# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第九条 (Article 9)

- 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: 第九条 (Article 9)（児童手当の額の改定） — address `art-9`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-9
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### 第九条（児童手当の額の改定） — Revision of the Amount of Child Allowance
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-9</sup>

**第一項**  児童手当の支給を受けている者につき、児童手当の額が増額することとなるに至つた場合における児童手当の額の改定は、その者がその改定後の額につき認定の請求をした日の属する月の翌月から行う。
<sup>art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-9/par-1</sup>
Where the amount of child allowance comes to be increased for a person receiving payment of child allowance, the revision of the amount of child allowance is made from the month following the month that includes the day on which the person made a claim for certification for the revised amount.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  前条第三項の規定は、前項の改定について準用する。
<sup>art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-9/par-2</sup>
The provisions of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the revision under the preceding paragraph.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第三項**  児童手当の支給を受けている者につき、児童手当の額が減額することとなるに至つた場合における児童手当の額の改定は、その事由が生じた日の属する月の翌月から行う。
<sup>art-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-9/par-3</sup>
Where the amount of child allowance comes to be reduced for a person receiving payment of child allowance, the revision of the amount of child allowance is made from the month following the month that includes the day on which the grounds for it arose.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-9/par-2: 前条第三項 → 児童手当法 第八条第三項 (Article 8, paragraph (3)), art-8/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-8/par-3
- art-9/par-2: 前項 → 児童手当法 第九条第一項 (Article 9, paragraph (1)), art-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-9/par-1

## Cited by

9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 児童手当法 第九条第二項（児童手当の額の改定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-9/par-2
- 児童手当法 附則第二条第二項（支給及び額の改定に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4161-108/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4161-108/art-2/par-2
- 児童手当法 附則第三条第二項（児童手当の支給及び額の改定に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4181-20/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4181-20/art-3/par-2
- 児童手当法 附則第七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-7/par-1
- 児童手当法 附則第十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-14/par-1
- 児童手当法 附則第十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-16/par-1
- 児童手当法 附則第十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-17/par-1
- 児童手当法 附則第十三条第四項（児童手当法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-5061-47/art-13/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-5061-47/art-13/par-4
- 児童手当法 附則第十三条第五項（児童手当法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-5061-47/art-13/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-5061-47/art-13/par-5

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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-20261009T094943-002, 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
