# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第七十九条 (Article 79) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-79. 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: 第七十九条 (Article 79)（通信設備の優先使用権） — address `art-79` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-79 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-79 - 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. --- ### 第七十九条（通信設備の優先使用権） — (Priority Use of Communications Facilities) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-79 **第一項** 災害が発生した場合において、その応急措置の実施に必要な通信のため緊急かつ特別の必要があるときは、指定行政機関の長若しくは指定地方行政機関の長又は都道府県知事若しくは市町村長は、他の法律に特別の定めがある場合を除くほか、電気通信事業法第二条第五号に規定する電気通信事業者がその事業の用に供する電気通信設備を優先的に利用し、又は有線電気通信法第三条第四項第四号に掲げる者が設置する有線電気通信設備若しくは無線設備を使用することができる。 art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-79/par-1 In cases where a disaster has occurred, when there is an urgent and special necessity to make necessary communications in implementing emergency measures, except as otherwise provided for by other laws, the head of a designated administrative organ or the head of a designated local administrative organ, the prefectural governor, or the mayor of a municipality may use on a priority basis telecommunications facilities used for business purposes by the telecommunications carriers prescribed in Article 2, item (v) of the Telecommunications Business Act, or use wire telecommunications facilities or radio facilities installed by persons set forth in Article 3, paragraph (4), item (iv) of the Wire Telecommunications Act. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-79/par-1: 電気通信事業法第二条第五号 → e-Gov law 359AC0000000086, 第二条第一項第五号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-2/par-1/item-5 — not held in this collection - art-79/par-1: 有線電気通信法第三条第四項第四号 → e-Gov law 328AC0000000096, 第三条第四項第四号 (Article 3, paragraph (4), item (iv)), art-3/par-4/item-4 — not held in this collection --- ## 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 - This site's parser, version 221 — 災害対策基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02