# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)

- 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（機構の役員に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3621-40/art-4`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-4
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-4
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### 第四条（機構の役員に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Officers of the Organization
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3621-40/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-4</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行の際現に機構の理事長、理事又は監事である者は、それぞれその際第一条の規定による改正後の船舶安全法第二十五条の二十第一項の規定により、その選任について運輸大臣の認可を受けたものとみなす。
<sup>suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-1</sup>
A person who is, at the time this Act comes into effect, actually the president, a director or an auditor of the Organization is deemed to have received, at that time, the approval of the Minister of Transport for his or her appointment pursuant to the provisions of Article 25-20, paragraph (1) of the Ship Safety Act after the amendment under the provisions of Article 1.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  機構は、附則第二条第一項の規定による定款の変更をする場合には、前項の規定によりその選任について運輸大臣の認可を受けたものとみなされる役員の任期を当該定款に定めなければならない。
<sup>suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-2</sup>
When the Organization changes its articles of incorporation pursuant to the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions, it must provide in those articles of incorporation for the terms of office of the officers who are deemed, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, to have received the approval of the Minister of Transport for their appointment.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-1: 船舶安全法第二十五条の二十第一項 → e-Gov law 308AC0000000011, 第二十五条の二十第一項 (Article 25-20, paragraph (1)), art-25-20/par-1 — not held in this collection
- suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-2: 附則第二条第一項 → 道路運送車両法 附則第二条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)), suppl-3621-40/art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-2/par-1
- suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-2: 前項 → 道路運送車両法 附則第四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)), suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-1

## Cited by

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

- 道路運送車両法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-1/par-1
- 道路運送車両法 附則第二条第一項（機構の定款の変更） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-2/par-1
- 道路運送車両法 附則第四条第二項（機構の役員に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-4/par-2
- 道路運送車両法 附則第五条第一項（準用） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3621-40/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3621-40/art-5/par-1

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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-20261013T120733-041, 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
