# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第四十七条の二 (Article 47-2) - 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: 第四十七条の二 (Article 47-2)（日常点検整備） — address `art-47-2` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-47-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-47-2 - 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. --- ### 第四十七条の二（日常点検整備） — Daily Inspection and Maintenance caption: machine translation, not official art-47-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-47-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-47-2 **第一項** 自動車の使用者は、自動車の走行距離、運行時の状態等から判断した適切な時期に、国土交通省令で定める技術上の基準により、灯火装置の点灯、制動装置の作動その他の日常的に点検すべき事項について、目視等により自動車を点検しなければならない。 art-47-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-47-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-47-2/par-1 A user of a motor vehicle must inspect the motor vehicle by visual observation, etc., at an appropriate time judged from the distance traveled by the motor vehicle, its condition during operation, etc., in accordance with the technical standards prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, with respect to matters to be inspected on a daily basis, such as the lighting of lighting equipment and the functioning of braking equipment. machine translation, not official **第二項** 次条第一項第一号及び第二号に掲げる自動車の使用者又はこれらの自動車を運行する者は、前項の規定にかかわらず、一日一回、その運行の開始前において、同項の規定による点検をしなければならない。 art-47-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-47-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-47-2/par-2 Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, the user of a motor vehicle listed in Article 48, paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii), or a person who operates such a motor vehicle, must carry out the inspection under that paragraph once a day, before the start of its operation. machine translation, not official **第三項** 自動車の使用者は、前二項の規定による点検の結果、当該自動車が保安基準に適合しなくなるおそれがある状態又は適合しない状態にあるときは、保安基準に適合しなくなるおそれをなくするため、又は保安基準に適合させるために当該自動車について必要な整備をしなければならない。 art-47-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-47-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-47-2/par-3 If, as a result of the inspection under the preceding two paragraphs, a motor vehicle is in a condition in which it is likely to cease to conform to the safety standards or does not conform to them, the user of the motor vehicle must carry out the maintenance necessary on that motor vehicle in order to eliminate the likelihood of its ceasing to conform to the safety standards or in order to make it conform to the safety standards. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-47-2/par-2: 次条第一項第一号 → 道路運送車両法 第四十八条第一項第一号 (Article 48, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-48/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-48/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-48/par-1/item-1 - art-47-2/par-2: 第二号 → 道路運送車両法 第四十八条第一項第二号 (Article 48, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-48/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-48/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-48/par-1/item-2 - art-47-2/par-2: 前項 → 道路運送車両法 第四十七条の二第一項 (Article 47-2, paragraph (1)), art-47-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-47-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-47-2/par-1 - art-47-2/par-3: 前二項 → 道路運送車両法 第四十七条の二第一項 (Article 47-2, paragraph (1)), art-47-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-47-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-47-2/par-1 - art-47-2/par-3: 前二項 → 道路運送車両法 第四十七条の二第二項 (Article 47-2, paragraph (2)), art-47-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-47-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-47-2/par-2 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第四十七条の二第二項（日常点検整備） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-47-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-47-2/par-2 - 道路運送車両法 第四十七条の二第三項（日常点検整備） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-47-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-47-2/par-3 - 道路運送車両法 第四十八条第二項（定期点検整備） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-48/par-2 - 道路運送車両法 第四十九条第二項（点検整備記録簿） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-49/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-49/par-2 - 道路運送車両法 第五十七条第一項第一号（自動車の点検及び整備に関する手引） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-57/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-57/par-1/item-1 - 道路運送車両法 第五十七条の二第一項（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-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-57-2/par-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-20261013T120733-011, 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