# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)

- 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（第三条の規定による改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-5011-14/art-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-5011-14/art-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-5011-14/art-3
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### 第三条（第三条の規定による改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Amendment by the Provisions of Article 3
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-5011-14/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-5011-14/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-5011-14/art-3</sup>

**第一項**  第三条の規定による改正後の道路運送車両法第九十九条の三第一項の許可を受けようとする者は、附則第一条第四号に掲げる規定の施行の日前においても、その申請を行うことができる。
<sup>suppl-5011-14/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-5011-14/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-5011-14/art-3/par-1</sup>
A person who intends to obtain the permission under Article 99-3, paragraph (1) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act as amended by the provisions of Article 3 may file the application even before the date on which the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (iv) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5011-14/art-3/par-1: 道路運送車両法第九十九条の三第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第九十九条の三第一項 (Article 99-3, paragraph (1)), art-99-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-99-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-99-3/par-1
- suppl-5011-14/art-3/par-1: 附則第一条第四号 → 道路運送車両法 附則第一条第一項第四号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (iv)), suppl-5011-14/art-1/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-5011-14/art-1/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-5011-14/art-1/par-1/item-4

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 道路運送車両法 附則第一条第一項第三号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-5011-14/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-5011-14/art-1/par-1/item-3

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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-20261013T120733-049, 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
