# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第二十八条の三 (Article 28-3) - 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: 第二十八条の三 (Article 28-3)（封印の取付けの委託） — address `art-28-3` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-28-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-28-3 - 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. --- ### 第二十八条の三（封印の取付けの委託） — Entrustment of Affixing of Seals caption: machine translation, not official art-28-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-28-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-28-3 **第一項** 国土交通大臣は、登録自動車に取り付けた自動車登録番号標への封印の取付けを国土交通省令で定める要件を備える者に委託することができる。 art-28-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-28-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-28-3/par-1 The Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism may entrust the affixing of seals to motor vehicle registration number plates attached to registered motor vehicles to a person who satisfies the requirements specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第二十六条第一項、第二十八条第一項及び前条第一項の規定は、前項の規定による封印の取付けの委託を受けた者について準用する。この場合において、これらの規定中「自動車登録番号標交付代行者」とあるのは「第二十八条の三第一項の規定による封印の取付けの委託を受けた者」と、「の規定」とあるのは「、第三項及び第五項の規定」と、「自動車登録番号標」とあるのは「封印」と、「交付」とあるのは「取付け」と読み替えるものとする。 art-28-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-28-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-28-3/par-2 The provisions of Article 26, paragraph (1), Article 28, paragraph (1) and paragraph (1) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to a person entrusted with the affixing of seals under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the term "motor vehicle registration number plate issuing agent" in those provisions is deemed to be replaced with "person entrusted with the affixing of seals under Article 28-3, paragraph (1)", the phrase "Article 14, paragraph (2))" with "Article 14, paragraph (2)) and paragraphs (3) and (5) of Article 11", the term "motor vehicle registration number plate" with "seal", and the terms "issue", "issuing" and "issuance" with "affix", "affixing" and "affixing" respectively. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-28-3/par-2: 第二十六条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第二十六条第一項 (Article 26, paragraph (1)), 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 - art-28-3/par-2: 第二十八条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-28/par-1 - art-28-3/par-2: 前条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第二十八条の二第一項 (Article 28-2, paragraph (1)), art-28-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-28-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-28-2/par-1 - art-28-3/par-2: 前項 → 道路運送車両法 第二十八条の三第一項 (Article 28-3, paragraph (1)), art-28-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-28-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-28-3/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第十一条第一項（自動車登録番号標の封印等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-11/par-1 - 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 第百条第一項第四号（報告徴収及び立入検査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-100/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-100/par-1/item-4 - 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 - 道路運送車両法 第百十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-112/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-112/par-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-20261013T120733-006, 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