# 児童手当法 / Child Allowance Act — 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2) - 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: 第二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 2)（検討） — address `suppl-5031-50/art-2` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-5031-50/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-5031-50/art-2 - 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. --- ### 第二条（検討） — Review caption: machine translation, not official suppl-5031-50/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-5031-50/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-5031-50/art-2 **第一項** 政府は、子ども・子育て支援に関する施策の実施状況等を踏まえ、少子化の進展への対処に寄与する観点から、児童手当の支給を受ける者の児童の数等に応じた児童手当の効果的な支給及びその財源の在り方並びに児童手当の支給要件の在り方について検討を加え、その結果に基づき、必要な措置を講ずるものとする。 suppl-5031-50/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-allowance-act/suppl-5031-50/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/346AC0000000073/suppl-5031-50/art-2/par-1 The government is to, taking into consideration the status of implementation of measures concerning support for children and child-rearing, etc., and from the viewpoint of contributing to addressing the advance of the declining birthrate, examine how child allowance is to be effectively paid in accordance with the number of children of persons receiving payment of child allowance, etc., and how the funding for it is to be secured, as well as the requirements for payment of child allowance, and take necessary measures based on the results. machine translation, not official --- ## 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-20261009T094943-018, 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