# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第百二十九条 (Article 129) - 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: 第百二十九条 (Article 129)（仮納付） — address `art-129` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-129 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-129 - 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. --- ### 第百二十九条（仮納付） — (Provisional Payments) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-129 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-129 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-129 **第一項** 第百二十六条第一項又は第四項の規定による告知を受けた者は、当該告知を受けた日の翌日から起算して七日以内に、政令で定めるところにより、当該告知された反則行為の種別に係る反則金に相当する金額を仮に納付することができる。ただし、第百二十七条第二項前段の規定による通知を受けた後は、この限りでない。 art-129/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-129/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-129/par-1 A person who has been notified to appear as under Article 126, paragraph (1) or paragraph (4) may provisionally pay an amount equivalent to the penalty for the category to which the violation of which the person has been notified belongs within seven days, counting from the day after that on which the person is so notified, pursuant to Cabinet Order; provided, however, that this does not apply after receipt of a notice of findings as under the first sentence of Article 127, paragraph (2). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第百二十七条第一項前段の規定による通告は、前項の規定による仮納付をした者については、政令で定めるところにより、公示して行うことができる。 art-129/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-129/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-129/par-2 A person who has made a provisional payment under the preceding paragraph may be issued a notice of findings as under the first sentence of Article 127, paragraph (1) by public notice, pursuant to Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の規定による仮納付をした者について当該告知に係る第百二十七条第一項前段の規定による通告があつたときは、当該仮納付をした者は、前条第一項の規定により当該通告に係る反則金を納付した者とみなし、当該反則金に相当する金額の仮納付は、同項の規定による反則金の納付とみなす。 art-129/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-129/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-129/par-3 If a person who has made a provisional payment under paragraph (1) is issued a notice of findings as under the first sentence of Article 127, paragraph (1) in connection with the notice to appear in respect of which the person has made the provisional payment, that person is deemed to be a person who has paid the penalty detailed in the notice of findings pursuant to paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, and the person's provisional payment of an amount equivalent to that penalty is deemed to be the payment of the penalty under that paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 警察本部長は、第一項の規定による仮納付をした者に対し、第百二十七条第二項前段の規定による通知をしたときは、当該仮納付に係る金額を速やかにその者に返還しなければならない。 art-129/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-129/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-129/par-4 Having issued a notice of findings as under the first sentence of Article 127, paragraph (2) to a person who has made a provisional payment under paragraph (1), the chief of the prefectural police must promptly return an amount of money equivalent to the provisional payment to that person. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-129/par-1: 第百二十六条第一項 → 道路交通法 第百二十六条第一項 (Article 126, paragraph (1)), art-126/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-126/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-126/par-1 - art-129/par-1: 第四項 → 道路交通法 第百二十六条第四項 (Article 126, paragraph (4)), art-126/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-126/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-126/par-4 - art-129/par-1: 第百二十七条第二項 → 道路交通法 第百二十七条第二項 (Article 127, paragraph (2)), art-127/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-127/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-127/par-2 - art-129/par-2: 第百二十七条第一項 → 道路交通法 第百二十七条第一項 (Article 127, paragraph (1)), art-127/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-127/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-127/par-1 - art-129/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第百二十九条第一項 (Article 129, paragraph (1)), art-129/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-129/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-129/par-1 - art-129/par-3: 第一項 → 道路交通法 第百二十九条第一項 (Article 129, paragraph (1)), art-129/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-129/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-129/par-1 - art-129/par-3: 第百二十七条第一項 → 道路交通法 第百二十七条第一項 (Article 127, paragraph (1)), art-127/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-127/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-127/par-1 - art-129/par-3: 前条第一項 → 道路交通法 第百二十八条第一項 (Article 128, paragraph (1)), art-128/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-128/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-128/par-1 - art-129/par-4: 第一項 → 道路交通法 第百二十九条第一項 (Article 129, paragraph (1)), art-129/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-129/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-129/par-1 - art-129/par-4: 第百二十七条第二項 → 道路交通法 第百二十七条第二項 (Article 127, paragraph (2)), art-127/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-127/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-127/par-2 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第百二十七条第一項（通告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-127/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-127/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百二十七条第三項（通告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-127/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-127/par-3 - 道路交通法 第百二十九条第二項（仮納付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-129/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-129/par-2 - 道路交通法 第百二十九条第三項（仮納付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-129/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-129/par-3 - 道路交通法 第百二十九条第四項（仮納付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-129/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-129/par-4 - 道路交通法 第百二十九条の二第一項（期間の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-129-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-129-2/par-1 - 道路交通法 附則第十六条第二項（交通安全対策特別交付金） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-3351-105/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-3351-105/art-16/par-2 - 道路交通法 附則第十六条第二項第一号（交通安全対策特別交付金） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-3351-105/art-16/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-3351-105/art-16/par-2/item-1 - 道路交通法 附則第十六条第三項第一号イ（交通安全対策特別交付金） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-3351-105/art-16/par-3/item-1/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-3351-105/art-16/par-3/item-1/sub-1 - 道路交通法 附則第十六条第三項第二号イ（交通安全対策特別交付金） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-3351-105/art-16/par-3/item-2/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-3351-105/art-16/par-3/item-2/sub-1 - 道路交通法 附則第十八条第一項（交付の時期及び交付時期ごとの交付額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-3351-105/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-3351-105/art-18/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