# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-4071-74/art-4` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条 suppl-4071-74/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-4 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現にされている旧法二輪免許の申請は、当該旧法二輪免許により運転することができる旧法自動二輪車を普通自動二輪車に相当するものに限定してされたものについては普通自動二輪車免許の申請と、それ以外のものについては大型自動二輪車免許の申請とみなす。 suppl-4071-74/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-4/par-1 An application for a motorcycle license as referred to in the Former Act that is pending at the time this Act comes into force is deemed to be an application for a standard motorcycle license if the motorcycles as referred to in the Former Act that the person would be permitted drive with the motorcycle license as referred to in the Former Act would have been restricted to those that are equivalent to standard motorcycles, and is deemed to be an application for a large motorcycle license if this is not the case. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 附則第五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4071-74/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4071-74/art-5/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