①A public safety commission is to conduct the following training, pursuant to Cabinet Office Order:

②Beyond what is set forth in the items of the preceding paragraph, a public safety commission must endeavor to conduct training for the drivers of vehicles in order to improve their vehicle driving skills and knowledge.

③A public safety commission may ask a person that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to handle the training prescribed in item (i), items (iii) through (ix), items (xi) through (xiii), item (xv) or item (xvi) of paragraph (1) or to handle the training as prescribed in the preceding paragraph.

①Promptly after a target novice driver engages in conduct prescribed in Article 100-2, paragraph (1) that comes to meet the criteria that Cabinet Order prescribes which is referred to in the main clause of that paragraph, a public safety commission is to notify the driver, in writing and pursuant to Cabinet Office Order, that the driver may undergo the training set forth in paragraph (1), item (x) of the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as "novice driver training").

②A person who has been notified as referred to in the preceding paragraph may undergo novice driver training only until the time that it has been a total of one month since the day following the date on which the person is so notified (other than any period during which the person has a compelling circumstance that Cabinet Order prescribes for not undergoing the training).

If a person holding a license or person with an International Driving Permit or license engages in conduct that comes to meet the criteria that Cabinet Order prescribes which is referred to in Article 102-2, a public safety commission must promptly notify that person, in writing and pursuant to Cabinet Office Order, that it will conduct the training set forth in Article 108-2, paragraph (1), item (xiii).

A public safety commission must, pursuant to Cabinet Office Order, notify a target young driver in writing, promptly after the person has committed an act, in driving a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle, that violates a provision of this Act, an order under this Act, or a measure under this Act and that act has come to meet the criteria that Cabinet Order prescribes which are referred to in Article 102-3, that the training prescribed in Article 108-2, paragraph (1), item (xiv) (hereinafter referred to as "young driver training") is to be conducted.

①A public safety commission may ask a corporation that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to handle all or part of the administrative processes involved in notifying persons as under Article 108-3, paragraph (1) or the preceding two Articles (referred to as "administrative processes involved in issuing training notices" in the following paragraph).

②It is prohibited for the current or former officer or employee of a corporation that has been asked to handle the administrative processes involved in issuing training notices pursuant to the preceding paragraph to divulge confidential information learned in connection with the processes that it handles.

①If a person has repeatedly engaged in conduct, when driving a specified small motorized bicycle, that violates this Act, an order under this Act, or a measure under this Act, and which Cabinet Order prescribes as likely to cause a road traffic hazard (referred to as "dangerous conduct on a specified small motorized bicycle" in the following Article), and the public safety commission finds that the person's driving of a specified small motorized bicycle is likely to cause further road traffic hazards, it may order the person to undergo the training prescribed in Article 108-2, paragraph (1), item (xv) (referred to as "specified small motorized bicycle rider training" in the following Article) within a period of up to three months that it fixes, pursuant to Cabinet Office Order.

②If a person has repeatedly engaged in conduct, when riding a bicycle, that violates this Act, an order under this Act, or a measure under this Act, and which Cabinet Order prescribes as likely to cause a road traffic hazard (referred to as "dangerous conduct on a bicycle" in the following Article), and the public safety commission finds that the person's bicycle riding is likely to cause further road traffic hazards, it may order the person to undergo the training prescribed in Article 108-2, paragraph (1), item (xvi) (referred to as "bicycle rider training" in the following Article) within a period of up to three months that it fixes, pursuant to Cabinet Office Order.

A public safety commission must report the information that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to the National Public Safety Commission when it has issued an order pursuant to the preceding Article; when the driver of a specified small motorized bicycle has engaged in dangerous conduct on a specified small motorized bicycle or has undergone specified small motorized bicycle rider training; or when a person riding a bicycle has engaged in dangerous conduct on a bicycle or has undergone bicycle rider training. In such a case, the National Public Safety Commission is to notify each public safety commission of the information reported to it in order to ensure propriety in the functions relating to specified small motorized bicycle rider training and bicycle rider training.

①A public safety commission may have the training set forth in one of the following items conducted by a person it designates as one that is found to meet the requirements set forth in the relevant item (hereinafter referred to as a "designated training institution"):

②Designation under the preceding paragraph is conferred at the application of a person seeking to conduct training for persons stripped of driving privileges, novice driver training or young driver training (hereinafter referred to as "specified training").

③A person as referred to in any of the following items may not be designated as under paragraph (1):

④A public safety commission designates a person as under paragraph (1) may choose not to conduct the specified training for which it has designated that person.

①A designated training institution that conducts training for persons stripped of driving privileges or young driver training must not allow a person other than a driving competency instructor to engage in instruction in competent driving.

②A designated training institution that conducts novice driver training must not allow a person other than a driving proficiency instructor to engage in instruction in proficient driving.

③A public safety commission may order a designated training institution to dismiss a driving competency instructor or driving proficiency instructor who engages in a wrongful act in connection with instruction in competent driving or instruction in proficient driving.

①Before starting to implement specified training, a designated training institution must establish regulations for specified training operations (referred to as "regulations for training operations" in the following paragraph) and have them approved by a public safety commission. The same applies if it seeks to change these.

②Rules of the National Public Safety Commission provide for the particulars of what must be specified in the regulations for training operations.

①It is prohibited for the current or former officer (or the person operating the facility, if the designated driving school in question is not a corporation; the same applies in the following paragraph) or employee of a designated training institution to divulge confidential information learned in connection with specified training operations.

②To apply the Penal Code and other penal provisions, the officers and employees of designated training institutions who are engaged in specified training operations are deemed to be employees engaged in public service pursuant to laws and regulations.

①If a public safety commission finds that a designated training institution no longer conforms to a criterion that Article 108-4, paragraph (1) prescribes, it may order the designated training institution to take the necessary measures to conform to that criterion.

②Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding paragraph, on finding it to be necessary to do so in order to ensure the proper and reliable implementation of specified training, a public safety commission may issue orders that are necessary, from a supervisory perspective, with regard to the operations of a designated training institution.

A public safety commission may inspect a designated training institution to see whether it conforms to the criteria prescribed in the items of Article 108-4, paragraph (1) or is being operated in accordance with Article 108-5, paragraph (1) or (2), and may ask it to report as necessary or submit the necessary materials.

A designated training institution must not suspend or discontinue the whole or part of specified training without obtaining permission from a public safety commission.

①A public safety commission must revoke the designation of a designated training institution if it comes to fall under Article 108-4, paragraph (3), item (i), (iii), or (iv).

②A public safety commission may revoke the designation of a designated training institution if it comes to fall under one of the following items:

Beyond what is prescribed in Article 108-4 through the preceding Article, the Rules of the National Public Safety Commission provide for the necessary particulars in connection with designated training institutions.