# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4)（認定の請求等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3601-74/art-4` - 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-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3601-74/art-4 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四条（認定の請求等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Claims for Certification, etc. caption: machine translation, not official 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 **第一項** 昭和六十一年六月一日において児童手当の支給要件に該当すべき者は、同日前においても、同日にその要件に該当することを条件として、当該児童手当について新法第七条第一項（新法第十七条第一項の規定により読み替えられる場合を含む。以下この条において同じ。）の規定による認定の請求の手続をとることができる。 suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-1 A person who is to meet the requirements for payment of child allowance on June 1, 1986 may, even before that day, follow the procedure for a claim for certification under Article 7, paragraph (1) of the New Act (including as read pursuant to Article 17, paragraph (1) of the New Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) for that child allowance, on the condition that the person meets those requirements on that day. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の手続をとつた者が、昭和六十一年六月一日において、児童手当の支給要件に該当しているときは、その者に対する児童手当の支給は、新法第八条第二項の規定にかかわらず、同月から始める。 suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-2 If a person who has followed the procedure set forth in the preceding paragraph meets the requirements for payment of child allowance on June 1, 1986, payment of child allowance to that person is to begin in that month, notwithstanding Article 8, paragraph (2) of the New Act. machine translation, not official **第三項** 昭和六十一年六月一日において現に児童手当の支給要件に該当している者（同年五月三十一日において改正前の児童手当法（以下「旧法」という。）第四条に規定する要件に該当していた者を除く。）が、同年六月三十日までの間に新法第七条第一項の規定による認定の請求をしたときは、その者に対する児童手当の支給は、新法第八条第二項の規定にかかわらず、同月から始める。 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 If a person who actually meets the requirements for payment of child allowance on June 1, 1986 (excluding a person who, on May 31 of that year, met the requirements prescribed in Article 4 of the Child Allowance Act prior to amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Act")) makes a claim for certification under Article 7, paragraph (1) of the New Act by June 30 of that year, payment of child allowance to that person is to begin in that month, notwithstanding Article 8, paragraph (2) of the New Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-1: 新法第十七条第一項 → 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 - suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-1: この条 → 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-4/par-1: 新法第七条第一項 → 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 - suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-2: 前項 → 児童手当法 附則第四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)), suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-1 - suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-2: 新法第八条第二項 → 児童手当法 第八条第二項 (Article 8, paragraph (2)), art-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-8/par-2 - suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-3: 新法第八条第二項 → 児童手当法 第八条第二項 (Article 8, paragraph (2)), art-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-8/par-2 - suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-3: 新法第七条第一項 → 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 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 児童手当法 附則第一条第一項（施行期日） — 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 - 児童手当法 附則第四条第一項（認定の請求等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-1 - 児童手当法 附則第四条第二項（認定の請求等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3601-74/art-4/par-2 - 児童手当法 附則第五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-3601-74/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3601-74/art-5/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-20261009T094943-007, 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