# 児童扶養手当法 / Child Rearing Allowance Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-3601-48/art-1. 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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日等） — address `suppl-3601-48/art-1` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-3601-48/art-1 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-3601-48/art-1 - 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. --- ### 第一条（施行期日等） — Effective Date, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3601-48/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-3601-48/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-3601-48/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、昭和六十年八月一日から施行する。ただし、第四条に二項を加える改正規定、第二十九条第一項の改正規定（「、当該児童」の下に「、第四条第一項第一号イ若しくは第二号イに該当する児童の父母」を加える部分に限る。）及び第三十条の改正規定並びに次条の規定は、政令で定める日から施行する。 suppl-3601-48/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-3601-48/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-3601-48/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on August 1, 1985; provided, however, that the provisions adding two paragraphs to Article 4, the provisions amending Article 29, paragraph (1) (limited to the part adding ", the parents of a child who falls under Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i), (a) or item (ii), (a)" after ", the child") and the provisions amending Article 30, and the provisions of the following Article come into effect on the date specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official **第二項** 政府は、前項ただし書に規定する政令を定めるに当たつては、婚姻を解消した父母の児童に対する扶養義務の履行の状況、当該父又は母の所得の把握方法の状況等を勘案しなければならない。 suppl-3601-48/art-1/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-3601-48/art-1/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-3601-48/art-1/par-2 In specifying the Cabinet Order prescribed in the proviso to the preceding paragraph, the Government must take into consideration the status of performance of the duty of support toward the child by parents who have dissolved their marriage, the status of the methods of ascertaining the income of that father or mother, and other such matters. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3601-48/art-1/par-2: 前項 → 児童扶養手当法 附則第一条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1)), suppl-3601-48/art-1/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-3601-48/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-3601-48/art-1/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 児童扶養手当法 附則第一条第二項（施行期日等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-3601-48/art-1/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-3601-48/art-1/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-20261104T155257-008, translated 2026-11-05 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch child-rearing-allowance-act-20261104T155257-009, 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