# 道路交通法 / Road Traffic Act — 第四十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 48) - 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: 第四十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 48)（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4291-52/art-48` - Text in force since: 2026-07-21 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4291-52/art-48 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4291-52/art-48 - 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. --- ### 第四十八条（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Application of Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4291-52/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4291-52/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4291-52/art-48 **第一項** この法律（附則第一条各号に掲げる規定については、当該各規定。以下この条において同じ。）の施行前にした行為及びこの附則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-4291-52/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4291-52/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4291-52/art-48/par-1 With regard to the application of penal provisions to conduct engaged in before this Act (or, for the provisions set forth in the items of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions, those respective provisions; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) comes into effect and to conduct engaged in after this Act comes into effect in the case where the provisions then in force are to remain applicable pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4291-52/art-48/par-1: 附則第一条 → 道路交通法 附則第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1), suppl-4291-52/art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4291-52/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4291-52/art-1 - suppl-4291-52/art-48/par-1: この条 → 道路交通法 附則第四十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 48), suppl-4291-52/art-48 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4291-52/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4291-52/art-48 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 附則第四十八条第一項（罰則の適用に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-4291-52/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-4291-52/art-48/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-traffic-act-20261013T074321-018, translated 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