# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第八十六条の四 (Article 86-4) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-86-4. 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: 第八十六条の四 (Article 86-4)（埋葬及び火葬の特例） — address `art-86-4` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-86-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-86-4 - 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. 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. --- ### 第八十六条の四（埋葬及び火葬の特例） — (Special Provisions for Burial and Cremation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-86-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-86-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-86-4 **第一項** 著しく異常かつ激甚な非常災害であつて、当該災害により埋葬又は火葬を円滑に行うことが困難となつたため、公衆衛生上の危害の発生を防止するため緊急の必要があると認められるものが発生した場合には、当該災害を政令で指定するものとする。 art-86-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-86-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-86-4/par-1 In the event of an extremely anomalous and severe disaster, for which it is found urgently necessary to prevent harm in public hygiene from occurring due to difficulty in smoothly conducting burial or cremation caused by the disaster, that disaster is designated by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、前項の規定による指定があつたときは、政令で定めるところにより、厚生労働大臣の定める期間に限り、墓地、埋葬等に関する法律（昭和二十三年法律第四十八号）第五条及び第十四条に規定する手続の特例を定めることができる。 art-86-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-86-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-86-4/par-2 When a designation under the preceding paragraph is made, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, as provided for by Cabinet Order and only for a period specified by the Minister, specify special provisions for procedures prescribed in Articles 5 and 14 of the Act on Cemetery and Burial Services (Act No. 48 of 1948). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-86-4/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第八十六条の四第一項 (Article 86-4, paragraph (1)), art-86-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-86-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-86-4/par-1 - art-86-4/par-2: 墓地、埋葬等に関する法律（昭和二十三年法律第四十八号）第五条 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000048, 第五条 (Article 5), art-5 — not held in this collection - art-86-4/par-2: 第十四条 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000048, 第十四条 (Article 14), art-14 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第八十六条の四第二項（埋葬及び火葬の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-86-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-86-4/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第百八条の四第一項（災害緊急事態の布告に伴う特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-108-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-108-4/par-1 - 災害対策基本法 第百八条の四第二項（災害緊急事態の布告に伴う特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-108-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-108-4/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 - This site's parser, version 221 — 災害対策基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02