# 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-4241-24/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-4241-24/art-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-1
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### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4241-24/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、平成二十四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。
<sup>suppl-4241-24/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-1/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect as of April 1, 2012; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect as of the dates specified respectively in those items.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **一**  附則第三十八条の規定　公布の日
  <sup>suppl-4241-24/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-1/par-1/item-1</sup>
  The provisions of Article 38 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **二**  第二条の規定及び附則第十三条から第十七条までの規定　平成二十四年六月一日
  <sup>suppl-4241-24/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-1/par-1/item-2</sup>
  The provisions of Article 2, and the provisions of Article 13 to Article 17 of the Supplementary Provisions: June 1, 2012
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4241-24/art-1/par-1/item-1: 附則第三十八条 → 児童手当法 附則第三十八条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 38), suppl-4241-24/art-38 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-38
- suppl-4241-24/art-1/par-1/item-2: 附則第十三条から第十七条まで → 児童手当法 附則第十四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 14), suppl-4241-24/art-14 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-14
- suppl-4241-24/art-1/par-1/item-2: 附則第十三条から第十七条まで → 児童手当法 附則第十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 17), suppl-4241-24/art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-17
- suppl-4241-24/art-1/par-1/item-2: 附則第十三条から第十七条まで → 児童手当法 附則第十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 16), suppl-4241-24/art-16 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-16
- suppl-4241-24/art-1/par-1/item-2: 附則第十三条から第十七条まで → 児童手当法 附則第十五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 15), suppl-4241-24/art-15 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-15
- suppl-4241-24/art-1/par-1/item-2: 附則第十三条から第十七条まで → 児童手当法 附則第十三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 13), suppl-4241-24/art-13 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-13

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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