# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（免許等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4071-74/art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-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. --- ### 第二条（免許等に関する経過措置） — (Transitional Measures for Licenses) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System suppl-4071-74/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-2 **第一項** 改正前の道路交通法（以下「旧法」という。）第八十四条第三項の自動二輪車免許（以下「旧法二輪免許」という。）は、次の各号に掲げる区分に従い、それぞれ当該各号に定める改正後の道路交通法（以下「新法」という。）第八十四条第三項の大型自動二輪車免許（以下「大型自動二輪車免許」という。）又は同項の普通自動二輪車免許（以下「普通自動二輪車免許」という。）とみなす。 suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1 A motorcycle license as referred to in Article 84, paragraph (3) of the Road Traffic Act before its amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act") (hereinafter referred to as a "motorcycle license as referred to in the Former Act") is deemed to be a large motorcycle license as referred to in Article 84, paragraph (3) of the Road Traffic Act after its amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act") (hereinafter referred to as a "large motorcycle license") or a standard motorcycle license as referred to in that paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a "standard motorcycle license"), in accordance with the categories set forth in the following items: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A motorcycle license as referred to in Article 84, paragraph (3) of the Road Traffic Act before its amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act") (hereinafter referred to as a "motorcycle license as referred to in the Former Act") is deemed to be a large motorcycle license as referred to in Article 84, paragraph (3) (hereinafter referred to as a "large motorcycle license") or a standard motorcycle license as referred to in that paragraph (hereinafter referred to as a "standard motorcycle license"), in accordance with the categories set forth in the following items:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb **一** 次号及び第三号に掲げるもの以外のもの　大型自動二輪車免許 suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-1 a license other than one set forth in the following item and item (iii):a large motorcycle license; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 旧法第九十一条の規定により、運転することができる旧法第三条の自動二輪車（以下「旧法自動二輪車」という。）が新法第三条の普通自動二輪車（以下「普通自動二輪車」という。）に相当するものに限る旨の限定が付されているもの　普通自動二輪車免許 suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-2 a license with a restriction attached to it limiting the motorcycles as referred to in Article 3 of the Former Act that a person is permitted to drive pursuant to Article 91 of the Former Act (hereinafter referred to as a "motorcycle as referred to in the Former Act") to those that are equivalent to a standard motorcycle as referred to in Article 3 of the New Act (hereinafter referred to as a "standard motorcycle"):a standard motorcycle license; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 道路交通法の一部を改正する法律（昭和四十年法律第九十六号。次条第二項において「昭和四十年改正法」という。）附則第二条第一項の規定により旧法二輪免許とみなされるもので、附則第十一条の規定による改正前の同法附則第二条第四項に規定する審査に合格しなかった者に係るもの　普通自動二輪車免許 suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-3 a license deemed to be a motorcycle license as referred to in the Former Act pursuant to Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Road Traffic Act (Act No. 96 of 1965; hereinafter referred to in paragraph (2) of the following Article as the "Amending Act of 1965") held by a person who does not pass the screening prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act before its amendment by Article 11 of the Supplementary Provisions:a standard motorcycle license. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 旧法二輪免許が前項第二号に規定する限定の解除を受けたことにより同項の規定により大型自動二輪車免許とみなされることとなる場合における当該大型自動二輪車免許は、当該旧法二輪免許を受けた日に受けたものとする。 suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-2 If, as the result of the lifting of a restriction as prescribed in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph on a motorcycle license as referred to in the Former Act, that license is deemed, pursuant to that paragraph, to be a large motorcycle license, the person in question is deemed to have obtained the large motorcycle license on the day the person obtained the motorcycle license as referred to in the Former Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1: 第八十四条第三項 → 道路交通法 第八十四条第三項 (Article 84, paragraph (3)), art-84/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-84/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-84/par-3 - suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-1: 次号 → 道路交通法 附則第二条第一項第二号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)), suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-2 - suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-1: 第三号 → 道路交通法 附則第二条第一項第三号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1), item (iii)), suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-3 - suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-2: 新法第三条 → 道路交通法 第三条 (Article 3), art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-3 - suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-3: 次条第二項 → 道路交通法 附則第三条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (2)), suppl-4071-74/art-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-3/par-2 - suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-3: 附則第二条第一項 → 道路交通法 附則第二条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)), suppl-3401-96/art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-3401-96/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-3401-96/art-2/par-1 - suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-2: 前項第二号 → 道路交通法 附則第二条第一項第二号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii)), suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-2 - suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-2: 同項 → 道路交通法 附則第二条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)), suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 附則第二条第一項第一号（免許等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-1/item-1 - 道路交通法 附則第二条第二項（免許等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-2/par-2 - 道路交通法 附則第三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-3/par-1 - 道路交通法 附則第三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-3/par-2 - 道路交通法 附則第五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-5/par-1 - 道路交通法 附則第七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-7/par-1 - 道路交通法 附則第八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-8/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Slips in the Ministry of Justice's English of the Road Traffic Act, corrected, written 2026-10-13 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Road Traffic Act (道路交通法), Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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