# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第百八条 (Article 108) - 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: 第百八条 (Article 108)（免許関係事務の委託） — address `art-108` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-108 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百八条（免許関係事務の委託） — (Asking Others to Handle Administrative Processes Involved in Licensing) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-108 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-108 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108 **第一項** 公安委員会は、政令で定めるところにより、この章に規定する免許に関する事務（免許の拒否及び保留、免許の条件の付与及び変更、運転免許試験及び適性検査の結果の判定並びに免許の取消し及び効力の停止に係る事務その他の政令で定める事務を除く。次項において「免許関係事務」という。）の全部又は一部を内閣府令で定める法人に委託することができる。 art-108/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-108/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108/par-1 A public safety commission, pursuant to Cabinet Order, may ask a corporation that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to handle all or part of the administrative processes involved in licensing as prescribed in this Chapter (other than administrative processes involved in denying and withholding licenses, adding and changing license conditions, deciding the results of driver's license tests and fitness screenings, revoking and suspending licenses, and other processes that Cabinet Order prescribes; referred to as "licensing processes" in the following paragraph). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により免許関係事務の委託を受けた法人の役員若しくは職員又はこれらの職にあつた者は、当該委託に係る免許関係事務に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。 art-108/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-108/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108/par-2 It is prohibited for a current or former officer or employee of a corporation that has been asked to handle licensing processes pursuant to the preceding paragraph to divulge confidential information learned in connection with the licensing processes that it handles. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-108/par-1: 次項 → 道路交通法 第百八条第二項 (Article 108, paragraph (2)), art-108/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-108/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108/par-2 - art-108/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第百八条第一項 (Article 108, paragraph (1)), art-108/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-108/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第百八条第一項（免許関係事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-108/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百八条第二項（免許関係事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-108/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108/par-2 - 道路交通法 第百十七条の四第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-117-4/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-117-4/par-1/item-1 --- ## 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