# 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-4241-63/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-4241-63/art-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-63/art-1
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### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date
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<sup>suppl-4241-63/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-63/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-63/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、平成二十七年十月一日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、それぞれ当該各号に定める日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-4241-63/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-63/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-63/art-1/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect as of October 1, 2015; provided, however, that the provisions listed in the following items come into effect as of the dates specified respectively in those items.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **一**  次条並びに附則第三条、第二十八条、第百五十九条及び第百六十条の規定　公布の日
  <sup>suppl-4241-63/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-63/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-63/art-1/par-1/item-1</sup>
  The provisions of the following Article, and Article 3, Article 28, Article 159, and Article 160 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4241-63/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第百六十条 → 児童手当法 附則第百六十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 160), suppl-4241-63/art-160 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-63/art-160 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-63/art-160

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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-20261009T094943-015, 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