# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) - 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（経過規定） — address `suppl-3381-149/art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3381-149/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3381-149/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（経過規定） — Interim Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3381-149/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3381-149/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3381-149/art-2 **第一項** この法律の施行前に改正前の道路運送車両法（以下「旧法」という。）第十四条第一項の規定により申請された登録換えについては、なお従前の例による。 suppl-3381-149/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3381-149/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3381-149/art-2/par-1 With regard to a re-registration applied for pursuant to the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (1) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act prior to the amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act") before this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により閉鎖した自動車登録原簿は、その閉鎖の日から五年間保存しなければならない。 suppl-3381-149/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3381-149/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3381-149/art-2/par-2 The motor vehicle registration ledger closed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must be retained for five years from the date of its closure. machine translation, not official **第三項** この法律の施行前に旧法第十四条第七項の規定により閉鎖した自動車登録原簿の保存については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-3381-149/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3381-149/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3381-149/art-2/par-3 With regard to the retention of a motor vehicle registration ledger closed pursuant to the provisions of Article 14, paragraph (7) of the Former Act before this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3381-149/art-2/par-2: 前項 → 道路運送車両法 附則第二条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)), suppl-3381-149/art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3381-149/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3381-149/art-2/par-1 ## 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（経過規定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3381-149/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3381-149/art-2/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-20261013T120733-038, 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