# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第七十四条の四 (Article 74-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-74-4. 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: 第七十四条の四 (Article 74-4)（指定行政機関の長等に対する応援の要求等） — address `art-74-4` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-74-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-74-4 - 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. --- ### 第七十四条の四（指定行政機関の長等に対する応援の要求等） — (Request for Support from the Head of a Designated Administrative Organ) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-74-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-74-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-74-4 **第一項** 第七十条第三項に規定するもののほか、都道府県知事は、当該都道府県の地域に係る災害が発生し、又は発生するおそれがある場合において、災害応急対策を実施するため必要があると認めるときは、指定行政機関の長又は指定地方行政機関の長に対し、応援を求め、又は災害応急対策の実施を要請することができる。この場合において、応援を求められ、又は災害応急対策の実施を要請された指定行政機関の長又は指定地方行政機関の長は、正当な理由がない限り、応援又は災害応急対策の実施を拒んではならない。 art-74-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-74-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-74-4/par-1 Beyond what is provided for in Article 70, paragraph (3), in cases where a disaster involving an area of a prefecture has occurred or is likely to occur, when the prefectural governor finds it necessary for implementing emergency disaster control measures, the governor may ask support from the head of the designated administrative organ or the head of a designated local administrative organ or request them to implement emergency disaster control measures. In this case, the head of the designated administrative organ or the head of the designated local administrative organ asked to support or requested to implement emergency disaster control measures must not refuse support or implementation of emergency disaster control measures except for just cause. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 指定行政機関の長又は指定地方行政機関の長は、都道府県の地域に係る災害が発生し、又は発生するおそれがあり、かつ、当該都道府県の知事が災害応急対策を的確かつ迅速に実施することが困難であると認める場合において、その事態に照らし緊急を要し、前項の規定による応援の要求を待ついとまがないと認められるときは、当該要求を待たないで、災害応急対策について応援をすることができる。 art-74-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-74-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-74-4/par-2 The head of a designated administrative organ or the head of a designated local administrative organ may, in cases where a disaster involving an area of a prefecture has occurred or is likely to occur and the prefectural governor finds it difficult to implement emergency disaster control measures accurately and promptly, and when finding it urgent in light of the situation and finding that there is no time to wait for the request for support under the preceding paragraph, provide support for emergency disaster control measures without waiting for that request. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-74-4/par-1: 第七十条第三項 → 災害対策基本法 第七十条第三項 (Article 70, paragraph (3)), art-70/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-70/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-70/par-3 - art-74-4/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第七十四条の四第一項 (Article 74-4, paragraph (1)), art-74-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-74-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-74-4/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第七十四条の四第二項（指定行政機関の長等に対する応援の要求等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-74-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-74-4/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第九十二条第一項（指定行政機関の長等又は他の地方公共団体の長等の応援を受けた場合の災害応急対策に要する費用の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-92/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-92/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch disaster-management-act-20261103T010525-007, 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