# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第二十九条の二 (Article 29-2)

- 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: 第二十九条の二 (Article 29-2)（事務の区分） — address `art-29-2`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-29-2
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-29-2
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### 第二十九条の二（事務の区分） — Category of Administrative Affairs
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-29-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-29-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-29-2</sup>

**第一項**  この法律（第二十条から第二十二条の二まで及び第二十九条を除く。）の規定により市町村が処理することとされている事務（第十七条第一項の規定により読み替えられた第七条第一項、第八条第一項及び第十四条第一項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含む。）は、地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二条第九項第一号に規定する第一号法定受託事務とする。
<sup>art-29-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-29-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-29-2/par-1</sup>
The affairs to be handled by municipalities under the provisions of this Act (excluding Articles 20 through 22-2 and Article 29), including the affairs to be handled by prefectures or municipalities under Article 7, paragraph (1), Article 8, paragraph (1) and Article 14, paragraph (1) as read with terms replaced pursuant to Article 17, paragraph (1), are Type 1 statutory entrusted affairs prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947).
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-29-2/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-29-2/par-1: 第二十条から第二十二条の二まで → 児童手当法 第二十二条 (Article 22), art-22 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-22
- art-29-2/par-1: 第十四条第一項 → 児童手当法 第十四条第一項 (Article 14, paragraph (1)), art-14/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-14/par-1
- art-29-2/par-1: 地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二条第九項第一号 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二条第九項第一号 (Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i)), art-2/par-9/item-1 — not held in this collection
- art-29-2/par-1: 第二十条から第二十二条の二まで → 児童手当法 第二十二条の二 (Article 22-2), art-22-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-22-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-22-2
- art-29-2/par-1: 第二十条から第二十二条の二まで → 児童手当法 第二十一条 (Article 21), art-21 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-21
- art-29-2/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-29-2/par-1: 第二十条から第二十二条の二まで → 児童手当法 第二十条 (Article 20), art-20 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-20
- art-29-2/par-1: 第二十九条 → 児童手当法 第二十九条 (Article 29), art-29 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-29
- art-29-2/par-1: 第七条第一項 → 児童手当法 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-7/par-1

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## 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
