# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第二十二条 (Article 22) - 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: 第二十二条 (Article 22) — address `art-22` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-22 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-22 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十二条 art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-22 **第一項** 市町村長は、児童福祉法第五十六条第二項の規定により費用（同法第五十一条第四号又は第五号に係るものに限る。）を徴収する場合又は同法第五十六条第六項若しくは第七項の規定により地方税の滞納処分の例により処分することができる費用を徴収する場合において、第七条（第十七条第一項において読み替えて適用する場合を含む。）の認定を受けた受給資格者が同法第五十六条第二項の規定により徴収する費用（同法第五十一条第四号又は第五号に係るものに限る。）を支払うべき扶養義務者又は同法第五十六条第六項若しくは第七項の規定により地方税の滞納処分の例により処分することができる費用を支払うべき保護者である場合には、政令で定めるところにより、当該扶養義務者又は保護者に児童手当の支払をする際に保育料（同条第二項の規定により徴収する費用（同法第五十一条第四号又は第五号に係るものに限る。）又は同法第五十六条第六項若しくは第七項の規定により地方税の滞納処分の例により処分することができる費用をいう。次項において同じ。）を徴収することができる。 art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-22/par-1 Where the mayor of the municipality collects expenses under Article 56, paragraph (2) of the Child Welfare Act (limited to those pertaining to Article 51, item (iv) or (v) of that Act) or collects expenses that may be disposed of in the manner of a disposition for delinquency of local taxes under Article 56, paragraph (6) or (7) of that Act, and an eligible recipient who has obtained certification under Article 7 (including where applied by replacing terms pursuant to Article 17, paragraph (1)) is a person obligated to provide support who is to pay the expenses collected under Article 56, paragraph (2) of that Act (limited to those pertaining to Article 51, item (iv) or (v) of that Act), or a guardian who is to pay the expenses that may be disposed of in the manner of a disposition for delinquency of local taxes under Article 56, paragraph (6) or (7) of that Act, the mayor of the municipality may, as provided by Cabinet Order, collect the childcare fee (meaning the expenses collected under paragraph (2) of that Article (limited to those pertaining to Article 51, item (iv) or (v) of that Act) or the expenses that may be disposed of in the manner of a disposition for delinquency of local taxes under Article 56, paragraph (6) or (7) of that Act; the same applies in the following paragraph) when paying child allowance to the person obligated to provide support or the guardian. machine translation, not official **第二項** 市町村長は、前項の規定による徴収（以下この項において「特別徴収」という。）の方法によつて保育料を徴収しようとするときは、特別徴収の対象となる者（以下この項において「特別徴収対象者」という。）に係る保育料を特別徴収の方法によつて徴収する旨、当該特別徴収対象者に係る特別徴収の方法によつて徴収すべき保育料の額その他内閣府令で定める事項を、あらかじめ特別徴収対象者に通知しなければならない。 art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-22/par-2 When the mayor of the municipality intends to collect the childcare fee by the method of collection under the preceding paragraph (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as "special collection"), the mayor must notify the person who is to be subject to special collection (hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "person subject to special collection") in advance of the fact that the childcare fee pertaining to the person subject to special collection will be collected by the method of special collection, the amount of the childcare fee to be collected from the person subject to special collection by the method of special collection, and other matters specified by Cabinet Office Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-22/par-1: 第十七条第一項 → 児童手当法 第十七条第一項 (Article 17, paragraph (1)), art-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-17/par-1 - art-22/par-1: 同法第五十六条第六項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000164, 第五十六条第六項 (Article 56, paragraph (6)), art-56/par-6 — not held in this collection - art-22/par-1: 児童福祉法第五十六条第二項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000164, 第五十六条第二項 (Article 56, paragraph (2)), art-56/par-2 — not held in this collection - art-22/par-1: 同法第五十一条第四号 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000164, 第五十一条第一項第四号 (Article 51, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-51/par-1/item-4 — not held in this collection - art-22/par-1: 第五号 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000164, 第五十一条第一項第五号 (Article 51, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-51/par-1/item-5 — not held in this collection - art-22/par-1: 第七項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000164, 第五十六条第七項 (Article 56, paragraph (7)), art-56/par-7 — not held in this collection - art-22/par-1: 次項 → 児童手当法 第二十二条第二項 (Article 22, paragraph (2)), art-22/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-22/par-2 - art-22/par-1: 第七条 → 児童手当法 第七条 (Article 7), art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-7 - art-22/par-2: 前項 → 児童手当法 第二十二条第一項 (Article 22, paragraph (1)), art-22/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-22/par-1 - art-22/par-2: この項 → 児童手当法 第二十二条第二項 (Article 22, paragraph (2)), art-22/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-22/par-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 児童手当法 第二十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-22/par-1 - 児童手当法 第二十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-22/par-2 - 児童手当法 第二十九条の二第一項（事務の区分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-29-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-29-2/par-1 - 労働者災害補償保険法 附則第二条第一項（適用区分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-accident-insurance-act/suppl-4211-36/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000050/suppl-4211-36/art-2/par-1 - 国民年金法 附則第二条第一項（適用区分） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/national-pension-act/suppl-4211-36/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-4211-36/art-2/par-1 --- ## 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-20261009T094943-004, 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