# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第百条の三 (Article 100-3) - Law: 道路交通法 (Road Traffic Act), 昭和三十五年法律第百五号 - English title "Road Traffic Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百条の三 (Article 100-3) — address `art-100-3` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-100-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-100-3 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百条の三 art-100-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-100-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-100-3 **第一項** 公安委員会は、再試験を行おうとする場合において、基準該当初心運転者がその住所を他の公安委員会の管轄区域内に変更していたときは、速やかに現にその者の住所地を管轄する公安委員会に内閣府令で定める試験移送通知書を送付しなければならない。 art-100-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-100-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-100-3/par-1 If 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. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の試験移送通知書が当該公安委員会に送付されたときは、当該公安委員会は、当該試験移送通知書に係る基準該当初心運転者に対し、再試験を行うものとする。この場合において、前項の試験移送通知書を送付した公安委員会は、当該基準該当初心運転者に対し、再試験を行うことができない。 art-100-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-100-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-100-3/par-2 A 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. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 前条第四項及び第一項の規定は、公安委員会が前項の規定により再試験を行おうとする場合について準用する。この場合において、同条第四項中「基準該当初心運転者の当該免許に係る初心運転者期間が経過した後」とあるのは、「試験移送通知書の送付を受けた後」と読み替えるものとする。 art-100-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-100-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-100-3/par-3 The 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". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 公安委員会が第二項の規定により再試験を行おうとする場合において、第一項の試験移送通知書を送付した公安委員会が当該試験移送通知書に係る基準該当初心運転者に再試験の通知をしているときは、当該通知は、第二項の規定により再試験を行おうとする公安委員会がした再試験の通知とみなす。 art-100-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-100-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-100-3/par-4 If 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. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-100-3/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第百条の三第一項 (Article 100-3, paragraph (1)), art-100-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-100-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-100-3/par-1 - art-100-3/par-3: 前条第四項 → 道路交通法 第百条の二第四項 (Article 100-2, paragraph (4)), art-100-2/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-100-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-100-2/par-4 - art-100-3/par-3: 第一項 → 道路交通法 第百条の三第一項 (Article 100-3, paragraph (1)), art-100-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-100-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-100-3/par-1 - art-100-3/par-3: 前項 → 道路交通法 第百条の三第二項 (Article 100-3, paragraph (2)), art-100-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-100-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-100-3/par-2 - art-100-3/par-4: 第二項 → 道路交通法 第百条の三第二項 (Article 100-3, paragraph (2)), art-100-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-100-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-100-3/par-2 - art-100-3/par-4: 第一項 → 道路交通法 第百条の三第一項 (Article 100-3, paragraph (1)), art-100-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-100-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-100-3/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第百条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-100-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-100-3/par-2 - 道路交通法 第百条の三第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-100-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-100-3/par-3 - 道路交通法 第百条の三第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-100-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-100-3/par-4 - 道路交通法 附則第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4011-90/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4011-90/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 道路交通法 — the text in force from 2026-07-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000105/20260721_508AC0000000052), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Road Traffic Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13