# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第七十五条 (Article 75) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-75. 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: 第七十五条 (Article 75)（災害時における事務の委託の手続の特例） — address `art-75` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-75 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-75 - 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. --- ### 第七十五条（災害時における事務の委託の手続の特例） — (Special Provisions for Procedure for Delegation of Affairs in Time of a Disaster) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-75 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-75 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-75 **第一項** 都道府県は、当該都道府県の地域に係る災害が発生した場合において、応急措置を実施するため必要があると認めるときは、地方自治法第二百五十二条の十四及び第二百五十二条の十五の規定にかかわらず、政令で定めるところにより、その事務又は都道府県知事等の権限に属する事務の一部を他の都道府県に委託して、当該都道府県の都道府県知事等にこれを管理し、及び執行させることができる。 art-75/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-75/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-75/par-1 In cases where a disaster involving an area of a prefecture has occurred, when the prefecture finds it necessary for implementing Emergency Measures, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 252-14 and Article 252-15 of the Local Autonomy Act, as provided for by Cabinet Order, it may delegate the affairs or part of the affairs under the authority of the prefectural governor, etc. to another prefecture so as to have that prefectural governor, etc. direct and execute the affairs. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "In cases where a disaster involving an area of a prefecture has occurred, when the prefecture finds it necessary for implementing Emergency Measures, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 252-14 and Article 252-15 of the Local Autonomy Act, as provided for by Cabinet Order, it may delegate the affairs or part of the affairs under the authority of the prefectural governor, etc. to another prefecture so as to have that prefectural governor, etc. direct and execute the affairs,." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb --- ## Cites - art-75/par-1: 地方自治法第二百五十二条の十四 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十二条の十四 (Article 252-14), art-252-14 — not held in this collection - art-75/par-1: 第二百五十二条の十五 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000067, 第二百五十二条の十五 (Article 252-15), art-252-15 — not held in this collection --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Basic Act on Disaster Management, written 2026-11-03 - 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 (災害対策基本法), Article 75, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb), 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