If a licensee comes to fall under one of the following items when driving a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle, the competent police station chief for the place where the licensee caused the traffic accident in question may suspend the licensee's license for up to 30 days, starting from the date of the traffic accident (hereinafter referred to in this Article as a "provisional suspension"):
having caused a traffic accident in which a person is killed or injured, the licensee commits a violation referred to in Article 117, paragraph (1) or (2);
the licensee commits a violation referred to in Article 117-2, paragraph (1), item (i), (iii) or (iv), Article 117-2-2, paragraph (1), item (i), (iii) or (vii), Article 117-4, paragraph (1), item (ii), or Article 118, paragraph (1), item (v), thereby causing a traffic accident in which a person is killed or injured; or
第百十七条の二第一項第一号、第三号若しくは第四号、第百十七条の二の二第一項第一号、第三号若しくは第七号、第百十七条の四第一項第二号又は第百十八条第一項第五号の違反行為をし、よつて交通事故を起こして人を死亡させ、又は傷つけたとき。
the licensee commits a violation referred to in Article 118, paragraph (1), item (i) or paragraph (2), item (i), or Article 119, paragraph (1), items (i) through (vi), item (xv), or item (xx), or paragraph (2), item (i) or (ii), thereby causing a traffic accident in which a person is killed.
第百十八条第一項第一号若しくは第二項第一号又は第百十九条第一項第一号から第六号まで、第十五号若しくは第二十号若しくは第二項第一号若しくは第二号の違反行為をし、よつて交通事故を起こして人を死亡させたとき。
Having provisionally suspended a person's license, the chief of a police station must provide the person subject to that measure with an opportunity for explanation within five days, counting from the date on which the measure was taken.
警察署長は、仮停止をしたときは、当該処分をした日から起算して五日以内に、当該処分を受けた者に対し弁明の機会を与えなければならない。
When a person who has a license is subject to a provisional suspension, the person must submit the license to the chief of the police station who made that disposition.
When a person who has an Individual Number Card bearing a license information record is subject to a provisional suspension, the person must present the Individual Number Card bearing a license information record to the chief of the police station who made that disposition and undergo the deletion of the license information record.
免許情報記録個人番号カードを有する者が仮停止を受けたときは、免許情報記録個人番号カードを当該処分をした警察署長に提示して免許情報記録の抹消を受けなければならない。
The chief of the police station who has made a provisional suspension must promptly send a provisional suspension notice as Cabinet Office Order prescribes (in the case where a license has been submitted pursuant to paragraph (3), that provisional suspension notice and that license; the same applies in the following paragraph and paragraph (7)) to the public safety commission that had jurisdiction over the domicile of the person subject to that disposition at the time that the person came to fall under any of the items of paragraph (1).
A public safety commission that has been sent a provisional suspension notice as referred to in the preceding paragraph must also send the provisional suspension notice that it has been sent if it sends a transfer of measures notice in connection with the case pursuant to paragraph (3) of the preceding Article (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (5) of that Article).
A provisional suspension ceases to be in effect if the public safety commission that has been sent the provisional suspension notice pursuant to the preceding two paragraphs takes a disposition under paragraph (1), (2), or (4) of the preceding Article in connection with the case within the period of that provisional suspension.
If the license of a person under a provisional suspension is suspended pursuant to paragraph (1) or (4) of the preceding Article in connection with the matter at issue, the period during which the license was provisionally suspended is counted as part of the total period during which the license is suspended.