A person who falls under any of the items of Article 88, paragraph (1) may not take a driver's license test for a class 1 license; provided, however, that, in the case of the driver's license test for an SM-MVL or an S-MVL, a person 17 years and six months of age or older (excluding a person who falls under any of items (ii) to (iv) of that paragraph) may also take it.
第八十八条第一項各号のいずれかに該当する者は、第一種免許の運転免許試験を受けることができない。ただし、準中型免許及び普通免許の運転免許試験にあつては、十七歳六か月以上の者（同項第二号から第四号までのいずれかに該当する者を除く。）も受けることができる。
A person seeking to take a driver's license test for an L-MVL (other than persons that Cabinet Order prescribes) must currently hold an S-MVL, SM-MVL, M-MVL, or SL-MVL, and must have held any one of those licenses for at least three years (or one year, for persons that have completed the instruction that Cabinet Order prescribes) in total (not counting any period during which the person's license was suspended).
A person seeking to take a driver's license test for an M-MVL (other than persons that Cabinet Order prescribes) must currently hold an S-MVL, SM-MVL, or SL-MVL, and must have held any one of those licenses for at least two years (or one year, for persons that have completed the instruction that Cabinet Order prescribes) in total (not counting any period during which the person's license was suspended).
A person may not take a driver's license test for a towing license unless that person currently holds an S-MVL, M-MVL, SM-MVL, L-MVL, SL-MVL, class 2 S-MVL, class 2 M-MVL, class 2 L-MVL, or class 2 SL-MVL.
A person other than as referred to in one of the following items may not take a driver's license test for a class 2 license:
第二種免許の運転免許試験は、次の各号のいずれかに該当する者でなければ、受けることができない。
a person 21 years of age (or 19 years of age, for a person who has completed the instruction that Cabinet Order prescribes (excluding a person whose license obtained under the special exception has been revoked pursuant to Article 104-2-4, paragraph (1) or (2) and any other person that Cabinet Order prescribes)) or older who currently holds an S-MVL, SM-MVL, M-MVL, L-MVL, or SL-MVL and has held any one of those licenses for at least three years (or two years, for persons that have the experience that Cabinet Order prescribes, or one year, for persons that have completed the instruction that Cabinet Order prescribes) in total (not counting any period during which the person's license was suspended), if the test is for a class 2 license other than a class 2 towing license;
a person 21 years of age or older (19 years of age or older, for a person who has completed the training that Cabinet Order prescribes (excluding a person whose license obtained under the special exception has been revoked pursuant to Article 104-2-4, paragraph (1) or (2) and any other person that Cabinet Order prescribes)) who currently holds an L-MVL, M-MVL, SM-MVL, S-MVL, or SL-MVL and also a towing license, and who has held any one of those licenses for a total of three years (two years, for a person with the experience that Cabinet Order prescribes, or one year, for a person who has completed the training that Cabinet Order prescribes) or more (not counting any period during which the license was suspended), in the case of the driver's license test for a class 2 towing license; or
a person currently holding a different type of class 2 license from the type of class 2 license that the person is seeking.
その者が受けようとする第二種免許の種類と異なる種類の第二種免許を現に受けている者
A person whose license is under suspension pursuant to Article 90, paragraph (5), Article 103, paragraph (1) or (4), Article 103-2, paragraph (1), Article 104-2-3, paragraph (1), or Article 103, paragraph (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (3) or (5) of that Article and persons that Cabinet Order prescribes as equivalent thereto are not included in the meaning of a person currently holding a license as prescribed in paragraphs (2) through (4) and in the items of the preceding paragraph.
A person prescribed in Article 88, paragraph (2) may not take the driver's license test for a provisional license.