# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-3381-149/art-3` - 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-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3381-149/art-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. 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. --- ### 第三条 suppl-3381-149/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3381-149/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3381-149/art-3 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に乗車定員十人以下で車両総重量八トン以上の自家用自動車を使用する者であつて第五十条第一項の規定の改正により新たに五両以上九両以下の自動車の使用の本拠につき整備管理者を選任しなければならなくなつたものは、この法律の施行の日から一年間は、改正後の道路運送車両法（以下「新法」という。）第五十一条第一項各号の一に該当しない者を当該使用の本拠における整備管理者に選任することができる。 suppl-3381-149/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3381-149/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3381-149/art-3/par-1 A person who, at the time this Act comes into effect, is actually using private-use motor vehicles with a seating capacity of 10 persons or less and a gross vehicle weight of eight tons or more, and who has newly become required, owing to the amendment of the provisions of Article 50, paragraph (1), to appoint a maintenance manager for the base of operations of five or more and nine or less motor vehicles, may, for one year from the day this Act comes into effect, appoint a person who does not fall under any one of the items of Article 51, paragraph (1) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act after the amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act") as the maintenance manager at that base of operations. machine translation, not official --- ## 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