# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第六十九条の三 (Article 69-3) - 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: 第六十九条の三 (Article 69-3)（準用規定） — address `art-69-3` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69-3 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第六十九条の三（準用規定） — Mutatis Mutandis Application caption: machine translation, not official art-69-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69-3 **第一項** 第十八条の規定は、自動車検査証が返納された検査対象軽自動車又は二輪の小型自動車について準用する。この場合において、同条中「自動車登録ファイル」とあるのは「第七十二条第一項に規定する軽自動車検査ファイル又は二輪自動車検査ファイル」と、同条第一項中「第十六条第二項又は第四項」とあるのは「第六十九条の二第一項又は第三項」と、同条第二項中「次項」とあるのは「第六十九条の三において準用する第十八条第三項」と読み替えるものとする。 art-69-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69-3/par-1 Article 18 applies mutatis mutandis to a light motor vehicle subject to inspection or a two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle whose motor vehicle inspection certificate has been surrendered. In this case, in that Article, "motor vehicle registration file" is deemed to be replaced with "light motor vehicle inspection file or two-wheeled motor vehicle inspection file prescribed in Article 72, paragraph (1)", in paragraph (1) of that Article, "Article 16, paragraph (2) or (4)" with "Article 69-2, paragraph (1) or (3)", and in paragraph (2) of that Article, "the following paragraph" with "Article 18, paragraph (3) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 69-3". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-69-3/par-1: 第十八条 → 道路運送車両法 第十八条 (Article 18), art-18 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18 - art-69-3/par-1: 第七十二条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第七十二条第一項 (Article 72, paragraph (1)), art-72/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-72/par-1 - art-69-3/par-1: 同条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第十八条第一項 (Article 18, paragraph (1)), art-18/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18/par-1 - art-69-3/par-1: 第十六条第二項 → 道路運送車両法 第十六条第二項 (Article 16, paragraph (2)), art-16/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-16/par-2 - art-69-3/par-1: 第四項 → 道路運送車両法 第十六条第四項 (Article 16, paragraph (4)), art-16/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-16/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-16/par-4 - art-69-3/par-1: 第六十九条の二第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第六十九条の二第一項 (Article 69-2, paragraph (1)), art-69-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69-2/par-1 - art-69-3/par-1: 第三項 → 道路運送車両法 第六十九条の二第三項 (Article 69-2, paragraph (3)), art-69-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69-2/par-3 - art-69-3/par-1: 同条第二項 → 道路運送車両法 第十八条第二項 (Article 18, paragraph (2)), art-18/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18/par-2 - art-69-3/par-1: 次項 → 道路運送車両法 第十八条第三項 (Article 18, paragraph (3)), art-18/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-18/par-3 - art-69-3/par-1: 第六十九条の三 → 道路運送車両法 第六十九条の三 (Article 69-3), art-69-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第六十九条の三第一項（準用規定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69-3/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第百十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-112/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-112/par-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-20261013T120733-016, 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