# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) - 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日） — address `suppl-3601-74/art-1` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-3601-74/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3601-74/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3601-74/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-3601-74/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3601-74/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、昭和六十一年六月一日から施行する。ただし、附則第四条から第六条までの改正規定並びに附則第四条（第三項を除く。）及び第五条（附則第四条第三項の規定を準用する部分を除く。）の規定は、公布の日から施行する。 suppl-3601-74/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-3601-74/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3601-74/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on June 1, 1986; provided, however, that the provisions amending Articles 4 through 6 of the Supplementary Provisions, and the provisions of Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions (excluding paragraph (3)) and Article 5 of the Supplementary Provisions (excluding the part that applies mutatis mutandis the provisions of Article 4, paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions) come into effect on the date of promulgation. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3601-74/art-1/par-1: 第三項 → 児童手当法 附則第四条第三項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (3)), suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-3 - suppl-3601-74/art-1/par-1: 附則第四条 → 児童手当法 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-3601-74/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-3601-74/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3601-74/art-4 - suppl-3601-74/art-1/par-1: 第五条 → 児童手当法 附則第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5), suppl-3601-74/art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-3601-74/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3601-74/art-5 --- ## 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-20261009T094943-007, 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