# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第一条 (Article 1) - Law: 児童手当法 (Child Allowance Act), 昭和四十六年法律第七十三号 - English title "Child Allowance Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第一条 (Article 1)（目的） — address `art-1` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-1 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第一条（目的） — Purpose caption: machine translation, not official art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、子ども・子育て支援法（平成二十四年法律第六十五号）第七条第一項に規定する子ども・子育て支援の適切な実施を図るため、父母その他の保護者が子育てについての第一義的責任を有するという基本的認識の下に、児童を養育している者に児童手当を支給することにより、家庭等における生活の安定に寄与するとともに、次代の社会を担う児童の健やかな成長に資することを目的とする。 art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-1/par-1 The purpose of this Act is, in order to ensure the appropriate implementation of the child and child-rearing support prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Act on Support for Children and Child-rearing (Act No. 65 of 2012), under the basic recognition that parents and other guardians have primary responsibility for child-rearing, to contribute to the stability of life in households, etc. and to promote the sound growth of children who will bear responsibility for the society of the next generation, by paying child allowance to persons who are raising children. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-1/par-1: 子ども・子育て支援法（平成二十四年法律第六十五号）第七条第一項 → e-Gov law 424AC0000000065, 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 児童手当法 第二条第一項（受給者の責務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 児童手当法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/346AC0000000073/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-10-09 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 児童手当法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/968), retrieved 2026-09-23 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch child-allowance-act-20261009T094943-001, translated 2026-10-09 - This site's parser, version 165 — 児童手当法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09