# 児童扶養手当法 / Child Rearing Allowance Act — 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)

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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
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- Provision: 第六条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 6)（検討） — address `suppl-4141-119/art-6`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
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### 第六条（検討） — Review
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<sup>suppl-4141-119/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4141-119/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4141-119/art-6</sup>

**第一項**  政府は、この法律の施行の状況を勘案し、母子家庭等の児童の福祉の増進を図る観点から、母子家庭等の児童の親の当該児童についての扶養義務の履行を確保するための施策の在り方について検討を加え、必要があると認めるときは、その結果に基づいて必要な措置を講ずるものとする。
<sup>suppl-4141-119/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/child-rearing-allowance-act/suppl-4141-119/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000238/suppl-4141-119/art-6/par-1</sup>
In light of the status of enforcement of this Act, the Government is to review, from the standpoint of promoting the welfare of a child of a mother-and-child household, etc., the manner of measures for ensuring that the parent of that child performs the duty of support for that child, and when it finds it necessary, is to take necessary measures based on the results of that review.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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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-20261104T155257-011, 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
