# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第二十九条 (Article 29) - 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: 第二十九条 (Article 29)（車台番号等の打刻） — address `art-29` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-29 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-29 - 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. --- ### 第二十九条（車台番号等の打刻） — Stamping of Chassis Numbers, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-29 **第一項** 自動車の製作を業とする者、自動車の車台又は原動機の製作を業とする者及び国土交通大臣が指定した者以外の者は、自動車の車台番号又は原動機の型式を打刻してはならない。 art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-29/par-1 A person other than a person engaged in the business of manufacturing motor vehicles, a person engaged in the business of manufacturing motor vehicle chassis or motors, and a person designated by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism must not stamp the chassis number or motor model of a motor vehicle. machine translation, not official **第二項** 自動車の製作を業とする者、自動車の車台又は原動機の製作を業とする者及び前項の指定を受けた者が自動車の車台番号又は原動機の型式を打刻しようとするときは、その様式その他の国土交通省令で定める事項についてあらかじめ国土交通大臣に届け出て、その届け出たところに従い、これをしなければならない。 art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-29/par-2 When a person engaged in the business of manufacturing motor vehicles, a person engaged in the business of manufacturing motor vehicle chassis or motors, or a person who has received the designation under the preceding paragraph intends to stamp the chassis number or motor model of a motor vehicle, the person must notify the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in advance of its form and other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and do so in accordance with what was notified. machine translation, not official **第三項** 国土交通大臣は、前項の届出に係る事項が適当でないと認めるときは、その変更を命ずることができる。 art-29/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-29/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-29/par-3 Where the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism finds the matters relating to the notification under the preceding paragraph to be inappropriate, the Minister may order that they be changed. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-29/par-2: 前項 → 道路運送車両法 第二十九条第一項 (Article 29, paragraph (1)), art-29/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-29/par-1 - art-29/par-3: 前項 → 道路運送車両法 第二十九条第二項 (Article 29, paragraph (2)), art-29/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-29/par-2 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第四条第一項（登録の一般的効力） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-4/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第二十九条第二項（車台番号等の打刻） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-29/par-2 - 道路運送車両法 第二十九条第三項（車台番号等の打刻） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-29/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-29/par-3 - 道路運送車両法 第三十条第二項（輸入自動車等の打刻の届出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-30/par-2 - 道路運送車両法 第百条第一項第五号（報告徴収及び立入検査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-100/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-100/par-1/item-5 - 道路運送車両法 第百七条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-107/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-107/par-1/item-2 - 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 第百十条第一項第七号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-110/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-110/par-1/item-7 --- ## 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