In the event of an extremely anomalous and severe disaster, for which it is found urgently necessary to prevent harm in public hygiene from occurring due to difficulty in smoothly conducting burial or cremation caused by the disaster, that disaster is designated by Cabinet Order.
著しく異常かつ激甚な非常災害であつて、当該災害により埋葬又は火葬を円滑に行うことが困難となつたため、公衆衛生上の危害の発生を防止するため緊急の必要があると認められるものが発生した場合には、当該災害を政令で指定するものとする。
When a designation under the preceding paragraph is made, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, as provided for by Cabinet Order and only for a period specified by the Minister, specify special provisions for procedures prescribed in Articles 5 and 14 of the Act on Cemetery and Burial Services (Act No. 48 of 1948).
厚生労働大臣は、前項の規定による指定があつたときは、政令で定めるところにより、厚生労働大臣の定める期間に限り、墓地、埋葬等に関する法律（昭和二十三年法律第四十八号）第五条及び第十四条に規定する手続の特例を定めることができる。
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「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