# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第七十七条 (Article 77)

- 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: 第七十七条 (Article 77)（自動車特定整備事業の種類） — address `art-77`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-77
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-77
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### 第七十七条（自動車特定整備事業の種類） — Types of Motor Vehicle Specified Maintenance Business
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-77 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-77</sup>

**第一項**  自動車特定整備事業（自動車（検査対象外軽自動車及び小型特殊自動車を除く。）の特定整備を行う事業をいう。以下同じ。）の種類は、次に掲げるものとする。
<sup>art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-77/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-77/par-1</sup>
The types of motor vehicle specified maintenance business (meaning a business that performs specified maintenance of motor vehicles (excluding light motor vehicles exempt from inspection and special small motor vehicles); the same applies hereinafter) are to be as follows:
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **一**  普通自動車特定整備事業（普通自動車、四輪の小型自動車及び大型特殊自動車を対象とする自動車特定整備事業をいう。）
  <sup>art-77/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-77/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-77/par-1/item-1</sup>
  standard-sized motor vehicle specified maintenance business (meaning a motor vehicle specified maintenance business covering standard-sized motor vehicles, four-wheeled small-sized motor vehicles and large special motor vehicles);
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **二**  小型自動車特定整備事業（小型自動車及び検査対象軽自動車を対象とする自動車特定整備事業をいう。）
  <sup>art-77/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-77/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-77/par-1/item-2</sup>
  small-sized motor vehicle specified maintenance business (meaning a motor vehicle specified maintenance business covering small-sized motor vehicles and light motor vehicles subject to inspection);
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **三**  軽自動車特定整備事業（検査対象軽自動車を対象とする自動車特定整備事業をいう。）
  <sup>art-77/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-77/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-77/par-1/item-3</sup>
  light motor vehicle specified maintenance business (meaning a motor vehicle specified maintenance business covering light motor vehicles subject to inspection).
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 道路運送車両法 附則第二条第二項（第二条の規定による改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-5011-14/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-5011-14/art-2/par-2

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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-20261013T120733-024, translated 2026-10-13
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-transport-vehicle-act-20261013T124808-001, 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