# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第五十一条の五 (Article 51-5) - 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: 第五十一条の五 (Article 51-5)（報告徴収等） — address `art-51-5` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-51-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-5 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十一条の五（報告徴収等） — (Requests to Report; Other Measures) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-51-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-51-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-5 **第一項** 公安委員会は、前条の規定の施行のため必要があると認めるときは、同条第一項の規定により標章を取り付けられた車両の使用者、所有者その他の関係者に対し、当該車両の使用に関し必要な報告又は資料の提出を求めることができる。 art-51-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-51-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-5/par-1 On finding it to be necessary to do so to enforce the preceding Article, a public safety commission may request the user, the owner, or a person otherwise affiliated with a vehicle on which a mark has been attached pursuant to paragraph (1) of that Article to report as necessary or submit the necessary materials in connection with the use of the vehicle. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "On finding it to be necessary to do so to enforce the preceding Article, a public safety commission may request theuser, the owner, or a person otherwise affiliated with a vehicle on which a mark has been attached pursuant to paragraph (1) of that Article to report as necessary or submit the necessary materials in connection with the use of the vehicle." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb **第二項** 公安委員会は、前条の規定の施行のため必要があると認めるときは、官庁、公共団体その他の者に照会し、又は協力を求めることができる。 art-51-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-51-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-5/par-2 On finding it to be necessary to do so to enforce the preceding Article, a public safety commission may make inquires with or ask for cooperation from government agencies, public bodies, and other persons. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-51-5/par-1: 前条 → 道路交通法 第五十一条の四 (Article 51-4), art-51-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-51-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-4 - art-51-5/par-1: 同条第一項 → 道路交通法 第五十一条の四第一項 (Article 51-4, paragraph (1)), art-51-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-51-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-4/par-1 - art-51-5/par-2: 前条 → 道路交通法 第五十一条の四 (Article 51-4), art-51-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-51-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-4 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第百十九条の三第二項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-119-3/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119-3/par-2/item-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Slips in the Ministry of Justice's English of the Road Traffic Act, corrected, written 2026-10-13 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Road Traffic Act (道路交通法), Article 51-5, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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