# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第二十六条 (Article 26) - 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: 第二十六条 (Article 26)（禁止行為等） — address `art-26` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-26 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-26 - 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. --- ### 第二十六条（禁止行為等） — Prohibited Acts, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-26 **第一項** 自動車登録番号標交付代行者は、左の各号に掲げる行為をしてはならない。 art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-26/par-1 A motor vehicle registration number plate issuing agent must not commit any of the acts set forth in the following items: machine translation, not official **一** 第十一条第一項（同条第二項及び第十四条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定により自動車登録番号標の交付を受けなければならない者の請求がある場合において、災害その他やむを得ない事由がないのに自動車登録番号標を交付しないこと。 art-26/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-26/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-26/par-1/item-1 failing to issue a motor vehicle registration number plate, without a disaster or other unavoidable reason, when a request is made by a person who must receive the issuance of a motor vehicle registration number plate pursuant to Article 11, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of that Article and Article 14, paragraph (2)); machine translation, not official **二** 前号の者以外の者に自動車登録番号標を交付すること。 art-26/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-26/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-26/par-1/item-2 issuing a motor vehicle registration number plate to a person other than the person referred to in the preceding item. machine translation, not official **第二項** 国土交通大臣は、自動車登録番号標交付代行者がこの法律若しくはこの法律に基く命令又はこれらに基く処分に違反したときは、三箇月以内において期間を定めてその事業の停止を命じ、又はその指定を取り消すことができる。 art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-26/par-2 Where a motor vehicle registration number plate issuing agent has violated this Act, an order under this Act, or a disposition based on either of them, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism may order suspension of its business for a period specified within three months, or revoke its designation. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-26/par-1/item-1: 第十一条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第十一条第一項 (Article 11, paragraph (1)), art-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-11/par-1 - art-26/par-1/item-1: 同条第二項 → 道路運送車両法 第十一条第二項 (Article 11, paragraph (2)), art-11/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-11/par-2 - art-26/par-1/item-1: 第十四条第二項 → 道路運送車両法 第十四条第二項 (Article 14, paragraph (2)), art-14/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-14/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-14/par-2 - art-26/par-1/item-2: 前号 → 道路運送車両法 第二十六条第一項第一号 (Article 26, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-26/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-26/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-26/par-1/item-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第二十六条第一項第二号（禁止行為等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-26/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-26/par-1/item-2 - 道路運送車両法 第二十八条の三第二項（封印の取付けの委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-28-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-28-3/par-2 - 道路運送車両法 第百三条第一項（聴聞の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-103/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-103/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第百三条第二項（聴聞の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-103/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-103/par-2 - 道路運送車両法 第百九条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-109/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-109/par-1/item-5 - 道路運送車両法 第百十条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-110/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-110/par-1/item-1 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-transport-vehicle-act-20261013T120733-006, 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