# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第四十二条 (Article 42) - 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: 第四十二条 (Article 42)（乗車定員又は最大積載量） — address `art-42` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-42 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-42 - 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. --- ### 第四十二条（乗車定員又は最大積載量） — Seating Capacity or Maximum Load Capacity caption: machine translation, not official art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-42 **第一項** 自動車は、乗車定員又は最大積載量について、国土交通省令で定める保安上又は公害防止その他の環境保全上の技術基準に適合するものでなければ、運行の用に供してはならない。 art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-42/par-1 A motor vehicle must not be used for operation unless it conforms, with respect to seating capacity or maximum load capacity, to the technical standards for safety, or for pollution prevention and other conservation of the environment, prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第四十三条第一項（自動車の保安上の技術基準についての制限の付加） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-43/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第四十六条第一項（保安基準の原則） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-46/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第九十九条第一項（保安基準の規定の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-99/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-99/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第百十条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-110/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-110/par-1/item-1 --- ## 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-20261013T120733-010, 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