# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第三十条 (Article 30) - 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: 第三十条 (Article 30)（輸入自動車等の打刻の届出） — address `art-30` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-30 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-30 - 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. --- ### 第三十条（輸入自動車等の打刻の届出） — Notification of Stamping of Imported Motor Vehicles, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-30 **第一項** 自動車又はその部分の輸入を業とする者は、自動車又は自動車の車台若しくは原動機を輸入したときは、その都度その車台番号及び原動機の型式の様式その他の国土交通省令で定める事項を輸入の日から二十日以内に国土交通大臣に届け出なければならない。 art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-30/par-1 Whenever a person engaged in the business of importing motor vehicles or parts of motor vehicles has imported a motor vehicle or a motor vehicle chassis or motor, the person must notify the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of the form of its chassis number and motor model and other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism within 20 days from the date of importation. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の者が、その輸入しようとする自動車又は自動車の車台若しくは原動機の車台番号又は原動機の型式に係る前条第二項の国土交通省令で定める事項について、その事実を証明するに足りる当該自動車又は自動車の車台若しくは原動機の製作者の書面を添えて、国土交通大臣に届け出たときは、前項の規定による届出はしなくてもよい。 art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-30/par-2 Where a person referred to in the preceding paragraph has notified the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of the matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article concerning the chassis number or motor model of the motor vehicle or motor vehicle chassis or motor that the person intends to import, attaching a document of the manufacturer of that motor vehicle or motor vehicle chassis or motor that is sufficient to prove the fact, the person need not make the notification under the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-30/par-2: 前項 → 道路運送車両法 第三十条第一項 (Article 30, paragraph (1)), art-30/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-30/par-1 - art-30/par-2: 前条第二項 → 道路運送車両法 第二十九条第二項 (Article 29, paragraph (2)), art-29/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-29/par-2 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第四条第一項（登録の一般的効力） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-4/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第三十条第二項（輸入自動車等の打刻の届出） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-30/par-2 - 道路運送車両法 第百条第一項第五号（報告徴収及び立入検査） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-100/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-100/par-1/item-5 - 道路運送車両法 第百十条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-110/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-110/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-20261013T120733-006, 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