# 児童扶養手当法 / Child Rearing Allowance Act — 第二十六条 (Article 26)

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- Law: 児童扶養手当法 (Child Rearing Allowance Act), 昭和三十六年法律第二百三十八号
- English title "Child Rearing 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: 第二十六条 (Article 26)（期間の計算） — address `art-26`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-26
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### 第二十六条（期間の計算） — Calculation of Periods
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-26</sup>

**第一項**  この法律又はこの法律に基づく命令に規定する期間の計算については、民法の期間に関する規定を準用する。
<sup>art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-26/par-1</sup>
With regard to the calculation of periods as prescribed by this Act or an Order based on this Act, the provisions concerning periods as set forth in the Civil Code apply mutatis mutandis.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 児童扶養手当法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/336AC0000000238/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-04
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 児童扶養手当法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/788), retrieved 2026-09-23
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch child-rearing-allowance-act-20261104T155257-005, translated 2026-11-05
- This site's parser, version 224 — 児童扶養手当法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-04