# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5) — address `suppl-4271-40/art-5` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4271-40/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4271-40/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条 suppl-4271-40/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4271-40/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4271-40/art-5 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に旧法中型免許、旧法普通免許、旧法中型第二種免許、旧法普通第二種免許、旧法中型仮免許又は旧法普通仮免許に係る運転免許試験に合格して旧法の規定による運転免許を受けていない者は、附則第二条各号に掲げる区分に応じ、それぞれ当該各号に定める運転免許に係る運転免許試験に合格した者とみなす。 suppl-4271-40/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4271-40/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4271-40/art-5/par-1 A person who, at the time this Act comes into force, has passed a driver's license test for an M-MVL as referred to in the Former Act, S-MVL as referred to in the Former Act, class 2 M-MVL as referred to in the Former Act, class 2 S-MVL as referred to in the Former Act, provisional M-MVL as referred to in the Former Act, or provisional S-MVL as referred to in the Former Act but has not received a driver's license under the Former Act is deemed to have passed the driver's license test for a driver's license as prescribed in the items of Article 2 of the Supplementary Provisions, based on the categories set forth in those items. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4271-40/art-5/par-1: 附則第二条 → 道路交通法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-4271-40/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4271-40/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4271-40/art-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 附則第六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4271-40/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4271-40/art-6/par-1 - 道路交通法 附則第六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-4271-40/art-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4271-40/art-6/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