# 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)（免許等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5021-42/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-5021-42/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5021-42/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（免許等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures for Licenses caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5021-42/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-5021-42/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5021-42/art-3 **第一項** 附則第一条各号に掲げる規定の施行前にした行為を理由とする免許（道路交通法第八十四条第一項に規定する免許をいう。次条第一項において同じ。）の拒否、保留、取消し若しくは効力の停止又は自動車等（同法第八十四条第一項に規定する自動車等をいう。）の運転の禁止については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-5021-42/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-5021-42/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5021-42/art-3/par-1 With regard to the denial, withholding, revocation or suspension of a license (meaning a license prescribed in Article 84, paragraph (1) of the Road Traffic Act; the same applies in paragraph (1) of the following Article) or the prohibition of driving a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle (meaning a motor vehicle or motorized bicycle prescribed in Article 84, paragraph (1) of that Act) on the grounds of an act committed before the provisions set forth in the items of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5021-42/art-3/par-1: 附則第一条 → 道路交通法 附則第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1), suppl-5021-42/art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-5021-42/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5021-42/art-1 - suppl-5021-42/art-3/par-1: 道路交通法第八十四条第一項 → 道路交通法 第八十四条第一項 (Article 84, paragraph (1)), art-84/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-84/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-84/par-1 - suppl-5021-42/art-3/par-1: 次条第一項 → 道路交通法 附則第四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)), suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-1 ## 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一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-5021-42/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5021-42/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 道路交通法 附則第九条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-5021-42/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5021-42/art-9/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-traffic-act-20261013T074321-019, 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