# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第二十九条 (Article 29) - 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: 第二十九条 (Article 29)（報告等） — address `art-29` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-29 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-29 - 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. --- ### 第二十九条（報告等） — Reports, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-29 **第一項** 第十七条第一項の規定によつて読み替えられる第七条の認定をする者は、内閣府令で定めるところにより、児童手当の支給の状況につき、内閣総理大臣に報告するものとする。 art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-29/par-1 A person who gives the certification under Article 7 as read with terms replaced pursuant to Article 17, paragraph (1) is to report to the Prime Minister, as provided by Cabinet Office Order, on the status of payment of child allowance. machine translation, not official **第二項** 都道府県知事及び市町村長は、前項の報告に際し、この法律の規定により都道府県又は市町村が処理することとされている事務を円滑に行うために必要な事項について、地域の実情を踏まえ、内閣総理大臣に対して意見を申し出ることができる。 art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-29/par-2 Prefectural governors and mayors of municipalities may, at the time of the report under the preceding paragraph, submit opinions to the Prime Minister, in light of local circumstances, on matters necessary for the smooth conduct of the affairs to be handled by prefectures or municipalities under the provisions of this Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-29/par-1: 第十七条第一項 → 児童手当法 第十七条第一項 (Article 17, paragraph (1)), art-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-17/par-1 - art-29/par-1: 第七条 → 児童手当法 第七条 (Article 7), art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-7 - art-29/par-2: 前項 → 児童手当法 第二十九条第一項 (Article 29, paragraph (1)), art-29/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-29/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 児童手当法 第二十九条第二項（報告等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-29/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 --- ## 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-20261009T094943-005, 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