# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第二条 (Article 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: 第二条 (Article 2)（受給者の責務） — address `art-2`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-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.

---

### 第二条（受給者の責務） — Responsibilities of Recipients
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-2</sup>

**第一項**  児童手当の支給を受けた者は、児童手当が前条の目的を達成するために支給されるものである趣旨にかんがみ、これをその趣旨に従つて用いなければならない。
<sup>art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-2/par-1</sup>
A person who has received payment of child allowance must use it in accordance with the purpose for which it is paid, in light of the fact that child allowance is paid in order to achieve the purpose set forth in the preceding Article.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

---

## Cites
- art-2/par-1: 前条 → 児童手当法 第一条 (Article 1), art-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-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