# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第九十六条の十二 (Article 96-12)

- 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: 第九十六条の十二 (Article 96-12)（改善命令） — address `art-96-12`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-96-12
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-96-12
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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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### 第九十六条の十二（改善命令） — Order for Improvement
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-96-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-96-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-96-12</sup>

**第一項**  国土交通大臣は、登録情報処理機関が第九十六条の六の規定に違反していると認めるときは、その登録情報処理機関に対し、情報処理業務を行うべきこと又は情報処理業務の方法その他の業務の方法の改善に関し必要な措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。
<sup>art-96-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-96-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-96-12/par-1</sup>
If the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism finds that a registered information processing body is in violation of the provisions of Article 96-6, the Minister may order that registered information processing body to carry out information processing services, or to take the measures necessary for improving the methods of information processing services or other methods of business.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-96-12/par-1: 第九十六条の六 → 道路運送車両法 第九十六条の六 (Article 96-6), art-96-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-96-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-96-6

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 道路運送車両法 第九十六条の十三第一項第四号（登録の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-96-13/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-96-13/par-1/item-4
- 道路運送車両法 第九十六条の十九第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-96-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-96-19/par-1

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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-20261013T120733-030, 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
