# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第九十六条の二 (Article 96-2) - 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: 第九十六条の二 (Article 96-2) — address `art-96-2` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-96-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-96-2 - 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. --- ### 第九十六条の二 art-96-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-96-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-96-2 **第一項** 大型免許、中型免許、準中型免許、普通免許、大型第二種免許、中型第二種免許又は普通第二種免許の運転免許試験を受けようとする者（政令で定める者を除く。）は、仮免許（大型免許又は大型第二種免許の運転免許試験を受けようとする者にあつては大型仮免許、中型免許又は中型第二種免許の運転免許試験を受けようとする者にあつては大型仮免許又は中型仮免許、準中型免許の運転免許試験を受けようとする者にあつては大型仮免許、中型仮免許又は準中型仮免許）を現に受けている者に該当し、かつ、過去三月以内に五日以上、内閣府令で定めるところにより道路において自動車の運転の練習をした者でなければならない。 art-96-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-96-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-96-2/par-1 A person seeking to take a driver's license test for an S-MVL, SM-MVL, M-MVL, or L-MVL, or for a class 2 S-MVL, class 2 M-MVL, or class 2 L-MVL (other than persons that Cabinet Order prescribes) must currently hold a provisional license (meaning a provisional L-MVL, for a person seeking to take a driver's license test for an L-MVL or class 2 L-MVL; a provisional L-MVL or provisional M-MVL, for a person seeking to take a driver's license test for an M-MVL or class 2 M-MVL; or a provisional L-MVL, provisional M-MVL, or provisional SM-MVL, for a person seeking to take a driver's license test for an SM-MVL) and must have practiced driving a motor vehicle on the road on at least five days within the past three months, pursuant to Cabinet Office Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 附則第六項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-3471-51/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-3471-51/par-6 - 道路交通法 附則第三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4131-51/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4131-51/art-3/par-2 - 道路交通法 附則第十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4161-90/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4161-90/art-13/par-1 --- ## 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