# 児童扶養手当法 / Child Rearing Allowance Act — 第八条 (Article 8) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-8. 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: 第八条 (Article 8)（手当の額の改定時期） — address `art-8` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条（手当の額の改定時期） — Timing of Revision of Allowance Amount caption: machine translation, not official art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-8 **第一項** 手当の支給を受けている者につき、新たに監護等児童があるに至つた場合における手当の額の改定は、その者がその改定後の額につき認定の請求をした日の属する月の翌月から行う。 art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-8/par-1 With respect to a person receiving payment of the allowance, the revision of the amount of the allowance in the case where the person newly comes to have a child in custody, etc. is made from the month following the month that includes the day on which the person made a claim for certification for the revised amount. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前条第二項の規定は、前項の改定について準用する。 art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-8/par-2 The provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the revision under the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official **第三項** 手当の支給を受けている者につき、監護等児童の数が減じた場合における手当の額の改定は、その減じた日の属する月の翌月から行う。 art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-8/par-3 With respect to a person receiving payment of the allowance, the revision of the amount of the allowance in the case where the number of children in custody, etc. has decreased is made from the month following the month that includes the day of the decrease. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-8/par-2: 前条第二項 → 児童扶養手当法 第七条第二項 (Article 7, paragraph (2)), 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 - art-8/par-2: 前項 → 児童扶養手当法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-8/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 224 — 児童扶養手当法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-04