# 児童扶養手当法 / Child Rearing Allowance Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)

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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
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- Provision: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（手当額に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-3601-48/art-3`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第三条（手当額に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Regarding the Amount of the Allowance
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3601-48/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-3601-48/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-3601-48/art-3</sup>

**第一項**  新法第五条の規定は、昭和六十年八月以降の月分の手当について適用し、同年七月以前の月分の額については、なお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-3601-48/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-3601-48/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-3601-48/art-3/par-1</sup>
The provisions of Article 5 of the New Act apply to the allowance for the months on or after August 1985, and for the amount for the months on or before July of that year, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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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-20261104T155257-009, 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-20261104T155257-009, 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
