# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) - 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-4111-40` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4111-40 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4111-40 - 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. --- ## 附　則 平成一一年五月一〇日法律第四〇号 suppl-4111-40 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4111-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4111-40 **第一項** この法律は、公布の日から起算して一年を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。ただし、第七十一条、第九十四条、第九十七条の二第一項第二号、第百六条及び第百八条の二第一項の改正規定、第百八条の三の二の次に一条を加える改正規定、第百十条及び第百十二条第一項の改正規定、第百十三条の三の次に一条を加える改正規定並びに第百十七条の三第三号、第百十九条第一項及び別表の改正規定は、公布の日から起算して六月を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。 suppl-4111-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4111-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4111-40/par-1 This Act comes into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding one year from the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions amending Articles 71 and 94, Article 97-2, paragraph (1), item (ii), Article 106 and Article 108-2, paragraph (1) of the Road Traffic Act, the provision adding one Article after Article 108-3-2 of the Road Traffic Act, the provisions amending Article 110 and Article 112, paragraph (1) of the Road Traffic Act, the provision adding one Article after Article 113-3 of the Road Traffic Act, and the provisions amending Article 117-3, item (iii), Article 119, paragraph (1) and the Appended Table of the Road Traffic Act come into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding six months from the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official --- ## 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-20261013T074321-018, 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