# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第六十六条の二 (Article 66-2) - 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: 第六十六条の二 (Article 66-2)（過労運転に係る車両の使用者に対する指示） — address `art-66-2` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-66-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-66-2 - 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. --- ### 第六十六条の二（過労運転に係る車両の使用者に対する指示） — (Issuing Instructions to Users of Vehicles Being Driven While the Driver Is Overworked) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-66-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-66-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-66-2 **第一項** 車両の運転者が前条の規定に違反して過労により正常な運転ができないおそれがある状態で車両を運転する行為（以下この条及び第七十五条の二第一項において「過労運転」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、当該過労運転に係る車両の使用者が当該車両につき過労運転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、過労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過労運転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-66-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-66-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-66-2/par-1 If a driver violates the preceding Article by driving a vehicle while in a state in which overwork is likely to make the driver unable to drive safely (hereinafter referred to as "driving while overworked" in this Article and Article 75-2, paragraph (1)) in connection with the services of the user of the vehicle (other than the selfsame driver of the vehicle; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), and the user of the vehicle that the driver has driven while overworked is found not to be undertaking the necessary operational management to prevent drivers from driving while overworked in that vehicle, the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the vehicle's base of operations may instruct the user of the vehicle to give its drivers directions or advice so that they will not drive while overworked, and may instruct the user to take other necessary measures to prevent drivers from driving while overworked. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第二十二条の二第二項の規定は、前項の規定による指示について準用する。 art-66-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-66-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-66-2/par-2 Article 22-2, paragraph (2) applies mutatis mutandis to instructions given pursuant to the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-66-2/par-1: 前条 → 道路交通法 第六十六条 (Article 66), art-66 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-66 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-66 - art-66-2/par-1: この条 → 道路交通法 第六十六条の二 (Article 66-2), art-66-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-66-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-66-2 - art-66-2/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-66-2/par-2: 第二十二条の二第二項 → 道路交通法 第二十二条の二第二項 (Article 22-2, paragraph (2)), 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 - art-66-2/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第六十六条の二第一項 (Article 66-2, paragraph (1)), art-66-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-66-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-66-2/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第六十六条の二第一項（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-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-66-2/par-1 - 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