# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions)

- Law: 道路運送車両法 (Road Transport Vehicle Act), 昭和二十六年法律第百八十五号
- English title "Road Transport Vehicle Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title
- 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-3451-80`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3451-80
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3451-80
- 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.

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## 附　則 昭和四五年五月二〇日法律第八〇号
<sup>suppl-3451-80 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3451-80 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3451-80</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、公布の日から施行する。ただし、第一条中運輸省設置法第二十九条の改正規定（交通安全公害研究所に係る部分に限る。）並びに同法第三十条、第三十二条、第三十三条、第六十八条及び第七十五条の改正規定並びに第四条及び附則第六項の規定は昭和四十五年七月一日から、第一条中同法第三十七条第二項の改正規定は同年八月一日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-3451-80/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-3451-80/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-3451-80/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect as of the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions amending Article 29 of the Ministry of Transport Establishment Act in Article 1 (limited to the part concerning the Transport Safety and Pollution Research Institute), the provisions amending Articles 30, 32, 33, 68 and 75 of that Act, and the provisions of Article 4 and paragraph (6) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect as of July 1, 1970, and the provisions amending Article 37, paragraph (2) of that Act in Article 1 come into effect as of August 1 of the same year.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 道路運送車両法 — the text in force from 2026-04-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326AC0000000185/20260401_508AC0000000002), retrieved 2026-10-13
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 道路運送車両法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/529), retrieved 2026-09-18
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch road-transport-vehicle-act-20261013T120733-039, translated 2026-10-13
- This site's parser, version 189 — 道路運送車両法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13
