# 児童扶養手当法 / Child Rearing Allowance Act — 第九条 (Article 9)

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- 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: 第九条 (Article 9)（支給の制限） — address `art-9`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-9
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### 第九条（支給の制限） — Restriction on Payment
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-9</sup>

**第一項**  手当は、受給資格者（第四条第一項第一号ロ又はニに該当し、かつ、母がない児童、同項第二号ロ又はニに該当し、かつ、父がない児童その他政令で定める児童の養育者を除く。以下この項において同じ。）の前年の所得が、その者の所得税法（昭和四十年法律第三十三号）に規定する同一生計配偶者及び扶養親族（以下「扶養親族等」という。）並びに当該受給資格者の扶養親族等でない児童で当該受給資格者が前年の十二月三十一日において生計を維持したものの有無及び数に応じて、政令で定める額以上であるときは、その年の十一月から翌年の十月までは、政令の定めるところにより、その全部又は一部を支給しない。
<sup>art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-9/par-1</sup>
If the previous year's income of an eligible recipient (excluding a person raising a child who falls under Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i), (b) or (d) and has no mother, a child who falls under item (ii), (b) or (d) of that paragraph and has no father, or any other child specified by Cabinet Order; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph) is the amount specified by Cabinet Order or more, according to the presence and number of the spouse in the same household and dependents of that person prescribed in the Income Tax Act (Act No. 33 of 1965) (hereinafter referred to as "dependents and similar persons") and of children who are not dependents and similar persons of that eligible recipient but whom that eligible recipient supported as of December 31 of the previous year, the allowance is not paid, in whole or in part, from November of that year to October of the following year, as provided by Cabinet Order.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  受給資格者が母である場合であつてその監護する児童が父から当該児童の養育に必要な費用の支払を受けたとき、又は受給資格者が父である場合であつてその監護し、かつ、これと生計を同じくする児童が母から当該児童の養育に必要な費用の支払を受けたときは、政令で定めるところにより、受給資格者が当該費用の支払を受けたものとみなして、前項の所得の額を計算するものとする。
<sup>art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-9/par-2</sup>
Where the eligible recipient is a mother and a child in her custody has received from the father payment of the expenses necessary for raising that child, or where the eligible recipient is a father and a child in his custody and sharing a livelihood with him has received from the mother payment of the expenses necessary for raising that child, the amount of income under the preceding paragraph is to be calculated, as provided by Cabinet Order, by deeming the eligible recipient to have received payment of those expenses.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-9/par-1: 第四条第一項第一号 → 児童扶養手当法 第四条第一項第一号 (Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-4/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-4/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-4/par-1/item-1
- art-9/par-1: 同項第二号 → 児童扶養手当法 第四条第一項第二号 (Article 4, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-4/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-4/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-4/par-1/item-2
- art-9/par-1: この項 → 児童扶養手当法 第九条第一項 (Article 9, paragraph (1)), art-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-9/par-1
- art-9/par-2: 前項 → 児童扶養手当法 第九条第一項 (Article 9, paragraph (1)), art-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-9/par-1

## Cited by

10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 児童扶養手当法 第九条第一項（支給の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-9/par-1
- 児童扶養手当法 第九条第二項（支給の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-9/par-2
- 児童扶養手当法 第九条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-9-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-9-2/par-1
- 児童扶養手当法 第十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-12/par-1
- 児童扶養手当法 第十二条第二項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-12/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-12/par-2/item-1
- 児童扶養手当法 第十二条第二項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-12/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-12/par-2/item-2
- 児童扶養手当法 第十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-13/par-1
- 児童扶養手当法 附則第三十六条第二項（第十七条の規定の施行に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4061-95/art-36/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4061-95/art-36/par-2
- 児童扶養手当法 附則第百二十三条第二項（国民年金法等の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4291-4/art-123/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4291-4/art-123/par-2
- 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

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## 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
