The joint committee of prefectural disaster management councils must formulate a multi-prefecture mutual area disaster management plan concerning that area, review it every year, and revise it when found necessary in accordance with the basic disaster management plan. In this case, that multi-prefecture mutual area disaster management plan must not conflict with the disaster management operation plan.
A multi-prefecture mutual area disaster management plan is to provide for all or some of the matters set forth in each item of Article 40, paragraph (2).
都道府県相互間地域防災計画は、第四十条第二項各号に掲げる事項の全部又は一部について定めるものとする。
The provisions of Article 40, paragraphs (4) through (6) apply mutatis mutandis to the multi-prefecture mutual area disaster management plan. In this case, the term "prefectural disaster management council" in these provisions is deemed to be replaced with "joint committee of prefectural disaster management councils".
第四十条第四項から第六項までの規定は、都道府県相互間地域防災計画について準用する。この場合において、これらの規定中「都道府県防災会議」とあるのは、「都道府県防災会議の協議会」と読み替えるものとする。
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basic disaster management plan
「防災基本計画」
The basic plan on disaster management that the National Disaster Management Council draws up.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (viii)· applies throughout the law
disaster management operation planmachine translation
「防災業務計画」
A disaster management plan that the head of a designated administrative organ (or, for a commission or certain collegial bodies, the organ itself) or a designated public corporation draws up for its own work on the basis of the basic disaster management plan; for work delegated to them, the designated local administrative organ or designated local public corporation draws it up.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (ix)· applies throughout the law
joint committeemachine translation
「協議会」
A joint committee of prefectural disaster management councils or a joint committee of municipal disaster management councils.
Defined inArticle 13, paragraph (2)