# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第二十四条 (Article 24) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-24. 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: 第二十四条 (Article 24)（非常災害対策本部の設置） — address `art-24` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-24 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-24 - 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. --- ### 第二十四条（非常災害対策本部の設置） — (Establishment of Extraordinary Disaster Management Headquarters) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-24 **第一項** 非常災害が発生し、又は発生するおそれがある場合において、当該災害の規模その他の状況により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、非常災害対策本部を設置することができる。 art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-24/par-1 In cases where an extraordinary disaster has occurred or is likely to occur, when the Prime Minister finds a special necessity to pursue emergency disaster control measures concerning that disaster because of the dimensions of that disaster and other conditions, the Prime Minister may temporarily establish extraordinary disaster management headquarters within the Disaster Management Agency as an administrative organ systematically constituting its organization. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第二十三条の三第二項の規定は、非常災害対策本部について準用する。 art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-24/par-2 The provisions of Article 23-3, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the extraordinary disaster management headquarters. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の規定により非常災害対策本部が設置された場合において、当該災害に係る特定災害対策本部が既に設置されているときは、当該特定災害対策本部は廃止されるものとし、非常災害対策本部が当該特定災害対策本部の所掌事務を承継するものとする。 art-24/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-24/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-24/par-3 In cases where an extraordinary disaster management headquarters is established pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), when a specified disaster management headquarters concerning that disaster is already in existence, the relevant specified disaster management headquarters is abolished and the extraordinary disaster management headquarters succeeds to the function under the jurisdiction of the relevant specified disaster management headquarters. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-24/par-2: 第二十三条の三第二項 → 災害対策基本法 第二十三条の三第二項 (Article 23-3, paragraph (2)), 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 - art-24/par-3: 第一項 → 災害対策基本法 第二十四条第一項 (Article 24, paragraph (1)), art-24/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-24/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第二十四条第三項（非常災害対策本部の設置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-24/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-24/par-3 - 災害対策基本法 第二十八条の十一第一項（非常災害復旧復興本部の設置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-28-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-28-11/par-1 - 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 — Machine translation, batch disaster-management-act-20261103T010525-002, 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