# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第十七条 (Article 17)

- 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: 第十七条 (Article 17)（届出記録） — address `art-17`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-17
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-17
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### 第十七条（届出記録） — Record of Notifications
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-17</sup>

**第一項**  国土交通大臣は、第十五条の二第一項ただし書又は前条第二項若しくは第四項の規定による届出があつたときは、その旨を、政令で定めるところにより、第六条第一項の電子情報処理組織によつて、自動車登録ファイルに記録するものとする。
<sup>art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-17/par-1</sup>
Upon receiving a notification under the proviso to Article 15-2, paragraph (1) or under paragraph (2) or (4) of the preceding Article, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is to record that fact in the motor vehicle registration file by means of the electronic data processing system referred to in Article 6, paragraph (1), as provided by Cabinet Order.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-17/par-1: 第十五条の二第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第十五条の二第一項 (Article 15-2, paragraph (1)), art-15-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-15-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-15-2/par-1
- art-17/par-1: 前条第二項 → 道路運送車両法 第十六条第二項 (Article 16, paragraph (2)), art-16/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-16/par-2
- art-17/par-1: 第四項 → 道路運送車両法 第十六条第四項 (Article 16, paragraph (4)), art-16/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-16/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-16/par-4
- art-17/par-1: 第六条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第六条第一項 (Article 6, paragraph (1)), art-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-6/par-1

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 道路運送車両法 第二十一条第一項（自動車登録ファイルの記録等の保存） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-21/par-1

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## 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-20261013T120733-004, 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
