# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第五十八条 (Article 58) - 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: 第五十八条 (Article 58)（自動車の検査及び自動車検査証） — address `art-58` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-58 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-58 - 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. --- ### 第五十八条（自動車の検査及び自動車検査証） — Inspection of Motor Vehicles and Motor Vehicle Inspection Certificates caption: machine translation, not official art-58 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-58 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-58 **第一項** 自動車（国土交通省令で定める軽自動車（以下「検査対象外軽自動車」という。）及び小型特殊自動車を除く。以下この章において同じ。）は、この章に定めるところにより、国土交通大臣の行う検査を受け、有効な自動車検査証の交付を受けているものでなければ、これを運行の用に供してはならない。 art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-58/par-1 A motor vehicle (excluding a light motor vehicle specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (hereinafter referred to as "light motor vehicle exempt from inspection") and a special small motor vehicle; the same applies hereinafter in this Chapter) must not be used for operation unless it has undergone the inspection conducted by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism as prescribed in this Chapter and has been issued a valid motor vehicle inspection certificate. machine translation, not official **第二項** 自動車検査証は、車台番号、使用者の氏名又は名称その他国土交通省令で定める事項が記載され、かつ、これらの事項、有効期間その他国土交通省令で定める事項（以下「自動車検査証記録事項」という。）が電子的方法、磁気的方法その他の人の知覚によつては認識することができない方法により記録されたカードとする。 art-58/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-58/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-58/par-2 A motor vehicle inspection certificate is a card on which the chassis number, the name of the user and other particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism are stated, and on which these particulars, the validity period and other particulars specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (hereinafter referred to as "particulars recorded on the motor vehicle inspection certificate") are recorded by an electronic method, a magnetic method or any other method that cannot be recognized by human perception. machine translation, not official **第三項** 自動車検査証は、特定の自動車を識別して行う事務を処理する国の行政機関、地方公共団体、民間事業者その他の者であつて国土交通省令で定めるものが、国土交通省令で定めるところにより、自動車検査証の自動車検査証記録事項が記録された部分と区分された部分に、当該事務を処理するために必要な事項を記録して利用することができる。この場合において、これらの者は、自動車検査証記録事項の漏えい、滅失又は毀損の防止その他の自動車検査証記録事項の安全管理を図るため必要なものとして国土交通大臣が定める基準に従つて自動車検査証を取り扱わなければならない。 art-58/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-58/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-58/par-3 A national administrative organ, local government, private business operator or other person that handles affairs performed by identifying specific motor vehicles and is specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism may, as prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, record the particulars necessary for handling those affairs in the part of a motor vehicle inspection certificate that is separate from the part in which the particulars recorded on the motor vehicle inspection certificate are recorded, and use it. In this case, those persons must handle the motor vehicle inspection certificate in accordance with the standards established by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism as necessary to ensure the secure management of the particulars recorded on the motor vehicle inspection certificate, such as preventing their leakage, loss or damage. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 15 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第九条第五項（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-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-9/par-5 - 道路交通法 第五十一条の七第一項（放置違反金等の納付等を証する書面の提示） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-51-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-7/par-1 - 道路交通法 第七十五条の十二第三項（特定自動運行の許可） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-75-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-75-12/par-3 - 道路交通法 第百八条の三十三第一項（免許の拒否等に関する規定の適用の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-108-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-33/par-1 - 道路交通法 附則第二条第一項（調整規定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-5041-32/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5041-32/art-2/par-1 - 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 第七十一条の二第四項（限定自動車検査証等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-71-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-71-2/par-4 - 道路運送車両法 第九十四条の五第十一項（保安基準適合証等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-94-5/par-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-94-5/par-11 - 道路運送車両法 第九十九条の二第一項（不正改造等の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-99-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-99-2/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 - 道路運送車両法 附則第五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-5011-14/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-5011-14/art-5/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 附則第六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-5011-14/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-5011-14/art-6/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 附則第六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-5011-14/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-5011-14/art-6/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-20261013T120733-013, 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