# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) - 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-4271-44/art-1` - Text in force since: 2026-04-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4271-44/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4271-44/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4271-44/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4271-44/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4271-44/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、平成二十八年四月一日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。 suppl-4271-44/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4271-44/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4271-44/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on April 1, 2016; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified in those items: machine translation, not official **一** 第一条中道路運送車両法第六十三条の四第一項の改正規定並びに附則第十二条第二項及び第三項並びに第十九条の規定　公布の日 suppl-4271-44/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4271-44/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4271-44/art-1/par-1/item-1 The provisions amending Article 63-4, paragraph (1) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act in Article 1, and the provisions of Article 12, paragraphs (2) and (3) and Article 19 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation; machine translation, not official **二** 第一条中道路運送車両法第七条第三項、第十一条、第九十四条の五第七項及び第百五条の二の改正規定、同法第百八条第一号の改正規定（「第十一条第四項」を「第十一条第五項」に改める部分に限る。）並びに同法第百九条第一号の改正規定並びに附則第二十一条の規定　平成二十八年三月三十一日までの間において政令で定める日 suppl-4271-44/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4271-44/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4271-44/art-1/par-1/item-2 The provisions amending Article 7, paragraph (3), Article 11, Article 94-5, paragraph (7) and Article 105-2 of the Road Transport Vehicle Act in Article 1, the provisions amending Article 108, item (i) of that Act in Article 1 (limited to the part replacing "Article 11, paragraph (4)" with "Article 11, paragraph (5)"), the provisions amending Article 109, item (i) of that Act in Article 1, and the provisions of Article 21 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date specified by Cabinet Order on or before March 31, 2016. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4271-44/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第十九条 → 道路運送車両法 附則第十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 19), suppl-4271-44/art-19 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-4271-44/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-4271-44/art-19 --- ## 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-20261013T120733-047, 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