# 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) — address `suppl-4061-86/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-4061-86/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4061-86/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条 suppl-4061-86/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4061-86/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4061-86/art-4 **第一項** 新法第六十九条第一項の規定は、この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）以後に同項第一号又は第二号に掲げる事由に該当することとなる検査対象軽自動車及び二輪の小型自動車について適用し、施行日前に当該事由に該当することとなったこれらの自動車については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4061-86/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4061-86/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4061-86/art-4/par-1 The provisions of Article 69, paragraph (1) of the New Act apply to light motor vehicles subject to inspection and two-wheeled small-sized motor vehicles that come to fall under the grounds set out in item (i) or (ii) of that paragraph on or after the day this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), and with regard to those motor vehicles that came to fall under those grounds before the Effective Date, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 --- ## 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