# 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-4131-51/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-4131-51/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4131-51/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-4131-51/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4131-51/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4131-51/art-4 **第一項** 旧法第九十七条の二第一項第二号に規定する特定失効者に該当する者であってその運転免許試験を受けることができなかった事情がこの法律の公布の日前に生じたものに対する新法第九十七条の二第一項第三号の規定の適用については、同号中「当該効力を失つた日から起算して三年を経過しない場合に限り、当該事情」とあるのは、「当該事情」とする。 suppl-4131-51/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4131-51/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4131-51/art-4/par-1 To apply Article 97-2, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the New Act to a person falling under the category of a specified holder of an expired license as prescribed in Article 97-2, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Former Act if the circumstances due to which that person could not take the driver's license arose prior to the day of promulgation of this Act, the phrase "if it has been less than one month since the date on which those compelling circumstances came to an end, but only if it has been less than three years since the expiration date" is deemed to be replaced with "if it has been less than one month since the date on which those compelling circumstances came to an end". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4131-51/art-4/par-1: 新法第九十七条の二第一項第三号 → 道路交通法 第九十七条の二第一項第三号 (Article 97-2, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-97-2/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-97-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-97-2/par-1/item-3 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 附則第十条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4131-51/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4131-51/art-10/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