# 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)（公示送達等の方法に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-5051-63/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-5051-63/art-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5051-63/art-2
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### 第二条（公示送達等の方法に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Methods of Service by Publication, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-5051-63/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-5051-63/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5051-63/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  次に掲げる法律の規定は、前条第二号に掲げる規定の施行の日以後にする公示送達、送達又は通知について適用し、同日前にした公示送達、送達又は通知については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-5051-63/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-5051-63/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5051-63/art-2/par-1</sup>
The provisions of the following laws apply to service by publication, service or notice given on or after the date on which the provisions set forth in item (ii) of the preceding Article come into effect, and with regard to service by publication, service or notice given before that date, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **一から四まで**  略
  <sup>suppl-5051-63/art-2/par-1/item-1-to-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-5051-63/art-2/par-1/item-1-to-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5051-63/art-2/par-1/item-1-to-4</sup>
  Omitted
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **五**  第三十一条の規定による改正後の道路交通法第五十一条の四第七項
  <sup>suppl-5051-63/art-2/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-5051-63/art-2/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5051-63/art-2/par-1/item-5</sup>
  Article 51-4, paragraph (7) of the Road Traffic Act as amended by the provisions of Article 31.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5051-63/art-2/par-1: 前条第二号 → 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-5051-63/art-1/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/suppl-5051-63/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5051-63/art-1/par-1/item-2
- suppl-5051-63/art-2/par-1/item-5: 道路交通法第五十一条の四第七項 → 道路交通法 第五十一条の四第七項 (Article 51-4, paragraph (7)), art-51-4/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-51-4/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-4/par-7

## Cited by

1 provision cites 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-5051-63/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5051-63/art-1/par-1/item-2

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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-20261013T073427-025, 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
