# 児童扶養手当法 / Child Rearing Allowance Act — 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)

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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: 第一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1)（施行期日等） — address `suppl-3631-56/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-3631-56/art-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-3631-56/art-1
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### 第一条（施行期日等） — Effective Date, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3631-56/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-3631-56/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-3631-56/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、公布の日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-3631-56/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-3631-56/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-3631-56/art-1/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  第一条の規定による改正後の児童扶養手当法第五条の規定、第二条の規定による改正後の特別児童扶養手当等の支給に関する法律第四条、第十八条（法律第三十四号附則第九十七条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）及び第二十六条の三の規定並びに第三条の規定による改正後の法律第三十四号附則第三十二条第二項の規定は、昭和六十三年四月一日から適用する。
<sup>suppl-3631-56/art-1/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-3631-56/art-1/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-3631-56/art-1/par-2</sup>
The provisions of Article 5 of the Child Rearing Allowance Act as amended by Article 1, the provisions of Article 4, Article 18 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 97, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of Act No. 34) and Article 26-3 of the Act on Special Child Rearing Allowance as amended by Article 2, and the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of Act No. 34 as amended by Article 3 apply from April 1, 1988.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-3631-56/art-1/par-2: 児童扶養手当法第五条 → 児童扶養手当法 第五条 (Article 5), art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-5
- suppl-3631-56/art-1/par-2: 特別児童扶養手当等の支給に関する法律第四条 → e-Gov law 339AC0000000134, 第四条 (Article 4), art-4 — not held in this collection
- suppl-3631-56/art-1/par-2: 第十八条 → e-Gov law 339AC0000000134, 第十八条 (Article 18), art-18 — not held in this collection
- suppl-3631-56/art-1/par-2: 第二十六条の三 → e-Gov law 339AC0000000134, 第二十六条の三 (Article 26-3), art-26-3 — not held in this collection

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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-20261104T155257-007, translated 2026-11-05
- 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-20261104T155257-010, 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
