# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第六十三条の二 (Article 63-2) - 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: 第六十三条の二 (Article 63-2)（運行記録計による記録等） — address `art-63-2` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-63-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-2 - 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. 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. --- ### 第六十三条の二（運行記録計による記録等） — (Tachograph Records; Related Considerations) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-63-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-63-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-2 **第一項** 自動車の使用者その他自動車の装置の整備について責任を有する者又は運転者は、道路運送車両法第三章又はこれに基づく命令の規定により運行記録計を備えなければならないこととされている自動車で、これらの規定により定められた運行記録計を備えていないか、又は当該運行記録計についての調整がされていないためこれらの規定により定められた事項を記録することができないものを運転させ、又は運転してはならない。 art-63-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-63-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-2/par-1 It is prohibited for the user of a motor vehicle or any other person responsible for maintaining its equipment to allow a person to drive that motor vehicle if it is required to be equipped with a tachograph pursuant to Chapter III of the Act on Vehicles for Road Transportation or an order based on the same, but is either not equipped with a tachograph or is equipped with one that is uncalibrated and therefore unable to record the information prescribed in that Chapter; and it is also prohibited for a driver to drive such a motor vehicle. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の運行記録計を備えなければならないこととされている自動車の使用者は、運行記録計により記録された当該自動車に係る記録を、内閣府令で定めるところにより一年間保存しなければならない。 art-63-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-63-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-2/par-2 The user of a motor vehicle required to be equipped with a tachograph as referred to in the preceding paragraph must keep the records made by the tachograph regarding that motor vehicle on file for a period of one year, pursuant to Cabinet Office Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-63-2/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第六十三条の二第一項 (Article 63-2, paragraph (1)), art-63-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-63-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-2/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第六十三条の二第二項（運行記録計による記録等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-63-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-63-2/par-2 - 道路交通法 第七十五条の二十四第一項（特定自動運行の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-24/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百二十一条第二項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-121/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-121/par-2/item-3 --- ## 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