# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第九十七条の四 (Article 97-4) - 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: 第九十七条の四 (Article 97-4)（自動車重量税の不納付による自動車検査証の不交付等） — address `art-97-4` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97-4 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第九十七条の四（自動車重量税の不納付による自動車検査証の不交付等） — Non-Issuance of Motor Vehicle Inspection Certificates for Non-Payment of Motor Vehicle Tonnage Tax, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-97-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97-4 **第一項** 国土交通大臣（第七十四条の四の規定の適用があるときは、協会）は、第六十条第一項、第六十二条第二項（第六十三条第三項及び第六十七条第四項において準用する場合を含む。）又は第七十一条第四項の規定により自動車検査証を交付し、又は返付する場合において、当該自動車検査証の交付又は返付に係る自動車につき課されるべき自動車重量税が納付されていないとき（当該自動車重量税の納付につき、自動車重量税法（昭和四十六年法律第八十九号）第十条の三第一項の規定による委託がされているときを除く。）は、当該自動車検査証の交付又は返付をしないものとする。 art-97-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97-4/par-1 In the case where the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (where Article 74-4 applies, the Organization) issues or returns a motor vehicle inspection certificate pursuant to Article 60, paragraph (1), Article 62, paragraph (2) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 63, paragraph (3) and Article 67, paragraph (4)) or Article 71, paragraph (4), if the motor vehicle tonnage tax to be imposed on the motor vehicle for which the certificate is issued or returned has not been paid (excluding the case where the payment of that motor vehicle tonnage tax has been entrusted pursuant to Article 10-3, paragraph (1) of the Motor Vehicle Tonnage Tax Act (Act No. 89 of 1971)), the Minister (or the Organization) is not to issue or return that motor vehicle inspection certificate. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定は、前条第一項の規定により地方運輸局長が車両番号を指定する場合について準用する。 art-97-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97-4/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to the case where the Director of the District Transport Bureau assigns a vehicle number pursuant to Article 97-3, paragraph (1). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-97-4/par-1: 第七十四条の四 → 道路運送車両法 第七十四条の四 (Article 74-4), art-74-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-74-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-74-4 - art-97-4/par-1: 第六十条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第六十条第一項 (Article 60, paragraph (1)), art-60/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-60/par-1 - art-97-4/par-1: 第六十二条第二項 → 道路運送車両法 第六十二条第二項 (Article 62, paragraph (2)), art-62/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-62/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-62/par-2 - art-97-4/par-1: 第六十三条第三項 → 道路運送車両法 第六十三条第三項 (Article 63, paragraph (3)), art-63/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-63/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-63/par-3 - art-97-4/par-1: 第六十七条第四項 → 道路運送車両法 第六十七条第四項 (Article 67, paragraph (4)), art-67/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-67/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-67/par-4 - art-97-4/par-1: 第七十一条第四項 → 道路運送車両法 第七十一条第四項 (Article 71, paragraph (4)), art-71/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-71/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-71/par-4 - art-97-4/par-1: 自動車重量税法（昭和四十六年法律第八十九号）第十条の三第一項 → e-Gov law 346AC0000000089, 第十条の三第一項 (Article 10-3, paragraph (1)), art-10-3/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-97-4/par-2: 前項 → 道路運送車両法 第九十七条の四第一項 (Article 97-4, paragraph (1)), art-97-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97-4/par-1 - art-97-4/par-2: 前条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第九十七条の三第一項 (Article 97-3, paragraph (1)), art-97-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97-3/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第九十七条の四第二項（自動車重量税の不納付による自動車検査証の不交付等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97-4/par-2 --- ## 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-20261013T120733-031, 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