Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Transitional Measures
第二条（経過措置）
With regard to a light motor vehicle subject to inspection for which a notification of use under Article 97-3, paragraph (1) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act prior to the amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act") is actually in place at the time this Act comes into effect, depending on the period from the day on which a notification of use was first made for that light motor vehicle subject to inspection to the day this Act comes into effect, until the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding two years from the day this Act comes into effect, it is not necessary to receive an inspection under the provisions of Chapter V of the Road Transport Vehicle Act after the amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act"), to keep on board the motor vehicle inspection certificate under Article 66, paragraph (1) of the New Act and display an inspection mark, or to display the vehicle number plate and vehicle number under Article 73, paragraph (1) of the New Act; provided, however, that this does not apply after a motor vehicle inspection certificate has been issued pursuant to the provisions of Article 60, paragraph (1) of the New Act.
この法律の施行の際現にこの法律による改正前の道路運送車両法（以下「旧法」という。）第九十七条の三第一項の規定による使用の届出をしている検査対象軽自動車については、当該検査対象軽自動車について最初に使用の届出があつた日からこの法律の施行の日までの期間に応じ、この法律の施行の日から起算して二年をこえない範囲内において政令で定める日まで、この法律による改正後の道路運送車両法（以下「新法」という。）第五章の規定による検査を受け、新法第六十六条第一項の規定による自動車検査証を備え付け、及び検査標章を表示し、並びに新法第七十三条第一項の規定による車両番号標及び車両番号を表示することを要しない。ただし、新法第六十条第一項の規定により自動車検査証の交付を受けた後においては、この限りでない。
With regard to a light motor vehicle subject to inspection that, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, does not display a vehicle number plate under Article 73, paragraph (1) of the New Act, the provisions of Article 97-3 of the New Act (including the penal provisions for violations of the provisions of that Article) apply, deeming that motor vehicle to be a light motor vehicle exempt from inspection.
In the case where the user of a light motor vehicle subject to inspection prescribed in paragraph (1) intends to receive a new inspection under Article 59 of the New Act on or before the date specified by Cabinet Order referred to in that paragraph, and has submitted a safety standards conformity certificate for that light motor vehicle subject to inspection, that light motor vehicle subject to inspection is deemed, for the application of that Article, to have been presented to the Minister of Transport (or to the Organization, where the provisions of Article 74-3 of the New Act apply) and to conform to the safety standards.
The Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (or the Organization, where the provisions of Article 74-3 of the New Act apply) may, for the time being, with regard to light motor vehicles subject to inspection, as provided by Cabinet Order, keep a light motor vehicle inspection record book and record in it the particulars prescribed in Article 72, paragraph (1) of the New Act.
The Minister of Transport may, even before this Act comes into effect, designate light motor vehicles subject to inspection by their model in the same manner as provided in Article 75, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Former Act. In this case, the provisions of paragraphs (3) and (4) of that Article, Articles 100, 102 and 103 of the Former Act, and Article 112, paragraph (2) of the New Act are to apply.
運輸大臣は、この法律の施行前においても、旧法第七十五条第一項及び第二項の規定の例により検査対象軽自動車をその型式について指定することができるものとする。この場合には、同条第三項及び第四項、旧法第百条、第百二条及び第百三条並びに新法第百十二条第二項の規定の適用があるものとする。