# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8)

- 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: 第八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 8) — address `suppl-4061-86/art-8`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4061-86/art-8
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4061-86/art-8
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### 第八条
<sup>suppl-4061-86/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4061-86/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4061-86/art-8</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行前に旧法又はこれに基づく命令の規定によってした処分、手続その他の行為であって新法又はこれに基づく命令の規定に相当の規定があるものは、附則第二条及び第六条に規定するものを除き、新法又はこれに基づく命令の相当規定によってしたものとみなす。
<sup>suppl-4061-86/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4061-86/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4061-86/art-8/par-1</sup>
A disposition, procedure or other act carried out before this Act comes into effect under the provisions of the Former Act or orders based thereon, for which the New Act or orders based thereon contain corresponding provisions, is, except for those prescribed in Articles 2 and 6 of the Supplementary Provisions, deemed to have been carried out under the corresponding provisions of the New Act or orders based thereon.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4061-86/art-8/par-1: 附則第二条 → 道路運送車両法 附則第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2), suppl-4061-86/art-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4061-86/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4061-86/art-2
- suppl-4061-86/art-8/par-1: 第六条 → 道路運送車両法 附則第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6), suppl-4061-86/art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4061-86/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4061-86/art-6

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 道路運送車両法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4061-86/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4061-86/art-1/par-1
- 道路運送車両法 附則第五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4061-86/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4061-86/art-5/par-1
- 道路運送車両法 附則第十条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4061-86/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4061-86/art-10/par-1

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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-20261013T120733-042, 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
