Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Transitional Measures for Licenses
第二条（免許等に関する経過措置）
A motorcycle license as referred to in Article 84, paragraph (3) of the Road Traffic Act before its amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act") (hereinafter referred to as a "motorcycle license as referred to in the Former Act") is deemed to be a large motorcycle license as referred to in Article 84, paragraph (3) of the Road Traffic Act after its amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act") (hereinafter referred to as a "large motorcycle license") or a standard motorcycle license as referred to in that paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a "standard motorcycle license"), in accordance with the categories set forth in the following items:
a license other than one set forth in the following item and item (iii):a large motorcycle license;
a license with a restriction attached to it limiting the motorcycles as referred to in Article 3 of the Former Act that a person is permitted to drive pursuant to Article 91 of the Former Act (hereinafter referred to as a "motorcycle as referred to in the Former Act") to those that are equivalent to a standard motorcycle as referred to in Article 3 of the New Act (hereinafter referred to as a "standard motorcycle"):a standard motorcycle license; or
a license deemed to be a motorcycle license as referred to in the Former Act pursuant to Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Road Traffic Act (Act No. 96 of 1965; hereinafter referred to in paragraph (2) of the following Article as the "Amending Act of 1965") held by a person who does not pass the screening prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act before its amendment by Article 11 of the Supplementary Provisions:a standard motorcycle license.
If, as the result of the lifting of a restriction as prescribed in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph on a motorcycle license as referred to in the Former Act, that license is deemed, pursuant to that paragraph, to be a large motorcycle license, the person in question is deemed to have obtained the large motorcycle license on the day the person obtained the motorcycle license as referred to in the Former Act.