# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第二十八条の五 (Article 28-5) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-28-5. 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: 第二十八条の五 (Article 28-5)（指定行政機関の長の権限の委任） — address `art-28-5` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-28-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-28-5 - 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. --- ### 第二十八条の五（指定行政機関の長の権限の委任） — (Delegation of Authority of the Head of a Designated Administrative Organ) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-28-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-28-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-28-5 **第一項** 指定行政機関の長は、緊急災害対策本部が設置されたときは、災害応急対策に必要な権限の全部又は一部を当該緊急災害対策本部の職員である当該指定行政機関の職員又は当該指定地方行政機関の長若しくはその職員に委任することができる。 art-28-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-28-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-28-5/par-1 When the headquarters for emergency disaster control is established, the head of a designated administrative organ may delegate authority necessary for emergency disaster control measures in whole or in part to the officials of the designated administrative organ who are officials of the headquarters for emergency disaster control, or the head of the designated local administrative organ or its officials. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 指定行政機関の長は、前項の規定による委任をしたときは、直ちに、その旨を告示しなければならない。 art-28-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-28-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-28-5/par-2 When the head of a designated administrative organ has delegated authority under the preceding paragraph, that head must immediately make a public notice to that effect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-28-5/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第二十八条の五第一項 (Article 28-5, paragraph (1)), art-28-5/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-28-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-28-5/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第二十八条の五第二項（指定行政機関の長の権限の委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-28-5/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-28-5/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第二十八条の六第一項（緊急災害対策本部長の権限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-28-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-28-6/par-1 - 災害対策基本法 第二十八条の六第二項（緊急災害対策本部長の権限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-28-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-28-6/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第百十三条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-113/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-113/par-1/item-2 - 災害対策基本法 第百十五条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-115/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-115/par-1/item-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 - This site's parser, version 222 — 災害対策基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02