# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第四十九条 (Article 49) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-49. 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: 第四十九条 (Article 49)（防災に必要な物資及び資材の備蓄等の義務等） — address `art-49` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-49 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49 - 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. --- ### 第四十九条（防災に必要な物資及び資材の備蓄等の義務等） — Responsibility for Stockpiling Goods and Materials Necessary for Disaster Management, Etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-49 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-49 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49 **第一項** 災害予防責任者は、法令又は防災計画の定めるところにより、その所掌事務又は業務に係る災害応急対策又は復旧復興に必要な物資及び資材を備蓄し、整備し、若しくは点検し、又はその管理に属する防災に関する施設及び設備を整備し、若しくは点検しなければならない。 art-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49/par-1 Persons responsible for disaster prevention, as provided for by laws and regulations or under a disaster management plan, must stockpile, prepare, or inspect goods and materials necessary for emergency disaster control measures or recovery and reconstruction concerning the function or operations under their jurisdiction, and conduct maintenance or inspection of facilities and equipment for disaster management under their control. machine translation, not official **第二項** 地方公共団体の長は、毎年一回、前項の規定による物資の備蓄の状況を公表しなければならない。 art-49/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-49/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49/par-2 The head of a local government must publicly announce, once every year, the state of the stockpiling of goods under the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-49/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第四十九条第一項 (Article 49, paragraph (1)), art-49/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第四十九条第二項（防災に必要な物資及び資材の備蓄等の義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-49/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49/par-2 --- ## 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-20261103T010525-006, translated 2026-11-03 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch disaster-management-act-20261103T010525-006, 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