# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第百十六条 (Article 116)
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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: 第百十六条 (Article 116) — address `art-116`
- Text in force since: 2026-11-02
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-116
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-116
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### 第百十六条
art-116 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-116 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-116
**第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、十万円以下の罰金又は拘留に処する。
art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-116/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-116/par-1
Any person who falls under any of the following items is punished by a fine of not more than one hundred thousand yen or penal detention:
Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System
**一** 第五十二条第一項の規定に基づく防災庁令によつて定められた防災に関する信号をみだりに使用し、又はこれと類似する信号を使用した者
art-116/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-116/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-116/par-1/item-1
any person who has employed signals related to disaster management as provided for by Disaster Management Agency Order under Article 52, paragraph (1) without good reason, or has employed similar signals;
machine translation, not official
**二** 第六十三条第一項の規定による市町村長（第七十三条第一項の規定により市町村長の事務を代行する都道府県知事を含む。）の、第六十三条第二項の規定による警察官若しくは海上保安官の又は同条第三項において準用する同条第一項の規定による災害派遣を命ぜられた部隊等の自衛官の禁止若しくは制限又は退去命令に従わなかつた者
art-116/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-116/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-116/par-1/item-2
any person who has failed to comply with a ban, restriction, or order to leave enforced by the mayor of a municipality under Article 63, paragraph (1) (including a prefectural governor acting on behalf of the mayor of a municipality pursuant to the provisions of Article 73, paragraph (1)), or by the police or coast guard officers under Article 63, paragraph (2), or by SDF personnel of units under disaster relief operation under Article 63, paragraph (1) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 63, paragraph (3).
Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System
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## Cites
- art-116/par-1/item-1: 第五十二条第一項 → 災害対策基本法 第五十二条第一項 (Article 52, paragraph (1)), art-52/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-52/par-1
- art-116/par-1/item-2: 第六十三条第一項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十三条第一項 (Article 63, paragraph (1)), art-63/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-63/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-63/par-1
- art-116/par-1/item-2: 第七十三条第一項 → 災害対策基本法 第七十三条第一項 (Article 73, paragraph (1)), art-73/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-73/par-1
- art-116/par-1/item-2: 第六十三条第二項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十三条第二項 (Article 63, paragraph (2)), art-63/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-63/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-63/par-2
- art-116/par-1/item-2: 同条第三項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十三条第三項 (Article 63, paragraph (3)), art-63/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-63/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-63/par-3
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## Sources
- 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 — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch disaster-management-act-20261103T010525-009, translated 2026-11-03
- This site's parser, version 221 — 災害対策基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02