# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第百八条の三 (Article 108-3) - 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: 第百八条の三 (Article 108-3)（初心運転者講習の手続） — address `art-108-3` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-108-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-3 - 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. --- ### 第百八条の三（初心運転者講習の手続） — (Procedures for Novice Driver Training) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-108-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-108-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-3 **第一項** 公安委員会は、内閣府令で定めるところにより、基準該当初心運転者に対し、その者が第百条の二第一項に規定する行為をし、当該行為が同項本文の政令で定める基準に該当することとなつた後速やかに、前条第一項第十号に掲げる講習（以下「初心運転者講習」という。）を受けることができる旨を書面で通知するものとする。 art-108-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-108-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-3/par-1 Promptly after a target novice driver engages in conduct prescribed in Article 100-2, paragraph (1) that comes to meet the criteria that Cabinet Order prescribes which is referred to in the main clause of that paragraph, a public safety commission is to notify the driver, in writing and pursuant to Cabinet Office Order, that the driver may undergo the training set forth in paragraph (1), item (x) of the preceding Article (hereinafter referred to as "novice driver training"). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の通知を受けた者は、当該通知を受けた日の翌日から起算した期間（講習を受けないことについて政令で定めるやむを得ない理由がある者にあつては、当該期間から当該事情の存する期間を除いた期間）が通算して一月を超えることとなるまでの間に限り、初心運転者講習を受けることができる。 art-108-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-108-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-3/par-2 A person who has been notified as referred to in the preceding paragraph may undergo novice driver training only until the time that it has been a total of one month since the day following the date on which the person is so notified (other than any period during which the person has a compelling circumstance that Cabinet Order prescribes for not undergoing the training). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-108-3/par-1: 第百条の二第一項 → 道路交通法 第百条の二第一項 (Article 100-2, paragraph (1)), art-100-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-100-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-100-2/par-1 - art-108-3/par-1: 前条第一項第十号 → 道路交通法 第百八条の二第一項第十号 (Article 108-2, paragraph (1), item (x)), art-108-2/par-1/item-10 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-108-2/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-2/par-1/item-10 - art-108-3/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第百八条の三第一項 (Article 108-3, paragraph (1)), art-108-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-108-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-3/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第百八条の三第二項（初心運転者講習の手続） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-108-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-3/par-2 - 道路交通法 第百八条の三の四第一項（講習通知事務の委託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-108-3-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-108-3-4/par-1 - 道路交通法 附則第六項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-3531-53/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-3531-53/par-6 - 道路交通法 附則第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4011-90/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4011-90/par-2 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13