# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第六十九条 (Article 69) - 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: 第六十九条 (Article 69)（自動車検査証の返納等） — address `art-69` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69 - 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. --- ### 第六十九条（自動車検査証の返納等） — Surrender of Motor Vehicle Inspection Certificates, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-69 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69 **第一項** 自動車の使用者は、当該自動車について次に掲げる事由があつたときは、その事由があつた日（当該事由が使用済自動車の解体である場合にあつては、解体報告記録がなされたことを知つた日）から十五日以内に、当該自動車検査証を国土交通大臣に返納しなければならない。 art-69/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69/par-1 When any of the following grounds has arisen with respect to a motor vehicle, the user of the motor vehicle must surrender the motor vehicle inspection certificate to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism within 15 days from the day on which the ground arose (where the ground is the dismantling of an end-of-life automobile, the day on which the user learned that a dismantling report record had been made): machine translation, not official **一** 当該自動車が滅失し、解体し（整備又は改造のために解体する場合を除く。）、又は自動車の用途を廃止したとき。 art-69/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69/par-1/item-1 when the motor vehicle has been destroyed, dismantled (excluding where it is dismantled for maintenance or modification), or its use as a motor vehicle has been abolished; machine translation, not official **二** 当該自動車の車台が当該自動車の新規登録の際（検査対象軽自動車及び二輪の小型自動車にあつては、車両番号の指定の際）存したものでなくなつたとき。 art-69/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69/par-1/item-2 when the chassis of the motor vehicle has ceased to be the one that existed at the time of the new registration of the motor vehicle (in the case of a light motor vehicle subject to inspection or a two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle, at the time of the designation of the vehicle number); machine translation, not official **三** 当該自動車について第十五条の二第一項の申請に基づく輸出抹消仮登録又は第十六条第一項の申請に基づく一時抹消登録があつたとき。 art-69/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69/par-1/item-3 when provisional cancellation of registration for export based on an application under Article 15-2, paragraph (1), or temporary cancellation of registration based on an application under Article 16, paragraph (1), has been made with respect to the motor vehicle; machine translation, not official **四** 当該自動車について次条第三項の規定による届出に基づく輸出予定届出証明書の交付がされたとき。 art-69/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69/par-1/item-4 when a certificate of notification of scheduled export has been issued with respect to the motor vehicle based on a notification under paragraph (3) of the following Article. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第五十四条第二項又は第五十四条の二第六項の規定により自動車の使用の停止を命ぜられた者は、遅滞なく、当該自動車検査証を国土交通大臣に返納しなければならない。 art-69/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69/par-2 A person who has been ordered to suspend the use of a motor vehicle pursuant to Article 54, paragraph (2) or Article 54-2, paragraph (6) must, without delay, surrender the motor vehicle inspection certificate to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. machine translation, not official **第三項** 国土交通大臣は、第五十四条第三項の規定により使用の停止の取消をしたとき又は第五十四条の二第六項の規定による自動車の使用の停止の期間が満了し、かつ、当該自動車が保安基準に適合するに至つたときは、返納を受けた自動車検査証を返付しなければならない。 art-69/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69/par-3 When the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has revoked the suspension of use pursuant to Article 54, paragraph (3), or when the period of suspension of use of a motor vehicle under Article 54-2, paragraph (6) has expired and the motor vehicle has come to conform to the safety standards, the Minister must return the surrendered motor vehicle inspection certificate. machine translation, not official **第四項** 車両番号の指定を受けた検査対象軽自動車又は二輪の小型自動車の使用者は、当該自動車を運行の用に供することをやめたときは、当該自動車検査証を国土交通大臣に返納して自動車検査証返納証明書の交付を受けることができる。 art-69/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69/par-4 The user of a light motor vehicle subject to inspection or a two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle for which a vehicle number has been designated may, when the user has ceased to use the motor vehicle for operation, surrender the motor vehicle inspection certificate to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and receive the issuance of a certificate of surrender of motor vehicle inspection certificate. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-69/par-1/item-3: 第十五条の二第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第十五条の二第一項 (Article 15-2, paragraph (1)), art-15-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-15-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-15-2/par-1 - art-69/par-1/item-3: 第十六条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-16/par-1 - art-69/par-1/item-4: 次条第三項 → 道路運送車両法 第六十九条の二第三項 (Article 69-2, paragraph (3)), art-69-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69-2/par-3 - art-69/par-2: 第五十四条第二項 → 道路運送車両法 第五十四条第二項 (Article 54, paragraph (2)), art-54/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-54/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-54/par-2 - art-69/par-2: 第五十四条の二第六項 → 道路運送車両法 第五十四条の二第六項 (Article 54-2, paragraph (6)), art-54-2/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-54-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-54-2/par-6 - art-69/par-3: 第五十四条第三項 → 道路運送車両法 第五十四条第三項 (Article 54, paragraph (3)), art-54/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-54/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-54/par-3 - art-69/par-3: 第五十四条の二第六項 → 道路運送車両法 第五十四条の二第六項 (Article 54-2, paragraph (6)), art-54-2/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-54-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-54-2/par-6 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第二十条第二項（自動車登録番号標の廃棄等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-20/par-2 - 道路運送車両法 第二十条第三項（自動車登録番号標の廃棄等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-20/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-20/par-3 - 道路運送車両法 第六十九条の二第一項（解体等又は輸出に係る届出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69-2/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第七十一条の二第一項（限定自動車検査証等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-71-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-71-2/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第九十四条の五第一項（保安基準適合証等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-94-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-94-5/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第九十四条の五第五項（保安基準適合証等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-94-5/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-94-5/par-5 - 道路運送車両法 第九十四条の五第七項（保安基準適合証等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-94-5/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-94-5/par-7 - 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 第百十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-112/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-112/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-20261013T120733-015, 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