# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) - 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-3371-106/art-1` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3371-106/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3371-106/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3371-106/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3371-106/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3371-106/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、昭和三十七年十月一日から施行する。ただし、第一条の規定中道路運送車両法第七十六条、第九十八条及び第百六条の改正規定、同法に第百六条の二を加える改正規定並びに同法第百九条第一号の改正規定、第二条の規定中自動車損害賠償保障法に第二十条の二を加える改正規定並びに附則第三条の規定は、昭和三十七年八月一日から施行する。 suppl-3371-106/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3371-106/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3371-106/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on October 1, 1962; provided, however, that the provisions of Article 1 amending Articles 76, 98 and 106 of the Road Transport Vehicle Act, adding Article 106-2 to that Act, and amending Article 109, item (i) of that Act, the provision of Article 2 adding Article 20-2 to the Act on Securing Compensation for Automobile Accidents, and the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect on August 1, 1962. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3371-106/art-1/par-1: 附則第三条 → 道路運送車両法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-3371-106/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3371-106/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3371-106/art-3 --- ## 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