# 児童扶養手当法 / Child Rearing Allowance Act — 第五条の二 (Article 5-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5-2. 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: 第五条の二 (Article 5-2)（手当額の自動改定） — address `art-5-2` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五条の二（手当額の自動改定） — Automatic Revision of Allowance Amount caption: machine translation, not official art-5-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5-2 **第一項** 基本額については、総務省において作成する年平均の全国消費者物価指数（以下「物価指数」という。）が平成五年（この項の規定による基本額の改定の措置が講じられたときは、直近の当該措置が講じられた年の前年）の物価指数を超え、又は下るに至つた場合においては、その上昇し、又は低下した比率を基準として、その翌年の四月以降の基本額を改定する。 art-5-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5-2/par-1 With respect to the basic amount, when the annual average national consumer price index compiled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (hereinafter referred to as the "price index") comes to exceed or fall below the price index of 1993 (where a measure to revise the basic amount under this paragraph has been taken, the year preceding the year in which the most recent such measure was taken), the basic amount on or after April of the following year is revised on the basis of the ratio of that rise or fall. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定は、前条第二項の規定により基本額に加算する額について準用する。この場合において、前項中「平成五年」とあるのは、「令和五年」と読み替えるものとする。 art-5-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5-2/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis to the amount added to the basic amount under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article. In this case, the term "1993" in the preceding paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "2023". machine translation, not official **第三項** 前二項の規定による手当の額の改定の措置は、政令で定める。 art-5-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5-2/par-3 The measures for revising the amount of the allowance under the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs are specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-5-2/par-1: この項 → 児童扶養手当法 第五条の二第一項 (Article 5-2, paragraph (1)), art-5-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5-2/par-1 - art-5-2/par-2: 前項 → 児童扶養手当法 第五条の二第一項 (Article 5-2, paragraph (1)), art-5-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5-2/par-1 - art-5-2/par-2: 前条第二項 → 児童扶養手当法 第五条第二項 (Article 5, paragraph (2)), art-5/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5/par-2 - art-5-2/par-3: 前二項 → 児童扶養手当法 第五条の二第一項 (Article 5-2, paragraph (1)), art-5-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5-2/par-1 - art-5-2/par-3: 前二項 → 児童扶養手当法 第五条の二第二項 (Article 5-2, paragraph (2)), art-5-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5-2/par-2 ## Cited by 12 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 児童扶養手当法 第五条第二項（手当額） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5/par-2 - 児童扶養手当法 第五条の二第一項（手当額の自動改定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5-2/par-1 - 児童扶養手当法 第五条の二第二項（手当額の自動改定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5-2/par-2 - 児童扶養手当法 第五条の二第三項（手当額の自動改定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5-2/par-3 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第一条第二項第一号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4011-86/art-1/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4011-86/art-1/par-2/item-1 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第一条第二項第一号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4061-95/art-1/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4061-95/art-1/par-2/item-1 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第十一条第一項（児童扶養手当法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-5061-47/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-5061-47/art-11/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第二項第一号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4011-86/art-1/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4011-86/art-1/par-2/item-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第一条第二項第一号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4061-95/art-1/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4061-95/art-1/par-2/item-1 - 国民年金法 附則第三十三条第二項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-3601-34/art-33/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-3601-34/art-33/par-2/item-1 - 国民年金法 附則第一条第二項第一号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-4011-86/art-1/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-4011-86/art-1/par-2/item-1 - 国民年金法 附則第一条第二項第一号（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-4061-95/art-1/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-4061-95/art-1/par-2/item-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-20261104T155257-002, 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