# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第三十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 37)

- 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: 第三十七条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 37)（罰則に関する経過措置） — address `suppl-4241-24/art-37`
- 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-37
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-37
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### 第三十七条（罰則に関する経過措置） — Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>suppl-4241-24/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-37</sup>

**第一項**  施行日前にした行為及び附則第五条の規定によりなお従前の例によ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。
<sup>suppl-4241-24/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-37/par-1</sup>
With regard to the application of penal provisions to an act committed before the Effective Date, and to an act committed on or after the Effective Date in a case in which the provisions then in force are to continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of Article 5 of the Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- suppl-4241-24/art-37/par-1: 附則第五条 → 児童手当法 附則第五条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 5), suppl-4241-24/art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-4241-24/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-4241-24/art-5

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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-20261009T094943-015, 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