# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第三十三条 (Article 33) - 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: 第三十三条 (Article 33)（譲渡証明書等） — address `art-33` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-33 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-33 - 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. --- ### 第三十三条（譲渡証明書等） — Certificates of Transfer, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-33 **第一項** 自動車を譲渡する者は、次に掲げる事項を記載した譲渡証明書を譲受人に交付しなければならない。 art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-33/par-1 A person who transfers a motor vehicle must deliver to the transferee a certificate of transfer stating the following matters: machine translation, not official **一** 譲渡の年月日 art-33/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-33/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-33/par-1/item-1 the date of transfer; machine translation, not official **二** 車名及び型式 art-33/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-33/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-33/par-1/item-2 the name and model of the vehicle; machine translation, not official **三** 車台番号及び原動機の型式 art-33/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-33/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-33/par-1/item-3 the chassis number and motor model; and machine translation, not official **四** 譲渡人及び譲受人の氏名又は名称及び住所 art-33/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-33/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-33/par-1/item-4 the names or titles and addresses of the transferor and the transferee. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の譲渡証明書は、譲渡に係る自動車一両につき、二通以上交付してはならない。 art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-33/par-2 Two or more certificates of transfer under the preceding paragraph must not be issued for one motor vehicle that is the subject of a transfer. machine translation, not official **第三項** 自動車を譲渡する者は、当該自動車に関して既に交付を受けている第一項の譲渡証明書を有するときは、これを譲受人に交付しなければならない。 art-33/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-33/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-33/par-3 A person who transfers a motor vehicle must, if the person holds a certificate of transfer under paragraph (1) already issued with respect to that motor vehicle, deliver it to the transferee. machine translation, not official **第四項** 自動車（国土交通省令で定めるものを除く。）を譲渡する者は、第一項の規定による譲渡証明書の交付に代えて、政令で定めるところにより、当該譲受人の承諾を得て、当該譲渡証明書に記載すべき事項を電磁的方法（電子情報処理組織を使用する方法その他の情報通信の技術を利用する方法であつて国土交通省令で定めるものをいう。以下同じ。）により登録情報処理機関に提供することができる。 art-33/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-33/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-33/par-4 A person who transfers a motor vehicle (excluding those specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) may, in lieu of delivering a certificate of transfer under paragraph (1), as provided by Cabinet Order and with the consent of the transferee, provide the matters to be stated in the certificate of transfer to a registered information processing body by electronic or magnetic means (meaning a method using an electronic data processing system or any other method using information and communications technology that is specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism; the same applies hereinafter). machine translation, not official **第五項** 前項の規定により譲渡証明書に記載すべき事項が登録情報処理機関に提供されたときは、同項の自動車を譲渡する者は、当該譲渡証明書を当該譲受人に交付したものとみなす。 art-33/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-33/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-33/par-5 When the matters to be stated in the certificate of transfer have been provided to a registered information processing body pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the person who transfers the motor vehicle referred to in that paragraph is deemed to have delivered the certificate of transfer to the transferee. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-33/par-2: 前項 → 道路運送車両法 第三十三条第一項 (Article 33, paragraph (1)), art-33/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-33/par-1 - art-33/par-3: 第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第三十三条第一項 (Article 33, paragraph (1)), art-33/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-33/par-1 - art-33/par-4: 第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第三十三条第一項 (Article 33, paragraph (1)), art-33/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-33/par-1 - art-33/par-5: 前項 → 道路運送車両法 第三十三条第四項 (Article 33, paragraph (4)), art-33/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-33/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-33/par-4 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第七条第一項（新規登録の申請） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-7/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第七条第四項第一号（新規登録の申請） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-7/par-4/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-7/par-4/item-1 - 道路運送車両法 第三十三条第二項（譲渡証明書等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-33/par-2 - 道路運送車両法 第三十三条第三項（譲渡証明書等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-33/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-33/par-3 - 道路運送車両法 第三十三条第四項（譲渡証明書等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-33/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-33/par-4 - 道路運送車両法 第三十三条第五項（譲渡証明書等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-33/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-33/par-5 - 道路運送車両法 第九十六条の二第一項（登録） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-96-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-96-2/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第九十六条の十第二項（財務諸表等の備付け及び閲覧等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-96-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-96-10/par-2 - 道路運送車両法 第九十六条の十九第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-96-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-96-19/par-1 - 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 第百十条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-110/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-110/par-1/item-5 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-transport-vehicle-act-20261013T120733-007, 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