# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9) - 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: 第九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 9) — address `suppl-4161-90/art-9` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4161-90/art-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4161-90/art-9 - 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. --- ### 第九条 suppl-4161-90/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4161-90/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4161-90/art-9 **第一項** 第四条の規定の施行の際現に附則第六条の規定により中型免許とみなされる旧法普通免許を受けている者及び次条の規定により中型免許に係る運転免許試験に合格した者とみなされて中型免許を受けた者は、新法第七十一条の五第一項及び第八十五条第七項の規定の適用については、普通免許を受けた者とみなす。 suppl-4161-90/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4161-90/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4161-90/art-9/par-1 To apply Article 71-5, paragraph (1) and Article 85, paragraph (7) of the New Act, person who, at the time Article 4 comes into force, holds an S-MVL as referred to in the Former Act which is deemed to be an M-MVL pursuant to Article 6 of the Supplementary Provisions, or a person who, at the time Article 4 comes into force, holds an M-MVL and is deemed to have passed a driver's license test for an M-MVL pursuant to the following Article is deemed to be person holding an S-MVL. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4161-90/art-9/par-1: 附則第六条 → 道路交通法 附則第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6), suppl-4161-90/art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4161-90/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4161-90/art-6 - suppl-4161-90/art-9/par-1: 次条 → 道路交通法 附則第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10), suppl-4161-90/art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4161-90/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4161-90/art-10 - suppl-4161-90/art-9/par-1: 新法第七十一条の五第一項 → 道路交通法 第七十一条の五第一項 (Article 71-5, paragraph (1)), art-71-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-71-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-71-5/par-1 - suppl-4161-90/art-9/par-1: 第八十五条第七項 → 道路交通法 第八十五条第七項 (Article 85, paragraph (7)), art-85/par-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-85/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-85/par-7 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 附則第二十五条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4161-90/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4161-90/art-25/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