# 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)（経過措置） — address `suppl-4161-55/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-4161-55/art-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4161-55/art-2
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### 第二条（経過措置） — Transitional Measures
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4161-55/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4161-55/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4161-55/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行前に第一条の規定による改正前の道路運送車両法（以下「旧道路運送車両法」という。）第三十三条第一項の規定により自動車（国土交通省令で定めるものを除く。）の譲受人に譲渡証明書を交付した者が、政令で定めるところにより、第一条の規定による改正後の道路運送車両法（以下「新道路運送車両法」という。）第七条第一項の申請に係る当該自動車の譲受人の承諾を得て、当該譲渡証明書に記載されていた事項を電磁的方法により登録情報処理機関に提供したときは、新道路運送車両法第三十三条第四項の規定により同項に規定する事項の提供がされたものとみなす。
<sup>suppl-4161-55/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4161-55/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4161-55/art-2/par-1</sup>
If a person who, before the enforcement of this Act, delivered a certificate of transfer to the transferee of a motor vehicle (excluding those specified by an Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) pursuant to the provisions of Article 33, paragraph (1) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Road Transport Vehicle Act") has, as provided by Cabinet Order, with the consent of the transferee of that motor vehicle regarding the application under Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Road Transport Vehicle Act"), provided the matters stated in that certificate of transfer to a registered information processing body by electronic or magnetic means, the provision of the matters prescribed in Article 33, paragraph (4) of the New Road Transport Vehicle Act is deemed to have been made pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  前項の場合においては、当該自動車の譲受人は、当該譲渡証明書を交付した者にこれを返却しなければならない。
<sup>suppl-4161-55/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4161-55/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4161-55/art-2/par-2</sup>
In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the transferee of the motor vehicle must return that certificate of transfer to the person who delivered it.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4161-55/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-4161-55/art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4161-55/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4161-55/art-2/par-1

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 道路運送車両法 附則第二条第二項（経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4161-55/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4161-55/art-2/par-2
- 道路運送車両法 附則第八条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4161-55/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4161-55/art-8/par-1

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## 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-20261013T120733-045, 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
