# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第百十八条の三 (Article 118-3)

- 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: 第百十八条の三 (Article 118-3) — address `art-118-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-07-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-118-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-118-3
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### 第百十八条の三
<sup>art-118-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-118-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-118-3</sup>

**第一項**  第百十四条の五（自衛隊の防衛出動時における交通の規制等）第一項の規定による公安委員会の禁止又は制限に従わなかつた者は、三月以下の拘禁刑又は三十万円以下の罰金に処する。
<sup>art-118-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-118-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-118-3/par-1</sup>
A person who fails to comply with the prohibition or restriction of a public safety commission as under Article 114-5 (Regulation of Traffic When Self-Defense Forces Are Mobilized; Related Considerations), paragraph (1) is subject to imprisonment for not more than three months or a fine of not more than 300,000 yen.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-118-3/par-1: 第百十四条の五 → 道路交通法 第百十四条の五 (Article 114-5), art-114-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-114-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-114-5
- art-118-3/par-1: 第一項 → 道路交通法 第百十四条の五第一項 (Article 114-5, paragraph (1)), art-114-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-114-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-114-5/par-1

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## 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-20261013T074321-016, 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
