# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第七十四条 (Article 74) - 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: 第七十四条 (Article 74)（自動車検査官） — address `art-74` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-74 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-74 - 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. --- ### 第七十四条（自動車検査官） — Motor Vehicle Inspection Officers caption: machine translation, not official art-74 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-74 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-74 **第一項** 国土交通大臣は、国土交通省の職員のうちから自動車検査官を任命し、この章に規定する自動車（検査対象外軽自動車を含む。）の検査、第五十四条第一項から第三項まで及び第五十四条の二（第三項、第四項及び第七項を除く。）の規定による処分並びに第五十四条第四項（第七十一条の二第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定による勧告に関する事務を執行させるものとする。 art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-74/par-1 The Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is to appoint motor vehicle inspection officers from among the officials of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and have them administer the affairs relating to the inspection of motor vehicles (including light motor vehicles exempt from inspection) prescribed in this Chapter, dispositions under Article 54, paragraphs (1) to (3) and Article 54-2 (excluding paragraphs (3), (4) and (7)), and recommendations under Article 54, paragraph (4) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 71-2, paragraph (2)). machine translation, not official **第二項** 第二十四条第二項の規定は、自動車検査官に準用する。 art-74/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-74/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-74/par-2 Article 24, paragraph (2) applies mutatis mutandis to motor vehicle inspection officers. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-74/par-1: 第五十四条第一項から第三項まで → 道路運送車両法 第五十四条第一項 (Article 54, paragraph (1)), art-54/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-54/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-54/par-1 - art-74/par-1: 第五十四条第一項から第三項まで → 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-74/par-1: 第五十四条第一項から第三項まで → 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-74/par-1: 第五十四条の二 → 道路運送車両法 第五十四条の二 (Article 54-2), art-54-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-54-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-54-2 - art-74/par-1: 第三項 → 道路運送車両法 第五十四条の二第三項 (Article 54-2, paragraph (3)), art-54-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-54-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-54-2/par-3 - art-74/par-1: 第四項 → 道路運送車両法 第五十四条の二第四項 (Article 54-2, paragraph (4)), art-54-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-54-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-54-2/par-4 - art-74/par-1: 第七項 → 道路運送車両法 第五十四条の二第七項 (Article 54-2, paragraph (7)), art-54-2/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-54-2/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-54-2/par-7 - art-74/par-1: 第五十四条第四項 → 道路運送車両法 第五十四条第四項 (Article 54, paragraph (4)), art-54/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-54/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-54/par-4 - art-74/par-1: 第七十一条の二第二項 → 道路運送車両法 第七十一条の二第二項 (Article 71-2, paragraph (2)), art-71-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-71-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-71-2/par-2 - art-74/par-2: 第二十四条第二項 → 道路運送車両法 第二十四条第二項 (Article 24, paragraph (2)), art-24/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-24/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第七十四条の四第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-74-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-74-4/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-20261013T120733-017, 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