# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第十九条の二 (Article 19-2) - 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: 第十九条の二 (Article 19-2)（都道府県から市町村に対する交付） — address `art-19-2` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-19-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-19-2 - 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. --- ### 第十九条の二（都道府県から市町村に対する交付） — Grants from Prefectures to Municipalities caption: machine translation, not official art-19-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-19-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-19-2 **第一項** 都道府県は、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の十五分の一に相当する額を負担するものとし、市町村に対し、当該費用に充当させるため当該額を交付する。 art-19-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-19-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-19-2/par-1 A prefecture is to bear, with respect to a municipality, an amount equivalent to one-fifteenth of 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., and is to grant that amount to the municipality to be allocated to those costs. machine translation, not official **第二項** 都道府県は、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の九分の一に相当する額を負担するものとし、市町村に対し、当該費用に充当させるため当該額を交付する。 art-19-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-19-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-19-2/par-2 A prefecture is to bear, with respect to a municipality, an amount equivalent to one-ninth of 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., and is to grant that amount to the municipality to be allocated to those costs. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-19-2/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-19-2/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 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 --- ## 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-20261009T094943-004, 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