# 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)（運転経歴証明書の交付の申請に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5011-20/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-5011-20/art-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5011-20/art-3
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### 第三条（運転経歴証明書の交付の申請に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures for Applications for Issuance of Driving Record Certificates
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-5011-20/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-5011-20/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5011-20/art-3</sup>

**第一項**  附則第一条第二号に掲げる規定の施行の際現に第一条の規定による改正前の道路交通法第百四条の四第二項の規定により免許を取り消した公安委員会に対してされている同条第五項の規定による運転経歴証明書の交付の申請については、新法第百四条の四第五項から第七項までの規定にかかわらず、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-5011-20/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-5011-20/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5011-20/art-3/par-1</sup>
With regard to an application for the issuance of a driving record certificate that is being made, at the time the provisions set forth in item (ii) of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect, to the public safety commission that revoked a license pursuant to Article 104-4, paragraph (2) of the Road Traffic Act before its amendment by Article 1, under Article 104-4, paragraph (5) of that Act, notwithstanding Article 104-4, paragraphs (5) through (7) of the New Act, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5011-20/art-3/par-1: 附則第一条第二号 → 道路交通法 附則第一条第一項第二号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (ii)), suppl-5011-20/art-1/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-5011-20/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5011-20/art-1/par-1/item-2
- suppl-5011-20/art-3/par-1: 新法第百四条の四第五項から第七項まで → 道路交通法 第百四条の四第五項 (Article 104-4, paragraph (5)), art-104-4/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-104-4/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-104-4/par-5

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 道路交通法 附則第一条第一項第二号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-5011-20/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5011-20/art-1/par-1/item-2
- 道路交通法 附則第二条第一項（免許の効力の仮停止等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-5011-20/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5011-20/art-2/par-1
- 道路交通法 附則第五条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-5011-20/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5011-20/art-5/par-1

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## 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
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-traffic-act-20261013T074321-018, translated 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
