# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第百五条 (Article 105) - Law: 道路交通法 (Road Traffic Act), 昭和三十五年法律第百五号 - English title "Road Traffic Act": Ministry of Justice translation - 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: 第百五条 (Article 105)（免許の失効） — address `art-105` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-105 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-105 - 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. --- ### 第百五条（免許の失効） — (Loss of Validity of Licenses) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-105 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-105 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-105 **第一項** 免許は、免許を受けた者が免許証等の更新を受けなかつたとき（免許証及び免許情報記録個人番号カードを有する者にあつては、免許証の有効期間の更新及び免許情報記録の有効期間の更新のいずれをも受けなかつたとき）は、その効力を失う。 art-105/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-105/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-105/par-1 A license loses its effect if the person who received the license has not received license renewal (or, in the case of a person who holds a license and an Individual Number Card bearing a license information record, if the person has received neither renewal of the valid period of the license nor renewal of the valid period of the license information record). machine translation, not official ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第九十五条の六第一項（免許証等の有効期間） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-95-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-95-6/par-1 - 道路交通法 第九十七条の二第一項第三号（運転免許試験の免除） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-97-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-97-2/par-1/item-3 - 道路交通法 第九十七条の二第一項第四号（運転免許試験の免除） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-97-2/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-97-2/par-1/item-4 - 道路交通法 第百四条の四第三項（申請による取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-104-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-104-4/par-3 - 道路交通法 第百五条の二第一項（運転経歴証明書及び運転経歴情報の記録） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-105-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-105-2/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百五条の二第三項（運転経歴証明書及び運転経歴情報の記録） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-105-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-105-2/par-3 - 道路交通法 第百七条第一項（免許証及び免許情報記録個人番号カードのいずれをも有しない者の特則） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-107/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-107/par-1 - 道路交通法 附則第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4041-43/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4041-43/par-4 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 道路交通法 — the text in force from 2026-07-21 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000105/20260721_508AC0000000052), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Road Traffic Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-traffic-act-20261013T074321-012, translated 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13