Supplementary Provisions, Article 5Transitional Measures Concerning Automobile Tax
第五条（自動車税に関する経過措置）
With regard to automobile tax for fiscal year 1994 imposed on motor vehicles powered by electricity or motor vehicles that exclusively use combustible natural gas as fuel for internal combustion engines, as prescribed in Article 12-3, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Former Act, and automobile tax for fiscal years 1994 and 1995 imposed on methanol-powered motor vehicles prescribed in that paragraph that were acquired before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
motor vehiclemachine translation
「自動車」
A motor vehicle as defined in Article 2, paragraph 2 of the Road Transport Vehicle Act that is an ordinary motor vehicle (普通自動車), or a small motor vehicle (小型自動車) with three or more wheels, as Article 3 of that Act classes them.
Defined inArticle 145, paragraph (1)
the Effective Datemachine translation
「施行日」
1 April 1995, which the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 40 of 1995 call the effective date (施行日).
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
the Former Actmachine translation
「旧法」
This Act as it stood before Act No. 40 of 1995 amended it.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (3)