①A person holding an S-MVL, SM-MVL, S-ML, L-ML, or MBL who, during the period (not counting any period during which the person's license is suspended) running from the date on which the person is licensed until the date that marks the passage of one year, in total, that the person has been licensed (hereinafter referred to as the "period during which the person is a novice driver"), engages in conduct that violates this Act, an order under this Act, or a measure under this Act when driving a vehicle that the person is licensed to drive with that license, and the violation falls under the criteria that Cabinet Order prescribes with respect to the person's license (hereinafter such a person is referred to as "target novice driver"), a public safety commission is to administer testing to check whether the target novice driver has the ability to safely drive vehicles the person is licensed to drive with that license (hereinafter referred to as "retesting"); provided, however, that this does not apply to the following persons:

②Once the period during which a target novice driver is a novice driver driving under the license in question has passed, the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the driver's domicile at the end of that period retests the driver for the necessary skills and knowledge (limited to the necessary knowledge, if it is an MBL) to drive a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle, for each type of license.

③Article 97, paragraphs (2) through (4) apply mutatis mutandis to retesting administered by public safety commissions.

④Before administering retesting pursuant to paragraph (1), a public safety commission must notify the target novice driver in writing that it will administer the retesting, giving the reasons for the retesting and other necessary information, promptly after the end of the period during which the person is a novice driver driving under the license in question, pursuant to Cabinet Office Order.

⑤Having received a notice of retesting from a public safety commission (meaning the notice under the preceding paragraph; the same applies hereinafter), a target novice driver must submit the written application for retesting that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to that public safety commission and undergo retesting before 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 retesting, the period obtained by excluding from that period the period during which those circumstances exist) comes to exceed one month in total. The provisions of Article 95-6, paragraph (3) apply mutatis mutandis in such a case.

①If a public safety commission seeks to administer retesting but the target novice driver has changed addresses and resides within the jurisdictional district of a different public safety commission, it must promptly send a testing transfer notice as Cabinet Office Order prescribes to the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the target novice driver's new domicile.

②A public safety commission that has been sent a testing transfer notice as referred to in the preceding paragraph is to retest the target novice driver subject to the testing transfer notice. This being the case, a public safety commission sending a testing transfer notice as referred to in the preceding paragraph may not retest the target novice driver.

③The provisions of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article and paragraph (1) of this Article apply mutatis mutandis if a public safety commission administers retesting pursuant to the preceding paragraph. In such a case, the phrase "after the end of the period during which the person is a novice driver driving under the license in question" in paragraph (4) of the preceding Article is deemed to be replaced with "after having been sent a testing transfer notice".

④If a public safety commission seeks to implement retesting pursuant to paragraph (2) and the public safety commission sending the testing transfer notice under paragraph (1) has notified the target novice driver subject to the testing transfer notice of the retesting, the public safety commission seeking to implement the retesting pursuant to paragraph (2) is deemed to have notified the driver of the retesting.

①A person seeking to undergo renewal of the valid period of a license or a license information record (hereinafter referred to as a "license or license information record") (hereinafter referred to as "license renewal") must submit a written application for renewal in the format that Cabinet Office Order prescribes (in the case of a person who has been issued a questionnaire under paragraph (4), the written application for renewal and the questionnaire filled out with the necessary information; the same applies in paragraph (5) and Article 101-2-2, paragraphs (1) through (5)) to the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the person's domicile, during the period from one month before the person's most recent birthday prior to the last day of the valid period of that license or license information record up until the last day of that valid period (hereinafter referred to as the "renewal period").

②To apply the preceding paragraph if the birthday of a person seeking license renewal pursuant to that paragraph falls on February 29, in non-leap years, the person's birthday is deemed to fall on February 28.

③A public safety commission is to send a person who currently holds a license a document stating the renewal period and other matters necessary for ensuring the smooth implementation of the administrative work connected with applications for license renewal (including, if the person will fall under a driver with an exemplary record or a driver with a satisfactory record (meaning a driver with a satisfactory record as prescribed in Note 1 (c) of the Table in Article 95-6, paragraph (1); the same applies in Article 101-2-2, paragraph (1)) on the date on which the person undergoes renewal (excluding, in either case, a person subject to a condition attached to the license pursuant to Article 91 who is specified by Cabinet Office Order, and a person who would be a driver with a violation or a short record as prescribed in Note 1 (d) of that Table were it not for the application of Note 4 of that Table), an indication to that effect).

④A public safety commission as prescribed in paragraph (1) (or an intermediate public safety commission as prescribed in Article 101-2-2, paragraph (1), if an application for renewal under paragraph (1) is made through an intermediate public safety commission) may issue a questionnaire in the format that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to a person submitting an application for renewal pursuant to paragraph (1), in order to ask the necessary questions to determine whether the person falls under any of the categories set forth in Article 103, paragraph (1), item (i), (i)-2 or (iii).

⑤Upon receiving a written application for renewal pursuant to paragraph (1), a public safety commission must promptly administer the necessary fitness screening as regards the applicant's driving of motor vehicles or motorized bicycles (hereinafter referred to as "fitness screening").

⑥If a public safety commission, judging from the results of the fitness screening under the preceding paragraph or the results of a fitness screening notified pursuant to Article 101-2-2, paragraph (5) (where a fitness screening has been conducted pursuant to paragraph (7) of that Article, the results of the notified fitness screening and the results of the fitness screening pursuant to that paragraph), finds that there is nothing to prevent the person seeking that license renewal from driving a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle, the public safety commission must carry out that license renewal. In such a case, if the person has made a request under paragraph (3) of that Article, the public safety commission is, except where it has conducted a fitness screening pursuant to paragraph (7) of that Article and in other cases prescribed by Cabinet Office Order, to notify the intermediate public safety commission pertaining to that request (meaning the intermediate public safety commission prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article) that the valid period of the license information record is to be renewed, and have that intermediate public safety commission carry out the rewriting of the license information record under Article 101-4-2, paragraph (3).

⑦A person who holds a license (excluding a license for a provisional license; the same applies in paragraph (5) of the following Article) and an Individual Number Card bearing a license information record may undergo renewal of the valid period of the license, renewal of the valid period of the license information record, or both under the preceding paragraph; provided, however, that a person seeking to undergo both must apply for both at the same time.

⑧Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding paragraphs, Cabinet Office Order provides for the necessary particulars concerning applying for license renewal and fitness screening.

①A person who is expected to have difficulty undergoing fitness screening within the renewal period due to overseas travel or any other compelling circumstance that Cabinet Order prescribes may apply to the public safety commission with jurisdiction over the person's domicile for license renewal before the renewal period. In such a case, the person must submit a written application for renewal based on special rules in a format that Cabinet Office Order prescribes (if a person is issued a questionnaire under the following paragraph, that person must submit the written application for renewal based on special rules and the questionnaire filled out with the necessary information) to the public safety commission.

②A public safety commission as prescribed in the preceding paragraph may issue a questionnaire in the form that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to a person submitting a written application for renewal based on special rules pursuant to the second sentence of that paragraph, in order to ask the necessary questions to determine whether the person falls under any of the categories set forth in Article 103, paragraph (1), item (i), (i)-2 or (iii).

③When an application under paragraph (1) has been filed, the public safety commission must promptly administer a fitness screening for the applicant.

④On finding that there is nothing to prevent a person seeking license renewal from driving a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle, judging from the results of a fitness screening under the preceding paragraph, the public safety commission must promptly carry out that license renewal.

⑤A person who holds a license and an Individual Number Card bearing a license information record may undergo renewal of the valid period of the license, renewal of the valid period of the license information record, or both under the preceding paragraph; provided, however, that a person seeking to undergo both must apply for both at the same time.

⑥Beyond what is prescribed in the preceding paragraphs, Cabinet Office Order provides for the necessary particulars concerning applications for license renewal and fitness screening before the renewal period.