# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第十七条の三 (Article 17-3) - 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: 第十七条の三 (Article 17-3)（特例特定小型原動機付自転車等の路側帯通行） — address `art-17-3` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-17-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-17-3 - 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. --- ### 第十七条の三（特例特定小型原動機付自転車等の路側帯通行） — Riding Specified Small Motorized Bicycles under the Special Exception, etc. on Side Strips caption: machine translation, not official art-17-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-17-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-17-3 **第一項** 特例特定小型原動機付自転車及び軽車両は、第十七条第一項の規定にかかわらず、著しく歩行者の通行を妨げることとなる場合を除き、道路の左側部分に設けられた路側帯（特例特定小型原動機付自転車及び軽車両の通行を禁止することを表示する道路標示によつて区画されたものを除く。）を通行することができる。 art-17-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-17-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-17-3/par-1 Notwithstanding Article 17, paragraph (1), a specified small motorized bicycle under the special exception and a light road vehicle may use a side strip on the left side of a road (other than a side strip demarcated by road markings prohibiting use by specified small motorized bicycles under the special exception and light road vehicles) unless doing so would greatly prevent pedestrians from proceeding. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の場合において、特例特定小型原動機付自転車及び軽車両は、歩行者の通行を妨げないような速度と方法で進行しなければならない。 art-17-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-17-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-17-3/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the driver of a specified small motorized bicycle under the special exception or a light road vehicle must progress down the side strip at such a speed and in such a way as to not prevent pedestrians from proceeding. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-17-3/par-1: 第十七条第一項 → 道路交通法 第十七条第一項 (Article 17, paragraph (1)), art-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-17/par-1 - art-17-3/par-2: 前項 → 道路交通法 第十七条の三第一項 (Article 17-3, paragraph (1)), art-17-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-17-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-17-3/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 第十七条の二第一項（特例特定小型原動機付自転車の歩道通行） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-17-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-17-2/par-1 - 道路交通法 第十七条の三第二項（特例特定小型原動機付自転車等の路側帯通行） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-17-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-17-3/par-2 - 道路交通法 第百二十一条第一項第八号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-121/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-121/par-1/item-8 --- ## 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-20261013T074321-003, 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