# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第十九条 (Article 19) - 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: 第十九条 (Article 19)（国から市町村に対する交付） — address `art-19` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-19 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-19 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十九条（国から市町村に対する交付） — Grants from the National Government to Municipalities caption: machine translation, not official art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-19 **第一項** 政府は、政令で定めるところにより、市町村に対し、市町村長が第八条第一項の規定により支給する児童手当の支給に要する費用のうち被用者の三歳未満児童手当に係る部分に充当させるため、当該費用の全額に相当する額を交付する。この場合において、政府が交付する交付金のうち、その五分の二に相当する額は子ども・子育て支援法第六十九条第一項に規定する拠出金を、その五分の三に相当する額は同法第七十一条の三第一項に規定する子ども・子育て支援納付金（以下この条において「子ども・子育て支援納付金」という。）を原資とする。 art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-19/par-1 The government is to grant to municipalities, as provided by Cabinet Order, in order to have it allocated to the portion of the costs required for payment of child allowance paid by the mayor of the municipality pursuant to the provisions of Article 8, paragraph (1) that relates to child allowance for children under three for employees, an amount equivalent to the full amount of that portion of the costs. In this case, of the grants made by the government, the amount equivalent to two-fifths is to be sourced from the contributions prescribed in Article 69, paragraph (1) of the Act on Support for Children and Child-rearing, and the amount equivalent to three-fifths from the children and child-rearing support levy prescribed in Article 71-3, paragraph (1) of that Act (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "children and child-rearing support levy"). machine translation, not official **第二項** 政府は、政令で定めるところにより、市町村に対し、市町村長が第八条第一項の規定により支給する児童手当の支給に要する費用のうち被用者等でない者の三歳未満児童手当に係る部分に充当させるため、その十五分の十三に相当する額を交付する。この場合において、政府が交付する交付金のうち、当該費用の十五分の四に相当する額は国庫が負担し、当該費用の五分の三に相当する額は子ども・子育て支援納付金を原資とする。 art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-19/par-2 The government is to grant to a municipality, as provided by Cabinet Order, in order to have it allocated to the portion of the costs required for payment of child allowance paid by the mayor of the municipality under Article 8, paragraph (1) that relates to child allowance for children under three for persons who are not employees, etc., an amount equivalent to thirteen-fifteenths of that portion of the costs. In this case, of the grants made by the government, an amount equivalent to four-fifteenths of those costs is borne by the National Treasury, and an amount equivalent to three-fifths of those costs is to be sourced from the children and child-rearing support levy. machine translation, not official **第三項** 政府は、政令で定めるところにより、市町村に対し、市町村長が第八条第一項の規定により支給する児童手当の支給に要する費用のうち被用者及び被用者等でない者の三歳以上児童手当に係る部分に充当させるため、その九分の七に相当する額を交付する。この場合において、政府が交付する交付金のうち、当該費用の九分の四に相当する額は国庫が負担し、当該費用の三分の一に相当する額は子ども・子育て支援納付金を原資とする。 art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-19/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-19/par-3 The government is to grant to a municipality, as provided by Cabinet Order, in order to have it allocated to the portion of the costs required for payment of child allowance paid by the mayor of the municipality under Article 8, paragraph (1) that relates to child allowance for children aged three or over for employees and persons who are not employees, etc., an amount equivalent to seven-ninths of that portion of the costs. In this case, of the grants made by the government, an amount equivalent to four-ninths of those costs is borne by the National Treasury, and an amount equivalent to one-third of those costs is to be sourced from the children and child-rearing support levy. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-19/par-1: 第八条第一項 → 児童手当法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-8/par-1 - art-19/par-1: この条 → 児童手当法 第十九条 (Article 19), art-19 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-19 - art-19/par-2: 第八条第一項 → 児童手当法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-8/par-1 - art-19/par-3: 第八条第一項 → 児童手当法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-8/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 児童手当法 第十八条第一項（児童手当に要する費用の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-18/par-1 - 児童手当法 第十八条第二項（児童手当に要する費用の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-18/par-2 - 児童手当法 第十八条第三項（児童手当に要する費用の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-18/par-3 - 児童手当法 第十九条第一項（国から市町村に対する交付） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-19/par-1 - 児童手当法 附則第二条（令和六年度から令和十年度までにおける第十九条の規定の適用に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-3461-73/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3461-73/art-2 - 児童手当法 附則第二条第一項（令和六年度から令和十年度までにおける第十九条の規定の適用に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-3461-73/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3461-73/art-2/par-1 - 児童手当法 附則第二条第二項（令和六年度から令和十年度までにおける第十九条の規定の適用に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-3461-73/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3461-73/art-2/par-2 - 児童手当法 附則第二条第三項（令和六年度から令和十年度までにおける第十九条の規定の適用に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-3461-73/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3461-73/art-2/par-3 --- ## 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-20261009T094943-003, translated 2026-10-09 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch child-allowance-act-20261009T094943-004, 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