# 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-5021-42/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-5021-42/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5021-42/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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四条 suppl-5021-42/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-5021-42/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5021-42/art-4 **第一項** この法律による改正後の道路交通法（以下「新法」という。）第九十七条の二第一項第三号イからニまでの規定は、この法律の施行の日から起算して六月を経過した日（以下この条において「基準日」という。）の翌日以後に免許が失効した者について適用し、基準日以前に免許が失効した者については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-1 Article 97-2, paragraph (1), item (iii), (a) through (d) of the Road Traffic Act after its amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act") applies to a person whose license has expired on or after the day following the day on which six months have elapsed from the date this Act comes into effect (hereinafter in this Article, the day on which six months have elapsed is referred to as the "base date"), and for a person whose license expired on or before the base date, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official **第二項** 新法第百一条の四第二項の規定は、道路交通法第百一条第一項の更新期間が満了する日（同法第百一条の二第一項の規定による免許証の更新を申請しようとする者にあっては、当該申請をする日。以下この条において同じ。）が基準日以後である免許証の更新を受けようとする者について適用し、同法第百一条第一項の更新期間が満了する日が基準日の前日以前である免許証の更新を受けようとする者については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-2 Article 101-4, paragraph (2) of the New Act applies to a person seeking to renew a license for which the final day of the renewal period under Article 101, paragraph (1) of the Road Traffic Act (or, for a person seeking to apply for renewal of a license pursuant to Article 101-2, paragraph (1) of that Act, the day of filing that application; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) is on or after the base date, and for a person seeking to renew a license for which the final day of the renewal period under Article 101, paragraph (1) of that Act is on or before the day preceding the base date, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official **第三項** 新法第百一条の四第三項の規定は、道路交通法第百一条第一項の更新期間が満了する日が基準日以後である免許証の更新を受けようとする者について適用する。 suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-3 Article 101-4, paragraph (3) of the New Act applies to a person seeking to renew a license for which the final day of the renewal period under Article 101, paragraph (1) of the Road Traffic Act is on or after the base date. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-1: 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 - suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-1: この条 → 道路交通法 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-5021-42/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-5021-42/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5021-42/art-4 - suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-2: 新法第百一条の四第二項 → 道路交通法 第百一条の四第二項 (Article 101-4, paragraph (2)), art-101-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-101-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-101-4/par-2 - suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-2: 道路交通法第百一条第一項 → 道路交通法 第百一条第一項 (Article 101, paragraph (1)), art-101/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-101/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-101/par-1 - suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-2: 同法第百一条の二第一項 → 道路交通法 第百一条の二第一項 (Article 101-2, paragraph (1)), art-101-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-101-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-101-2/par-1 - suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-2: この条 → 道路交通法 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-5021-42/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-5021-42/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5021-42/art-4 - suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-3: 新法第百一条の四第三項 → 道路交通法 第百一条の四第三項 (Article 101-4, paragraph (3)), art-101-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-101-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-101-4/par-3 - suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-3: 道路交通法第百一条第一項 → 道路交通法 第百一条第一項 (Article 101, paragraph (1)), art-101/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/art-101/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/art-101/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 道路交通法 附則第三条第一項（免許等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-5021-42/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5021-42/art-3/par-1 - 道路交通法 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-1 - 道路交通法 附則第四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5021-42/art-4/par-2 - 道路交通法 附則第五条第一項（秘密保持義務に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-5021-42/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5021-42/art-5/par-1 - 道路交通法 附則第九条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-traffic-act/suppl-5021-42/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000105/suppl-5021-42/art-9/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-20261013T074321-019, 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