# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第百六十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 161) - 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: 第百六十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 161)（不服申立てに関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4111-87/art-161` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4111-87/art-161 - 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. --- ### 第百六十一条（不服申立てに関する経過措置） — (Transitional Measures for Appeals) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System suppl-4111-87/art-161 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4111-87/art-161 **第一項** 施行日前にされた国等の事務に係る処分であって、当該処分をした行政庁（以下この条において「処分庁」という。）に施行日前に行政不服審査法に規定する上級行政庁（以下この条において「上級行政庁」という。）があったものについての同法による不服申立てについては、施行日以後においても、当該処分庁に引き続き上級行政庁があるものとみなして、行政不服審査法の規定を適用する。この場合において、当該処分庁の上級行政庁とみなされる行政庁は、施行日前に当該処分庁の上級行政庁であった行政庁とする。 suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-1 For an appeal under the Administrative Appeals Act against a measure that has been taken, before the effective date and in connection with an administrative process of the national government or another public entity, by an administrative agency (hereinafter referred to in this Article as an "issuing agency") that answered to a higher administrative agency as prescribed in that Act (hereinafter referred to in this Article as a "higher administrative agency") prior to the effective date, the issuing agency is deemed to continue to answer to a higher administrative agency even after the effective date, and the Administrative Appeals Act applies. In such a case, the agency deemed to be the higher administrative agency to which the issuing agency answers is that to which it answered before the effective date. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合において、上級行政庁とみなされる行政庁が地方公共団体の機関であるときは、当該機関が行政不服審査法の規定により処理することとされる事務は、新地方自治法第二条第九項第一号に規定する第一号法定受託事務とする。 suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-2 In a case as referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the agency that is deemed to be the higher administrative agency is a local government entity, the administrative processes to be handled by the entity pursuant to the Administrative Appeals Act constitute item (i) statutorily entrusted functions as prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the New Local Autonomy Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-1: この条 → 道路交通法 附則第百六十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 161), suppl-4111-87/art-161 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4111-87/art-161 - suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 附則第百六十一条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 161, paragraph (1)), suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 附則第百五十九条第一項（国等の事務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1 - 道路交通法 附則第百六十一条第一項（不服申立てに関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-1 - 道路交通法 附則第百六十一条第二項（不服申立てに関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4111-87/art-161/par-2 --- ## 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