# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第二十七条 (Article 27) - 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: 第二十七条 (Article 27)（調査） — address `art-27` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-27 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-27 - 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. --- ### 第二十七条（調査） — Investigation caption: machine translation, not official art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-27 **第一項** 市町村長は、必要があると認めるときは、受給資格者に対して、受給資格の有無、児童手当の額及び被用者又は被用者等でない者の区分に係る事項に関する書類を提出すべきことを命じ、又は当該職員をしてこれらの事項に関し受給資格者その他の関係者に質問させることができる。 art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-27/par-1 If the mayor of the municipality finds it necessary, the mayor may order an eligible recipient to submit documents concerning matters relating to the presence or absence of eligibility, the amount of child allowance, and the category of employee or person who is not an employee, etc., or have the relevant official question the eligible recipient or other persons concerned about those matters. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定によつて質問を行なう当該職員は、その身分を示す証票を携帯し、かつ、関係者の請求があるときは、これを提示しなければならない。 art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-27/par-2 The relevant official who asks questions under the preceding paragraph must carry an identification card showing the official's status and must present it when requested by the persons concerned. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-27/par-2: 前項 → 児童手当法 第二十七条第一項 (Article 27, paragraph (1)), art-27/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-27/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 児童手当法 第十条第一項（支給の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-10/par-1 - 児童手当法 第二十七条第二項（調査） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-27/par-2 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch child-allowance-act-20261009T094943-005, 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