In cases where a disaster has occurred, when the head of a designated administrative organ and the head of designated local administrative organ find it particularly necessary for implementing emergency measures pertaining to matters set forth in Article 50, paragraph (1), items (iv) through (ix), pursuant to the provisions of a disaster management operation plan, they may order the persons engaged in the business of production, collection, sales, distribution, storage, or transportation of the goods necessary for emergency measures to store goods that they deal with, or may expropriate the goods as are necessary for emergency measures.
When the head of a designated administrative organ and the head of a designated local administrative organ find it necessary for ordering the storage of goods or expropriation of goods pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, they may have their officials enter and inspect the place where the goods are stored or located.
The head of a designated administrative organ and the head of a designated local administrative organ may ask for a necessary report from persons who have goods in their custody pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), or have their officials enter and inspect the place where these goods are stored.
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disastermachine translation
「災害」
Damage caused by a storm, tornado, heavy rain or snow, flood, slope failure, debris flow, storm surge, earthquake, tsunami, soil liquefaction, volcanic eruption, landslide or other abnormal natural phenomenon, or by a large fire or explosion or another cause that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as causing damage on a similar scale.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (i)· applies throughout the law
designated administrative organs
「指定行政機関」
The national administrative organs the Prime Minister designates from among the Cabinet Office (内閣府), the Imperial Household Agency, the Digital Agency, the Disaster Management Agency, the ministries, commissions and agencies, and the councils, facilities, special organs and other bodies set up under them.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iii)· applies throughout the law
designated local administrative organs
「指定地方行政機関」
The local branch offices of designated administrative organs, and other local administrative organs of the State, that the Prime Minister designates.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iv)· 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
emergency measures
「応急措置」
Fire-fighting, flood fighting, rescue and other emergency measures needed to fend off a disaster or stop it from spreading.
Short name set inArticle 62, paragraph (1)