# 児童扶養手当法 / Child Rearing Allowance Act — 第三十三条 (Article 33) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-33. 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: 第三十三条 (Article 33)（町村長が行う事務等） — address `art-33` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-33 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-33 - 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. --- ### 第三十三条（町村長が行う事務等） — Administrative Work, etc. Performed by Heads of Towns and Villages caption: machine translation, not official art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-33 **第一項** 手当の支給に関する事務の一部は、政令で定めるところにより、町村長（福祉事務所を管理する町村長を除く。）が行うこととすることができる。 art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-33/par-1 Part of the administrative work concerning payment of the allowance may be performed by the head of a town or village (excluding the head of a town or village that administers a welfare office), as provided by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official **第二項** 都道府県知事等は、手当の支給に関する事務の全部又は一部を、その管理に属する行政機関の長に限り、委任することができる。 art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-33/par-2 A prefectural governor, etc. may delegate all or part of the administrative work concerning payment of the allowance, only to the head of an administrative organ under that person's control. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 児童扶養手当法 第十七条の二第一項（審査庁） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-17-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-17-2/par-1 --- ## 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-20261104T155257-006, translated 2026-11-05 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch child-rearing-allowance-act-20261104T155257-006, 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