# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) - 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: 第七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 7) — address `suppl-4071-74/art-7` - 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-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条 suppl-4071-74/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-7 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に附則第二条第一項の規定により大型自動二輪車免許とみなされる旧法二輪免許を受けている者及び前条の規定により大型自動二輪車免許に係る運転免許試験に合格した者とみなされる者に対する新法第八十八条第一項第一号の規定の適用については、同号中「、大型二輪免許及び牽引免許にあつては十八歳に」とあるのは、「及び牽引免許にあつては十八歳に、大型二輪免許」とする。 suppl-4071-74/art-7/par-1 · 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 To apply Article 88, paragraph (1), item (i) of the New Act to a person who, at time this Act comes into force, holds a motorcycle license as referred to in the Former Act that is deemed to be a large motorcycle license pursuant to Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, and to a person who is deemed to have passed the driver's license test for a large motorcycle license pursuant to the preceding Article, the phrase "18 years of age in the case of S-MVLs, SL-MVLs, L-ML and licenses for towing" is deemed to be replaced with "18 years of age in the case of licenses for towing, or under 16 years of age in the case of large motorcycle licenses". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4071-74/art-7/par-1: 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-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 - suppl-4071-74/art-7/par-1: 前条 → 道路交通法 附則第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6), suppl-4071-74/art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-6 - suppl-4071-74/art-7/par-1: 新法第八十八条第一項第一号 → 道路交通法 第八十八条第一項第一号 (Article 88, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-88/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-88/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-88/par-1/item-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