In cases where a disaster involving an area of the prefecture or municipality has occurred or is likely to occur, when their stored goods or materials are insufficient for implementing emergency disaster control measures, and it is found difficult to implement the emergency disaster control measures accurately and speedily, the prefectural governor may request the head of the designated administrative organ or the head of the designated local administrative organ, and the mayor of a municipality may request the prefectural governor, to take necessary measures for the supply of each of the necessary goods and materials.
In cases where a disaster involving an area of a prefecture or municipality has occurred or is likely to occur, their stored goods and materials are found insufficient by the governor of the prefecture or the mayor of the municipality to implement emergency disaster control measures, and it is found difficult to implement the emergency disaster control measures accurately and promptly, when it is found urgent in light of the situation and there is no time to wait for the request under the preceding paragraph, the head of the designated administrative organ, the head of the designated local administrative organ, or the prefectural governor may take necessary measures for the supply of necessary goods and materials without waiting for the request.
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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