①Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, a group of students in transit, a funeral procession, or any other procession (hereinafter referred to as a "procession") or group of persons that Cabinet Order prescribes as likely to prevent pedestrians from proceeding must keep to the right edge of the roadway (or, if a roadway has a bicycle path, the part of the right edge of the roadway that is not the bicycle path; the same applies in the following paragraph) when on a road with demarcations between the sidewalk or side strip and the roadway.

②Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, processions other than those that Cabinet Order prescribes as referred to in the preceding paragraph may use the roadway when on a road with demarcations between the sidewalk or side strip and the roadway. In such a case, the procession must keep to the right edge of the roadway.

③In order to prevent a road hazard or on finding that it is it necessary to do so in order to otherwise ensure the safety and fluidity of traffic, a police officer may order the leader of a procession as referred to in paragraph (1) to keep to the left edge of the road or roadway (or, if the roadway has a bicycle path, the part of the left edge of the roadway that is not the bicycle path), specifying the area of the road or roadway for use by the procession.