# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20) - 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: 第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20)（児童手当法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-3611-93/art-20` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-3611-93/art-20 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3611-93/art-20 - 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. --- ### 第二十条（児童手当法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Child Allowance Act caption: machine translation, not official suppl-3611-93/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-3611-93/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3611-93/art-20 **第一項** 施行日の前日において、日本国有鉄道の総裁又はその委任を受けた者から第百五条の規定による改正前の児童手当法第七条第一項（同法附則第六条第二項において準用する場合を含む。以下この条において同じ。）の規定による認定を受けている者が、施行日において児童手当又は同法附則第六条第一項の給付（以下この条において「特例給付」という。）の支給要件に該当するときは、その者に対する児童手当又は特例給付の支給に関しては、施行日において第百五条の規定による改正後の児童手当法第七条第一項の規定による市町村長（特別区の区長を含む。）の認定があつたものとみなす。この場合において、その認定があつたものとみなされた児童手当又は特例給付の支給は、同法第八条第二項（同法附則第六条第二項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定にかかわらず、昭和六十二年四月から始める。 suppl-3611-93/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-3611-93/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3611-93/art-20/par-1 If a person who, on the day preceding the Effective Date, has received certification from the President of Japan National Railways or a person delegated by him or her under the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Child Allowance Act prior to amendment by the provisions of Article 105 (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 6, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) satisfies, on the Effective Date, the requirements for payment of child allowance or of the benefit under Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (hereinafter referred to in this Article as "special benefit"), then with regard to the payment of child allowance or special benefit to that person, certification by the mayor of the municipality (including the head of a special ward) under the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Child Allowance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 105 is deemed to have been made on the Effective Date; in this case, payment of the child allowance or special benefit for which certification is deemed to have been made is to begin in April 1987, notwithstanding Article 8, paragraph (2) of that Act (including as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 6, paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-3611-93/art-20/par-1: この条 → 児童手当法 附則第二十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 20), suppl-3611-93/art-20 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-3611-93/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3611-93/art-20 - suppl-3611-93/art-20/par-1: 同法第八条第二項 → 児童手当法 第八条第二項 (Article 8, paragraph (2)), art-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-8/par-2 - suppl-3611-93/art-20/par-1: 児童手当法第七条第一項 → 児童手当法 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-7/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 児童手当法 附則第二十条第一項（児童手当法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-3611-93/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3611-93/art-20/par-1 - 児童手当法 附則第四十二条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-3611-93/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-3611-93/art-42/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-20261009T094943-007, 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