# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第百十条 (Article 110) - 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: 第百十条 (Article 110)（国家公安委員会の指示権） — address `art-110` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-110 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-110 - 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. --- ### 第百十条（国家公安委員会の指示権） — (Authority of the National Public Safety Commission to Issue Instructions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-110 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-110 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-110 **第一項** 国家公安委員会は、全国的な幹線道路（高速自動車国道及び政令で定める基準に従い国家公安委員会が指定する自動車専用道路を除く。）における交通の規制の斉一を図るため必要があると認めるときは、政令で定めるところにより、公安委員会に対し、この法律の規定により公安委員会の権限に属する事務のうち、車両等の最高速度その他政令で定める事項に係るものの処理について指示することができる。 art-110/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-110/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-110/par-1 On finding it to be necessary to do so in order to ensure uniformity in the regulation of traffic on nationwide arterial roads (other than national expressways and limited highways that the National Public Safety Commission designates in accordance with the standards that Cabinet Order prescribes), the National Public Safety Commission may instruct a public safety commission, pursuant to Cabinet Order, regarding the handling of administrative processes involving the maximum speed limit for vehicles or streetcars and other things that Cabinet Order prescribes over which the public safety commission has authority under this Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 国家公安委員会は、高速自動車国道及び前項の規定により国家公安委員会が指定する自動車専用道路における危険を防止し、その他交通の安全と円滑を図るため特に必要があると認めるときは、公安委員会に対し、当該道路におけるこの法律の実施に関する事項について指示することができる。 art-110/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-110/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-110/par-2 The National Public Safety Commission may instruct a public safety commission regarding the enforcement of this Act on a national expressway or limited highway it designates pursuant to the preceding paragraph, on finding it to be particularly necessary to do so in order to prevent hazards or otherwise ensure the safety and fluidity of traffic on those roads. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-110/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第百十条第一項 (Article 110, paragraph (1)), art-110/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-110/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-110/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第百十条第二項（国家公安委員会の指示権） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-110/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-110/par-2 - 道路交通法 第百十三条の四第一項（警察庁長官への権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-113-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-113-4/par-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