# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-4251-43/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4251-43/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4251-43/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条 suppl-4251-43/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4251-43/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4251-43/art-3 **第一項** 新法第九十六条の三第二項の規定は、この法律の施行の際現に第二条の規定による改正前の道路交通法第八十九条第一項の規定により免許の申請をしている者については、適用しない。 suppl-4251-43/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4251-43/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4251-43/art-3/par-1 Article 96-3, paragraph (2), of the New Act does not apply to a person who has applied for a driver's license pursuant to Article 89, paragraph (1) of the Road Traffic Act before its amendment by Article 2, as of time this Act comes into force. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Article 96-3, paragraph (2), of the New Act does not apply to a person who has applied for a driver's license pursuant to Article 89, paragraph 1) of the Road Traffic Act before its amendment by Article 2, as of time this Act comes into force." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2962/tb --- ## Cites - suppl-4251-43/art-3/par-1: 新法第九十六条の三第二項 → 道路交通法 第九十六条の三第二項 (Article 96-3, paragraph (2)), art-96-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-96-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-96-3/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 附則第六条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4251-43/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4251-43/art-6/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Slips in the Ministry of Justice's English of the Road Traffic Act, corrected, written 2026-10-13 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Road Traffic Act (道路交通法), Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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