# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第二十一条 (Article 21) - 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: 第二十一条 (Article 21)（受給資格者の申出による学校給食費等の徴収等） — address `art-21` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-21 - 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. --- ### 第二十一条（受給資格者の申出による学校給食費等の徴収等） — Collection of School Lunch Fees, etc. at the Request of Eligible Recipients caption: machine translation, not official art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-21 **第一項** 市町村長は、受給資格者が、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、学校給食法（昭和二十九年法律第百六十号）第十一条第二項に規定する学校給食費（次項において「学校給食費」という。）その他の学校教育に伴つて必要な内閣府令で定める費用又は児童福祉法第五十六条第二項の規定により徴収する費用（同法第五十一条第四号又は第五号に係るものに限る。）その他これに類するものとして内閣府令で定める費用のうち当該受給資格者に係る児童に関し当該市町村に支払うべきものの支払に充てる旨を申し出た場合には、内閣府令で定めるところにより、当該受給資格者に児童手当の支払をする際に当該申出に係る費用を徴収することができる。 art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-21/par-1 If an eligible recipient, before receiving payment of child allowance, requests, as provided by Cabinet Office Order, that all or part of the amount of that child allowance be applied to payment of those of the school lunch fee prescribed in Article 11, paragraph (2) of the School Lunch Program Act (Act No. 160 of 1954) (referred to as the "school lunch fee" in the following paragraph) and other expenses necessary in connection with school education specified by Cabinet Office Order, or of the expenses collected pursuant to Article 56, paragraph (2) of the Child Welfare Act (limited to those pertaining to Article 51, item (iv) or (v) of that Act) and other expenses specified by Cabinet Office Order as being similar thereto, that are to be paid to the municipality in respect of a child concerning the eligible recipient, the mayor of the municipality may, as provided by Cabinet Office Order, collect the expenses pertaining to the request when paying child allowance to the eligible recipient. machine translation, not official **第二項** 市町村長は、受給資格者が、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、学校給食費、児童福祉法第五十六条第六項各号又は第七項各号に定める費用その他これらに類するものとして内閣府令で定める費用のうち当該受給資格者に係る児童に関し支払うべきものの支払に充てる旨を申し出た場合には、内閣府令で定めるところにより、当該児童手当の額のうち当該申出に係る部分を、当該費用に係る債権を有する者に支払うことができる。 art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-21/par-2 If an eligible recipient, before receiving payment of child allowance, requests, as provided by Cabinet Office Order, that all or part of the amount of that child allowance be applied to payment of those of the school lunch fee, the expenses provided for in each item of Article 56, paragraph (6) or each item of paragraph (7) of the Child Welfare Act, and other expenses specified by Cabinet Office Order as being similar thereto, that are to be paid in respect of a child concerning the eligible recipient, the mayor of the municipality may, as provided by Cabinet Office Order, pay the portion of the amount of that child allowance pertaining to the request to the person holding the claim for those expenses. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項の規定による支払があつたときは、当該受給資格者に対し当該児童手当（同項の申出に係る部分に限る。）の支給があつたものとみなす。 art-21/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-21/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-21/par-3 If payment has been made under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, payment of the child allowance (limited to the portion pertaining to the request under that paragraph) is deemed to have been made to the eligible recipient. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-21/par-1: 次項 → 児童手当法 第二十一条第二項 (Article 21, paragraph (2)), art-21/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-21/par-2 - art-21/par-1: 学校給食法（昭和二十九年法律第百六十号）第十一条第二項 → e-Gov law 329AC0000000160, 第十一条第二項 (Article 11, paragraph (2)), art-11/par-2 — not held in this collection - art-21/par-1: 児童福祉法第五十六条第二項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000164, 第五十六条第二項 (Article 56, paragraph (2)), art-56/par-2 — not held in this collection - art-21/par-1: 同法第五十一条第四号 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000164, 第五十一条第一項第四号 (Article 51, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-51/par-1/item-4 — not held in this collection - art-21/par-1: 第五号 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000164, 第五十一条第一項第五号 (Article 51, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-51/par-1/item-5 — not held in this collection - art-21/par-2: 児童福祉法第五十六条第六項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000164, 第五十六条第六項 (Article 56, paragraph (6)), art-56/par-6 — not held in this collection - art-21/par-2: 第七項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000164, 第五十六条第七項 (Article 56, paragraph (7)), art-56/par-7 — not held in this collection - art-21/par-3: 前項 → 児童手当法 第二十一条第二項 (Article 21, paragraph (2)), art-21/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-21/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-21/par-2 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 児童手当法 第二十一条第一項（受給資格者の申出による学校給食費等の徴収等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-21/par-1 - 児童手当法 第二十一条第三項（受給資格者の申出による学校給食費等の徴収等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-21/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-21/par-3 - 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 - 児童手当法 附則第三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4061-18/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4061-18/art-3/par-1 - 児童手当法 附則第三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4061-18/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4061-18/art-3/par-2 - 児童手当法 附則第三条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4061-18/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4061-18/art-3/par-3 - 児童手当法 附則第十条第一項（事業費充当額相当率の設定に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-10/par-1 - 児童手当法 附則第十条第二項（事業費充当額相当率の設定に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-10/par-2 - 児童手当法 附則第十条第三項（事業費充当額相当率の設定に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-10/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