# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第二十三条の三 (Article 23-3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-23-3. 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: 第二十三条の三 (Article 23-3)（特定災害対策本部の設置） — address `art-23-3` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-23-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-23-3 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十三条の三（特定災害対策本部の設置） — (Establishment of Specified Disaster Management Headquarters) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-23-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-23-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-23-3 **第一項** 災害（その規模が非常災害に該当するに至らないと認められるものに限る。以下この項において同じ。）が発生し、又は発生するおそれがある場合において、当該災害が、人の生命又は身体に急迫した危険を生じさせ、かつ、当該災害に係る地域の状況その他の事情を勘案して当該災害に係る災害応急対策を推進するため特別の必要があると認めるもの（以下「特定災害」という。）であるときは、内閣総理大臣は、臨時に防災庁に、その組織を系統的に構成する行政機関として、特定災害対策本部を設置することができる。 art-23-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-23-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-23-3/par-1 In cases where a disaster (limited to one that is found not to fall within the scope of an extraordinary disaster in terms of its scale; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) has occurred or is likely to occur, and the disaster would cause an imminent danger to the lives or bodies of people and is found to incur a special necessity to pursue emergency disaster control measures in light of the conditions in the area affected by the disaster and other circumstances (hereinafter referred to as a "specified disaster"), the Prime Minister may temporarily establish a specified disaster management headquarters in the Disaster Management Agency, as an administrative organ that systematically constitutes its organization. machine translation, not official **第二項** 内閣総理大臣は、特定災害対策本部を置いたときは当該本部の名称、所管区域並びに設置の場所及び期間を、当該本部を廃止したときはその旨を、直ちに、告示しなければならない。 art-23-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-23-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-23-3/par-2 When a specified disaster management headquarters is established, the Prime Minister must immediately make a public notice of the name, area of jurisdiction, and location and term of establishment of the headquarters; when the headquarters is abolished, the Prime Minister must immediately make a public notice to that effect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-23-3/par-1: この項 → 災害対策基本法 第二十三条の三第一項 (Article 23-3, paragraph (1)), art-23-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-23-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-23-3/par-1 ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第十一条第三項第三号（中央防災会議の設置及び所掌事務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-11/par-3/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-11/par-3/item-3 - 災害対策基本法 第二十三条の三第一項（特定災害対策本部の設置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-23-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-23-3/par-1 - 災害対策基本法 第二十三条の四第八項（特定災害対策本部の組織） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-23-4/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-23-4/par-8 - 災害対策基本法 第二十四条第二項（非常災害対策本部の設置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-24/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第二十八条の二第二項（緊急災害対策本部の設置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-28-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-28-2/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第二十八条の七第一項（特定災害復旧復興本部の設置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-28-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-28-7/par-1 - 災害対策基本法 第二十八条の七第二項（特定災害復旧復興本部の設置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-28-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-28-7/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第二十八条の十一第二項（非常災害復旧復興本部の設置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-28-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-28-11/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 附則第五条第一項（災害対策基本法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/suppl-5081-62/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/suppl-5081-62/art-5/par-1 --- ## 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, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch disaster-management-act-20261103T010525-001, 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