# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) - 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（免許等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4251-43/art-2` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4251-43/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4251-43/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（免許等に関する経過措置） — (Transitional Measures for Licenses) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System suppl-4251-43/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4251-43/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4251-43/art-2 **第一項** 前条第三号に掲げる規定の施行の際現に交付されている免許証の有効期間については、第二条の規定による改正後の道路交通法（以下「新法」という。）第九十二条の二第一項の規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4251-43/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4251-43/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4251-43/art-2/par-1 Notwithstanding Article 92-2, paragraph (1) of the Road Traffic Act after its amendment by Article 2 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act"), prior laws continue to govern the valid period of a license that has been issued as of the time item (iii) of the preceding Article comes into force. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Notwithstanding Article 92-2, paragraph (1) of the Road Traffic Act after its amendment by Article 2 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act"), prior laws continue to govern the valid period of a license that has been issued as of the time paragraph (3) of the preceding Article comes into force." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb --- ## Cites - suppl-4251-43/art-2/par-1: 前条第三号 → 道路交通法 附則第一条第一項第三号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (iii)), suppl-4251-43/art-1/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4251-43/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4251-43/art-1/par-1/item-3 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 附則第一条第一項第三号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4251-43/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4251-43/art-1/par-1/item-3 - 道路交通法 附則第六条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4251-43/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4251-43/art-6/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Slips in the Ministry of Justice's English of the Road Traffic Act, corrected, written 2026-10-13 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Road Traffic Act (道路交通法), Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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