# 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)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4261-69/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-4261-69/art-9 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4261-69/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（罰則に関する経過措置） — (Transitional Measures for Penal Provisions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System suppl-4261-69/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4261-69/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4261-69/art-9 **第一項** この法律の施行前にした行為並びに附則第五条及び前二条の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4261-69/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4261-69/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4261-69/art-9/par-1 Prior laws continue to govern the applicability of penal provisions to conduct in which a person engages before this Act comes into force, and to conduct in which a person engages after this Act comes into force if prior laws are to continue to govern that conduct pursuant to Article 5 of the Supplementary Provisions and the two preceding Articles. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - suppl-4261-69/art-9/par-1: 附則第五条 → 道路交通法 附則第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5), suppl-4261-69/art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4261-69/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4261-69/art-5 ## 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-4261-69/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4261-69/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