In the case referred to in the paragraph (1) or (3) of the preceding Article, when the mayor of a municipality finds it is unable to give instructions regarding evacuation for taking refuge or urgent measures to ensure safety prescribed in paragraph (1) of the same Article, or when there has been a request from the mayor, the police or coast guard officers may give instructions for evacuation for taking refuge or urgent measures to ensure safety to the residents, etc. for whom evacuation for taking refuge or these measures are found necessary in an area where evacuation for taking refuge or these measures are found necessary.
The provisions of the preceding Article, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the case where the police or coast guard officers give instructions regarding the evacuation for taking refuge pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
When the police or coast guard officers have given instruction for evacuation for taking refuge or urgent measures to ensure safety pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), they must immediately notify the mayor of a municipality to that effect.
The provisions of paragraphs (4) and (5) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to the mayor of a municipality who has received a notification prescribed in the preceding paragraph.
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residents, etc.machine translation
「居住者等」
Residents (居住者), people staying in the area (滞在者) and others.
Short name set inArticle 33-2, paragraph (1), item (i)
urgent measures to ensure safetymachine translation
「緊急安全確保措置」
Urgent steps to keep safe, such as moving to higher ground, sheltering in a sturdy building nearby or keeping away from openings to the outside inside a building, which the mayor of a municipality may instruct residents and others to take when leaving to evacuate would itself put their lives or bodies at risk.
Short name set inArticle 60, paragraph (3)