# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第二十一条 (Article 21) - 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: 第二十一条 (Article 21)（自動車登録ファイルの記録等の保存） — address `art-21` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-21 - 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. --- ### 第二十一条（自動車登録ファイルの記録等の保存） — Preservation of Records of the Motor Vehicle Registration File, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-21 **第一項** 永久抹消登録、輸出抹消登録又は一時抹消登録をした自動車に係る自動車登録ファイルの記録は、それぞれ、永久抹消登録にあつては当該永久抹消登録をした日、輸出抹消登録にあつては当該輸出抹消登録をした日、一時抹消登録にあつては第十六条第二項の規定による届出に係る第十七条の規定による記録をした日又は第十六条第六項において準用する第十五条の二第三項後段の規定による記録をした日から五年間保存しなければならない。 art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-21/par-1 The records of the motor vehicle registration file relating to a motor vehicle for which permanent cancellation of registration, cancellation of registration for export or temporary cancellation of registration has been made must be preserved for five years from, respectively, in the case of permanent cancellation of registration, the day on which that permanent cancellation of registration was made, in the case of cancellation of registration for export, the day on which that cancellation of registration for export was made, and in the case of temporary cancellation of registration, the day on which the record under Article 17 relating to the notification under Article 16, paragraph (2) was made or the day on which the record under the latter part of Article 15-2, paragraph (3) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 16, paragraph (6) was made. machine translation, not official **第二項** 自動車の登録に係る申請書及び添附書類は、当該申請書を受理した日から五年間保存しなければならない。 art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-21/par-2 The written application and attached documents relating to the registration of a motor vehicle must be preserved for five years from the day on which that written application was received. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-21/par-1: 第十六条第二項 → 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-21/par-1: 第十七条 → 道路運送車両法 第十七条 (Article 17), art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-17 - art-21/par-1: 第十六条第六項 → 道路運送車両法 第十六条第六項 (Article 16, paragraph (6)), art-16/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-16/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-16/par-6 - art-21/par-1: 第十五条の二第三項 → 道路運送車両法 第十五条の二第三項 (Article 15-2, paragraph (3)), art-15-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-15-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-15-2/par-3 --- ## 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-20261013T120733-005, 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