# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-4181-20/art-4` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4181-20/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4181-20/art-4 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四条 suppl-4181-20/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4181-20/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4181-20/art-4 **第一項** 前条の規定は、新児童手当法附則第八条第一項の給付に係る支給及び額の改定について準用する。この場合において、前条第一項中「附則第七条第四項」とあるのは「附則第八条第四項」と、「附則第七条第一項」とあるのは「附則第八条第一項」と、「同項第一号イ」とあるのは「新児童手当法附則第七条第一項第一号イ」と、同条第二項中「附則第七条第四項」とあるのは「附則第八条第四項」と、「附則第七条第一項」とあるのは「附則第八条第一項」と読み替えるものとする。 suppl-4181-20/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4181-20/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4181-20/art-4/par-1 The provisions of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to payment and revision of the amount of the benefit under Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the New Child Allowance Act. In this case, the phrase "Article 7, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions" in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 8, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions", the phrase "Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions" with "Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions", and the phrase "item (i), (a) of that paragraph" with "Article 7, paragraph (1), item (i), (a) of the Supplementary Provisions of the New Child Allowance Act", and the phrase "Article 7, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions" in paragraph (2) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "Article 8, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions" and the phrase "Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions" with "Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4181-20/art-4/par-1: 同条第二項 → 児童手当法 附則第三条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (2)), suppl-4181-20/art-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4181-20/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4181-20/art-3/par-2 - suppl-4181-20/art-4/par-1: 前条第一項 → 児童手当法 附則第三条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)), suppl-4181-20/art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4181-20/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4181-20/art-3/par-1 - suppl-4181-20/art-4/par-1: 前条 → 児童手当法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-4181-20/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4181-20/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4181-20/art-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-20261009T094943-012, 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