# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第四十七条 (Article 47) - 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: 第四十七条 (Article 47)（使用者の点検及び整備の義務） — address `art-47` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-47 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-47 - 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. --- ### 第四十七条（使用者の点検及び整備の義務） — Obligation of Users to Inspect and Maintain caption: machine translation, not official art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-47 **第一項** 自動車の使用者は、自動車の点検をし、及び必要に応じ整備をすることにより、当該自動車を保安基準に適合するように維持しなければならない。 art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-47/par-1 A user of a motor vehicle must maintain the motor vehicle so as to conform to the safety standards by inspecting it and carrying out maintenance as necessary. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第五十七条の二第二項（自動車の点検及び整備に関する情報の提供） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-57-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-57-2/par-2 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-transport-vehicle-act-20261013T120733-011, 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