# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第七十六条の三 (Article 76-3)

- 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: 第七十六条の三 (Article 76-3)（法人格） — address `art-76-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-76-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-76-3
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- Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below.

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### 第七十六条の三（法人格） — Legal Personality
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-76-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-76-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-76-3</sup>

  **第一項**  軽自動車検査協会（以下「協会」という。）は、法人とする。
  <sup>art-76-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-76-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-76-3/par-1</sup>
  The Light Motor Vehicle Inspection Organization (hereinafter referred to as "the Organization") is a juridical person.
  <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-20261013T120733-020, 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