# 児童扶養手当法 / Child Rearing Allowance Act — 第二十八条 (Article 28)

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- Law: 児童扶養手当法 (Child Rearing Allowance Act), 昭和三十六年法律第二百三十八号
- English title "Child Rearing 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: 第二十八条 (Article 28)（届出） — address `art-28`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-28
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-28
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### 第二十八条（届出） — Notification
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-28</sup>

**第一項**  手当の支給を受けている者は、内閣府令の定めるところにより、都道府県知事等に対し、内閣府令で定める事項を届け出、かつ、内閣府令で定める書類その他の物件を提出しなければならない。
<sup>art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-28/par-1</sup>
A person who is receiving payment of the allowance must, as provided by Cabinet Office Order, notify the prefectural governor, etc. of the matters specified by Cabinet Office Order and submit the documents and other articles specified by Cabinet Office Order.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  手当の支給を受けている者が死亡したときは、戸籍法（昭和二十二年法律第二百二十四号）の規定による死亡の届出義務者は、内閣府令の定めるところにより、その旨を都道府県知事等に届け出なければならない。
<sup>art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-28/par-2</sup>
When a person who is receiving payment of the allowance dies, the person obligated to give notification of the death under the provisions of the Family Register Act (Act No. 224 of 1947) must notify the prefectural governor, etc. to that effect, as provided by Cabinet Office Order.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 児童扶養手当法 第十四条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-14/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-14/par-1/item-5
- 児童扶養手当法 第十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-15/par-1
- 児童扶養手当法 第二十八条の二第一項（相談及び情報提供等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-28-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-28-2/par-1
- 児童扶養手当法 第三十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-36/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 児童扶養手当法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/336AC0000000238/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-04
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 児童扶養手当法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/788), retrieved 2026-09-23
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch child-rearing-allowance-act-20261104T155257-005, translated 2026-11-05
- This site's parser, version 224 — 児童扶養手当法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-04
