# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第十条 (Article 10)

- 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: 第十条 (Article 10)（支給の制限） — address `art-10`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-10
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-10
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### 第十条（支給の制限） — Restriction on Payment
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-10</sup>

**第一項**  児童手当は、受給資格者が、正当な理由がなくて、第二十七条第一項の規定による命令に従わず、又は同項の規定による当該職員の質問に応じなかつたときは、その額の全部又は一部を支給しないことができる。
<sup>art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-10/par-1</sup>
Child allowance may be withheld in whole or in part if an eligible recipient, without a justifiable reason, fails to comply with an order under Article 27, paragraph (1) or fails to respond to questioning by the relevant official under that paragraph.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-10/par-1: 第二十七条第一項 → 児童手当法 第二十七条第一項 (Article 27, paragraph (1)), art-27/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-27/par-1

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## 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-20261009T094943-002, 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