# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第四十六条 (Article 46) - 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: 第四十六条 (Article 46)（保安基準の原則） — address `art-46` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-46 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-46 - 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. --- ### 第四十六条（保安基準の原則） — Principles of Safety Standards caption: machine translation, not official art-46 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-46 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-46 **第一項** 第四十条から第四十二条まで、第四十四条及び前条の規定による保安上又は公害防止その他の環境保全上の技術基準（以下「保安基準」という。）は、道路運送車両の構造及び装置が運行に十分堪え、操縦その他の使用のための作業に安全であるとともに、通行人その他に危害を与えないことを確保するものでなければならず、かつ、これにより製作者又は使用者に対し、自動車の製作又は使用について不当な制限を課することとなるものであつてはならない。 art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-46/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-46/par-1 The technical standards for safety, or for pollution prevention and other conservation of the environment, under Articles 40 through 42, Article 44 and the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as "safety standards") must ensure that the structure and equipment of road transport vehicles are sufficient to withstand operation, are safe for driving and other work involved in their use, and do not cause harm to passersby or others, and must not thereby impose unjust restrictions on manufacturers or users in the manufacture or use of motor vehicles. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-46/par-1: 第四十条から第四十二条まで → 道路運送車両法 第四十条 (Article 40), art-40 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-40 - art-46/par-1: 第四十条から第四十二条まで → 道路運送車両法 第四十一条 (Article 41), art-41 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-41 - art-46/par-1: 第四十条から第四十二条まで → 道路運送車両法 第四十二条 (Article 42), art-42 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-42 - art-46/par-1: 第四十四条 → 道路運送車両法 第四十四条 (Article 44), art-44 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-44 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-44 - art-46/par-1: 前条 → 道路運送車両法 第四十五条 (Article 45), art-45 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-45 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-45 --- ## 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-20261013T120733-010, 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