Supplementary Provisions, Article 16Special Grants for Traffic Safety Measures
第十六条（交通安全対策特別交付金）
Until otherwise prescribed by law, as a part of traffic safety measures, the national government issues special grants for traffic safety measures to prefectures and municipalities (including special wards; the same applies hereinafter) in order to cover the necessary costs of establishing and managing the road traffic safety facilities that Cabinet Order prescribes (hereinafter referred to as "grants").
国は、当分の間、交通安全対策の一環として、道路交通安全施設の設置及び管理に要する費用で政令で定めるものに充てるため、都道府県及び市町村（特別区を含む。以下同じ。）に対し、交通安全対策特別交付金（以下「交付金」という。）を交付する。
The amount of the grants is the amount equivalent to income from penalties paid pursuant to Article 128, paragraph (1) (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 130-2, paragraph (3); the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) (this includes provisional payments as under Article 129, paragraph (1) which are deemed to constitute penalty payments pursuant to Article 129, paragraph (3); referred to hereinafter in this Article and in Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions as "penalties and equivalent payments") plus the amount equivalent to the interest arising from investment of the surplus derived from that income (referred to in Article 18, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions as "income and interest from penalties"), less the sum total of the amounts set forth in the following items:
the amount equivalent to the monies refunded under Article 129, paragraph (4);
第百二十九条第四項の規定による返還金に相当する額
the amount calculated pursuant to Cabinet Order as being equivalent to income used to cover the necessary costs for sending notices of findings as prescribed in the second sentence of Article 127, paragraph (1) (these costs are referred to as "costs for sending notices of findings" in item (ii)-b of the following paragraph and in Article 19 of the Supplementary Provisions) (an amount so calculated is hereinafter referred to as an "amount equivalent to monies expended for sending notices of findings"); and
the amount equivalent to penalties and equivalent payments refunded due to excessive or erroneous payment.
過誤納に係る反則金等の返還金に相当する額
the amount equivalent to income and interest from penalties constituting revenue for the period running from February of the preceding year to January of the relevant year, less the sum of the amounts set forth in (a) through (c):
前年度の二月から当該年度の一月までの期間の収納に係る反則金収入相当額等からイからハまでに掲げる額の合算額を控除した額
the amount equivalent to the monies refunded under Article 129, paragraph (4) for the period running from February of the preceding year to January of the relevant year;
前年度の二月から当該年度の一月までの期間に係る第百二十九条第四項の規定による返還金に相当する額
the amount equivalent to monies expended for sending notices of findings for the period from February of the preceding year to January of the relevant year;
前年度の二月から当該年度の一月までの期間に係る通告書送付費支出金相当額
the amount equivalent to penalties and equivalent payments refunded due to excessive or erroneous payment for the period from February of the preceding year to January of the relevant year. and
前年度の二月から当該年度の一月までの期間に係る過誤納に係る反則金等の返還金に相当する額
the amount equivalent to estimated income from penalties and equivalent payments constituting revenue from February of the preceding year to January of the relevant year, plus the amount equivalent to interest arising from investment of the surplus derived from that income, less the sum of the amounts set forth in (a) through (c):
前年度の二月から当該年度の一月までの期間の収納に係る反則金等の収入見込額に当該額に係る余裕金の運用により生じた利子に相当する金額を加えた額からイからハまでに掲げる額の合算額を控除した額
the estimated amount of monies refunded pursuant to Article 129, paragraph (4) for the period from February of the preceding year to January of the relevant year;
前年度の二月から当該年度の一月までの期間に係る第百二十九条第四項の規定による返還金の見込額
the estimated amount of expenditures for costs to send notices of findings for the period from February of the preceding year to January of the relevant year;
前年度の二月から当該年度の一月までの期間に係る通告書送付費に係る支出見込額
the estimated amount of penalties and equivalent payments to be refunded due to excessive or erroneous payment for the period from February of the preceding year to January of the relevant year;
前年度の二月から当該年度の一月までの期間に係る過誤納に係る反則金等の返還金の見込額