# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第五十六条 (Article 56) - 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: 第五十六条 (Article 56)（乗車又は積載の方法の特例） — address `art-56` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-56 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-56 - 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. --- ### 第五十六条（乗車又は積載の方法の特例） — (Special Rules on Riding and Loading) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-56 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-56 **第一項** 車両の運転者は、当該車両の出発地を管轄する警察署長（以下第五十八条までにおいて「出発地警察署長」という。）が当該車両の構造又は道路若しくは交通の状況により支障がないと認めて積載の場所を指定して許可をしたときは、前条第一項の規定にかかわらず、当該車両の乗車又は積載のために設備された場所以外の場所で指定された場所に積載して車両を運転することができる。 art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-56/par-1 Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, if the chief of the police station having jurisdiction over the place of departure of a vehicle (hereinafter referred to through Article 58 as "police chief of the place of departure") grants permission for a specific place in which a load may be carried, having found that there is nothing to prevent this in terms of the structure of a vehicle or road or traffic conditions, the driver may drive that vehicle while carrying a load in a specific place other than one that is meant to carry a passenger or a load. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 貨物自動車の運転者は、出発地警察署長が道路又は交通の状況により支障がないと認めて人員を限つて許可をしたときは、前条第一項の規定にかかわらず、当該許可に係る人員の範囲内で当該貨物自動車の荷台に乗車させて貨物自動車を運転することができる。 art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-56/par-2 Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, if the police chief of the place of departure grants permission for a limited number of personnel to be carried, having found that there is nothing to prevent this in terms of the structure of a truck or the road or traffic conditions, the driver of the truck may drive while carrying a number of personnel on its loading platform that falls within the scope of that permission. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-56/par-1: 第五十八条 → 道路交通法 第五十八条 (Article 58), art-58 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-58 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58 - art-56/par-1: 前条第一項 → 道路交通法 第五十五条第一項 (Article 55, paragraph (1)), art-55/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-55/par-1 - art-56/par-2: 前条第一項 → 道路交通法 第五十五条第一項 (Article 55, paragraph (1)), art-55/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-55/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第五十五条第一項（乗車又は積載の方法） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-55/par-1 - 道路交通法 第五十七条第一項（乗車又は積載の制限等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-57/par-1 - 道路交通法 第五十八条第一項（制限外許可証の交付等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百八条の三十一第二項第七号（都道府県交通安全活動推進センター） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-108-31/par-2/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-31/par-2/item-7 --- ## 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