# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第百二十八条 (Article 128) - 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: 第百二十八条 (Article 128)（反則金の納付） — address `art-128` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-128 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-128 - 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. --- ### 第百二十八条（反則金の納付） — (Payment of Penalties) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-128 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-128 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-128 **第一項** 前条第一項又は第二項後段の規定による通告に係る反則金（同条第一項後段の規定による通告を受けた者にあつては、反則金及び通告書の送付に要する費用。以下この条において同じ。）の納付は、当該通告を受けた日の翌日から起算して十日以内（政令で定めるやむを得ない理由のため当該期間内に反則金を納付することができなかつた者にあつては、当該事情がやんだ日の翌日から起算して十日以内）に、政令で定めるところにより、国に対してしなければならない。 art-128/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-128/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-128/par-1 The penalty of which a person is notified as under paragraph (1) or the second sentence of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article (or the penalty and the necessary costs for sending the written notice of findings, for a person notified as under the second sentence of paragraph (1) of that Article; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) must be paid to the national government within 10 days, counting from the day after that on which the person is so notified (or, if the person is unable to pay the penalty within that period due compelling circumstances that Cabinet Order prescribes, within 10 days counting from the day after that on which the circumstances cease to exist) pursuant to Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により反則金を納付した者は、当該通告の理由となつた行為に係る事件について、公訴を提起されず、又は家庭裁判所の審判に付されない。 art-128/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-128/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-128/par-2 A person paying a penalty pursuant to the preceding paragraph is not subject to prosecution, nor is that person subject to being brought before the family court for trial, in connection with a case involving the conduct constituting the reasons for the finding of which the person has been notified. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-128/par-1: 前条第一項 → 道路交通法 第百二十七条第一項 (Article 127, paragraph (1)), art-127/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-127/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-127/par-1 - art-128/par-1: 第二項 → 道路交通法 第百二十七条第二項 (Article 127, paragraph (2)), art-127/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-127/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-127/par-2 - art-128/par-1: この条 → 道路交通法 第百二十八条 (Article 128), art-128 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-128 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-128 - art-128/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第百二十八条第一項 (Article 128, paragraph (1)), art-128/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-128/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-128/par-1 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第五十一条の四第四項（放置違反金） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-51-4/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-4/par-4 - 道路交通法 第五十一条の四第十六項（放置違反金） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-51-4/par-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-51-4/par-16 - 道路交通法 第百二十八条第一項（反則金の納付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-128/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-128/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百二十八条第二項（反則金の納付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-128/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-128/par-2 - 道路交通法 第百二十九条第三項（仮納付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-129/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-129/par-3 - 道路交通法 第百二十九条の二第一項（期間の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-129-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-129-2/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百三十条第一項（反則者に係る刑事事件） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-130/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-130/par-1 - 道路交通法 第百三十条の二第三項（反則者に係る保護事件） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-130-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-130-2/par-3 - 道路交通法 附則第十六条第二項（交通安全対策特別交付金） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-3351-105/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-3351-105/art-16/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