# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第百九条の三 (Article 109-3) - 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: 第百九条の三 (Article 109-3) — address `art-109-3` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-3 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百九条の三 art-109-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-3 **第一項** 交通情報を提供する事業であつて次の各号のいずれかに該当するもの（以下この条において「特定交通情報提供事業」という。）を行おうとする者は、内閣府令で定めるところにより、氏名及び住所（法人にあつては、その名称、代表者の氏名及び主たる事務所の所在地）、交通情報の収集及び提供の方法その他内閣府令で定める事項を国家公安委員会に届け出なければならない。その者が届出をした事項を変更するときも、同様とする。 art-109-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-3/par-1 A person seeking to carry out operations to provide drivers with traffic information that fall under one of the following items (hereinafter referred to in this Article as "operations to provide drivers with specified traffic information") must file the name and address thereof (or, if it is a corporation, its name, the name of its representative, and the locality of its principal office), how the person will collect and provide the traffic information, and the information that Cabinet Office Order prescribes with the National Public Safety Commission, pursuant to Cabinet Office Order. The same applies if a piece of information that that person has filed with the commission changes: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A person seeking to carry out operations to provide drivers with traffic information that fall under one of the following items (hereinafter referred to in this Article as "operations to provide drivers with specified traffic information") must file the name and address thereof (or, if it is a corporation, its name, the name of its representative, and the locality of its principal office), how the person will collect and provide the traffic information, and the information that Cabinet Office Order prescribes with the National Public Safety Commission, pursuant to Cabinet Office Order. The same applies if a piece of information that the that person has filed with the commission changes:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb **一** 道路における交通の混雑の状態を予測する事業 art-109-3/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109-3/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-3/par-1/item-1 operations for predicting road traffic congestion; or Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 目的地に到達するまでに要する時間を予測する事業 art-109-3/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109-3/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-3/par-1/item-2 operations for predicting the time required to arrive at a destination. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 国家公安委員会は、特定交通情報提供事業を行う者が正確かつ適切でない交通情報を提供することにより道路における交通の危険又は混雑を生じさせたと認めるときは、その者に対し、前項各号に掲げる事業に係る技術水準その他の事情を勘案して、相当な期間を定めて、正確かつ適切な交通情報の提供の実施のために必要な措置をとるべきことを勧告することができる。 art-109-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-3/par-2 On finding that a person carrying out operations to provide drivers with specified traffic information has caused a road traffic hazard or congestion by providing inaccurate and inappropriate traffic information, the National Public Safety Commission may recommend that the person take the necessary measures to provide drivers with accurate and appropriate traffic information, fixing a reasonable period for this in light of the level of technology involved in the operations set forth in the preceding paragraph and other circumstances. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 国家公安委員会は、前項の規定による勧告をした場合において、当該勧告を受けた特定交通情報提供事業を行う者が当該勧告に従わないときは、その旨及び当該勧告の内容を公表することができる。 art-109-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-3/par-3 If the National Public Safety Commission has made a recommendation under the preceding paragraph, but the person carrying out the operations to provide drivers with specified traffic information that has received that recommendation fails to comply with it, the National Public Safety Commission may publicly announce this, giving the details of its recommendation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 国家公安委員会は、前二項の規定を施行するため必要な限度において、特定交通情報提供事業を行う者に対し、必要な事項を報告させることができる。 art-109-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-3/par-4 The National Public Safety Commission may have a person carrying out operations to provide drivers with specified traffic information report on the necessary matters, but only so far as is necessary to enforce the preceding two paragraphs. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-109-3/par-1: この条 → 道路交通法 第百九条の三 (Article 109-3), art-109-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-3 - art-109-3/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第百九条の三第一項 (Article 109-3, paragraph (1)), art-109-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-3/par-1 - art-109-3/par-3: 前項 → 道路交通法 第百九条の三第二項 (Article 109-3, paragraph (2)), art-109-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-3/par-2 - art-109-3/par-4: 前二項 → 道路交通法 第百九条の三第二項 (Article 109-3, paragraph (2)), art-109-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-3/par-2 - art-109-3/par-4: 前二項 → 道路交通法 第百九条の三第三項 (Article 109-3, paragraph (3)), art-109-3/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-3/par-3 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第百九条の二第一項（交通情報の提供） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-2/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百九条の二第四項（交通情報の提供） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109-2/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-2/par-4 - 道路交通法 第百九条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-3/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百九条の三第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-3/par-2 - 道路交通法 第百九条の三第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-3/par-3 - 道路交通法 第百九条の三第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-109-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-109-3/par-4 - 道路交通法 第百十九条の三第二項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-119-3/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119-3/par-2/item-2 - 道路交通法 第百十九条の三第二項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-119-3/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-119-3/par-2/item-3 - 道路交通法 附則第八条第一項（特定交通情報提供事業の届出に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4131-51/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4131-51/art-8/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Slips in the Ministry of Justice's English of the Road Traffic Act, corrected, written 2026-10-13 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Road Traffic Act (道路交通法), Article 109-3, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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