# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第九十四条の七 (Article 94-7) - 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: 第九十四条の七 (Article 94-7)（罰則の適用） — address `art-94-7` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-94-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-94-7 - 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. --- ### 第九十四条の七（罰則の適用） — Application of Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official art-94-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-94-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-94-7 **第一項** 自動車検査員その他第九十四条の五第一項及び第九十四条の五の二第一項の証明その他の保安基準適合証、保安基準適合標章及び限定保安基準適合証の交付の業務に従事する指定自動車整備事業者並びにその役員及び職員は、刑法その他の罰則の適用については、法令により公務に従事する職員とみなす。 art-94-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-94-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-94-7/par-1 Motor vehicle inspectors, designated motor vehicle maintenance business operators engaged in the certification under Article 94-5, paragraph (1) and Article 94-5-2, paragraph (1) and other work of issuing safety standards conformity certificates, safety standards conformity marks and limited safety standards conformity certificates, and the officers and employees of those operators are deemed, for the purposes of the application of the Penal Code and other penal provisions, to be employees engaged in public services in accordance with laws and regulations. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-94-7/par-1: 第九十四条の五第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第九十四条の五第一項 (Article 94-5, paragraph (1)), art-94-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-94-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-94-5/par-1 - art-94-7/par-1: 第九十四条の五の二第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第九十四条の五の二第一項 (Article 94-5-2, paragraph (1)), art-94-5-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-94-5-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-94-5-2/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-20261013T120733-028, 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