# 児童扶養手当法 / Child Rearing Allowance Act — 第七条 (Article 7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-7. 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: 第七条 (Article 7)（支給期間及び支払期月） — address `art-7` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-7 - 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. --- ### 第七条（支給期間及び支払期月） — Payment Period and Payment Months caption: machine translation, not official art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-7 **第一項** 手当の支給は、受給資格者が前条の規定による認定の請求をした日の属する月の翌月（第十三条の三第一項において「支給開始月」という。）から始め、手当を支給すべき事由が消滅した日の属する月で終わる。 art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-7/par-1 Payment of the allowance begins in the month following the month that includes the day on which the eligible recipient made the claim for certification under the preceding Article (referred to as the "first month of payment" in Article 13-3, paragraph (1)) and ends in the month that includes the day on which the grounds for paying the allowance ceased to exist. machine translation, not official **第二項** 受給資格者が災害その他やむを得ない理由により前条の規定による認定の請求をすることができなかつた場合において、その理由がやんだ後十五日以内にその請求をしたときは、手当の支給は、前項の規定にかかわらず、受給資格者がやむを得ない理由により認定の請求をすることができなくなつた日の属する月の翌月から始める。 art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-7/par-2 Where an eligible recipient was unable to make the claim for certification under the preceding Article due to a disaster or other unavoidable reason, and makes the claim within 15 days after that reason ceased to exist, payment of the allowance begins, notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, in the month following the month that includes the day on which the eligible recipient became unable to make the claim for certification due to the unavoidable reason. machine translation, not official **第三項** 手当は、毎年一月、三月、五月、七月、九月及び十一月の六期に、それぞれの前月までの分を支払う。ただし、前支払期月に支払うべきであつた手当又は支給すべき事由が消滅した場合におけるその期の手当は、その支払期月でない月であつても、支払うものとする。 art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-7/par-3 The allowance is paid in six installments, in January, March, May, July, September and November of each year, for the portion up to the month preceding each of them. However, allowance that should have been paid in the previous payment month, or allowance for the period in the case where the grounds for payment have ceased to exist, are to be paid even in a month that is not that payment month. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-7/par-1: 前条 → 児童扶養手当法 第六条 (Article 6), art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-6 - art-7/par-1: 第十三条の三第一項 → 児童扶養手当法 第十三条の三第一項 (Article 13-3, paragraph (1)), art-13-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-13-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-13-3/par-1 - art-7/par-2: 前条 → 児童扶養手当法 第六条 (Article 6), art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-6 - art-7/par-2: 前項 → 児童扶養手当法 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-7/par-1 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 児童扶養手当法 第七条第二項（支給期間及び支払期月） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-7/par-2 - 児童扶養手当法 第八条第二項（手当の額の改定時期） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-8/par-2 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第三条第二項（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-3491-89/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-3491-89/art-3/par-2 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第五条第一項（児童扶養手当等の支払に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-3491-89/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-3491-89/art-5/par-1 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-3511-63/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-3511-63/art-10/par-2 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第二条第二項（認定の請求等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4221-40/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4221-40/art-2/par-2 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第二条第三項（認定の請求等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4221-40/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4221-40/art-2/par-3 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第四条第二項（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-4261-28/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4261-28/art-4/par-2 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第四条第三項（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-4261-28/art-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4261-28/art-4/par-3 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第六条第三項（児童扶養手当に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4301-44/art-6/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4301-44/art-6/par-3 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第十三条第一項（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-5021-40/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-5021-40/art-13/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-20261104T155257-003, 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-20261104T155257-003, 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