# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第九十六条の十八 (Article 96-18) - 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: 第九十六条の十八 (Article 96-18)（登録の更新） — address `art-96-18` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-96-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-96-18 - 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. --- ### 第九十六条の十八（登録の更新） — Renewal of Registration caption: machine translation, not official art-96-18 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-96-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-96-18 **第一項** 登録は、五年以上十年以内において政令で定める期間ごとにその更新を受けなければ、その期間の経過によつて、その効力を失う。 art-96-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-96-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-96-18/par-1 A registration loses its effect upon the expiration of the period unless it is renewed for each period specified by Cabinet Order within a range of not less than five years and not more than ten years. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前三条の規定は、前項の登録の更新について準用する。 art-96-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-96-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-96-18/par-2 The provisions of the preceding three Articles apply mutatis mutandis to the renewal of a registration referred to in the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-96-18/par-2: 前三条 → 道路運送車両法 第九十六条の十五 (Article 96-15), art-96-15 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-96-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-96-15 - art-96-18/par-2: 前三条 → 道路運送車両法 第九十六条の十六 (Article 96-16), art-96-16 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-96-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-96-16 - art-96-18/par-2: 前三条 → 道路運送車両法 第九十六条の十七 (Article 96-17), art-96-17 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-96-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-96-17 - art-96-18/par-2: 前項 → 道路運送車両法 第九十六条の十八第一項 (Article 96-18, paragraph (1)), art-96-18/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-96-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-96-18/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第九十六条の十八第二項（登録の更新） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-96-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-96-18/par-2 --- ## 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-20261013T120733-031, 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