# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第八十六条の六 (Article 86-6) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-86-6. 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: 第八十六条の六 (Article 86-6)（避難所における生活環境の整備等） — address `art-86-6` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-86-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-86-6 - 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. --- ### 第八十六条の六（避難所における生活環境の整備等） — (Preparation of Living Environment at Shelter) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-86-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-86-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-86-6 **第一項** 災害応急対策責任者は、災害が発生したときは、法令又は防災計画の定めるところにより、遅滞なく、避難所を供与し、避難者の数、避難所の生活環境その他の避難所の運営状況に関する情報を把握するとともに、当該避難所に係る必要な安全性及び良好な居住性の確保、当該避難所における食糧、衣料、医薬品その他の生活関連物資の配布、保健医療サービス及び福祉サービスの提供、情報の提供その他避難所に滞在する被災者の生活環境の整備に必要な措置を講ずるよう努めなければならない。 art-86-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-86-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-86-6/par-1 When a disaster has occurred, persons responsible for emergency disaster control measures must endeavor to provide shelter without delay as provided for by laws and regulations or under a disaster management plan, ascertain information on the number of evacuees, the living environment at the shelter, and other conditions of the operation of the shelter, and take necessary measures for preparing the living environment of disaster victims staying at the shelter, such as ensuring the necessary safety and good habitability of the shelter, distributing food, clothes, medicine, and other goods related to daily living at the shelter, providing health and medical services and welfare services, and providing information. machine translation, not official **第二項** 災害応急対策責任者は、前項の情報の把握及び提供に当たつては、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-86-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-86-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-86-6/par-2 In ascertaining and providing the information under the preceding paragraph, persons responsible for emergency disaster control measures must endeavor to utilize information and communications technology and other advanced technologies. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-86-6/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第八十六条の六第一項 (Article 86-6, paragraph (1)), art-86-6/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-86-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-86-6/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第八十六条の六第二項（避難所における生活環境の整備等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/disaster-management-act/art-86-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-86-6/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-20261103T010525-007, 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