# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第十二条 (Article 12) - Law: 児童手当法 (Child Allowance Act), 昭和四十六年法律第七十三号 - English title "Child 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: 第十二条 (Article 12)（未支払の児童手当） — address `art-12` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-12 - 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. --- ### 第十二条（未支払の児童手当） — Unpaid Child Allowance caption: machine translation, not official art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-12 **第一項** 児童手当の一般受給資格者が死亡した場合において、その死亡した者に支払うべき児童手当（その者が監護していた児童であつた者に係る部分に限る。）で、まだその者に支払つていなかつたものがあるときは、当該児童であつた者にその未支払の児童手当を支払うことができる。 art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-12/par-1 If a general eligible recipient of child allowance dies, and there is child allowance payable to the deceased person (limited to the portion relating to a person who was a child raised by that person) that had not yet been paid to that person, the unpaid child allowance may be paid to the person who was that child. machine translation, not official **第二項** 施設入所等児童が第三条第三項各号に掲げる児童に該当しなくなつた場合において、当該施設入所等児童に対し児童自立生活援助を行つていた施設等受給資格者、当該施設入所等児童が委託されていた施設等受給資格者又は当該施設入所等児童が入所若しくは入院をしていた障害児入所施設等に係る施設等受給資格者に支払うべき児童手当（当該施設入所等児童であつた者に係る部分に限る。）で、まだその者に支払つていなかつたものがあるときは、当該施設入所等児童であつた者にその未支払の児童手当を支払うことができる。 art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-12/par-2 If a child placed in a facility, etc. ceases to fall under the children set forth in the items of Article 3, paragraph (3), and there is child allowance payable to the facility eligible recipient that conducted child independent living assistance for that child placed in a facility, etc., the facility eligible recipient to whom that child placed in a facility, etc. had been entrusted, or the facility eligible recipient relating to the residential facility for children with disabilities, etc. in which that child placed in a facility, etc. had been admitted or hospitalized (limited to the portion relating to the person who was that child placed in a facility, etc.) that had not yet been paid to that person, the unpaid child allowance may be paid to the person who was that child placed in a facility, etc. machine translation, not official **第三項** 前項の規定による支払があつたときは、当該施設等受給資格者に対し当該児童手当の支給があつたものとみなす。 art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-12/par-3 If payment has been made under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the payment of child allowance concerned is deemed to have been made to the facility eligible recipient concerned. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-12/par-2: 第三条第三項 → 児童手当法 第三条第三項 (Article 3, paragraph (3)), art-3/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-3/par-3 - art-12/par-3: 前項 → 児童手当法 第十二条第二項 (Article 12, paragraph (2)), art-12/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-12/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 児童手当法 第十二条第三項（未支払の児童手当） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-12/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-12/par-3 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 児童手当法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/346AC0000000073/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-10-09 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 児童手当法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/968), retrieved 2026-09-23 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch child-allowance-act-20261009T094943-003, translated 2026-10-09 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch child-allowance-act-20261009T110211-001, translated 2026-10-09 - This site's parser, version 165 — 児童手当法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-09