This Act comes into effect on June 1, 1986; provided, however, that the provisions amending Articles 4 through 6 of the Supplementary Provisions, and the provisions of Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions (excluding paragraph (3)) and Article 5 of the Supplementary Provisions (excluding the part that applies mutatis mutandis the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions) come into effect on the date of promulgation.

①During the period from June 1, 1986 to March 31, 1987, the phrase "two or more children including a child who has not yet started compulsory education" in Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Child Allowance Act after amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act") is deemed to be replaced with "two or more children including a child born on or after June 2, 1984, or three or more children including a child who has not completed compulsory education (meaning a child on or before the last day of the school year that includes the day on which the child reaches the age of 15, and including a child who, on and continuously after that day, is enrolled in a junior high school or in the junior high school division of a school for the blind, a school for the deaf, or a school for children with disabilities; the same applies hereinafter)", the phrase "child who has not yet started compulsory education" in Article 6, paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii) of the New Act is deemed to be replaced with "child born on or after June 2, 1984", and the phrase "the number of children who have not yet started compulsory education" in item (iii) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the number of children who have not completed compulsory education (if every child under the requirements for payment is a child who has not completed compulsory education, the number obtained by subtracting two from the number of those children who have not completed compulsory education, and if one of the children under the requirements for payment is not a child who has not completed compulsory education, the number obtained by subtracting one from the number of those children who have not completed compulsory education)".

②During the period from April 1, 1987 to March 31, 1988, the phrase "two or more children including a child who has not yet started compulsory education" in Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i) of the New Act is deemed to be replaced with "two or more children including a child born on or after April 2, 1983, or three or more children including a child born on or after April 2, 1978", the phrase "child who has not yet started compulsory education" in Article 6, paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii) of the New Act is deemed to be replaced with "child born on or after April 2, 1983", and the phrase "the number of children who have not yet started compulsory education" in item (iii) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the number of children born on or after April 2, 1978 (if every child under the requirements for payment is a child born on or after that date, the number obtained by subtracting two from the number of those children born on or after that date, and if one of the children under the requirements for payment is not a child born on or after that date, the number obtained by subtracting one from the number of those children born on or after that date)".

With regard to the amount of child allowance for months up to and including May 1986, the provisions then in force continue to govern.

①A person who is to meet the requirements for payment of child allowance on June 1, 1986 may, even before that day, follow the procedure for a claim for certification under Article 7, paragraph (1) of the New Act (including as read pursuant to Article 17, paragraph (1) of the New Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) for that child allowance, on the condition that the person meets those requirements on that day.

②If a person who has followed the procedure set forth in the preceding paragraph meets the requirements for payment of child allowance on June 1, 1986, payment of child allowance to that person is to begin in that month, notwithstanding Article 8, paragraph (2) of the New Act.

③If a person who actually meets the requirements for payment of child allowance on June 1, 1986 (excluding a person who, on May 31 of that year, met the requirements prescribed in Article 4 of the Child Allowance Act prior to amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act")) makes a claim for certification under Article 7, paragraph (1) of the New Act by June 30 of that year, payment of child allowance to that person is to begin in that month, notwithstanding Article 8, paragraph (2) of the New Act.

The provisions of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the benefit under Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the New Act; in this case, the phrase "Article 7, paragraph (1) of the New Act" in paragraphs (1) and (3) of the preceding Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 7, paragraph (1) of the New Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 6, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the New Act", the phrase "Article 17, paragraph (1) of the New Act" in paragraph (1) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 17, paragraph (1) of the New Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 6, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the New Act", and the phrase "Article 8, paragraph (2) of the New Act" in paragraphs (2) and (3) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 8, paragraph (2) of the New Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 6, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the New Act".

If a person who, on May 31, 1986, met the requirements for payment of the benefit under Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Act on Reduction of State Subsidies and Other Temporary Special Measures, as Part of Measures to be Urgently Implemented for Advancement of Administrative Reform (Act No. 93 of 1981; hereinafter referred to in this Article as the "Former Administrative Reform Special Measures Act") prior to amendment by the provisions of the following Article, and had received certification under Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Former Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (2) of that Article (including as read pursuant to Article 17, paragraph (1) of the Former Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 11, paragraph (2) of the Former Administrative Reform Special Measures Act), meets on June 1 of that year the requirements for payment of the benefit under Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the New Act, a claim for certification under Article 7, paragraph (1) of the New Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 6, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the New Act (including as read pursuant to Article 17, paragraph (1) of the New Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 6, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the New Act) is deemed to have been made on that day, and payment of that benefit to that person is to begin in that month, notwithstanding Article 8, paragraph (2) of the New Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 6, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of the New Act.