# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12)

- 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: 第十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 12)（平成二十三年度における子ども手当の支給等に関する特別措置法により適用される旧児童手当法に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4241-24/art-12`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-12
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### 第十二条（平成二十三年度における子ども手当の支給等に関する特別措置法により適用される旧児童手当法に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning the Former Child Allowance Act Applied Pursuant to the Act on Special Measures Concerning the Payment of Children's Allowance, etc. in Fiscal 2011
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4241-24/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-12</sup>

**第一項**  平成二十三年十月から平成二十四年三月までの月分の子ども手当について平成二十三年度における子ども手当の支給等に関する特別措置法第二十条の規定を適用する場合においては、旧児童手当法の規定（旧児童手当法の規定に基づく命令の規定を含む。）は、なおその効力を有する。
<sup>suppl-4241-24/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-12/par-1</sup>
In the case of applying the provisions of Article 20 of the Act on Special Measures Concerning the Payment of Children's Allowance, etc. in Fiscal 2011 to Children's Allowance for the months from October 2011 through March 2012, the provisions of the Former Child Allowance Act (including provisions of orders based on the provisions of the Former Child Allowance Act) remain in force.
<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-20261009T094943-014, 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