# 児童扶養手当法 / Child Rearing Allowance Act — 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4141-119/art-4. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - 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: 第四条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4) — address `suppl-4141-119/art-4` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4141-119/art-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4141-119/art-4 - 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. --- ### 第四条 suppl-4141-119/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4141-119/art-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4141-119/art-4 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に旧法第六条の規定による認定を受けている者又は旧法の規定による手当の支給要件に該当する者であって、この法律の施行前に同条第一項の規定による認定の請求をしこの法律の施行の日以後に第二条の規定による改正後の児童扶養手当法（以下この項及び次項において「新法」という。）第六条の規定による認定を受けたものに対する児童扶養手当の支給に関し新法第十三条の二の規定を適用する場合においては、同条中「支給開始月の初日から起算して五年又は手当の支給要件に該当するに至つた日の属する月の初日から起算して七年を経過したとき（第六条第一項の規定による認定の請求をした日において三歳未満の児童を監護する受給資格者にあつては、当該児童が三歳に達した日の属する月の翌月の初日から起算して五年を経過したとき）」とあるのは、「平成十五年四月一日から起算して五年を経過したとき（同日において三歳未満の児童を監護する受給資格者にあつては、当該児童が三歳に達した日の属する月の翌月の初日から起算して五年を経過したとき）」とする。 suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-1 In the case of applying Article 13-2 of the New Act to payment of Child Rearing Allowance to a person who, at the time of enforcement of this Act, has actually received certification under Article 6 of the Former Act, or a person who, at that time, actually satisfies the requirements for payment of the allowance under the provisions of the Former Act and who has made a claim for certification under Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Former Act before the enforcement of this Act and has received certification under Article 6 of the Child Rearing Allowance Act as amended by the provisions of Article 2 (hereinafter referred to as "the New Act" in this paragraph and the following paragraph) on or after the day of enforcement of this Act, the phrase "when five years have elapsed from the first day of the first month of payment, or seven years have elapsed from the first day of the month containing the day on which the requirements for payment of the allowance came to be met (or, in the case of an eligible recipient who had in custody a child under three years of age on the day of making a claim for certification under Article 6, paragraph (1), when five years have elapsed from the first day of the month following the month containing the day on which that child reached the age of three)" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "when five years have elapsed from April 1, 2003 (or, in the case of an eligible recipient who had in custody a child under three years of age on that day, when five years have elapsed from the first day of the month following the month containing the day on which that child reached the age of three)". machine translation, not official **第二項** この法律の施行の際現に旧法の規定による手当の支給要件に該当する者であってこの法律の施行の日以後に新法第六条第一項の規定による認定の請求をしたものに対する児童扶養手当の支給に関し、新法第十三条の二の規定を適用する場合においては、同条中「手当の支給要件に該当するに至つた日の属する月の初日」とあるのは、「平成十五年四月一日」とする。 suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-2 In the case of applying Article 13-2 of the New Act to payment of Child Rearing Allowance to a person who, at the time of enforcement of this Act, actually satisfies the requirements for payment of the allowance under the provisions of the Former Act and who has made a claim for certification under Article 6, paragraph (1) of the New Act on or after the day of enforcement of this Act, the phrase "the first day of the month containing the day on which the requirements for payment of the allowance came to be met" in Article 13-2 of the New Act is deemed to be replaced with "April 1, 2003". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-1: この項 → 児童扶養手当法 附則第四条第一項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (1)), suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-1 - suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-1: 次項 → 児童扶養手当法 附則第四条第二項 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 4, paragraph (2)), suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-2 - suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-1: 第六条 → 児童扶養手当法 第六条 (Article 6), art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-6 - suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-1: 新法第十三条の二 → 児童扶養手当法 第十三条の二 (Article 13-2), art-13-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-13-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-13-2 - suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-1: 第六条第一項 → 児童扶養手当法 第六条第一項 (Article 6, paragraph (1)), art-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-6/par-1 - suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-2: 新法第六条第一項 → 児童扶養手当法 第六条第一項 (Article 6, paragraph (1)), art-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-6/par-1 - suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-2: 新法第十三条の二 → 児童扶養手当法 第十三条の二 (Article 13-2), art-13-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/art-13-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/art-13-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 児童扶養手当法 附則第三条第一項（児童扶養手当法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4141-119/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4141-119/art-3/par-1 - 児童扶養手当法 附則第四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4141-119/art-4/par-1 --- ## 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-20261104T155257-011, translated 2026-11-05 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch child-rearing-allowance-act-20261104T155257-011, 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