①Irrespective of the category of proceedings for hearing statements of opinion under Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Administrative Procedure Act, a public safety commission seeking to suspend a license for 90 days or more pursuant to Article 103, paragraph (1) or (4) (other than in connection with what is provided in paragraph (1), item (v) of that Article) must hold a hearing.

②To hold a hearing as referred to in the preceding paragraph, a hearing on the revocation of a license under Article 103, paragraph (1) or (4) (but only in connection with what is provided in the items of paragraph (1) of that Article (other than item (v))), or a hearing on the revocation of a license under paragraph (2) or (4) of that Article (but only in connection with what is provided in paragraph (2), item (v) of that Article), a public safety commission must notify the relevant person as referred to in Article 15, paragraph (1) of the Administrative Procedure Act and issue public notice of the date and place of the hearing, at least one week prior to the date of the hearing.

③If a person is notified as referred to in the preceding paragraph in the way that Article 15, paragraph (3) of the Administrative Procedure Act prescribes, the reasonable period of time that is to be set aside before the hearing date pursuant to paragraph (1) of that Article must not be less than two weeks.

④The proceedings on the hearing date referred to in paragraph (2) must be open to the public.

⑤On finding it to be necessary to do so on the date of a hearing as referred to in paragraph (2), the person presiding over the hearing may request the appearance of witnesses with expert knowledge about road traffic or persons connected with the matter at issue to hear their opinions or circumstances.

①A public safety commission administering retesting must revoke the license of the person undergoing retesting if it finds that the person does not currently have the level of ability necessary to safely drive the vehicles that the person is licensed to drive with the license in question.

②If a person notified of retesting violates Article 100-2, paragraph (5) in failing to undergo retesting, the public safety commission with jurisdiction over that person's domicile must revoke that person's license.

③If a public safety commission seeks to revoke a license pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph but the person subject to that measure has changed addresses and resides in the jurisdictional district of a different public safety commission, it must promptly send a transfer of measures notice as prescribed by Cabinet Office Order to the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the person's new domicile, unless a hearing of opinions regarding that measure as referred to in Article 104 as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (6) has been completed.

④A public safety commission that has been sent a transfer of measures notice as referred to in the preceding paragraph must revoke a person's license if it finds the person to be in violation of Article 100-2, paragraph (5) in failing to undergo retesting. Notwithstanding paragraph (2), the public safety commission sending the transfer of measures notice may not revoke the person's license in such a case.

⑤The provisions of paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis if a public safety commission seeks to revoke a license pursuant to the preceding paragraph.

⑥Article 104 (excluding paragraph (3)) applies mutatis mutandis when a license is revoked pursuant to paragraph (2) or (4).

⑦If, at the time a person's license is revoked pursuant to paragraph (1), (2), or (4), the person's address is within the jurisdictional district of a public safety commission other than the one taking those measures, the public safety commission taking the measures must promptly notify the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the person's domicile that it has done so.

①If a public safety commission conducts a fitness screening pursuant to Article 102, paragraphs (1) through (4) or issues an order under those provisions, and the person required to undergo that fitness screening (limited to a person who has obtained a license) or the person who has received that order and is to submit a medical certificate (limited to a person who has obtained a license) causes a traffic accident by driving a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle and, judging from the circumstances of that traffic accident, is found to be suspected of falling under any of Article 103, paragraph (1), item (i), (i)-2, or (iii), or in any other situation that Cabinet Order prescribes as equivalent to this, the public safety commission may suspend the validity of the person's license for a period that it fixes, not exceeding three months. In such a case, if it becomes clear that the person subject to that disposition does not fall under those provisions, the public safety commission must promptly lift the disposition.

②Having suspended a person's license pursuant to the first sentence of preceding paragraph, a public safety commission 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.

③If a public safety commission finds that a person who has received a notice under Article 101-7, paragraph (2) (limited to a person who has obtained a license) has failed, in violation of paragraph (3) of that Article, to undergo the cognitive assessment or equivalent examination pertaining to the notice; finds that a person who has received a notice under paragraph (5) of that Article (limited to a person who has obtained a license) has failed, in violation of paragraph (6) of that Article, to undergo the training pertaining to the notice; finds that a person who has received an order under Article 102, paragraphs (1) through (4) (limited to a person who has obtained a license) has violated the order (for a person who has had the validity of the license suspended pursuant to the first sentence of paragraph (1), finds that the person has failed to comply with the order by the end of the period of that suspension); or finds that a person who has received a notice under paragraph (6) of that Article (limited to a person who has obtained a license) has failed, in violation of paragraph (7) of that Article, to undergo the fitness screening pertaining to the notice (for a person who has had the validity of the license suspended pursuant to the first sentence of paragraph (1), finds that the person has not undergone the fitness screening by the end of the period of that suspension), the public safety commission that has jurisdiction over the person's domicile as of the day on which the period prescribed in Article 101-7, paragraph (3) or (6) reaches one month in total, as of the day on which the deadline prescribed in Article 102, paragraphs (1) through (4) expires, or as of the date notified under paragraph (7) of that Article may, in accordance with the standards that Cabinet Order prescribes, revoke the person's license or suspend its validity for a period that it fixes, not exceeding six months; provided, however, that this does not apply if there is a compelling reason for the person's failure to undergo the cognitive assessment or equivalent examination, failure to undergo the training, failure to comply with the order, or failure to undergo the fitness screening.

④A suspension of a license under the preceding paragraph ceases to be in effect if the person undergoes that cognitive assessment or equivalent examination, undergoes that training, complies with that order, or undergoes that fitness screening.

⑤The provisions of Article 103, paragraphs (3), (4), and (9) apply mutatis mutandis where a public safety commission seeks to revoke a license pursuant to paragraph (3), or to suspend the validity of a license for 90 days (or, where the public safety commission has fixed a different period within a range not exceeding 90 days, that period; the same applies in paragraph (7)) or more. In such a case, the phrase "a hearing of opinions as referred to in Article 104, paragraph (1) or a hearing" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "a hearing"; the phrase "if the person falls under any of the items of paragraph (1) (if the person who falls under item (v) of that paragraph is a person to whom Article 102-2 applies, only after the period referred to in that Article has elapsed without the person undergoing the training prescribed in that Article), in accordance with the standards that Cabinet Order prescribes as referred to in that paragraph" in paragraph (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "on finding that the person has failed to undergo a cognitive assessment or equivalent examination pertaining to the notice in violation of Article 101-7, paragraph (3), has failed to undergo the training pertaining to the notice in violation of paragraph (6) of that Article, has violated an order under Article 102, paragraphs (1) through (4), or has failed to undergo a fitness screening pertaining to the notice in violation of paragraph (7) of that Article, in accordance with the standards that Cabinet Order prescribes as referred to in Article 104-2-3, paragraph (3)"; the phrase ", and may revoke the person's license if the person falls under any of the items of paragraph (2)" in that paragraph is deemed to be deleted; the phrase "paragraph (1) or (2)" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "that paragraph"; and the phrase "paragraph (1), (2), or (4)" in paragraph (9) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 104-2-3, paragraph (3) or paragraph (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (5) of that Article".

⑥Paragraph (4) applies mutatis mutandis if a license is suspended pursuant to Article 103, paragraph (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph.

⑦Article 104-2 (other than paragraph (5)) applies mutatis mutandis if a public safety commission seeks to revoke a license or suspend it for 90 days or more pursuant to paragraph (3) or Article 103, paragraph (4) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (5).

⑧Article 103, paragraph (3) applies mutatis mutandis if a public safety commission seeks to revoke or suspend a license pursuant to paragraph (4) of that Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (5). In such a case, the phrase "unless a hearing of opinions as referred to in Article 104, paragraph (1) or a hearing" in paragraph (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "unless a hearing".

①If a person who has received a notice under Article 108-3-3 is found to have failed to undergo training in violation of Article 102-3, the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the person's domicile must revoke the license obtained under the special exception that the person holds (excluding the M-MVL, for a person who had reached 20 years of age at the time when the person committed an act in violation of a provision of this Act, a provision of an order under this Act, or a disposition based on a provision of this Act in connection with driving a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle and the act came to fall under the standards that Cabinet Order prescribes in that Article).

②If a person who has completed the training set forth in Article 108-2, paragraph (1), item (xiv) has, after completing that training and before the period during which the person is a young driver elapses, committed an act in violation of a provision of this Act, a provision of an order under this Act, or a disposition based on a provision of this Act in connection with driving a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle, and the act has come to fall under the standards that Cabinet Order prescribes, the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the person's domicile must revoke the license obtained under the special exception that the person holds (excluding the M-MVL, for a person who had reached 20 years of age at the time when the act came to fall under those standards).

③If a public safety commission seeks to revoke a license obtained under the special exception pursuant to the preceding two paragraphs, but the person subject to that disposition has changed addresses and resides in the jurisdictional district of a different public safety commission, it must promptly send a transfer of measures notice as Cabinet Office Order prescribes to the public safety commission that currently has jurisdiction over the person's domicile, unless a hearing of opinions regarding that disposition as referred to in Article 104 as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the main clause of paragraph (6) has been completed.

④A public safety commission that has been sent a transfer of measures notice as referred to in the preceding paragraph must revoke the license obtained under the special exception that the person holds (excluding the M-MVL, for a person who had reached 20 years of age at the time referred to in paragraph (1) or (2)) if it finds that a person who has received a notice under Article 108-3-3 has failed to undergo training in violation of Article 102-3, or if a person who has completed the training set forth in Article 108-2, paragraph (1), item (xiv) has, after completing that training and before the period during which the person is a young driver elapses, committed an act in violation of a provision of this Act, a provision of an order under this Act, or a disposition based on a provision of this Act in connection with driving a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle, and the act has come to fall under the standards that Cabinet Order prescribes in paragraph (2). In such a case, the public safety commission that sent the transfer of measures notice may not, notwithstanding paragraph (1) or (2), revoke the person's license obtained under the special exception.

⑤The provisions of paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis where a public safety commission seeks to revoke a license obtained under the special exception pursuant to the preceding paragraph.

⑥The provisions of Article 104 apply mutatis mutandis where a license obtained under the special exception is revoked pursuant to paragraph (1), (2), or (4); provided, however, that Article 104, paragraph (3) does not apply mutatis mutandis where a license obtained under the special exception is revoked pursuant to paragraph (1) or paragraph (4) (limited to the part pertaining to the case where a person who has received a notice under Article 108-3-3 is found to have failed to undergo training in violation of Article 102-3).

⑦If, at the time a person's license obtained under the special exception is revoked pursuant to paragraph (1), (2), or (4), the person's address is within the jurisdictional district of a public safety commission other than the one that took the measures, the public safety commission that took the measures must promptly notify the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the person's domicile that it has done so.