# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第三十二条 (Article 32) - 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: 第三十二条 (Article 32)（職権による打刻等） — address `art-32` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-32 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-32 - 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. --- ### 第三十二条（職権による打刻等） — Stamping, etc. by Official Authority caption: machine translation, not official art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-32 **第一項** 国土交通大臣は、自動車が左の各号の一に該当するときは、その所有者に対し、車台番号若しくは原動機の型式の打刻を受け、若しくはその打刻を塗まつすべきことを命じ、又は自ら車台番号若しくは原動機の型式の打刻を塗まつし、若しくは打刻をすることができる。 art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-32/par-1 Where a motor vehicle falls under any of the following items, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism may order its owner to have the chassis number or motor model stamped or to have the stamping obliterated, or may personally obliterate the stamping of the chassis number or motor model or stamp it: machine translation, not official **一** 車台番号又は原動機の型式の打刻を有しないとき。 art-32/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-32/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-32/par-1/item-1 where it has no stamping of the chassis number or motor model; machine translation, not official **二** 当該自動車の車台番号又は原動機の型式の打刻が他の自動車の車台番号又は原動機の型式の打刻と類似のものであるとき。 art-32/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-32/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-32/par-1/item-2 where the stamping of the chassis number or motor model of the motor vehicle is similar to the stamping of the chassis number or motor model of another motor vehicle; or machine translation, not official **三** 当該自動車の車台番号又は原動機の型式の打刻が識別困難なものであるとき。 art-32/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-32/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-32/par-1/item-3 where the stamping of the chassis number or motor model of the motor vehicle is difficult to identify. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 3 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 第三十一条第一項（打刻の塗まつ等の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-31/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第百九条第一項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-109/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-109/par-1/item-6 --- ## 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