# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第四条 (Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Article 4)（登録の一般的効力） — address `art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条（登録の一般的効力） — General Effect of Registration caption: machine translation, not official art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-4 **第一項** 自動車（軽自動車、小型特殊自動車及び二輪の小型自動車を除く。以下第二十九条から第三十二条までを除き本章において同じ。）は、自動車登録ファイルに登録を受けたものでなければ、これを運行の用に供してはならない。 art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-4/par-1 A motor vehicle (excluding light motor vehicles, special small motor vehicles and two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicles; the same applies hereinafter in this Chapter, except in Articles 29 through 32) must not be put to operation unless it has been registered in the motor vehicle registration file. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-4/par-1: 第二十九条から第三十二条まで → 道路運送車両法 第二十九条 (Article 29), art-29 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-29 - art-4/par-1: 第二十九条から第三十二条まで → 道路運送車両法 第三十条 (Article 30), art-30 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-30 - art-4/par-1: 第二十九条から第三十二条まで → 道路運送車両法 第三十一条 (Article 31), art-31 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-31 - art-4/par-1: 第二十九条から第三十二条まで → 道路運送車両法 第三十二条 (Article 32), art-32 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-32 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第九条第一項（自動車損害賠償責任保険証明書の提示） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-9/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第二条第九項（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-2/par-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-2/par-9 - 道路運送車両法 第三十四条第一項（臨時運行の許可） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-34/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第三十六条の二第一項（回送運行の許可） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-36-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-36-2/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第五十九条第一項（新規検査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-59/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第七十一条第一項（予備検査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-71/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第百八条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-108/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-108/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-20261013T120733-001, 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