# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第四十九条の五 (Article 49-5)

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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: 第四十九条の五 (Article 49-5)（指定緊急避難場所に関する届出） — address `art-49-5`
- Text in force since: 2026-11-02
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-49-5
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### 第四十九条の五（指定緊急避難場所に関する届出） — (Notification of Designated Emergency Evacuation Site)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-49-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-49-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-5</sup>

  **第一項**  指定緊急避難場所の管理者は、当該指定緊急避難場所を廃止し、又は改築その他の事由により当該指定緊急避難場所の現状に政令で定める重要な変更を加えようとするときは、防災庁令で定めるところにより市町村長に届け出なければならない。
  <sup>art-49-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-49-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-5/par-1</sup>
  When the administrator of a designated emergency evacuation site intends to abolish the designated emergency evacuation site, or to make a major change provided for by Cabinet Order to its current state by rebuilding or any other reason, the administrator must notify the mayor of the municipality as provided for by Disaster Management Agency Order.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

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

- 災害対策基本法 第四十九条の四第二項（指定緊急避難場所の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-49-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-4/par-2
- 災害対策基本法 第四十九条の七第二項（指定避難所の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-49-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-7/par-2

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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-20261103T010525-006, 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
