# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第五十七条の二 (Article 57-2) - 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: 第五十七条の二 (Article 57-2)（自動車の点検及び整備に関する情報の提供） — address `art-57-2` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-57-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-57-2 - 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. --- ### 第五十七条の二（自動車の点検及び整備に関する情報の提供） — Provision of Information on Inspection and Maintenance of Motor Vehicles caption: machine translation, not official art-57-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-57-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-57-2 **第一項** 自動車の製作を業とする者又は外国において本邦に輸出される自動車を製作することを業とする者から当該自動車を購入する契約を締結している者であつて当該自動車を輸入することを業とするもの（以下「自動車製作者等」という。）は、国土交通省令で定めるところにより、その製作する自動車で本邦において運行されるもの又はその輸入する自動車について、第七十八条第四項に規定する自動車特定整備事業者又は当該自動車の使用者が点検及び整備（第四十七条の二及び第四十八条の規定によるものを除く。次項において同じ。）をするに当たつて必要となる当該自動車の型式に固有の技術上の情報であつて国土交通省令で定めるものをこれらの者に提供しなければならない。 art-57-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-57-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-57-2/par-1 A person engaged in the business of manufacturing motor vehicles, or a person who has concluded a contract to purchase motor vehicles to be exported to Japan from a person engaged in the business of manufacturing such motor vehicles in a foreign country and is engaged in the business of importing those motor vehicles (hereinafter referred to as "motor vehicle manufacturer, etc."), must, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, with respect to the motor vehicles that it manufactures to be put into operation in Japan or the motor vehicles that it imports, provide to a motor vehicle specified maintenance business operator prescribed in Article 78, paragraph (4) or the user of such a motor vehicle the technical information specific to the model of that motor vehicle, specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, that becomes necessary when they carry out inspection and maintenance (excluding that under Article 47-2 and Article 48; the same applies in the following paragraph). machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項に定めるもののほか、自動車製作者等は、その製作する自動車で本邦において運行されるもの又はその輸入する自動車について、当該自動車の使用者が第四十七条の規定による点検及び整備をするに当たつて必要となる技術上の情報であつて国土交通省令で定めるものを当該自動車の使用者に提供するよう努めなければならない。 art-57-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-57-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-57-2/par-2 In addition to what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, a motor vehicle manufacturer, etc. must endeavor to provide to the user of a motor vehicle, with respect to the motor vehicles that it manufactures to be put into operation in Japan or the motor vehicles that it imports, the technical information, specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, that becomes necessary when the user of that motor vehicle carries out inspection and maintenance under Article 47. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-57-2/par-1: 第七十八条第四項 → 道路運送車両法 第七十八条第四項 (Article 78, paragraph (4)), art-78/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-78/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-78/par-4 - art-57-2/par-1: 第四十七条の二 → 道路運送車両法 第四十七条の二 (Article 47-2), art-47-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-47-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-47-2 - art-57-2/par-1: 第四十八条 → 道路運送車両法 第四十八条 (Article 48), art-48 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-48 - art-57-2/par-1: 次項 → 道路運送車両法 第五十七条の二第二項 (Article 57-2, paragraph (2)), art-57-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-57-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-57-2/par-2 - art-57-2/par-2: 前項 → 道路運送車両法 第五十七条の二第一項 (Article 57-2, paragraph (1)), art-57-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-57-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-57-2/par-1 - art-57-2/par-2: 第四十七条 → 道路運送車両法 第四十七条 (Article 47), art-47 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-47 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 - 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 - 道路運送車両法 第百九条第一項第八号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-109/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-109/par-1/item-8 --- ## 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-20261013T120733-012, translated 2026-10-13 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-transport-vehicle-act-20261013T124808-001, 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