 第九十条の十第三項（用語の意義） — https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/art-90-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/art-90-10/par-3 - 租税特別措置法 附則第九十三条第二項（自動車重量税の特例に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/special-taxation-measures-act/suppl-4291-4/art-93/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/332AC0000000026/suppl-4291-4/art-93/par-2 --- ## 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-20261013T120733-001, 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