# 児童扶養手当法 / Child Rearing Allowance Act — 第二十七条 (Article 27) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-27. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - 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: 第二十七条 (Article 27)（戸籍事項の無料証明） — address `art-27` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-27 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-27 - 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. --- ### 第二十七条（戸籍事項の無料証明） — Free Certification of Family Register Matters caption: machine translation, not official art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-27 **第一項** 市町村長（特別区の区長を含むものとし、地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百五十二条の十九第一項の指定都市においては、区長又は総合区長とする。）は、都道府県知事等又は受給資格者に対して、当該市町村（特別区を含む。）の条例の定めるところにより、受給資格者又は監護等児童の戸籍に関し、無料で証明を行うことができる。 art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-27/par-1 The mayor of a municipality (including the mayor of a special ward, and, in a designated city under Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act (Act No. 67 of 1947), the mayor of a ward or of a general ward) may, in accordance with the Municipal Ordinance (including that of a special ward) of that municipality, provide certification free of charge to the prefectural governor, etc. or an eligible recipient regarding the family register of the eligible recipient or the child in custody, etc. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-27/par-1: 地方自治法（昭和二十二年法律第六十七号）第二百五十二条の十九第一項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十二条の十九第一項 (Article 252-19, paragraph (1)), art-252-19/par-1 — not held in this collection --- ## 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