# 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-5061-47/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-5061-47/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-5061-47/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-5061-47/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-5061-47/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-5061-47/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、令和六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、当該各号に定める日から施行する。 suppl-5061-47/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-5061-47/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-5061-47/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on October 1, 2024; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified respectively in those items: machine translation, not official **一** 第四条中児童福祉法第二十五条の二の改正規定、第二十条の規定及び第二十一条中子ども・子育て支援法の一部を改正する法律附則第四条第一項の改正規定（「施行日から起算して五年を経過する日」を「令和十二年三月三十一日」に改める部分に限る。）並びに附則第四十六条の規定　この法律の公布の日 suppl-5061-47/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-5061-47/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-5061-47/art-1/par-1/item-1 The provisions of Article 4 revising Article 25-2 of the Child Welfare Act, the provisions of Article 20, and the provisions of Article 21 revising Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Act on Support for Children and Child-rearing (limited to the part revising "the day on which five years have elapsed from the effective date" to "March 31, 2030"); and the provisions of Article 46 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation of this Act. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-5061-47/art-1/par-1/item-1: 附則第四十六条 → 児童手当法 附則第四十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 46), suppl-5061-47/art-46 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-allowance-act/suppl-5061-47/art-46 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-5061-47/art-46 --- ## 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-20261009T094943-018, 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