# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第五十一条 (Article 51) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-51. 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: 第五十一条 (Article 51)（情報の収集及び伝達等） — address `art-51` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-51 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-51 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十一条（情報の収集及び伝達等） — (Gathering and Transmission of Information) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-51 **第一項** 指定行政機関の長及び指定地方行政機関の長、地方公共団体の長その他の執行機関、指定公共機関及び指定地方公共機関、公共的団体並びに防災上重要な施設の管理者（以下「災害応急対策責任者」という。）は、法令又は防災計画の定めるところにより、災害に関する情報の収集及び伝達に努めなければならない。 art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-51/par-1 The head of a designated administrative organ, the head of a designated local administrative organ, the head or any other executive agency of a local government, designated public corporations and designated local public corporations, any public organization, and administrators of facilities important for disaster management (hereinafter referred to as "persons responsible for emergency disaster control measures") must endeavor to gather and transmit information related to disasters, as provided for by laws and regulations or under a disaster management plan. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 災害応急対策責任者は、前項の災害に関する情報の収集及び伝達に当たつては、地理空間情報（地理空間情報活用推進基本法（平成十九年法律第六十三号）第二条第一項に規定する地理空間情報をいう。）及び情報通信技術その他の先端的な技術の活用に努めなければならない。 art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-51/par-2 Persons responsible for emergency disaster control measures, in gathering and transmitting information on disasters under the preceding paragraph, must endeavor to utilize geospatial information (referring to geospatial information prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Basic Act on the Advancement of Utilizing Geospatial Information (Act No. 63 of 2007)), information and communications technology, and other advanced technologies. machine translation, not official **第三項** 災害応急対策責任者は、災害に関する情報を共有し、相互に連携して災害応急対策の実施に努めなければならない。 art-51/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-51/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-51/par-3 Persons responsible for emergency disaster control measures must endeavor to share information on disasters and implement emergency disaster control measures in mutual coordination. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-51/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第五十一条第一項 (Article 51, paragraph (1)), art-51/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-51/par-1 - art-51/par-2: 地理空間情報活用推進基本法（平成十九年法律第六十三号）第二条第一項 → e-Gov law 419AC1000000063, 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第四十九条の二第二項（円滑な相互応援の実施のために必要な措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-49-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-2/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第五十一条第二項（情報の収集及び伝達等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-51/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 - This site's parser, version 221 — 災害対策基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02