# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第三十一条 (Article 31)

- 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: 第三十一条 (Article 31)（罰則） — address `art-31`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-31
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-31
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### 第三十一条（罰則） — Penal Provisions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-31</sup>

**第一項**  偽りその他不正の手段により児童手当の支給を受けた者は、三年以下の拘禁刑又は三十万円以下の罰金に処する。ただし、刑法（明治四十年法律第四十五号）に正条があるときは、刑法による。
<sup>art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-31/par-1</sup>
A person who has received payment of child allowance by deceit or other wrongful means is to be punished by imprisonment of three years or less or a fine of 300,000 yen or less; provided, however, that if there is a provision in the Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907), the Penal Code applies.
<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-20261009T094943-005, 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