# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第九十九条の三 (Article 99-3)

- 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: 第九十九条の三 (Article 99-3)（教習指導員） — address `art-99-3`
- Text in force since: 2026-07-21
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-3
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-3
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### 第九十九条の三（教習指導員） — (Instructors)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-99-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-3</sup>

  **第一項**  指定自動車教習所を管理する者は、自動車の運転に関する技能及び知識の教習を行わせるため、教習指導員を選任しなければならない。
  <sup>art-99-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-3/par-1</sup>
  The person managing a designated driving school must appoint an instructor to provide instruction in motor vehicle driving skills and knowledge.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第二項**  第四項の教習指導員資格者証の交付を受けていない者は、教習指導員となることができない。
  <sup>art-99-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-3/par-2</sup>
  A person who has not been issued an instructor certificate as referred to in paragraph (4) may not become an instructor.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第三項**  指定自動車教習所を管理する者は、自動車の運転に関する技能又は知識の教習を、教習指導員以外の者に行わせてはならない。
  <sup>art-99-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-3/par-3</sup>
  A person managing a designated driving school must not allow a person other than an instructor to provide instruction in motor vehicle driving skills or knowledge.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第四項**  公安委員会は、次の各号のいずれにも該当する者に対し、教習指導員資格者証を交付する。
  <sup>art-99-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-3/par-4</sup>
  A public safety commission issues an instructor certificate to a person falling under both of the following items:
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

    **一**  次のいずれかに該当する者
    <sup>art-99-3/par-4/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-3/par-4/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-3/par-4/item-1</sup>
    one who is either of the following:
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

      **イ**  公安委員会が国家公安委員会規則で定めるところにより自動車の運転に関する技能及び知識の教習に関する技能及び知識に関して行う審査に合格した者
      <sup>art-99-3/par-4/item-1/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-3/par-4/item-1/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-3/par-4/item-1/sub-1</sup>
      a person who has passed a screening administered by a public safety commission on the skills and knowledge involved in instructing persons on the skills and knowledge involved in driving motor vehicles, pursuant to Rules of the National Public Safety Commission;
      <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

      **ロ**  自動車安全運転センターが行う自動車の運転に関する研修の課程であつて国家公安委員会が指定するものを修了した者
      <sup>art-99-3/par-4/item-1/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-3/par-4/item-1/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-3/par-4/item-1/sub-2</sup>
      a person who has completed a course in motor vehicle driving instruction offered by the Japan Safe Driving Center as designated by the National Public Safety Commission;
      <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

      **ハ**  公安委員会が国家公安委員会規則で定めるところにより自動車の運転に関する技能及び知識の教習に関しイ又はロに掲げる者と同等以上の技能及び知識があると認める者
      <sup>art-99-3/par-4/item-1/sub-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-3/par-4/item-1/sub-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-3/par-4/item-1/sub-3</sup>
      a person whom the public safety commission finds, pursuant to Rules of the National Public Safety Commission, has at least the same level of skills and knowledge in instructing persons on the skills and knowledge involved in driving motor vehicles as a person set forth in (a) or (b); and
      <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

    **二**  次のいずれにも該当しない者
    <sup>art-99-3/par-4/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-3/par-4/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-3/par-4/item-2</sup>
    one who is none of the following:
    <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

      **イ**  二十一歳未満の者
      <sup>art-99-3/par-4/item-2/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-3/par-4/item-2/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-3/par-4/item-2/sub-1</sup>
      under 21 years of age;
      <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

      **ロ**  次項において準用する前条第五項第二号又は第三号に該当して次項において準用する同条第五項の規定により教習指導員資格者証の返納を命ぜられ、その返納の日から起算して三年を経過していない者
      <sup>art-99-3/par-4/item-2/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-3/par-4/item-2/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-3/par-4/item-2/sub-2</sup>
      a person to whom paragraph (5), item (ii) or (iii) of the preceding Article applies mutatis mutandis pursuant to the following paragraph, who has been ordered to return an instructor certificate pursuant to paragraph (5) of the preceding Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the following paragraph, if it has been less than three years since the date of the return;
      <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

      **ハ**  前条第四項第二号ロからニまでのいずれかに該当する者
      <sup>art-99-3/par-4/item-2/sub-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-3/par-4/item-2/sub-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-3/par-4/item-2/sub-3</sup>
      a person to whom any of paragraph (4), item (ii), subitems (b) through (d) of the preceding Article applies.
      <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第五項**  前条第五項及び第六項の規定は、教習指導員資格者証について準用する。この場合において、同条第五項第三号中「技能検定員」とあるのは、「教習指導員」と読み替えるものとする。
  <sup>art-99-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-3/par-5</sup>
  The provisions of paragraphs (5) and (6) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to instructor certificates. In such a case, the term "skills evaluator" in paragraph (5), item (iii) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "instructor".
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-99-3/par-2: 第四項 → 道路交通法 第九十九条の三第四項 (Article 99-3, paragraph (4)), art-99-3/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-3/par-4
- art-99-3/par-4/item-2/sub-2: 次項 → 道路交通法 第九十九条の三第五項 (Article 99-3, paragraph (5)), art-99-3/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-3/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-3/par-5
- art-99-3/par-4/item-2/sub-2: 前条第五項第二号 → 道路交通法 第九十九条の二第五項第二号 (Article 99-2, paragraph (5), item (ii)), art-99-2/par-5/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-2/par-5/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-2/par-5/item-2
- art-99-3/par-4/item-2/sub-2: 第三号 → 道路交通法 第九十九条の二第五項第三号 (Article 99-2, paragraph (5), item (iii)), art-99-2/par-5/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-2/par-5/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-2/par-5/item-3
- art-99-3/par-4/item-2/sub-2: 同条第五項 → 道路交通法 第九十九条の二第五項 (Article 99-2, paragraph (5)), art-99-2/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-2/par-5
- art-99-3/par-4/item-2/sub-3: 前条第四項第二号 → 道路交通法 第九十九条の二第四項第二号 (Article 99-2, paragraph (4), item (ii)), art-99-2/par-4/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-2/par-4/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-2/par-4/item-2
- art-99-3/par-5: 前条第五項 → 道路交通法 第九十九条の二第五項 (Article 99-2, paragraph (5)), art-99-2/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-2/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-2/par-5
- art-99-3/par-5: 第六項 → 道路交通法 第九十九条の二第六項 (Article 99-2, paragraph (6)), art-99-2/par-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-2/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-2/par-6
- art-99-3/par-5: 同条第五項第三号 → 道路交通法 第九十九条の二第五項第三号 (Article 99-2, paragraph (5), item (iii)), art-99-2/par-5/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-2/par-5/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-2/par-5/item-3

## Cited by

9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 道路交通法 第九十九条第一項第三号（指定自動車教習所の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99/par-1/item-3
- 道路交通法 第九十九条の三第二項（教習指導員） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-3/par-2
- 道路交通法 第九十九条の三第四項第二号ロ（教習指導員） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-99-3/par-4/item-2/sub-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-99-3/par-4/item-2/sub-2
- 道路交通法 第百条第一項（指定自動車教習所の指定の取消し等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-100/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-100/par-1
- 道路交通法 第百十二条第一項第九号（免許等に関する手数料） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-112/par-1/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-112/par-1/item-9
- 道路交通法 第百十二条第一項第十号（免許等に関する手数料） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-112/par-1/item-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-112/par-1/item-10
- 道路交通法 附則第七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4051-43/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4051-43/art-7/par-1
- 道路交通法 附則第七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4051-43/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4051-43/art-7/par-2
- 道路交通法 附則第八条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4051-43/art-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4051-43/art-8/par-4

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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
- This site's parser, version 190 — 道路交通法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13