# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) - 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) — address `suppl-5011-14/art-8` - 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-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-5011-14/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条 suppl-5011-14/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-5011-14/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-5011-14/art-8 **第一項** 第六号施行日前にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-5011-14/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-5011-14/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-5011-14/art-8/par-1 The provisions then in force continue to govern the application of penal provisions to acts committed before the item (vi) Effective Date. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路運送車両法 附則第一条第一項第六号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-5011-14/art-1/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-5011-14/art-1/par-1/item-6 --- ## 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