# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第二十一条 (Article 21) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-21. 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: 第二十一条 (Article 21)（関係行政機関等に対する協力要求） — address `art-21` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-21 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-21 - 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. --- ### 第二十一条（関係行政機関等に対する協力要求） — (Request for Cooperation to Relevant Administrative Organs) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-21 **第一項** 都道府県防災会議及び市町村防災会議（地方防災会議の協議会を含む。以下次条において「地方防災会議等」という。）は、その所掌事務を遂行するため必要があると認めるときは、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、資料又は情報の提供、意見の表明その他必要な協力を求めることができる。 art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-21/par-1 When the prefectural disaster management council and municipal disaster management council (including a joint committee of local disaster management councils; hereinafter referred to as "local disaster management councils, etc." in the following Article) find it necessary for the performance of the function under their jurisdiction, they may seek the provision of materials or information, expression of opinions or other necessary 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 local public corporations, and other parties concerned. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-21/par-1: 次条 → 災害対策基本法 第二十二条 (Article 22), art-22 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-22 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第三十六条第三項（指定行政機関の防災業務計画） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-36/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-36/par-3 - 災害対策基本法 第三十九条第三項（指定公共機関の防災業務計画） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-39/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-39/par-3 - 災害対策基本法 第四十二条第七項（市町村地域防災計画） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-42/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-42/par-7 --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 221 — 災害対策基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02