# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第百九条の二 (Article 109-2) - 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: 第百九条の二 (Article 109-2)（交通情報の提供） — address `art-109-2` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-109-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-2 - 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. --- ### 第百九条の二（交通情報の提供） — (Providing Drivers with Traffic Information) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-109-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-109-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-2 **第一項** 公安委員会は、内閣府令で定めるところにより、車両の運転者に対し、車両の通行に必要な情報（以下この条及び次条において「交通情報」という。）を提供するように努めなければならない。 art-109-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-109-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-2/par-1 A public safety commission must endeavor to provide drivers of vehicles with the information they need to travel the road with their vehicles (hereinafter referred to in this Article and the following Article as "traffic information"), pursuant to Cabinet Office Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 公安委員会は、内閣府令で定める者に交通情報の提供に係る事務を委託することができる。 art-109-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-109-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-2/par-2 A public safety commission may ask a person that Cabinet Office Order prescribes to handle the administrative functions involved in providing drivers with traffic information. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 国家公安委員会は、交通情報を提供する事業を行う者が正確かつ適切に交通情報を提供することができるようにするため、交通情報の提供に関する指針を作成し、これを公表するものとする。 art-109-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-109-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-2/par-3 The National Public Safety Commission must create and publicize guidelines for providing drivers with traffic information in order to ensure that persons carrying out operations to provide drivers with traffic information are able to provide traffic information accurately and appropriately. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 交通情報を提供する事業（公安委員会及び第二項の規定による委託を受けた者が行うもの並びに道路法による道路の管理者が道路の維持、修繕その他の管理のため行うものを除く。次条第一項において同じ。）を行う者は、前項の交通情報の提供に関する指針に従い正確かつ適切に交通情報を提供することにより、道路における危険の防止その他交通の安全と円滑に資するように配慮しなければならない。 art-109-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-109-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-2/par-4 A person carrying out operations to provide drivers with traffic information (other than what a public safety commission or a person asked to handle administrative functions under paragraph (2) carries out, and other than what the manager of a road under the Road Act carries out for the maintenance, repair, or other management of the road; the same applies in paragraph (1) of the following Article) must take care to prevent road hazards and to otherwise contribute to the safety and fluidity of traffic by providing traffic information accurately and appropriately in accordance with the guidelines for providing drivers with traffic information that are referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-109-2/par-1: この条 → 道路交通法 第百九条の二 (Article 109-2), art-109-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-109-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-2 - art-109-2/par-1: 次条 → 道路交通法 第百九条の三 (Article 109-3), art-109-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-109-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-3 - art-109-2/par-4: 第二項 → 道路交通法 第百九条の二第二項 (Article 109-2, paragraph (2)), art-109-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-109-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-2/par-2 - art-109-2/par-4: 次条第一項 → 道路交通法 第百九条の三第一項 (Article 109-3, paragraph (1)), art-109-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-109-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-3/par-1 - art-109-2/par-4: 前項 → 道路交通法 第百九条の二第三項 (Article 109-2, paragraph (3)), art-109-2/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-109-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-2/par-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第百九条の二第一項（交通情報の提供） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-109-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-2/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百九条の二第四項（交通情報の提供） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-109-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-2/par-4 --- ## 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