# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第九十八条 (Article 98) - 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: 第九十八条 (Article 98)（不正使用等の禁止） — address `art-98` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-98 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-98 - 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. --- ### 第九十八条（不正使用等の禁止） — Prohibition of Unauthorized Use, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-98 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-98 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-98 **第一項** 何人も、行使の目的をもつて、自動車登録番号標、臨時運行許可番号標、回送運行許可番号標、臨時検査合格標章、検査標章若しくは保安基準適合標章を偽造し、若しくは変造し、又は偽造若しくは変造に係るこれらの物を使用してはならない。 art-98/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-98/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-98/par-1 No person may, for the purpose of use, forge or alter a motor vehicle registration number plate, temporary operation permit number plate, delivery operation permit number plate, extraordinary inspection pass mark, inspection mark or safety standards conformity mark, or use any of these items that has been forged or altered. machine translation, not official **第二項** 何人も、行使の目的をもつて、自動車登録番号標、臨時運行許可番号標、回送運行許可番号標、臨時検査合格標章、検査標章若しくは保安基準適合標章に紛らわしい外観を有する物を製造し、又はこれらの物を使用してはならない。 art-98/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-98/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-98/par-2 No person may, for the purpose of use, manufacture or use any item having an appearance confusingly similar to a motor vehicle registration number plate, temporary operation permit number plate, delivery operation permit number plate, extraordinary inspection pass mark, inspection mark or safety standards conformity mark. machine translation, not official **第三項** 自動車登録番号標、臨時運行許可番号標、回送運行許可番号標、臨時検査合格標章、検査標章又は保安基準適合標章は、当該自動車以外の自動車に使用してはならない。 art-98/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-98/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-98/par-3 A motor vehicle registration number plate, temporary operation permit number plate, delivery operation permit number plate, extraordinary inspection pass mark, inspection mark or safety standards conformity mark must not be used on any motor vehicle other than the relevant motor vehicle. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 第百六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-106/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-106/par-1 - 道路運送車両法 第百六条の五第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-106-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-106-5/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 --- ## 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