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Article 4Requirement for Payment

第四条（支給要件）

The prefectural governor, the mayors of cities (including the heads of special wards; the same applies hereinafter), and the heads of towns and villages that administer a welfare office (meaning an office for welfare prescribed in the ; the same applies hereinafter) (hereinafter referred to as "prefectural governor, etc.") are to pay Child Rearing Allowance (hereinafter referred to as "the allowance"), according to the categories of cases set out in the following items, to the person prescribed in each such item.

都道府県知事、市長（特別区の区長を含む。以下同じ。）及び福祉事務所（に定める福祉に関する事務所をいう。以下同じ。）を管理する町村長（以下「都道府県知事等」という。）は、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。

In the case where the mother of a child who falls under any of (a) through (e) has custody of the child: that mother;

次のイからホまでのいずれかに該当する児童の母が当該児童を監護する場合　当該母

A child whose parents have dissolved their marriage;

父母が婚姻を解消した児童

A child whose father has died;

父が死亡した児童

A child whose father is in a state of disability of a degree of severity specified by Cabinet Order;

父が政令で定める程度の障害の状態にある児童

A child whose father's life or death is unknown;

父の生死が明らかでない児童

Any other child in a condition equivalent to that of those under (a) through (d) who is specified by Cabinet Order;

その他イからニまでに準ずる状態にある児童で政令で定めるもの

In the case where the father of a child falling under any of (a) through (e) below has custody of the child and shares a livelihood with the child: that father;

次のイからホまでのいずれかに該当する児童の父が当該児童を監護し、かつ、これと生計を同じくする場合　当該父

A child whose parents have dissolved their marriage;

父母が婚姻を解消した児童

A child whose mother has died;

母が死亡した児童

A child whose mother has a disability of a degree of severity specified by the Cabinet Order referred to in (c) of the preceding item;

母が前号ハの政令で定める程度の障害の状態にある児童

A child whose mother's life or death is unknown;

母の生死が明らかでない児童

Any other child in a condition equivalent to that of those under (a) through (d) who is specified by Cabinet Order;

その他イからニまでに準ずる状態にある児童で政令で定めるもの

In the case where a mother does not have custody of a child falling under any of (a) through (e) of item (i), or where there is no mother of a child falling under any of (a) through (e) of that item (excluding a child falling under (b) of that item), and a person other than that mother raises the child (meaning living with the child, having custody of the child and maintaining the child's livelihood; the same applies hereinafter); in the case where a father does not have custody of a child falling under any of (a) through (e) of the preceding item or does not share a livelihood with the child (excluding the case where there is no father), or where there is no father of a child falling under any of (a) through (e) of that item (excluding a child falling under (b) of that item), and a person other than that father raises the child; or in the case where there is neither father nor mother, and a person other than that father and mother raises the child: that person raising the child.

第一号イからホまでのいずれかに該当する児童を母が監護しない場合若しくは同号イからホまでのいずれかに該当する児童（同号ロに該当するものを除く。）の母がない場合であつて、当該母以外の者が当該児童を養育する（児童と同居して、これを監護し、かつ、その生計を維持することをいう。以下同じ。）とき、前号イからホまでのいずれかに該当する児童を父が監護しないか、若しくはこれと生計を同じくしない場合（父がない場合を除く。）若しくは同号イからホまでのいずれかに該当する児童（同号ロに該当するものを除く。）の父がない場合であつて、当該父以外の者が当該児童を養育するとき、又は父母がない場合であつて、当該父母以外の者が当該児童を養育するとき　当該養育者

Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, the allowance is not paid for a child where, in the case of the allowance for a mother or person raising the child, the child falls under any of items (i) through (iv) of this paragraph, or, in the case of the allowance for a father, the child falls under any of items (i), (ii), (v) or (vi) of this paragraph.

前項の規定にかかわらず、手当は、母又は養育者に対する手当にあつては児童が第一号から第四号までのいずれかに該当するとき、父に対する手当にあつては児童が第一号、第二号、第五号又は第六号のいずれかに該当するときは、当該児童については、支給しない。

When the child does not have a domicile in Japan;

日本国内に住所を有しないとき。

When the child has been entrusted to a foster parent prescribed in ;

に規定する里親に委託されているとき。

When the child shares a livelihood with the father; provided, however, that this does not apply when that person has a disability of a degree of severity specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in paragraph (1), item (i), (c);

父と生計を同じくしているとき。ただし、その者が前項第一号ハに規定する政令で定める程度の障害の状態にあるときを除く。

When the child is being raised by the spouse of the mother (excluding a father who has a disability of a degree of severity specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in paragraph (1), item (i), (c));

母の配偶者（前項第一号ハに規定する政令で定める程度の障害の状態にある父を除く。）に養育されているとき。

When the child shares a livelihood with the mother; provided, however, that this does not apply when that person has a disability of a degree of severity specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in paragraph (1), item (i), (c);

母と生計を同じくしているとき。ただし、その者が前項第一号ハに規定する政令で定める程度の障害の状態にあるときを除く。

When the child is being raised by the spouse of the father (excluding a mother who has a disability of a degree of severity specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in paragraph (1), item (i), (c)).

父の配偶者（前項第一号ハに規定する政令で定める程度の障害の状態にある母を除く。）に養育されているとき。

Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the allowance is not paid where, in the case of the allowance for a mother, that mother, in the case of the allowance for a father, that father, or in the case of the allowance for a person raising the child, that person raising the child, does not have a domicile in Japan.

第一項の規定にかかわらず、手当は、母に対する手当にあつては当該母が、父に対する手当にあつては当該父が、養育者に対する手当にあつては当該養育者が、日本国内に住所を有しないときは、支給しない。

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