# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第九十七条の三 (Article 97-3) - 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: 第九十七条の三 (Article 97-3)（検査対象外軽自動車の使用の届出等） — address `art-97-3` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97-3 - 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. --- ### 第九十七条の三（検査対象外軽自動車の使用の届出等） — Notification of Use of Light Motor Vehicles Exempt from Inspection, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-97-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97-3 **第一項** 検査対象外軽自動車は、その使用者が、その使用の本拠の位置を管轄する地方運輸局長に届け出て、車両番号の指定を受けなければ、これを運行の用に供してはならない。 art-97-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97-3/par-1 A light motor vehicle exempt from inspection must not be put into operation unless its user has notified the Director of the District Transport Bureau having jurisdiction over the location of its base of operations and has been assigned a vehicle number. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第七十三条第一項の規定は、検査対象外軽自動車について準用する。 art-97-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97-3/par-2 The provisions of Article 73, paragraph (1) apply mutatis mutandis to light motor vehicles exempt from inspection. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項において準用する第七十三条第一項の規定により検査対象外軽自動車に表示する車両番号標に関する事項は、国土交通省令で定める。 art-97-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97-3/par-3 Matters concerning the vehicle number plate to be displayed on a light motor vehicle exempt from inspection pursuant to the provisions of Article 73, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis in the preceding paragraph are specified by Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-97-3/par-2: 第七十三条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第七十三条第一項 (Article 73, paragraph (1)), art-73/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-73/par-1 - art-97-3/par-3: 前項 → 道路運送車両法 第九十七条の三第二項 (Article 97-3, paragraph (2)), art-97-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97-3/par-2 - art-97-3/par-3: 第七十三条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第七十三条第一項 (Article 73, paragraph (1)), art-73/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-73/par-1 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-1 - 自動車損害賠償保障法 第九条第一項（自動車損害賠償責任保険証明書の提示） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/automobile-accident-compensation-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/330AC0000000097/art-9/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百八条の三十三第一項（免許の拒否等に関する規定の適用の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-108-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-33/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第九十七条の三第三項（検査対象外軽自動車の使用の届出等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97-3/par-3 - 道路運送車両法 第九十七条の四第二項（自動車重量税の不納付による自動車検査証の不交付等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-97-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-97-4/par-2 - 道路運送車両法 第九十九条の二第一項（不正改造等の禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-99-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-99-2/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第百九条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-109/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-109/par-1/item-1 - 道路運送車両法 第百十条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-110/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-110/par-1/item-1 - 道路運送車両法 第百十条第一項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-110/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-110/par-1/item-6 --- ## 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