# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第七十六条の二 (Article 76-2)

- 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: 第七十六条の二 (Article 76-2)（目的） — address `art-76-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-76-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-76-2
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- Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below.

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### 第七十六条の二（目的） — Purpose
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-76-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-76-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-76-2</sup>

  **第一項**  軽自動車検査協会は、軽自動車の安全性を確保し、及び軽自動車による公害の防止その他の環境の保全を図るため軽自動車の検査事務を行い、併せてこれに関連する事務を行うことを目的とする。
  <sup>art-76-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-76-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-76-2/par-1</sup>
  The purpose of the Light Motor Vehicle Inspection Organization is to conduct light motor vehicle inspection work, and also to conduct affairs related thereto, in order to ensure the safety of light motor vehicles and to achieve prevention of pollution by light motor vehicles and other conservation of the environment.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

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

- 道路運送車両法 第七十六条の二十七第一項（業務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-76-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-76-27/par-1
- 道路運送車両法 第七十六条の二十七第一項第六号（業務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-76-27/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-76-27/par-1/item-6

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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-20261013T120733-020, 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
