Article 108-28Establishment of Traffic Safety Education Guidelines and Rules of the Road
第百八条の二十八(交通安全教育指針及び交通の方法に関する教則の作成)
The National Public Safety Commission must create and publicize guidelines for traffic safety education consisting of the following points (hereinafter referred to as "traffic safety education guidelines") in order to enable persons (other than public safety commissions) that are involved in traffic safety education for persons using the road to provide effective and appropriate traffic safety education, as well for use as the basis for the traffic safety education referred to in the preceding Article that public safety commissions provide:
the details and methods of traffic safety education for providing persons with opportunities to acquire skills and knowledge about correct traffic rules, including the skills and knowledge necessary for the safe driving of motor vehicles and motorized bicycles;
the details and methods of traffic safety education for providing persons with opportunities to acquire knowledge about traffic accident prevention; and
交通事故防止に関する知識を習得する機会を提供するための交通安全教育の内容及び方法
the necessary information beyond what is set forth in the preceding two items for effectively and appropriately implementing traffic safety education for persons using the road.
Traffic safety education guidelines must be created with consideration to enabling persons using the road to gain a greater willingness to acquire, of their own accord, skills and knowledge about correct traffic rules and traffic accident prevention through learning opportunities involving traffic safety education, as well as with consideration to enabling them to gradually and systematically gain such skills and knowledge in keeping with their ages; the ways in which they use the road; and the business activities of those of them using the road in the course of business.
The National Public Safety Commission must endeavor to cooperate closely with the heads of relevant administrative organs in creating the traffic safety education guidelines pursuant to paragraph (1).
The National Public Safety Commission must create and publicize rules of the road consisting of the following points, in order to enable persons using the road to easily understand correct traffic rules:
国家公安委員会は、道路を通行する者が適正な交通の方法を容易に理解することができるようにするため、次に掲げる事項を内容とする教則を作成し、これを公表するものとする。
points that the commission wants persons using the road to strictly observe in order to prevent road hazards and ensure the safety and fluidity of road traffic or to prevent problems arising from road traffic; and
道路における危険を防止し、その他交通の安全と円滑を図り、又は道路の交通に起因する障害を防止するため、道路を通行する者が励行することが望ましい事項
motor vehicle structure and other knowledge necessary for driving motor vehicles and motorized bicycles, beyond what is set forth in the preceding two items.
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Traffic Safety Education by Public Safety Commissions
A public safety commission must endeavor to provide residents with traffic safety education in order to deepen their understanding of correct traffic rules and traffic accident prevention.
公安委員会は、適正な交通の方法及び交通事故防止について住民の理解を深めるため、住民に対する交通安全教育を行うように努めなければならない。
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The National Public Safety Commission must create and publicize guidelines for traffic safety education consisting of the following points…
国家公安委員会は、道路を通行する者に対する交通安全教育を行う者(公安委員会を除く。)が効果的かつ適切な交通安全教育を行うことができるようにし、及び公安委員会が行う前条の交通安全教育の基準とするため、次に掲げる事項を内容とする交通安全教育に関する指針(以下「交通安全教育指針」という。)を作成し、これを公表するものとする。
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the details and methods of traffic safety education for providing persons with opportunities to acquire skills and knowledge about correct traffic rules…
自動車及び原動機付自転車の安全な運転に必要な技能及び知識その他の適正な交通の方法に関する技能及び知識を習得する機会を提供するための交通安全教育の内容及び方法
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the details and methods of traffic safety education for providing persons with opportunities to acquire knowledge about traffic accident prevention; and
交通事故防止に関する知識を習得する機会を提供するための交通安全教育の内容及び方法
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road traffic rules prescribed by laws and regulations;
法令で定める道路の交通の方法
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points that the commission wants persons using the road to strictly observe in order to prevent road hazards and ensure the safety and fluidity of road traffic or to prevent problems arising from…
道路における危険を防止し、その他交通の安全と円滑を図り、又は道路の交通に起因する障害を防止するため、道路を通行する者が励行することが望ましい事項
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「道路」
A road as defined in the Road Act, a motor vehicle road (自動車道) as defined in the Road Transportation Act, and any other place used for general traffic.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
motor vehiclemachine translation
「自動車」
A vehicle that runs on a motor without rails or overhead wires, or that carries out specified automated operation (特定自動運行), other than motorized bicycles (原動機付自転車), light road vehicles (軽車両), small mobility vehicles (移動用小型車), vehicles for persons with physical disabilities (身体障害者用の車), remotely operated small vehicles (遠隔操作型小型車), and walking-aid carts, prams and other small vehicles used while walking that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies (歩行補助車等).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ix)· applies throughout the law
motorized bicyclemachine translation
「原動機付自転車」
A vehicle that runs on an engine or motor without rails or overhead wires and either has an engine or motor no larger in total displacement or rated output than a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) sets, or meets a Cabinet Office Order's standard for a vehicle whose size and structure will not obstruct other vehicles on a bicycle path and which needs no great skill to drive, other than light vehicles (軽車両), small mobility vehicles (移動用小型車), vehicles for persons with physical disabilities, remotely operated small vehicles (遠隔操作型小型車) and walking-aid vehicles (歩行補助車等).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (x)· applies throughout the law
drivingmachine translation
「運転」
Using a vehicle or streetcar on a road as it is meant to be used, including moving a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle by pedals or other human-powered gear it has besides its motor, but not specified automated operation (特定自動運行).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xvii)· applies throughout the law
public safety commissionmachine translation
「公安委員会」
A prefectural public safety commission (都道府県公安委員会), the body in each prefecture that manages its police and that this Act empowers to regulate road traffic and to grant driving licenses.
Short name set inArticle 4, paragraph (1)
traffic safety education guidelines
「交通安全教育指針」
Guidelines that the National Public Safety Commission (国家公安委員会) draws up and publishes on the content and methods of traffic safety education for road users, so that those who give it can do so effectively and the public safety commissions (公安委員会) have a standard for their own.
Short name set inArticle 108-28, paragraph (1)
National Public Safety Commission
国家公安委員会
A commission placed under the Prime Minister's jurisdiction by the Police Act (警察法) (Police Act, Article 4, paragraph (1)), made up of a chairperson, who is a Minister of State (国務大臣), and five members (Article 4, paragraph (2), and Article 6, paragraph (1)). The Prime Minister appoints the members, with the consent of both Houses of the Diet, from people who have not been career public officials doing police or prosecution work in the five years before their appointment; where that consent cannot be obtained because the Diet is closed or the House of Representatives dissolved, the Prime Minister may appoint first and seek both Houses' approval afterwards (Article 7, paragraphs (1) to (3)). The National Police Agency (警察庁) is placed under it, and it administers that Agency in the matters Article 5, paragraph (4) lists (Article 5, paragraph (4), and Article 15). Where an Act, a Cabinet Order (政令) or an Order of the Cabinet Office (内閣府令) specially delegates a matter to it, it may make National Public Safety Commission Rules (国家公安委員会規則) (Article 12). Under the Secondhand Goods Business Act, it sets the standard a secondhand goods auction intermediary's methods must meet to be certified as helping prevent the sale of stolen goods and find them quickly, and it receives reports from the prefectural Public Safety Commissions (Secondhand Goods Business Act, Article 21-5, paragraph (1), and Article 27, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Police Act, Arts. 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 15 and Secondhand Goods Business Act, Arts. 21-5, 27 as a reference.