# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第一条 (Article 1) - Law: 道路運送車両法 (Road Transport Vehicle Act), 昭和二十六年法律第百八十五号 - English title "Road Transport Vehicle Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - 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: 第一条 (Article 1)（この法律の目的） — address `art-1` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（この法律の目的） — Purpose of This Act caption: machine translation, not official art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、道路運送車両に関し、所有権についての公証等を行い、並びに安全性の確保及び公害の防止その他の環境の保全並びに整備についての技術の向上を図り、併せて自動車の整備事業の健全な発達に資することにより、公共の福祉を増進することを目的とする。 art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-1/par-1 The purpose of this Act is to promote the public welfare by providing for public certification of ownership and the like with respect to road transport vehicles, by seeking to ensure safety, to achieve the prevention of pollution and other conservation of the environment, and to improve technology for maintenance, and at the same time by contributing to the sound development of the motor vehicle maintenance business. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第七十五条第九項第三号（自動車の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-75/par-9/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-75/par-9/item-3 - 道路運送車両法 第七十五条第九項第四号（自動車の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-75/par-9/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-75/par-9/item-4 - 道路運送車両法 第七十五条の二第六項第二号（共通構造部の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-75-2/par-6/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-75-2/par-6/item-2 - 道路運送車両法 第七十五条の二第六項第三号（共通構造部の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-75-2/par-6/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-75-2/par-6/item-3 - 道路運送車両法 第七十五条の三第七項第二号（装置の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-75-3/par-7/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-75-3/par-7/item-2 - 道路運送車両法 第七十五条の三第七項第三号（装置の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-75-3/par-7/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-75-3/par-7/item-3 - 道路運送車両法 第百条第一項（報告徴収及び立入検査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-100/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-100/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第百条第二項（報告徴収及び立入検査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-100/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-100/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 道路運送車両法 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326AC0000000185/20260401_508AC0000000002), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 道路運送車両法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/529), retrieved 2026-09-18 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-transport-vehicle-act-20261013T120733-001, translated 2026-10-13 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-transport-vehicle-act-20261013T124808-001, translated 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 189 — 道路運送車両法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13