# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第六十二条 (Article 62) - 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: 第六十二条 (Article 62)（継続検査） — address `art-62` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-62 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-62 - 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. --- ### 第六十二条（継続検査） — Continuing Inspection caption: machine translation, not official art-62 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-62 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-62 **第一項** 登録自動車又は車両番号の指定を受けた検査対象軽自動車若しくは二輪の小型自動車の使用者は、自動車検査証の有効期間の満了後も当該自動車を使用しようとするときは、当該自動車を提示して、国土交通大臣の行う継続検査を受けなければならない。この場合において、当該自動車の使用者は、当該自動車検査証を国土交通大臣に提出しなければならない。 art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-62/par-1 The user of a registered motor vehicle, or of a light motor vehicle subject to inspection or two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle that has been designated a vehicle number, who intends to continue using that motor vehicle after the validity period of the motor vehicle inspection certificate expires must present that motor vehicle and undergo the continuing inspection conducted by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. In this case, the user of that motor vehicle must submit that motor vehicle inspection certificate to the Minister. machine translation, not official **第二項** 国土交通大臣は、継続検査の結果、当該自動車が保安基準に適合すると認めるときは、当該自動車検査証に有効期間を記録して、これを当該自動車の使用者に返付し、当該自動車が保安基準に適合しないと認めるときは、当該自動車検査証を当該自動車の使用者に返付しないものとする。 art-62/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-62/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-62/par-2 When the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism finds as a result of the continuing inspection that the motor vehicle conforms to the safety standards, the Minister is to record the validity period on that motor vehicle inspection certificate and return it to the user of that motor vehicle, and when the Minister finds that the motor vehicle does not conform to the safety standards, the Minister is not to return that motor vehicle inspection certificate to the user of that motor vehicle. machine translation, not official **第三項** 第五十九条第三項の規定は、継続検査について準用する。 art-62/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-62/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-62/par-3 The provisions of Article 59, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis to continuing inspection. machine translation, not official **第四項** 次条第二項の規定により臨時検査を受けるべき自動車については、臨時検査を受けていなければ、継続検査を受けることができない。 art-62/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-62/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-62/par-4 A motor vehicle that is to undergo an extraordinary inspection pursuant to paragraph (2) of the following Article cannot undergo a continuing inspection unless it has undergone the extraordinary inspection. machine translation, not official **第五項** 自動車の使用者は、継続検査を申請しようとする場合において、第六十七条第一項の規定による自動車検査証の変更記録の申請をすべき事由があるときは、あらかじめ、その申請をしなければならない。 art-62/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-62/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-62/par-5 When a user of a motor vehicle intends to apply for a continuing inspection, and there are grounds for applying for a record of change of the motor vehicle inspection certificate under Article 67, paragraph (1), the user must apply for it in advance. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-62/par-3: 第五十九条第三項 → 道路運送車両法 第五十九条第三項 (Article 59, paragraph (3)), art-59/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-59/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-59/par-3 - art-62/par-4: 次条第二項 → 道路運送車両法 第六十三条第二項 (Article 63, paragraph (2)), art-63/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-63/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-63/par-2 - art-62/par-5: 第六十七条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第六十七条第一項 (Article 67, paragraph (1)), art-67/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-67/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-67/par-1 ## Cited by 16 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第九条第一項（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-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-9/par-1 - 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 - 道路運送車両法 第六十一条第三項（自動車検査証の有効期間） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-61/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-61/par-3 - 道路運送車両法 第六十三条第三項（臨時検査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-63/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-63/par-3 - 道路運送車両法 第六十六条第二項第二号（自動車検査証の備付け等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-66/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-66/par-2/item-2 - 道路運送車両法 第六十七条第四項（自動車検査証記録事項の変更及び構造等変更検査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-67/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-67/par-4 - 道路運送車両法 第七十一条第五項（予備検査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-71/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-71/par-5 - 道路運送車両法 第七十一条第七項（予備検査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-71/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-71/par-7 - 道路運送車両法 第七十四条の五第一項（継続検査に係る自動車検査証への記録等に関する事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-74-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-74-5/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第七十四条の五第二項第一号（継続検査に係る自動車検査証への記録等に関する事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-74-5/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-74-5/par-2/item-1 - 道路運送車両法 第九十四条の五第八項（保安基準適合証等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-94-5/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-94-5/par-8 - 道路運送車両法 第九十四条の五の二第四項（限定保安基準適合証） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-94-5-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-94-5-2/par-4 - 道路運送車両法 第九十七条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97-2/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第九十七条の四第一項（自動車重量税の不納付による自動車検査証の不交付等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97-4/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第百七条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-107/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-107/par-1/item-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