# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第六条 (Article 6)

- 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: 第六条 (Article 6)（自動車登録ファイル等） — address `art-6`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-6
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-6
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### 第六条（自動車登録ファイル等） — Motor Vehicle Registration File, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-6</sup>

**第一項**  自動車の自動車登録ファイルへの登録は、政令で定めるところにより、電子情報処理組織によつて行なう。
<sup>art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-6/par-1</sup>
The registration of a motor vehicle in the motor vehicle registration file is to be carried out by means of an electronic data processing system, as provided by Cabinet Order.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  自動車登録ファイル及び前項の電子情報処理組織は、国土交通大臣が管理する。
<sup>art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-6/par-2</sup>
The motor vehicle registration file and the electronic data processing system referred to in the preceding paragraph are managed by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-6/par-2: 前項 → 道路運送車両法 第六条第一項 (Article 6, paragraph (1)), art-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-6/par-1

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 道路運送車両法 第六条第二項（自動車登録ファイル等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-6/par-2
- 道路運送車両法 第十七条第一項（届出記録） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-17/par-1

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## 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-20261013T120733-001, 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
