# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第三十六条の三 (Article 36-3)

- 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: 第三十六条の三 (Article 36-3)（登録識別情報の安全確保） — address `art-36-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-36-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-36-3
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### 第三十六条の三（登録識別情報の安全確保） — Ensuring the Security of Registration Identification Information
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-36-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-36-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-36-3</sup>

**第一項**  国土交通大臣は、その取り扱う登録識別情報の漏えい、滅失又はき損の防止その他の登録識別情報の安全管理のために必要かつ適切な措置を講じなければならない。
<sup>art-36-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-36-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-36-3/par-1</sup>
The Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism must take the measures necessary and appropriate for the secure management of the registration identification information that the Minister handles, such as preventing its leakage, loss or damage.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  自動車登録官その他の登録に関する事務に従事する国土交通省の職員又はその職にあつた者は、その事務に関して知り得た登録識別情報の作成又は管理に関する秘密を漏らしてはならない。
<sup>art-36-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-36-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-36-3/par-2</sup>
A motor vehicle registration officer or other official of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism engaged in affairs relating to registration, or a person who formerly held such a position, must not divulge any secret concerning the creation or management of registration identification information that the person came to know in connection with those affairs.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 道路運送車両法 第百六条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-106-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-106-2/par-1

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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-20261013T120733-008, 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
