Where payment has been made as payment of the allowance even though the allowance should not have been paid, the allowance so paid may be deemed to be an advance payment of the allowance to be paid thereafter. The same applies to the amount to be returned where all or part of an amount equivalent to the allowance already received is to be returned under Article 12, paragraph (2), and to the portion that should have been reduced of an allowance, where grounds have arisen for revising the amount of the allowance by reducing it but an allowance of an unreduced amount has been paid for the months from the month following the month containing the day on which those grounds arose.
略称規定第四条第一項
…次の各号に掲げる場合の区分に応じ、それぞれ当該各号に定める者に対し、児童扶養手当(以下「手当」という。)を支給する。
わかりやすく言うと
この法律による児童扶養手当のことです。都道府県知事や市長などが、父母の婚姻の解消や一方の親の死亡・障害などに当たる児童を監護する母、監護して生計を同じくする父、または父母以外でその児童を養育する人に支給します。