この法律による改正後の児童扶養手当法（以下「新法」という。）第四条第四項の規定は、前条第一項ただし書に規定する政令で定める日以後に父母が婚姻（婚姻の届出をしていないが、事実上婚姻関係と同様の事情にある場合を含む。）を解消したことにより新法第四条第一項第一号イ又は第二号イに該当するに至つた児童についての児童扶養手当（以下「手当」という。）に関して適用する。
The provisions of Article 4, paragraph (4) of the Child Rearing Allowance Act after the amendment by this Act (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act") apply to Child Rearing Allowance (hereinafter referred to as the "allowance") for a child who has come to fall under Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i), (a) or item (ii), (a) of the New Act as a result of the parents having, on or after the day specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in the proviso to paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, dissolved their marriage (including cases where the parents have not submitted a notification of marriage but are in circumstances equivalent to a de facto marital relationship).