# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第百十五条 (Article 115)

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- Law: 災害対策基本法 (Basic Act on Disaster Management), 昭和三十六年法律第二百二十三号
- English title "Basic Act on Disaster Management": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第百十五条 (Article 115) — address `art-115`
- Text in force since: 2026-11-02
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-115
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-115
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### 第百十五条
<sup>art-115 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-115 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-115</sup>

**第一項**  次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、当該違反行為をした者は、二十万円以下の罰金に処する。
<sup>art-115/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-115/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-115/par-1</sup>
If any of the following items applies, the person who has committed the relevant violation is punished by a fine of not more than two hundred thousand yen:
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **一**  第七十一条第一項（同条第二項の規定により権限に属する事務の一部を行う場合を含む。以下この条において同じ。）、第七十八条第二項（第二十三条の六第一項、第二十七条第一項又は第二十八条の五第一項の規定により権限に属する事務の一部を行う場合を含む。）又は第七十八条第三項（第二十三条の六第一項、第二十七条第一項又は第二十八条の五第一項の規定により権限に属する事務の一部を行う場合を含む。以下この条において同じ。）の規定による立入検査を拒み、妨げ、又は忌避したとき。
  <sup>art-115/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-115/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-115/par-1/item-1</sup>
  the person has refused, interrupted, or avoided receiving a site inspection under Article 71, paragraph (1) (including the case where the person carries out a part of the affairs belonging to the authority pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the same Article; hereinafter the same applies in this Article), Article 78, paragraph (2) (including the case where the person carries out a part of the affairs belonging to the authority pursuant to the provisions of Article 23-6, paragraph (1), Article 27, paragraph (1) or Article 28-5, paragraph (1)), or Article 78, paragraph (3) (including the case where the person carries out a part of the affairs belonging to the authority pursuant to the provisions of Article 23-6, paragraph (1), Article 27, paragraph (1) or Article 28-5, paragraph (1); hereinafter the same applies in this Article);
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **二**  第七十一条第一項又は第七十八条第三項の規定による報告をせず、又は虚偽の報告をしたとき。
  <sup>art-115/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-115/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-115/par-1/item-2</sup>
  the person has failed to make a report or has made a false report under Article 71, paragraph (1) or Article 78, paragraph (3).
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "the person who has failed to make a report or has made a false report under Article 71, paragraph (1) or Article 78, paragraph (3)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb</sup>

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## Cites
- art-115/par-1/item-1: 第七十一条第一項 → 災害対策基本法 第七十一条第一項 (Article 71, paragraph (1)), art-71/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-71/par-1
- art-115/par-1/item-1: 同条第二項 → 災害対策基本法 第七十一条第二項 (Article 71, paragraph (2)), art-71/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-71/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-71/par-2
- art-115/par-1/item-1: この条 → 災害対策基本法 第百十五条 (Article 115), art-115 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-115 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-115
- art-115/par-1/item-1: 第七十八条第二項 → 災害対策基本法 第七十八条第二項 (Article 78, paragraph (2)), art-78/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-78/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-78/par-2
- art-115/par-1/item-1: 第二十三条の六第一項 → 災害対策基本法 第二十三条の六第一項 (Article 23-6, paragraph (1)), art-23-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-23-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-23-6/par-1
- art-115/par-1/item-1: 第二十七条第一項 → 災害対策基本法 第二十七条第一項 (Article 27, paragraph (1)), art-27/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-27/par-1
- art-115/par-1/item-1: 第二十八条の五第一項 → 災害対策基本法 第二十八条の五第一項 (Article 28-5, paragraph (1)), art-28-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-28-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-28-5/par-1
- art-115/par-1/item-1: 第七十八条第三項 → 災害対策基本法 第七十八条第三項 (Article 78, paragraph (3)), art-78/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-78/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-78/par-3
- art-115/par-1/item-2: 第七十一条第一項 → 災害対策基本法 第七十一条第一項 (Article 71, paragraph (1)), art-71/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-71/par-1
- art-115/par-1/item-2: 第七十八条第三項 → 災害対策基本法 第七十八条第三項 (Article 78, paragraph (3)), art-78/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-78/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-78/par-3

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 災害対策基本法 第百十五条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-115/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-115/par-1/item-1
- 災害対策基本法 第百十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-117/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-117/par-1

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## Sources

- claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Basic Act on Disaster Management, written 2026-11-03
- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 災害対策基本法 — the text in force from 2026-11-02 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/336AC0000000223/20261102_508AC0000000062), retrieved 2026-11-02
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Basic Act on Disaster Management (災害対策基本法), Article 115, paragraph (1), item (ii) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Basic Act on Disaster Management — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02
- This site's parser, version 221 — 災害対策基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02
