# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第五条 (Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Article 5)（警察署長等への委任） — address `art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（警察署長等への委任） — (Delegation to the Chiefs of Police Stations and Others) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-5 **第一項** 公安委員会は、政令で定めるところにより、前条第一項に規定する歩行者等又は車両等の通行の禁止その他の交通の規制のうち、適用期間の短いものを警察署長に行わせることができる。 art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-5/par-1 A public safety commission may, pursuant to Cabinet Order, have the chief of a police station carry out those of the prohibitions on the passage of pedestrians, etc. or vehicles or streetcars and other traffic regulations prescribed in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article that apply for a short period. machine translation, not official **第二項** 公安委員会は、信号機の設置又は管理に係る事務を政令で定める者に委任することができる。 art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-5/par-2 A public safety commission may delegate a person that Cabinet Order prescribes to handle the administrative functions involving the installation or management of traffic lights. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-5/par-1: 前条第一項 → 道路交通法 第四条第一項 (Article 4, paragraph (1)), art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-4/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第四条第一項（公安委員会の交通規制） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-4/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百十条の二第三項（特定の交通の規制等の手続） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-110-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-110-2/par-3 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-traffic-act-20261013T074321-001, translated 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