# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)

- 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（経過措置） — address `suppl-4101-74/art-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4101-74/art-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4101-74/art-2
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### 第二条（経過措置） — Transitional Measures
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4101-74/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4101-74/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4101-74/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  自動車（検査対象外軽自動車及び小型特殊自動車を除く。）の使用者は、この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）前十五日以内にこの法律による改正前の道路運送車両法（以下「旧法」という。）第六十四条第一項の分解整備をし、施行日の前日までに同項の規定による分解整備検査を受けなかったときは、この法律の施行後遅滞なく、この法律による改正後の道路運送車両法（以下「新法」という。）第四十九条第一項の点検整備記録簿に同項第三号から第五号までに掲げる事項を記載しなければならない。ただし、旧法第四十八条第二項において準用する旧法第四十七条の二第三項の規定による必要な整備として当該分解整備をし、かつ、旧法第四十九条第一項の規定により同項の定期点検整備記録簿に記載をしたとき又は旧法第七十八条第四項の自動車分解整備事業者が当該分解整備を実施し、かつ、旧法第九十条の規定による検査をしたときは、この限りでない。
<sup>suppl-4101-74/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4101-74/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4101-74/art-2/par-1</sup>
The user of a motor vehicle (excluding a light motor vehicle exempt from inspection and a special small motor vehicle) who has performed disassembly maintenance under Article 64, paragraph (1) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act prior to the amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act") within 15 days before the day this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date") and has not received a disassembly maintenance inspection under the provisions of that paragraph by the day preceding the Effective Date must, without delay after this Act comes into effect, enter the particulars listed in items (iii) through (v) of Article 49, paragraph (1) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act after the amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act") in the inspection and maintenance record book under that paragraph; provided, however, that this does not apply where the user has performed that disassembly maintenance as the necessary maintenance under Article 47-2, paragraph (3) of the Former Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 48, paragraph (2) of the Former Act and has made an entry in the periodic inspection and maintenance record book under Article 49, paragraph (1) of the Former Act pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph, or where a motor vehicle disassembly maintenance business operator under Article 78, paragraph (4) of the Former Act has performed that disassembly maintenance and has carried out an inspection under the provisions of Article 90 of the Former Act.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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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-20261013T120733-042, 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
