# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions)

- Law: 道路運送車両法 (Road Transport Vehicle Act), 昭和二十六年法律第百八十五号
- English title "Road Transport Vehicle Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title
- 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-3271-102`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3271-102
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3271-102
- 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.

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They are never merged and never substituted for one another.

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## 附　則 昭和二七年四月二八日法律第一〇二号
<sup>suppl-3271-102 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3271-102 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3271-102</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、公布の日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-3271-102/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3271-102/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3271-102/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第五項**  この法律の施行前にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、この法律の施行後も、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-3271-102/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3271-102/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3271-102/par-5</sup>
With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern even after this Act comes into effect.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 道路運送車両法 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326AC0000000185/20260401_508AC0000000002), retrieved 2026-10-13
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 道路運送車両法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/529), retrieved 2026-09-18
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-transport-vehicle-act-20261013T120733-037, translated 2026-10-13
- This site's parser, version 189 — 道路運送車両法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13