# 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-4191-9`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4191-9
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4191-9
- 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.

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## 附　則 平成一九年三月三〇日法律第九号
<sup>suppl-4191-9 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4191-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4191-9</sup>

### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4191-9/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4191-9/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4191-9/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、平成十九年四月一日から施行する。ただし、第二条中道路運送車両法第百二条の改正規定、附則第九条の規定並びに附則第十二条中特別会計に関する法律（平成十九年法律第二十三号）第二百十三条第二項第一号ロ及び附則第百五十八条第一号ロの改正規定は、公布の日から起算して一年を超えない範囲内において政令で定める日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-4191-9/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4191-9/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4191-9/art-1/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect as of April 1, 2007; provided, however, that the provisions in Article 2 amending Article 102 of the Road Transport Vehicle Act, the provisions of Article 9 of the Supplementary Provisions, and the provisions in Article 12 of the Supplementary Provisions amending Article 213, paragraph (2), item (i), (b) and Article 158, item (i), (b) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act on Special Accounts (Act No. 23 of 2007) come into effect as of the date specified by Cabinet Order within a period not exceeding one year from the date of promulgation.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

### 第八条（政令への委任） — Delegation to Cabinet Order
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4191-9/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4191-9/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4191-9/art-8</sup>

**第一項**  附則第二条から前条までに定めるもののほか、この法律の施行に関し必要な経過措置は、政令で定める。
<sup>suppl-4191-9/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4191-9/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4191-9/art-8/par-1</sup>
Beyond what is provided for in Article 2 through the preceding Article of the Supplementary Provisions, the transitional measures necessary for the enforcement of this Act are specified by Cabinet Order.
<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-20261013T120733-046, 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
