# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第七十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 74)

- 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: 第七十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 74)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4191-109/art-74`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4191-109/art-74
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4191-109/art-74
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### 第七十四条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4191-109/art-74 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4191-109/art-74 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4191-109/art-74</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の施行前にした行為及びこの附則の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合におけるこの法律の施行後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4191-109/art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4191-109/art-74/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4191-109/art-74/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act comes into effect and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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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-20261009T094943-013, 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