# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第十三条 (Article 13) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-13. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - 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: 第十三条 (Article 13)（関係行政機関等に対する協力要求等） — address `art-13` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-13 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-13 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十三条（関係行政機関等に対する協力要求等） — (Request for Cooperation from Relevant Administrative Organs) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-13 **第一項** 中央防災会議は、その所掌事務に関し、関係行政機関の長及び関係地方行政機関の長、地方公共団体の長その他の執行機関、指定公共機関及び指定地方公共機関並びにその他の関係者に対し、資料の提出、意見の表明その他必要な協力を求めることができる。 art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-13/par-1 With respect to the function under its jurisdiction, the National Disaster Management Council may demand the submission of materials, statement of opinions, and other required cooperation from the head of a relevant administrative organ, the head of a relevant local administrative organ, the head or any other executive agency of a local government, designated public corporations and designated local public corporations, and any other parties concerned. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "With respect to the function under its jurisdiction, the National Disaster Management Council may demand the submission of materials, statement of opinions, explanations, and other required cooperation from the head of a relevant administrative organ, the head of a local administrative organ, the head or any other executive agency of a local government, designated public corporations and designated local public corporations, and any other parties concerned." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb **第二項** 中央防災会議は、その所掌事務の遂行について、地方防災会議（都道府県防災会議又は市町村防災会議をいう。以下同じ。）又は地方防災会議の協議会（都道府県防災会議の協議会又は市町村防災会議の協議会をいう。以下同じ。）に対し、必要な勧告をすることができる。 art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-13/par-2 The National Disaster Management Council may provide necessary recommendations to local disaster management councils (meaning prefectural disaster management councils or municipal disaster management councils; the same applies hereinafter) or the joint committee of local disaster management councils (meaning the joint committee of prefectural disaster management councils or the joint committee of municipal disaster management councils; the same applies hereinafter) on performing the function under its jurisdiction. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## 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 13, paragraph (1) — 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