# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)

- 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5)（準用） — address `suppl-3621-40/art-5`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-5
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-5
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### 第五条（準用） — Mutatis Mutandis Application
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3621-40/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-5</sup>

**第一項**  前三条の規定は、軽自動車検査協会について準用する。この場合において、附則第三条中「第一条」とあるのは「第二条」と、「船舶安全法第二十五条の五」とあるのは「道路運送車両法第七十六条の五」と、前条第一項中「第一条」とあるのは「第二条」と、「船舶安全法第二十五条の二十第一項」とあるのは「道路運送車両法第七十六条の二十第一項」と、同条第二項中「附則第二条第一項」とあるのは「次条において準用する附則第二条第一項」と読み替えるものとする。
<sup>suppl-3621-40/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-5/par-1</sup>
The provisions of the preceding three Articles apply mutatis mutandis to the Light Motor Vehicle Inspection Organization. In this case, the phrase "Article 1" in Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions is deemed to be replaced with "Article 2", the phrase "Article 25-5 of the Ship Safety Act" with "Article 76-5 of the Road Transport Vehicle Act", the phrase "Article 1" in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article with "Article 2", the phrase "Article 25-20, paragraph (1) of the Ship Safety Act" with "Article 76-20, paragraph (1) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act", and the phrase "Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions" in paragraph (2) of that Article with "Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the following Article".
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3621-40/art-5/par-1: 前三条 → 道路運送車両法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-3621-40/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-2
- suppl-3621-40/art-5/par-1: 前三条 → 道路運送車両法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-3621-40/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-3
- suppl-3621-40/art-5/par-1: 前三条 → 道路運送車両法 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-3621-40/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-4
- suppl-3621-40/art-5/par-1: 船舶安全法第二十五条の五 → e-Gov law 308AC0000000011, 第二十五条の五 (Article 25-5), art-25-5 — not held in this collection
- suppl-3621-40/art-5/par-1: 前条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 附則第四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)), suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-1
- suppl-3621-40/art-5/par-1: 船舶安全法第二十五条の二十第一項 → e-Gov law 308AC0000000011, 第二十五条の二十第一項 (Article 25-20, paragraph (1)), art-25-20/par-1 — not held in this collection
- suppl-3621-40/art-5/par-1: 同条第二項 → 道路運送車両法 附則第四条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (2)), suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-2
- suppl-3621-40/art-5/par-1: 附則第二条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 附則第二条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)), suppl-3621-40/art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-2/par-1
- suppl-3621-40/art-5/par-1: 次条 → 道路運送車両法 附則第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5), suppl-3621-40/art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-5

## Cited by

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

- 道路運送車両法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-1/par-1
- 道路運送車両法 附則第五条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-5/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-20261013T120733-041, 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
