# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第二十二条の二 (Article 22-2) - Law: 道路交通法 (Road Traffic Act), 昭和三十五年法律第百五号 - English title "Road Traffic Act": Ministry of Justice translation - 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: 第二十二条の二 (Article 22-2)（最高速度違反行為に係る車両の使用者に対する指示） — address `art-22-2` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-22-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-22-2 - 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. --- ### 第二十二条の二（最高速度違反行為に係る車両の使用者に対する指示） — (Issuing Instructions to Users of Vehicles Regarding Violation of Maximum Speed Limits) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-22-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-22-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-22-2 **第一項** 車両の運転者が前条の規定に違反する行為（以下この条及び第七十五条の二第一項において「最高速度違反行為」という。）を当該車両の使用者（当該車両の運転者であるものを除く。以下この条において同じ。）の業務に関してした場合において、当該最高速度違反行為に係る車両の使用者が当該車両につき最高速度違反行為を防止するため必要な運行の管理を行つていると認められないときは、当該車両の使用の本拠の位置を管轄する公安委員会は、当該車両の使用者に対し、最高速度違反行為となる運転が行われることのないよう運転者に指導し又は助言することその他最高速度違反行為を防止するため必要な措置をとることを指示することができる。 art-22-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-22-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-22-2/par-1 If the driver of a vehicle violates the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to in this Article and Article 75-2, paragraph (1) as committing a "violation (of the maximum speed limit)") in connection with the services of the vehicle's user(other than the selfsame driver of the vehicle; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), and the user of the vehicle in which the violation occurs is found not to be undertaking the necessary operational management to prevent such violations from occurring in that vehicle, the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the vehicle's base of operations may instruct the user to direct or advise its drivers to drive in a way that does not violate the maximum speed limit, and may instruct the user to take other measures that are needed for preventing violations of the maximum speed limit. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定による指示に係る車両の使用者が道路運送法の規定による自動車運送事業者、貨物利用運送事業法（平成元年法律第八十二号）の規定による第二種貨物利用運送事業を経営する者又は軌道法の規定による軌道経営者（トロリーバスを運行するものに限る。）である場合における当該指示は、公安委員会が当該事業を監督する行政庁とあらかじめ協議して定めたところによつてしなければならない。 art-22-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-22-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-22-2/par-2 If the user of a vehicle that is subject to instructions as under the preceding paragraph is a motor carrier as prescribed in the Road Transportation Act, a person engaged in Type II cargo transportation services as prescribed in the Cargo Forwarder Service Act (Act No. 82 of 1989), or a track operator as prescribed in the Railway Track Act (but only a trolleybus operator), the instructions must be issued based on an agreement entered into in advance between the public safety commission and the administrative agency that supervises its services. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-22-2/par-1: 前条 → 道路交通法 第二十二条 (Article 22), art-22 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-22 - art-22-2/par-1: この条 → 道路交通法 第二十二条の二 (Article 22-2), art-22-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-22-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-22-2 - art-22-2/par-1: 第七十五条の二第一項 → 道路交通法 第七十五条の二第一項 (Article 75-2, paragraph (1)), art-75-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-2/par-1 - art-22-2/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第二十二条の二第一項 (Article 22-2, paragraph (1)), art-22-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-22-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-22-2/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第二十二条の二第一項（最高速度違反行為に係る車両の使用者に対する指示） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-22-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-22-2/par-1 - 道路交通法 第二十二条の二第二項（最高速度違反行為に係る車両の使用者に対する指示） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-22-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-22-2/par-2 - 道路交通法 第六十六条の二第二項（過労運転に係る車両の使用者に対する指示） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-66-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-66-2/par-2 - 道路交通法 第七十五条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 道路交通法 — the text in force from 2026-07-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000105/20260721_508AC0000000052), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Road Traffic Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13