# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第七十二条 (Article 72) - 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: 第七十二条 (Article 72)（検査記録） — address `art-72` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-72 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-72 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七十二条（検査記録） — Inspection Records caption: machine translation, not official art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-72 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-72 **第一項** 国土交通大臣は、この章に規定する自動車の検査、第六十九条の二第一項及び第三項の規定による届出並びに自動車検査証及び自動車検査証返納証明書の交付、変更記録、返納及び再交付に関する事項を、政令で定めるところにより、電子情報処理組織によつて、自動車登録ファイル（検査対象軽自動車にあつては軽自動車検査ファイル、二輪の小型自動車にあつては二輪自動車検査ファイル）に記録するものとする。 art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-72/par-1 The Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is to record, as prescribed by Cabinet Order, by means of an electronic data processing system, in the motor vehicle registration file (in the case of a light motor vehicle subject to inspection, the light motor vehicle inspection file, and in the case of a two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicle, the two-wheeled motor vehicle inspection file) the inspection of motor vehicles prescribed in this Chapter, the notifications under Article 69-2, paragraphs (1) and (3), and the matters concerning the issuance, record of change, surrender and reissuance of motor vehicle inspection certificates and certificates of surrender of motor vehicle inspection certificate. machine translation, not official **第二項** 軽自動車検査ファイル及び二輪自動車検査ファイルは、国土交通大臣が管理する。 art-72/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-72/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-72/par-2 The light motor vehicle inspection file and the two-wheeled motor vehicle inspection file are to be managed by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-72/par-1: 第六十九条の二第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第六十九条の二第一項 (Article 69-2, paragraph (1)), art-69-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69-2/par-1 - art-72/par-1: 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 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第六十九条の二第五項（解体等又は輸出に係る届出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69-2/par-5 - 道路運送車両法 第六十九条の二第六項（解体等又は輸出に係る届出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69-2/par-6 - 道路運送車両法 第六十九条の三第一項（準用規定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-69-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-69-3/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第七十二条の二第一項（軽自動車検査ファイル等の記録の保存） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-72-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-72-2/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第七十二条の三第一項（証明書の交付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-72-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-72-3/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-20261013T120733-016, 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