# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第二十条 (Article 20) - 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: 第二十条 (Article 20)（児童手当に係る寄附） — address `art-20` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条（児童手当に係る寄附） — Donations Relating to Child Allowance caption: machine translation, not official art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-20 **第一項** 受給資格者が、次代の社会を担う児童の健やかな成長を支援するため、当該受給資格者に児童手当を支給する市町村に対し、当該児童手当の支払を受ける前に、内閣府令で定めるところにより、当該児童手当の額の全部又は一部を当該市町村に寄附する旨を申し出たときは、当該市町村は、内閣府令で定めるところにより、当該寄附を受けるため、当該受給資格者が支払を受けるべき児童手当の額のうち当該寄附に係る部分を、当該受給資格者に代わつて受けることができる。 art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-20/par-1 If an eligible recipient, in order to support the healthy growth of children who will bear the responsibility for the next generation of society, before receiving payment of child allowance, states to the municipality that pays child allowance to the eligible recipient, as provided by Cabinet Office Order, that the eligible recipient will donate all or part of the amount of that child allowance to the municipality, the municipality may, as provided by Cabinet Office Order, in order to receive the donation, receive, in place of the eligible recipient, the portion pertaining to the donation of the amount of child allowance that the eligible recipient is to be paid. machine translation, not official **第二項** 市町村は、前項の規定により受けた寄附を、次代の社会を担う児童の健やかな成長を支援するために使用しなければならない。 art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-20/par-2 A municipality must use a donation received under the preceding paragraph to support the healthy growth of a child who will bear the responsibility for the next generation of society. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-20/par-2: 前項 → 児童手当法 第二十条第一項 (Article 20, paragraph (1)), art-20/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-20/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 児童手当法 第二十条第二項（児童手当に係る寄附） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-20/par-2 - 児童手当法 第二十九条の二第一項（事務の区分） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-29-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-29-2/par-1 - 労働者災害補償保険法 附則第二条第一項（適用区分） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-accident-insurance-act/suppl-4211-36/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/suppl-4211-36/art-2/par-1 - 国民年金法 附則第二条第一項（適用区分） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-4211-36/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-4211-36/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-20261009T094943-004, translated 2026-10-09 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch child-allowance-act-20261009T110211-001, 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