# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第五十六条 (Article 56)

- 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: 第五十六条 (Article 56)（自動車車庫に関する勧告） — address `art-56`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-56
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-56
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### 第五十六条（自動車車庫に関する勧告） — Recommendations Concerning Motor Vehicle Garages
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-56</sup>

**第一項**  国土交通大臣は、自動車の使用者に対し、その用に供する自動車車庫に関し、国土交通省令で定める技術上の基準によるべきことを勧告することができる。
<sup>art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-56/par-1</sup>
The Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism may recommend that the user of a motor vehicle comply, with respect to the motor vehicle garage used for that motor vehicle, with the technical standards prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
<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-20261013T120733-012, 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