# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12) - 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: 第十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12) — address `suppl-4161-90/art-12` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4161-90/art-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4161-90/art-12 - 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. --- ### 第十二条 suppl-4161-90/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4161-90/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4161-90/art-12 **第一項** 附則第十条の規定により大型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-4161-90/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4161-90/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4161-90/art-12/par-1 Notwithstanding Article 90-2 of the New Act, prior laws continue to govern a person who is deemed to have passed a driver's license test for an L-MVL pursuant to Article 10 of the Supplementary Provisions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 附則第十条の規定により中型免許に係る運転免許試験に合格した者とみなされる者は、新法第九十条の二の規定の適用については、普通免許を受けようとする者とみなす。 suppl-4161-90/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4161-90/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4161-90/art-12/par-2 To apply Article 90-2 of the New Act, a person who is deemed to have passed a driver's license test for an M-MVL pursuant to Article 10 of the Supplementary Provisions is deemed to be a person seeking to obtain an S-MVL. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 附則第十条の規定により中型第二種免許に係る運転免許試験に合格した者とみなされる者は、新法第九十条の二の規定の適用については、普通第二種免許を受けようとする者とみなす。 suppl-4161-90/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4161-90/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4161-90/art-12/par-3 To apply Article 90-2 of the New Act, a person who is deemed to have passed a driver's license test for a class 2 M-MVL pursuant to Article 10 of the Supplementary Provisions is deemed to be a person seeking to hold a class 2 S-MVL. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4161-90/art-12/par-1: 附則第十条 → 道路交通法 附則第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10), suppl-4161-90/art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4161-90/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4161-90/art-10 - suppl-4161-90/art-12/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-4161-90/art-12/par-2: 附則第十条 → 道路交通法 附則第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10), suppl-4161-90/art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4161-90/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4161-90/art-10 - suppl-4161-90/art-12/par-2: 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-4161-90/art-12/par-3: 附則第十条 → 道路交通法 附則第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10), suppl-4161-90/art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4161-90/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4161-90/art-10 - suppl-4161-90/art-12/par-3: 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 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 附則第二十五条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4161-90/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4161-90/art-25/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