# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3)（認定等に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4241-24/art-3` - 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-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（認定等に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Certification, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4241-24/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-3 **第一項** この法律の施行の日（以下「施行日」という。）の前日にお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（平成二十三年法律第百七号）第六条（同法第十六条第一項において読み替えて適用する場合を含む。以下この条において同じ。）の認定を受けている者（同法第九条の規定により子ども手当の額の全部又は一部を支給されていない者及び同法第十条の規定により子ども手当の支払を一時差し止められている者を除く。）及び平成二十四年九月三十日までの間に同法第六条の認定の請求をした者であって施行日以後に同条の認定を受けたもの（同法附則第三条の規定の適用を受けたものに限る。）が、施行日において児童手当の支給要件に該当するときは、その者に対する児童手当の支給に関しては、施行日において第一条の規定による改正後の児童手当法第七条第一項（同法第十七条第一項において読み替えて適用する場合を含む。）又は第二項の規定による認定（以下この条及び次条において「児童手当の支給認定」という。）があったものとみなす。この場合において、その児童手当の支給認定があったものとみなされた児童手当の支給は、同法第八条第二項の規定にかかわらず、施行日の属する月から始める。 suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-1 If persons who, on the day preceding the day on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date"), have received certification under Article 6 of the Act on Special Measures Concerning the Payment of Children's Allowance, etc. in Fiscal 2011 (Act No. 107 of 2011) (including the case where it is applied by replacing terms pursuant to Article 16, paragraph (1) of that Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) (excluding persons who are not paid all or part of the amount of Children's Allowance pursuant to Article 9 of that Act and persons whose payment of Children's Allowance is temporarily suspended pursuant to Article 10 of that Act), and persons who have filed a claim for certification under Article 6 of that Act by September 30, 2012 and who receive certification under that Article on or after the Effective Date (limited to those to whom Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions of that Act applies), satisfy the requirements for payment of child allowance on the Effective Date, then with regard to payment of child allowance to those persons, they are deemed to have received, on the Effective Date, certification under Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Child Allowance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 1 (including the case where it is applied by replacing terms pursuant to Article 17, paragraph (1) of that Act) or paragraph (2) of that Article (hereinafter in this Article and the following Article referred to as "certification for payment of child allowance"). In this case, payment of child allowance for which they are deemed to have received that certification for payment of child allowance is to start from the month in which the Effective Date falls, notwithstanding Article 8, paragraph (2) of that Act. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定により児童手当の支給認定があったものとみなされた者以外の者であって、施行日の前日において第一条の規定による改正前の児童手当法（以下「旧児童手当法」という。）第七条（旧児童手当法第十七条第一項において読み替えて適用する場合並びに旧児童手当法附則第六条第二項、第七条第五項及び第八条第四項において準用する旧児童手当法第十七条第一項において読み替えて適用する場合を含む。）の認定を受けているものが、施行日において児童手当の支給要件に該当する場合であって、児童手当の支給を受けようとするときは、児童手当の支給認定の請求をしなければならない。 suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-2 A person other than a person deemed under the preceding paragraph to have received certification for payment of child allowance, who, on the day preceding the Effective Date, has received certification under Article 7 of the Former Child Allowance Act (meaning the Child Allowance Act as it was before amendment by the provisions of Article 1; the same applies hereinafter) (including the case where it is applied by replacing terms pursuant to Article 17, paragraph (1) of the Former Child Allowance Act, and the case where it is applied by replacing terms pursuant to Article 17, paragraph (1) of the Former Child Allowance Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 6, paragraph (2), Article 7, paragraph (5), and Article 8, paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Former Child Allowance Act), must file a claim for certification for payment of child allowance if the person satisfies the requirements for payment of child allowance on the Effective Date and seeks to receive payment of child allowance. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-1: 同法第十七条第一項 → 児童手当法 第十七条第一項 (Article 17, paragraph (1)), art-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-17/par-1 - suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-1: 次条 → 児童手当法 附則第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4), suppl-4241-24/art-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-4 - suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-1: 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（平成二十三年法律第百七号）第六条 → e-Gov law 423AC0000000107, 第六条 (Article 6), art-6 — not held in this collection - suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-1: 同法第十六条第一項 → e-Gov law 423AC0000000107, 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — not held in this collection - suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-1: 同法第九条 → e-Gov law 423AC0000000107, 第九条 (Article 9), art-9 — not held in this collection - suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-1: 同法第十条 → e-Gov law 423AC0000000107, 第十条 (Article 10), art-10 — not held in this collection - suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-1: 第二項 → 児童手当法 第七条第二項 (Article 7, paragraph (2)), art-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/art-7/par-2 - suppl-4241-24/art-3/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-4241-24/art-3/par-1: この条 → 児童手当法 附則第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3), suppl-4241-24/art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-3 - suppl-4241-24/art-3/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 - suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-2: 前項 → 児童手当法 附則第三条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3, paragraph (1)), suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 児童手当法 附則第三条第一項（認定等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-1 - 児童手当法 附則第三条第二項（認定等に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-3/par-2 - 児童手当法 附則第四条（附則第三条第一項の規定により児童手当の支給認定があったものとみなされた者に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-4 - 児童手当法 附則第四条第一項（附則第三条第一項の規定により児童手当の支給認定があったものとみなされた者に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-4/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-20261009T094943-013, 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