# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions)

- 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: 附　則 (Supplementary Provisions) — address `suppl-3561-73`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-3561-73
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3561-73
- 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.

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## 附　則 昭和五六年六月九日法律第七三号
<sup>suppl-3561-73 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-3561-73 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3561-73</sup>

### 第一条（施行期日等） — Effective Date, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-3561-73/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-3561-73/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3561-73/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、公布の日から施行する。ただし、第二条、第四条及び第六条並びに附則第十二条から第十四条まで及び第十六条から第三十二条までの規定は、昭和五十七年四月一日から施行する。
<sup>suppl-3561-73/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-3561-73/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3561-73/art-1/par-1</sup>
This Act comes into effect on the date of promulgation; provided, however, that the provisions of Articles 2, 4, and 6, and the provisions of Articles 12 through 14 and Articles 16 through 32 of the Supplementary Provisions come into effect on April 1, 1982.
<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-20261009T094943-006, 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