# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-4131-51/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4131-51/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4131-51/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条 suppl-4131-51/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4131-51/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4131-51/art-3 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に大型自動車第二種免許又は普通自動車第二種免許に係る運転免許試験に合格している者については、新法第九十条の二の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4131-51/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4131-51/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4131-51/art-3/par-1 Notwithstanding Article 90-2 of the New Act, prior laws continue to govern a person who has passed a driver's license test for a class 2 L-MVL or class 2 S-MVL by the time this Act comes into force. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** この法律の施行の際現に旧法の規定により大型自動車第二種免許又は普通自動車第二種免許の申請をしている者の当該申請に係る運転免許試験の受験資格（旧法第九十六条第一項に係るものを除く。）及びその者に対して新法第九十七条第一項第二号に掲げる事項について行う当該免許の運転免許試験の方法については、新法第九十六条の二及び第九十七条第二項の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4131-51/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4131-51/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4131-51/art-3/par-2 Notwithstanding Article 96-2 and Article 97, paragraph (2) of the New Act, if a person has applied for a class 2 L-MVL or class 2 S-MVL pursuant to the Former Act by the time this Act comes into force, prior laws continue to govern the person's eligibility to take the driver's license test that the person has applied to take (other than test eligibility in connection with Article 96, paragraph (1) of the Former Act) and to govern how the driver's license test covering the point set forth in Article 97, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the New Act is administered to that person. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4131-51/art-3/par-1: 新法第九十条の二 → 道路交通法 第九十条の二 (Article 90-2), art-90-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-90-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-90-2 - suppl-4131-51/art-3/par-2: 新法第九十七条第一項第二号 → 道路交通法 第九十七条第一項第二号 (Article 97, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-97/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-97/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-97/par-1/item-2 - suppl-4131-51/art-3/par-2: 新法第九十六条の二 → 道路交通法 第九十六条の二 (Article 96-2), art-96-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-96-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-96-2 - suppl-4131-51/art-3/par-2: 第九十七条第二項 → 道路交通法 第九十七条第二項 (Article 97, paragraph (2)), art-97/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-97/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 附則第十条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4131-51/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4131-51/art-10/par-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