# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第百五十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 159) - 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: 第百五十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 159)（国等の事務） — address `suppl-4111-87/art-159` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4111-87/art-159 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4111-87/art-159 - 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. --- ### 第百五十九条（国等の事務） — (Administrative Processes of the National Government and Other Public Entities) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System suppl-4111-87/art-159 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4111-87/art-159 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4111-87/art-159 **第一項** この法律による改正前のそれぞれの法律に規定するもののほか、この法律の施行前において、地方公共団体の機関が法律又はこれに基づく政令により管理し又は執行する国、他の地方公共団体その他公共団体の事務（附則第百六十一条において「国等の事務」という。）は、この法律の施行後は、地方公共団体が法律又はこれに基づく政令により当該地方公共団体の事務として処理するものとする。 suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1 Beyond as prescribed in the relevant Acts before their amendment under this Act, after this Act comes into force, a local government is to handle, as its own administrative processes, the administrative processes of the national government, of local governments other than itself, and of other public entities (referred to as "administrative processes of the national government and other public entities" in Article 161 of the Supplementary Provisions) which, before this Act comes into force, an entity of that local government manages or performs pursuant to an Act or pursuant to a Cabinet Order based on an Act, and is to do so pursuant to that Act or pursuant to a Cabinet Order based on an Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4111-87/art-159/par-1: 附則第百六十一条 → 道路交通法 附則第百六十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 161), suppl-4111-87/art-161 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4111-87/art-161 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4111-87/art-161 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 附則第百六十条第一項（処分、申請等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4111-87/art-160/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4111-87/art-160/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