# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第三十一条 (Article 31) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-31. 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: 第三十一条 (Article 31)（職員の派遣義務） — address `art-31` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-31 - 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. --- ### 第三十一条（職員の派遣義務） — (Obligation to Dispatch Officials) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-31 **第一項** 指定行政機関の長及び指定地方行政機関の長、都道府県知事等及び市町村長等並びに指定公共機関及び特定地方公共機関は、前二条の規定による要請又はあつせんがあつたときは、その所掌事務又は業務の遂行に著しい支障のない限り、適任と認める職員を派遣しなければならない。 art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-31/par-1 When a request or arrangements have been made under the preceding two Articles, the head of a designated administrative organ, the head of a designated local administrative organ, the prefectural governor, etc., the mayor of a municipality, etc., a designated public corporation, and a specified local public corporation must dispatch the officials that are found to be qualified to the degree that so doing will not seriously hinder the performance of the function or operations under their jurisdiction. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-31/par-1: 前二条 → 災害対策基本法 第二十九条 (Article 29), art-29 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-29 - art-31/par-1: 前二条 → 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 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第三十条第二項（職員の派遣のあつせん） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-30/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-30/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第三十二条第一項（派遣職員の身分取扱い） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-32/par-1 - 災害対策基本法 第三十二条第二項（派遣職員の身分取扱い） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-32/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第三十三条第一項（派遣職員に関する資料の提出等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-33/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 - This site's parser, version 221 — 災害対策基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02