# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)

- 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（経過措置） — address `suppl-4061-86/art-2`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4061-86/art-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4061-86/art-2
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### 第二条（経過措置） — Transitional Measures
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4061-86/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4061-86/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4061-86/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  第十一条第四項の改正規定の施行の際現にこの法律による改正前の道路運送車両法（以下「旧法」という。）第十一条第四項ただし書の規定により運輸大臣の許可を受けて取り外されている封印又は封印の取付けをした自動車登録番号標は、この法律による改正後の道路運送車両法（以下「新法」という。）第十一条第四項ただし書の運輸省令で定めるやむを得ない事由に該当して取り外されたものとみなす。
<sup>suppl-4061-86/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4061-86/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4061-86/art-2/par-1</sup>
A seal, or a motor vehicle registration number plate to which a seal was affixed, that has actually been removed, at the time the provisions amending Article 11, paragraph (4) come into effect, with the permission of the Minister of Transport pursuant to the proviso to Article 11, paragraph (4) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act prior to the amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act") is deemed to have been removed on account of an unavoidable reason specified by Order of the Ministry of Transport in the proviso to Article 11, paragraph (4) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act after the amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act").
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

3 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-4061-86/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4061-86/art-1/par-1
- 道路運送車両法 附則第八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4061-86/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4061-86/art-8/par-1
- 道路運送車両法 附則第十条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4061-86/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4061-86/art-10/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
