一the father or mother of a child other than a child placed in a facility, etc. (hereinafter referred to as a "child under the requirements for payment") who raises that child and shares a livelihood with that child (or, if there is a guardian of a minor for that child under the requirements for payment, that guardian of a minor; hereinafter referred to as a "parent, etc." in this paragraph), and who has a domicile in Japan (if the guardian of a minor is a corporation, the domicile is the location of its principal office);

二among persons who live with, raise, and share a livelihood with a child under the requirements for payment whose livelihood is maintained by a parent, etc. who does not have a domicile in Japan (or, if it is found difficult to live with that child under the requirements for payment, persons who raise, and share a livelihood with, that child under the requirements for payment), a person who is designated by the parent, etc. maintaining the livelihood of that child under the requirements for payment and who has a domicile in Japan (excluding the parent, etc. of that child under the requirements for payment; hereinafter referred to as a "parent's designee");

三a person who has a domicile in Japan and who raises, and maintains the livelihood of, a child under the requirements for payment who is not raised by any parent, etc. or parent's designee, or who does not share a livelihood with any of them;

四a person who conducts child independent living assistance for a child placed in a facility, etc., a person who conducts the small-scale residential child care project or a foster parent to whom a child placed in a facility, etc. has been entrusted, or the founder of a maternal and child living support facility, residential facility for children with disabilities, designated medical institution for developmental support, infant home, etc., facility designed to support persons with disabilities, Nozominosono, relief facility, rehabilitation facility, residential facility for daily living support or women's self-reliance support facility (hereinafter referred to as a "residential facility for children with disabilities, etc.") in which a child placed in a facility, etc. is admitted or hospitalized.

二child allowance for a corporate eligible recipient: the sum of the amount obtained by multiplying the amount for children aged three or over by the number of persons each of whom is a covered child aged three or over and the amount obtained by multiplying the amount for children under three by the number of persons each of whom is a covered child under three;

三child allowance for a facility eligible recipient: the sum of the amount obtained by multiplying the amount for children aged three or over by the number of persons each of whom is a child placed in a facility, etc. aged three or over and the amount obtained by multiplying the amount for children under three by the number of persons each of whom is a child placed in a facility, etc. under three.

一"individual eligible recipient" means a general eligible recipient prescribed in paragraph (1) of the following Article (referred to as a "general eligible recipient" in item (vi)) other than a corporate eligible recipient;

二"person counted for the amount for third and later children" means a person who is in the period up to the first March 31 on or after the day on which the person attains the age of 22 (excluding children and extended persons, etc. (meaning extended persons prescribed in Article 31, paragraph (4) of the Child Welfare Act and persons similar thereto specified by Cabinet Office Order, limited to those who have passed the first March 31 on or after the day on which they attained the age of 18)), who is specified by Cabinet Office Order as a person for whom an individual eligible recipient provides daily care equivalent to raising the person and necessary protection and bears a considerable part of the person's living expenses, and who has a domicile in Japan or does not have a domicile in Japan for a reason specified by Cabinet Office Order, such as study abroad;

三"covered child" means a child under the requirements for payment pertaining to the certification under paragraph (1) of the following Article;

四"covered child aged three or over" means a covered child aged three or over (in the case of a covered child born on the first day of a month, one for whom three years have passed from the day of birth);

五"covered child under three" means a covered child under the age of three (in the case of a covered child born on the first day of a month, one for whom three years have not passed from the day of birth);

六"corporate eligible recipient" means a general eligible recipient (limited to a person falling under Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i)) who is a guardian of a minor and is a corporation;

七"facility eligible recipient" means a facility eligible recipient prescribed in paragraph (2) of the following Article;

八"child placed in a facility, etc. aged three or over" means a child placed in a facility, etc. aged three or over pertaining to the certification under paragraph (2) of the following Article (in the case of a child placed in a facility, etc. born on the first day of a month, one for whom three years have passed from the day of birth);

九"child placed in a facility, etc. under three" means a child placed in a facility, etc. under the age of three pertaining to the certification under paragraph (2) of the following Article (in the case of a child placed in a facility, etc. born on the first day of a month, one for whom three years have not passed from the day of birth).