# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第五十七条 (Article 57) - 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: 第五十七条 (Article 57)（乗車又は積載の制限等） — address `art-57` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-57 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-57 - 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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Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 公安委員会は、道路における危険を防止し、その他交通の安全を図るため必要があると認めるときは、軽車両の乗車人員又は積載重量等の制限について定めることができる。 art-57/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-57/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-57/par-2 On finding it to be necessary to do so in order to prevent a road hazard or otherwise ensure traffic safety, a public safety commission may prescribe restrictions on the number of accompanying personnel or the weight, size, and way of carrying cargo for light road vehicles. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 貨物が分割できないものであるため第一項の政令で定める積載重量等の制限又は前項の規定に基づき公安委員会が定める積載重量等を超えることとなる場合において、出発地警察署長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重量等を限つて許可をしたときは、車両の運転者は、前二項の規定にかかわらず、当該許可に係る積載重量等の範囲内で当該制限を超える積載をして車両を運転することができる。 art-57/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-57/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-57/par-3 Notwithstanding the preceding two paragraphs, if cargo cannot be divided and for this reason exceeds the restrictions on the weight, size, and way of carrying cargo that Cabinet Order prescribes which are referred to in paragraph (1) or exceeds the restrictions on this that are prescribed by the public safety commission pursuant to the preceding paragraph, and the police chief of the place of departure grants permission for a limited weight, size, and way of carrying cargo, having found that there is nothing to prevent this in terms of the structure of the vehicle or the road or traffic conditions, the driver of the vehicle may drive that vehicle while carrying a load in excess of the restrictions, within the scope of the weight, size, and way of carrying cargo in the permission. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-57/par-1: この項 → 道路交通法 第五十七条第一項 (Article 57, paragraph (1)), art-57/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-57/par-1 - art-57/par-1: 第五十八条の二から第五十八条の五まで → 道路交通法 第五十八条の二 (Article 58-2), art-58-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-58-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-2 - art-57/par-1: 第五十八条の二から第五十八条の五まで → 道路交通法 第五十八条の三 (Article 58-3), art-58-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-58-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-3 - art-57/par-1: 第五十八条の二から第五十八条の五まで → 道路交通法 第五十八条の四 (Article 58-4), art-58-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-58-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-4 - art-57/par-1: 第五十八条の二から第五十八条の五まで → 道路交通法 第五十八条の五 (Article 58-5), art-58-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-58-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-5 - art-57/par-1: この条 → 道路交通法 第五十七条 (Article 57), art-57 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-57 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-57 - art-57/par-1: 第五十五条第一項 → 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-57/par-1: 前条第二項 → 道路交通法 第五十六条第二項 (Article 56, paragraph (2)), art-56/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-56/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-56/par-2 - art-57/par-3: 第一項 → 道路交通法 第五十七条第一項 (Article 57, paragraph (1)), art-57/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-57/par-1 - art-57/par-3: 前項 → 道路交通法 第五十七条第二項 (Article 57, paragraph (2)), art-57/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-57/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-57/par-2 ## Cited by 15 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 第五十七条第三項（乗車又は積載の制限等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-57/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-57/par-3 - 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 第五十八条の二第一項（積載物の重量の測定等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-58-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-2/par-1 - 道路交通法 第五十八条の三第一項（過積載車両に係る措置命令） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-58-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-3/par-1 - 道路交通法 第五十八条の三第二項（過積載車両に係る措置命令） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-58-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-3/par-2 - 道路交通法 第五十八条の五第一項第二号（過積載車両の運転の要求等の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-58-5/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-58-5/par-1/item-2 - 道路交通法 第七十五条第一項第六号（自動車の使用者の義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75/par-1/item-6 - 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 - 道路交通法 第百十八条第二項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-118/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-118/par-2/item-1 - 道路交通法 第百十九条第二項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-119/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119/par-2/item-1 - 道路交通法 第百二十条第二項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-120/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-120/par-2/item-2 - 道路交通法 第百二十一条第二項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-121/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-121/par-2/item-1 - 道路交通法 別表第二 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/appdx-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/appdx-2 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-traffic-act-20261013T074321-004, translated 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