# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第七十二条の二 (Article 72-2) - 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: 第七十二条の二 (Article 72-2)（軽自動車検査ファイル等の記録の保存） — address `art-72-2` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-72-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-72-2 - 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. --- ### 第七十二条の二（軽自動車検査ファイル等の記録の保存） — Preservation of Records of the Light Motor Vehicle Inspection File, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-72-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-72-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-72-2 **第一項** 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係る前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の記録は、第六十九条の二第一項の規定による届出に係る前条第一項の規定による記録をした日又は第六十九条の二第五項において準用する第十五条の二第三項後段の規定による記録をした日から五年間保存しなければならない。 art-72-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-72-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-72-2/par-1 The records of the light motor vehicle inspection file or two-wheeled motor vehicle inspection file prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article relating to a light motor vehicle subject to inspection or a two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle whose motor vehicle inspection certificate has been surrendered must be preserved for five years from the day on which the record under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article was made in connection with the notification under Article 69-2, paragraph (1), or the day on which the record under the latter part of Article 15-2, paragraph (3) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 69-2, paragraph (5) was made. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-72-2/par-1: 前条第一項 → 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-72-2/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-72-2/par-1: 第六十九条の二第五項 → 道路運送車両法 第六十九条の二第五項 (Article 69-2, paragraph (5)), art-69-2/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69-2/par-5 - art-72-2/par-1: 第十五条の二第三項 → 道路運送車両法 第十五条の二第三項 (Article 15-2, paragraph (3)), art-15-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-15-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-15-2/par-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-20261013T120733-016, 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