# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第九十四条の三 (Article 94-3) - 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: 第九十四条の三 (Article 94-3)（設備の維持等） — address `art-94-3` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-94-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-94-3 - 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. 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. --- ### 第九十四条の三（設備の維持等） — Maintenance of Facilities, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-94-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-94-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-94-3 **第一項** 前条第一項の指定を受けた者（以下「指定自動車整備事業者」という。）は、同項の設備（自動車の検査の設備を含む。次項において同じ。）、技術及び管理組織を同条第一項に規定する基準に適合するように維持しなければならない。 art-94-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-94-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-94-3/par-1 A person who has received the designation under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as a "designated motor vehicle maintenance business operator") must maintain the facilities referred to in that paragraph (including facilities for the inspection of motor vehicles; the same applies in the following paragraph), technology and management organization so as to conform to the standards prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article. machine translation, not official **第二項** 地方運輸局長は、前条第一項の設備、技術及び管理組織が同項に規定する基準に適合していないと認めるときは、当該指定自動車整備事業者に対し、その是正のために必要な措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。 art-94-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-94-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-94-3/par-2 If the Director of a District Transport Bureau finds that the facilities, technology and management organization referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article do not conform to the standards prescribed in that paragraph, the Director may order the designated motor vehicle maintenance business operator to take the measures necessary to rectify this. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-94-3/par-1: 前条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第九十四条の二第一項 (Article 94-2, paragraph (1)), art-94-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-94-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-94-2/par-1 - art-94-3/par-1: 次項 → 道路運送車両法 第九十四条の三第二項 (Article 94-3, paragraph (2)), art-94-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-94-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-94-3/par-2 - art-94-3/par-2: 前条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第九十四条の二第一項 (Article 94-2, paragraph (1)), art-94-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-94-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-94-2/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第九条第六項（自動車損害賠償責任保険証明書の提示） — https://japanlaw.org/en/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-9/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-9/par-6 - 道路運送車両法 第九十四条の三第一項（設備の維持等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-94-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-94-3/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第百九条第一項第十三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-109/par-1/item-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-109/par-1/item-13 --- ## 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-20261013T120733-026, 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