# 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-4111-87/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-4111-87/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4111-87/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-4111-87/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4111-87/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4111-87/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、平成十二年四月一日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。 suppl-4111-87/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4111-87/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4111-87/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect as of April 1, 2000; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect as of the day specified in the relevant item. machine translation, not official **一** 第一条中地方自治法第二百五十条の次に五条、節名並びに二款及び款名を加える改正規定（同法第二百五十条の九第一項に係る部分（両議院の同意を得ることに係る部分に限る。）に限る。）、第四十条中自然公園法附則第九項及び第十項の改正規定（同法附則第十項に係る部分に限る。）、第二百四十四条の規定（農業改良助長法第十四条の三の改正規定に係る部分を除く。）並びに第四百七十二条の規定（市町村の合併の特例に関する法律第六条、第八条及び第十七条の改正規定に係る部分を除く。）並びに附則第七条、第十条、第十二条、第五十九条ただし書、第六十条第四項及び第五項、第七十三条、第七十七条、第百五十七条第四項から第六項まで、第百六十条、第百六十三条、第百六十四条並びに第二百二条の規定　公布の日 suppl-4111-87/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4111-87/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4111-87/art-1/par-1/item-1 The provisions of Article 1 amending the Local Autonomy Act by adding five Articles, a Section title, and two Subsections and Subsection titles after Article 250 of that Act (limited to the part pertaining to Article 250-9, paragraph (1) of that Act (limited to the part pertaining to obtaining the consent of both Houses)), the provisions of Article 40 amending paragraphs (9) and (10) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Natural Parks Act (limited to the part pertaining to paragraph (10) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act), the provisions of Article 244 (excluding the part pertaining to the provisions amending Article 14-3 of the Agricultural Improvement Promotion Act) and the provisions of Article 472 (excluding the part pertaining to the provisions amending Articles 6, 8 and 17 of the Act on Special Provisions Concerning the Merger of Municipalities), and the provisions of Articles 7, 10 and 12, the proviso to Article 59, Article 60, paragraphs (4) and (5), Articles 73 and 77, Article 157, paragraphs (4) through (6), and Articles 160, 163, 164 and 202 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4111-87/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第百六十三条 → 児童手当法 附則第百六十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 163), suppl-4111-87/art-163 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4111-87/art-163 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4111-87/art-163 - suppl-4111-87/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第百六十四条 → 児童手当法 附則第百六十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 164), suppl-4111-87/art-164 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4111-87/art-164 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4111-87/art-164 --- ## 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-20261009T094943-009, 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