# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第九十二条 (Article 92)

- 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: 第九十二条 (Article 92)（改善命令） — address `art-92`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-92
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-92
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### 第九十二条（改善命令） — Order for Improvement
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-92 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-92 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-92</sup>

**第一項**  地方運輸局長は、自動車特定整備事業者の事業場の設備及び従業員が第八十条第一項第一号の規定による基準に適合せず、又はその業務の運営に関し前条の国土交通省令で定める事項を遵守していないと認めるときは、当該自動車特定整備事業者に対し、その設備及び従業員を基準に適合させるため、又はその業務の運営を改善するため必要な措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。
<sup>art-92/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-92/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-92/par-1</sup>
If the Director of a District Transport Bureau finds that the facilities and employees of the place of business of a motor vehicle specified maintenance business operator do not conform to the standards under Article 80, paragraph (1), item (i), or that the operator is not observing the matters prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism referred to in the preceding Article with respect to the operation of its business, the Director may order that motor vehicle specified maintenance business operator to take the measures necessary to bring its facilities and employees into conformity with the standards or to improve the operation of its business.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-92/par-1: 第八十条第一項第一号 → 道路運送車両法 第八十条第一項第一号 (Article 80, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-80/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-80/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-80/par-1/item-1
- art-92/par-1: 前条 → 道路運送車両法 第九十一条の三 (Article 91-3), art-91-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-91-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-91-3

## Cited by

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

- 道路運送車両法 第百九条第一項第十三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-109/par-1/item-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-109/par-1/item-13

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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-20261013T120733-026, 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
