# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第二十九条 (Article 29)

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- 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: 第二十九条 (Article 29)（職員の派遣の要請） — address `art-29`
- Text in force since: 2026-11-02
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-29
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### 第二十九条（職員の派遣の要請） — (Request for Dispatch of Officials)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-29</sup>

  **第一項**  都道府県知事又は都道府県の委員会若しくは委員（第三十三条の三を除き、以下「都道府県知事等」という。）は、災害応急対策又は災害復旧のため必要があるときは、政令で定めるところにより、指定行政機関の長、指定地方行政機関の長又は指定公共機関（独立行政法人通則法第二条第四項に規定する行政執行法人に限る。以下この節において同じ。）に対し、当該指定行政機関、指定地方行政機関又は指定公共機関の職員の派遣を要請することができる。
  <sup>art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-29/par-1</sup>
  As provided for by Cabinet Order, when necessary for emergency disaster control measures or disaster recovery efforts, the prefectural governor or the prefectural committee or its members (hereinafter referred to as "prefectural governor, etc." except in Article 33-3) may request the head of a designated administrative organ or the head of a designated local administrative organ, or a designated public corporation (limited to an agency engaged in administrative execution prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies; hereinafter the same applies in this Section) to dispatch officials of the relevant organization, local organization or corporation.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  市町村長又は市町村の委員会若しくは委員（以下「市町村長等」という。）は、災害応急対策又は災害復旧のため必要があるときは、政令で定めるところにより、指定地方行政機関の長又は指定公共機関（その業務の内容その他の事情を勘案して市町村の地域に係る災害応急対策又は災害復旧に特に寄与するものとしてそれぞれ地域を限つて内閣総理大臣が指定するものに限る。次条において「特定公共機関」という。）に対し、当該指定地方行政機関又は指定公共機関の職員の派遣を要請することができる。
  <sup>art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-29/par-2</sup>
  When necessary for emergency disaster control measures or disaster recovery efforts, as provided for by Cabinet Order, the mayor of a municipality, or municipal committees, or members of such a committee (hereinafter referred to as "mayor of a municipality, etc.") may request the head of a designated local administrative organ or a designated public corporation (limited to a public corporation designated by the Prime Minister for a specific area as one particularly contributing to the emergency disaster control measures or disaster recovery efforts concerning an area of the relevant municipality, in consideration of the details of its operations and other circumstances; referred to as "specified public corporation" in the following Article) to dispatch officials of the relevant organization or corporation.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **第三項**  都道府県又は市町村の委員会又は委員は、前二項の規定により職員の派遣を要請しようとするときは、あらかじめ、当該都道府県の知事又は当該市町村の市町村長に協議しなければならない。
  <sup>art-29/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-29/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-29/par-3</sup>
  When the prefectural or municipal committee or its members intend to request the dispatch of officials pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the relevant prefectural or municipal committee or its members must consult with the prefectural governor or the mayor of a municipality in advance.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-29/par-1: 第三十三条の三 → 災害対策基本法 第三十三条の三 (Article 33-3), art-33-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-33-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-33-3
- art-29/par-1: 独立行政法人通則法第二条第四項 → e-Gov law 411AC0000000103, 第二条第四項 (Article 2, paragraph (4)), art-2/par-4 — not held in this collection
- art-29/par-2: 次条 → 災害対策基本法 第三十条 (Article 30), art-30 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-30
- art-29/par-3: 前二項 → 災害対策基本法 第二十九条第一項 (Article 29, paragraph (1)), art-29/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-29/par-1
- art-29/par-3: 前二項 → 災害対策基本法 第二十九条第二項 (Article 29, paragraph (2)), art-29/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-29/par-2

## Cited by

3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 災害対策基本法 第二十九条第三項（職員の派遣の要請） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-29/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-29/par-3
- 災害対策基本法 第三十条第三項（職員の派遣のあつせん） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-30/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-30/par-3
- 災害対策基本法 第三十一条第一項（職員の派遣義務） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-31/par-1

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## 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-20261103T010525-004, 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
