# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) - 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（支給要件等に関する暫定措置） — address `suppl-3601-74/art-2` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-3601-74/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3601-74/art-2 - 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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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二条（支給要件等に関する暫定措置） — Provisional Measures Concerning Requirements for Payment, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3601-74/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-3601-74/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3601-74/art-2 **第一項** 昭和六十一年六月一日から昭和六十二年三月三十一日までの間においては、改正後の児童手当法（以下「新法」という。）第四条第一項第一号中「義務教育就学前の児童を含む二人以上の児童」とあるのは「昭和五十九年六月二日以後に生まれた児童を含む二人以上の児童又は義務教育終了前の児童（十五歳に達した日の属する学年の末日以前の児童をいい、同日以後引き続いて中学校又は盲学校、聾学校若しくは養護学校の中学部に在学する児童を含む。以下同じ。）を含む三人以上の児童」と、新法第六条第一項第一号及び第二号中「義務教育就学前の児童」とあるのは「昭和五十九年六月二日以後に生まれた児童」と、同項第三号中「義務教育就学前の児童の数」とあるのは「義務教育終了前の児童の数（当該支給要件児童のすべてが義務教育終了前の児童である場合は、当該義務教育終了前の児童の数より二を減じた数とし、当該支給要件児童のうちに義務教育終了前の児童でない児童が一人いる場合は、当該義務教育終了前の児童の数より一を減じた数とする。）」とする。 suppl-3601-74/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-3601-74/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3601-74/art-2/par-1 During the period from June 1, 1986 to March 31, 1987, the phrase "two or more children including a child who has not yet started compulsory education" in Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Child Allowance Act after amendment (hereinafter referred to as the "New Act") is deemed to be replaced with "two or more children including a child born on or after June 2, 1984, or three or more children including a child who has not completed compulsory education (meaning a child on or before the last day of the school year that includes the day on which the child reaches the age of 15, and including a child who, on and continuously after that day, is enrolled in a junior high school or in the junior high school division of a school for the blind, a school for the deaf, or a school for children with disabilities; the same applies hereinafter)", the phrase "child who has not yet started compulsory education" in Article 6, paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii) of the New Act is deemed to be replaced with "child born on or after June 2, 1984", and the phrase "the number of children who have not yet started compulsory education" in item (iii) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the number of children who have not completed compulsory education (if every child under the requirements for payment is a child who has not completed compulsory education, the number obtained by subtracting two from the number of those children who have not completed compulsory education, and if one of the children under the requirements for payment is not a child who has not completed compulsory education, the number obtained by subtracting one from the number of those children who have not completed compulsory education)". machine translation, not official **第二項** 昭和六十二年四月一日から昭和六十三年三月三十一日までの間においては、新法第四条第一項第一号中「義務教育就学前の児童を含む二人以上の児童」とあるのは「昭和五十八年四月二日以後に生まれた児童を含む二人以上の児童又は昭和五十三年四月二日以後に生まれた児童を含む三人以上の児童」と、新法第六条第一項第一号及び第二号中「義務教育就学前の児童」とあるのは「昭和五十八年四月二日以後に生まれた児童」と、同項第三号中「義務教育就学前の児童の数」とあるのは「昭和五十三年四月二日以後に生まれた児童の数（当該支給要件児童のすべてが同日以後に生まれた児童である場合は、当該同日以後に生まれた児童の数より二を減じた数とし、当該支給要件児童のうちに同日以後に生まれた児童でない児童が一人いる場合は、当該同日以後に生まれた児童の数より一を減じた数とする。）」とする。 suppl-3601-74/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-3601-74/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3601-74/art-2/par-2 During the period from April 1, 1987 to March 31, 1988, the phrase "two or more children including a child who has not yet started compulsory education" in Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i) of the New Act is deemed to be replaced with "two or more children including a child born on or after April 2, 1983, or three or more children including a child born on or after April 2, 1978", the phrase "child who has not yet started compulsory education" in Article 6, paragraph (1), items (i) and (ii) of the New Act is deemed to be replaced with "child born on or after April 2, 1983", and the phrase "the number of children who have not yet started compulsory education" in item (iii) of that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the number of children born on or after April 2, 1978 (if every child under the requirements for payment is a child born on or after that date, the number obtained by subtracting two from the number of those children born on or after that date, and if one of the children under the requirements for payment is not a child born on or after that date, the number obtained by subtracting one from the number of those children born on or after that date)". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3601-74/art-2/par-1: 新法第六条第一項第一号 → 児童手当法 第六条第一項第一号 (Article 6, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-6/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-6/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-6/par-1/item-1 - suppl-3601-74/art-2/par-1: 第四条第一項第一号 → 児童手当法 第四条第一項第一号 (Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-4/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-4/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-4/par-1/item-1 - suppl-3601-74/art-2/par-1: 第二号 → 児童手当法 第六条第一項第二号 (Article 6, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-6/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-6/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-6/par-1/item-2 - suppl-3601-74/art-2/par-1: 同項第三号 → 児童手当法 第六条第一項第三号 (Article 6, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-6/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-6/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-6/par-1/item-3 - suppl-3601-74/art-2/par-2: 新法第六条第一項第一号 → 児童手当法 第六条第一項第一号 (Article 6, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-6/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-6/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-6/par-1/item-1 - suppl-3601-74/art-2/par-2: 新法第四条第一項第一号 → 児童手当法 第四条第一項第一号 (Article 4, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-4/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-4/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-4/par-1/item-1 - suppl-3601-74/art-2/par-2: 第二号 → 児童手当法 第六条第一項第二号 (Article 6, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-6/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-6/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-6/par-1/item-2 - suppl-3601-74/art-2/par-2: 同項第三号 → 児童手当法 第六条第一項第三号 (Article 6, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-6/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-6/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-6/par-1/item-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-20261009T094943-007, 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