# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第三十三条の八 (Article 33-8)

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- 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: 第三十三条の八 (Article 33-8)（改善命令） — address `art-33-8`
- Text in force since: 2026-11-02
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-33-8
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-33-8
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### 第三十三条の八（改善命令） — Order for Improvement
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-33-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-33-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-33-8</sup>

  **第一項**  内閣総理大臣は、登録被災者援護協力団体が第三十三条の五の規定に違反していると認めるときは、当該登録被災者援護協力団体に対し、被災者援護協力業務の方法を改善するため必要な措置をとるべきことを命ずることができる。
  <sup>art-33-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-33-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-33-8/par-1</sup>
  If the Prime Minister finds that a registered organization cooperating in support of disaster victims is in violation of the provisions of Article 33-5, the Prime Minister may order that registered organization cooperating in support of disaster victims to take the measures necessary to improve its methods of cooperative work in support of disaster victims.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-33-8/par-1: 第三十三条の五 → 災害対策基本法 第三十三条の五 (Article 33-5), art-33-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-33-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-33-5

## Cited by

1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 災害対策基本法 第三十三条の九第一項第三号（登録の取消し） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-33-9/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-33-9/par-1/item-3

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## 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-20261103T010525-005, 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
