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Chapter I General Provisions第一章 総則
Article 1第一条
Purpose of This Act(この法律の目的)
Article 1, paragraph (1)
The purpose of this Act is to pay Child Rearing Allowance for children who do not share a livelihood with their father or mother, in order to contribute to the stability of life and the promotion of self-reliance of the households in which those children are raised, and thereby to promote the welfare of children.
Child Rearing Allowance is paid for the purpose of contributing to the sound mental and physical growth of children, and a person who receives it must use it in accordance with that purpose.
A father or mother who receives payment of Child Rearing Allowance must voluntarily strive for self-reliance and endeavor to stabilize and improve the life of the household.
Payment of Child Rearing Allowance does not alter the degree or content of the duty of support that parents, etc. who have dissolved their marriage are to perform toward their children.
In this Act, "child" means a person who is in the period up to the first March 31 on or after the day on which the person reaches the age of 18, or a person under 20 years of age who is in a state of disability of a degree of severity specified by Cabinet Order.
In this Act, "public pension benefit" means the benefits set out in the following items.
この法律において「公的年金給付」とは、次の各号に掲げる給付をいう。
Article 3, paragraph (2), item (i)
Benefits in the form of a pension under the National Pension Act (Act No. 141 of 1959);
国民年金法(昭和三十四年法律第百四十一号)に基づく年金たる給付
Article 3, paragraph (2), item (ii)
Benefits in the form of a pension under the Employees' Pension Insurance Act (Act No. 115 of 1954) (including benefits in the form of a pension paid by the mutual aid association prescribed in Article 28 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act);
Benefits in the form of a pension under the Mariners Insurance Act (Act No. 73 of 1939) (limited to benefits in the form of a pension for which the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to Article 39 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Employment Insurance Act, etc. (Act No. 30 of 2007));
Benefits in the form of a pension under the Public Officers Pension Act (Act No. 48 of 1923) (including where it applies mutatis mutandis under other Acts);
恩給法(大正十二年法律第四十八号。他の法律において準用する場合を含む。)に基づく年金たる給付
Article 3, paragraph (2), item (v)
Benefits in the form of a pension under a Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance concerning retirement pensions of local public officers;
地方公務員の退職年金に関する条例に基づく年金たる給付
Article 3, paragraph (2), item (vi)
Benefits in the form of a pension paid by the Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations pursuant to the Act on Special Measures concerning Beneficiaries of Pension of Mutual Aid Association Established under Former Ordinances (Act No. 256 of 1950);
Benefits in the form of a pension under the Act on Relief of War Victims and Survivors (Act No. 127 of 1952);
戦傷病者戦没者遺族等援護法(昭和二十七年法律第百二十七号)に基づく年金たる給付
Article 3, paragraph (2), item (viii)
Allowances for families of unrepatriated persons and special allowances under the Act on Aid to Families and Others Related to Unrepatriated Persons (Act No. 161 of 1953) (including allowances prescribed in paragraph (45) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act);
Benefits in the form of a pension under the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act (Act No. 50 of 1947);
労働者災害補償保険法(昭和二十二年法律第五十号)に基づく年金たる給付
Article 3, paragraph (2), item (x)
Compensation in the form of a pension under the National Public Officers' Accident Compensation Act (Act No. 191 of 1951) (including where it applies mutatis mutandis under other Acts);
Compensation in the form of a pension under the provisions of a Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance based on the Act on Occupational Accident Compensation for Public School Physicians, Dentists, and Pharmacists (Act No. 143 of 1957);
Compensation in the form of a pension under the Local Public Officers Accident Compensation Act (Act No. 121 of 1967) and the provisions of Prefectural or Municipal Ordinances based on that Act.
地方公務員災害補償法(昭和四十二年法律第百二十一号)及び同法に基づく条例の規定に基づく年金たる補償
Article 3, paragraph (3)
In this Act, "marriage" is to include cases where a notification of marriage has not been filed but the circumstances are equivalent to a de facto marital relationship, "spouse" is to include a person who has not filed a notification of marriage but is in circumstances equivalent to a de facto marital relationship, and "father" is to include a person who, at the time the mother conceived the child, had not filed a notification of marriage but was in circumstances equivalent to a de facto marital relationship with the mother.
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