# 道路運送車両法 / Road Transport Vehicle Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)

- 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（第四条の規定による改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-5011-14/art-4`
- Text in force since: 2026-04-01
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- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-5011-14/art-4
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### 第四条（第四条の規定による改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Amendment by the Provisions of Article 4
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<sup>suppl-5011-14/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-5011-14/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-5011-14/art-4</sup>

**第一項**  第四条の規定による改正後の道路運送車両法（以下「第六号新法」という。）第七十四条の五第一項及び第七十四条の六第一項の規定による委託に関し必要な手続その他の行為は、附則第一条第六号に掲げる規定の施行の日（以下「第六号施行日」という。）前においても行うことができる。
<sup>suppl-5011-14/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-5011-14/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-5011-14/art-4/par-1</sup>
Procedures and other acts necessary in relation to the entrustment under Article 74-5, paragraph (1) and Article 74-6, paragraph (1) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act as amended by the provisions of Article 4 (hereinafter referred to as the "item (vi) New Act") may be carried out even before the date on which the provisions set forth in Article 1, item (vi) of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "item (vi) Effective Date").
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-5011-14/art-4/par-1: 第七十四条の五第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第七十四条の五第一項 (Article 74-5, paragraph (1)), art-74-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-74-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-74-5/par-1
- suppl-5011-14/art-4/par-1: 第七十四条の六第一項 → 道路運送車両法 第七十四条の六第一項 (Article 74-6, paragraph (1)), art-74-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/art-74-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/art-74-6/par-1
- suppl-5011-14/art-4/par-1: 附則第一条第六号 → 道路運送車両法 附則第一条第一項第六号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (vi)), suppl-5011-14/art-1/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-5011-14/art-1/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-5011-14/art-1/par-1/item-6

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 道路運送車両法 附則第一条第一項第五号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/road-transport-vehicle-act/suppl-5011-14/art-1/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326AC0000000185/suppl-5011-14/art-1/par-1/item-5

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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-20261013T120733-049, 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
