Article 101-7Special Cognitive Assessments; Other Measures

①If a person 75 years of age or older (but only one who currently holds a license) engages in conduct, in connection with driving a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle, that violates a provision of this Act, a provision of an order under this Act, or a disposition based on a provision of this Act and that Cabinet Order prescribes as conduct readily occurring when cognitive function has declined, a public safety commission is to specially conduct a cognitive assessment for the person, except where the person has undergone a cognitive assessment or equivalent examination pursuant to Article 97-2, paragraph (1), item (iii) or (v), Article 101-4, paragraph (2), or paragraph (3) of this Article on or after the day three months before the day on which the person engaged in that conduct and in any other case that Cabinet Office Order prescribes as one in which the person need not undergo a special cognitive assessment.

②When seeking to administer a cognitive assessment pursuant to the preceding paragraph, a public safety commission must notify the person subject to the cognitive assessment in writing that it will administer a cognitive assessment, pursuant to Cabinet Office Order.

③A person who has received notice under the preceding paragraph must undergo a cognitive assessment or equivalent examination by the time the period counted from the day following the date on which the person received the notice (for a person who has a compelling reason that Cabinet Order prescribes for not undergoing a cognitive assessment or equivalent examination, the period obtained by excluding from that period the period during which those circumstances exist) comes to exceed one month in total.

④If a person who has undergone a cognitive assessment or equivalent examination pursuant to the preceding paragraph falls under the criteria that Cabinet Office Order prescribes as indicating a possibility that a decline in cognitive function will affect the person's driving of a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle, taking into account the results of that cognitive assessment or equivalent examination, the results of the cognitive assessment or equivalent examination that the person underwent most recently before the date on which the person underwent that cognitive assessment or equivalent examination, and other circumstances, a public safety commission is to conduct the training set forth in Article 108-2, paragraph (1), item (xii) for the person.

⑤When seeking to administer training as set forth in Article 108-2, paragraph (1), item (xii) pursuant to the preceding paragraph, a public safety commission must notify the person subject to the training in writing that it will administer that training, pursuant to Cabinet Office Order.