# 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-4131-51/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-4131-51/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4131-51/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-4131-51/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4131-51/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4131-51/art-7 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に国際運転免許証又は外国運転免許証を所持する者に対する新法第百七条の二の規定の適用については、同条中「出国し」とあるのは、「道路交通法の一部を改正する法律（平成十三年法律第五十一号）の施行の日以後に出国し」とする。 suppl-4131-51/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4131-51/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4131-51/art-7/par-1 To apply Article 107-2 of the New Act to a person who, at time this Act comes into force, holds an International Driving Permit or foreign driver's license, the phrase "departs from Japan" is deemed to be replaced with "departs from Japan on or after the effective date of the Act Partially Amending the Road Traffic Act (Act No. 51 of 2001)". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4131-51/art-7/par-1: 新法第百七条の二 → 道路交通法 第百七条の二 (Article 107-2), art-107-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-107-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-107-2 ## 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