Article 13-3

①Payment of the allowance to an eligible recipient (excluding a person raising the child; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) is partly withheld, as provided by Cabinet Order, when five years have elapsed from the first day of the first month of payment, or seven years have elapsed from the first day of the month containing the day on which the requirements for payment of the allowance came to be met (or, in the case of an eligible recipient who had in custody a child under three years of age on the day of making a claim for certification under Article 6, paragraph (1), when five years have elapsed from the first day of the month following the month containing the day on which that child reached the age of three); provided, however, that the amount so withheld may not exceed an amount equivalent to one-half of the amount of the allowance to be paid to that eligible recipient in the month following the month containing the day on which that period elapsed.

②If an eligible recipient, after the period prescribed in the preceding paragraph has elapsed, has a physical disability or otherwise falls under grounds specified by Cabinet Order, the preceding paragraph does not apply to that eligible recipient during the period in which the recipient falls under such grounds, as provided by Cabinet Office Order.