# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第四十七条 (Article 47) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-47. 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: 第四十七条 (Article 47)（防災に関する組織の整備義務） — address `art-47` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-47 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-47 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四十七条（防災に関する組織の整備義務） — (Responsibility for Maintenance of Organizations for Disaster Management) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-47 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-47 **第一項** 指定行政機関の長及び指定地方行政機関の長、地方公共団体の長その他の執行機関、指定公共機関及び指定地方公共機関、公共的団体並びに防災上重要な施設の管理者（以下この章において「災害予防責任者」という。）は、法令又は防災計画の定めるところにより、それぞれ、その所掌事務又は業務について、災害を予測し、予報し、又は災害に関する情報を迅速に伝達するため必要な組織を整備するとともに、絶えずその改善に努めなければならない。 art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-47/par-1 The head of a designated administrative organ, the head of a designated local administrative organ, the head or any other executive agency of a local government, designated public corporation and designated local public corporation, any public organization, and administrators of facilities important for disaster management (hereinafter referred to as "persons responsible for disaster prevention" in this Chapter), as provided for by laws and regulations or under a disaster management plan, must each conduct maintenance of and endeavor to continually improve organizations necessary for anticipating and forecasting disasters or promptly transmitting information on disasters, with respect to the function or operations under their jurisdiction. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The head of a designated administrative organ, the head of a designated local administrative organ, the head or any other executive agency of a local government, designated public corporation and designated local public corporation, any public organization, and administrators of facilities important for disaster management (hereinafter referred to as "persons responsible for disaster management" in this Chapter), as provided for by laws and regulations or under a disaster management plan, must each endeavor to conduct maintenance of and continually improve organizations necessary for anticipating and forecasting disasters or promptly transmitting information on disasters, with respect to the function or operations under their jurisdiction." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb **第二項** 前項に規定するもののほか、災害予防責任者は、法令又は防災計画の定めるところにより、それぞれ、防災業務計画又は地域防災計画を的確かつ円滑に実施するため、防災に関する組織を整備するとともに、防災に関する事務又は業務に従事する職員の配置及び服務の基準を定めなければならない。 art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-47/par-2 Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, as provided for by laws and regulations or under a disaster management plan, in the interest of accurate and smooth implementation of a disaster management operation plan or area disaster management plan, persons responsible for disaster prevention, must conduct maintenance of organizations for disaster management and set standards for the assignment and service of officials engaged in affairs and operations concerning disaster management. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, as provided for by laws and regulations or under a disaster management plan, in the interest of accurate and smooth implementation of a disaster management operation plan or area disaster management plan, persons responsible for disaster management, must conduct maintenance of organizations for disaster management and set standards for the assignment and service of officials engaged in affairs and operations concerning disaster management." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb --- ## Cites - art-47/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第四十七条第一項 (Article 47, paragraph (1)), art-47/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-47/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-47/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第四十七条第二項（防災に関する組織の整備義務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-47/par-2 --- ## 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 47, 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 (災害対策基本法), Article 47, paragraph (2) — 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