# 児童扶養手当法 / Child Rearing Allowance Act — 第三十一条 (Article 31) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-31. 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: 第三十一条 (Article 31)（手当の支払の調整） — address `art-31` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-31 - 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. --- ### 第三十一条（手当の支払の調整） — Adjustment of Payment of the Allowance caption: machine translation, not official art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-31 **第一項** 手当を支給すべきでないにもかかわらず、手当の支給としての支払が行なわれたときは、その支払われた手当は、その後に支払うべき手当の内払とみなすことができる。第十二条第二項の規定によりすでに支給を受けた手当に相当する金額の全部又は一部を返還すべき場合におけるその返還すべき金額及び手当の額を減額して改定すべき事由が生じたにもかかわらず、その事由が生じた日の属する月の翌月以降の分として減額しない額の手当が支払われた場合における当該手当の当該減額すべきであつた部分についても、同様とする。 art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-31/par-1 Where payment has been made as payment of the allowance even though the allowance should not have been paid, the allowance so paid may be deemed to be an advance payment of the allowance to be paid thereafter. The same applies to the amount to be returned where all or part of an amount equivalent to the allowance already received is to be returned under Article 12, paragraph (2), and to the portion that should have been reduced of an allowance, where grounds have arisen for revising the amount of the allowance by reducing it but an allowance of an unreduced amount has been paid for the months from the month following the month containing the day on which those grounds arose. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-31/par-1: 第十二条第二項 → 児童扶養手当法 第十二条第二項 (Article 12, paragraph (2)), art-12/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-12/par-2 --- ## 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