# 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-4141-98` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4141-98 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4141-98 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ## 附　則 平成一四年七月三一日法律第九八号 suppl-4141-98 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4141-98 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4141-98 ### 第一条（施行期日） — Effective Date caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4141-98/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4141-98/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4141-98/art-1 **第一項** この法律は、公社法の施行の日から施行する。ただし、次の各号に掲げる規定は、当該各号に定める日から施行する。 suppl-4141-98/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4141-98/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4141-98/art-1/par-1 This Act comes into effect on the date on which the Public Corporation Act comes into effect; provided, however, that the provisions set forth in the following items come into effect on the dates specified in those items: machine translation, not official **一** 第一章第一節（別表第一から別表第四までを含む。）並びに附則第二十八条第二項、第三十三条第二項及び第三項並びに第三十九条の規定　公布の日 suppl-4141-98/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4141-98/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4141-98/art-1/par-1/item-1 the provisions of Chapter I, Section 1 (including Appended Tables I through IV), and of Article 28, paragraph (2), Article 33, paragraphs (2) and (3), and Article 39 of the Supplementary Provisions: the date of promulgation; machine translation, not official ### 第三十六条（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-4141-98/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4141-98/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4141-98/art-36 **第一項** 施行日の前日において総務省の職員である者のうち、施行日において引き続き公社の職員となったものであって、施行日の前日において総務大臣又はその委任を受けた者から第百五十四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、第七条第四項又は第八条第四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ものが、施行日において児童手当又は同法附則第六条第一項、第七条第一項若しくは第八条第一項の給付（以下この条において「特例給付等」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等の支給に関しては、施行日において同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。）の認定があったものとみなす。この場合において、その認定があったものとみなされた児童手当又は特例給付等の支給は、同法第八条第二項（同法附則第六条第二項、第七条第四項又は第八条第四項において準用する場合を含む。）の規定にかかわらず、平成十五年四月から始める。 suppl-4141-98/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4141-98/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4141-98/art-36/par-1 If a person who is an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications on the day preceding the effective date, who became an employee of the Corporation without interruption on the effective date, and who, on the day preceding the effective date, has received certification from the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications or a person delegated by that Minister under Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Child Allowance Act prior to its amendment by the provisions of Article 154 (including where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 6, paragraph (2), Article 7, paragraph (4) or Article 8, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), meets, on the effective date, the requirements for payment of child allowance or of the benefit under Article 6, paragraph (1), Article 7, paragraph (1) or Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act (hereinafter in this Article referred to as "special benefit, etc."), then, with regard to the payment of child allowance or special benefit, etc. to that person, certification by the mayor of the municipality (including the head of a special ward) under Article 7, paragraph (1) of that Act is deemed to have been made on the effective date. In this case, payment of the child allowance or special benefit, etc. deemed to have been so certified begins in April 2003, notwithstanding Article 8, paragraph (2) of that Act (including where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 6, paragraph (2), Article 7, paragraph (4) or Article 8, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act). machine translation, not official ### 第三十八条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4141-98/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4141-98/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4141-98/art-38 **第一項** 施行日前にした行為並びにこの法律の規定によりなお従前の例によることとされる場合及びこの附則の規定によりなおその効力を有することとされる場合における施行日以後にした行為に対する罰則の適用については、なお従前の例による。 suppl-4141-98/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4141-98/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4141-98/art-38/par-1 With regard to the application of penal provisions to conduct engaged in before the effective date and to conduct engaged in on or after the effective date in the case where the provisions then in force are to continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of this Act and in the case where provisions are to remain in force pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern. machine translation, not official ### 第三十九条（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — Delegation of Other Transitional Measures to Cabinet Order caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4141-98/art-39 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4141-98/art-39 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4141-98/art-39 **第一項** この法律に規定するもののほか、公社法及びこの法律の施行に関し必要な経過措置（罰則に関する経過措置を含む。）は、政令で定める。 suppl-4141-98/art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4141-98/art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4141-98/art-39/par-1 Beyond what is provided for in this Act, transitional measures necessary in connection with the enforcement of the Public Corporation Act and this Act (including transitional measures concerning penal provisions) are specified by Cabinet Order. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4141-98/art-1/par-1/item-1: 第三十九条 → 児童手当法 附則第三十九条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 39), suppl-4141-98/art-39 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4141-98/art-39 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4141-98/art-39 - suppl-4141-98/art-36/par-1: この条 → 児童手当法 附則第三十六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 36), suppl-4141-98/art-36 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4141-98/art-36 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4141-98/art-36 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 児童手当法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4141-98/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4141-98/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 児童手当法 附則第三十六条第一項（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-4141-98/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4141-98/art-36/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-20261009T094943-010, 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