# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第四十九条の七 (Article 49-7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-49-7. 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: 第四十九条の七 (Article 49-7)（指定避難所の指定） — address `art-49-7` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-49-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-7 - 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. --- ### 第四十九条の七（指定避難所の指定） — (Designation of Designated Shelter) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-49-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-49-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-7 **第一項** 市町村長は、想定される災害の状況、人口の状況その他の状況を勘案し、災害が発生した場合における適切な避難所の確保を図るため、政令で定める基準に適合する公共施設その他の施設を指定避難所として指定しなければならない。 art-49-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-49-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-7/par-1 Considering the condition of a presumed disaster, the condition of the population and any other conditions, the mayor of a municipality must designate public facilities and any other facilities meeting the standards provided for by Cabinet Order as designated shelters in order to secure proper shelter when a disaster occurs. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第四十九条の四第二項及び第三項並びに前二条の規定は、指定避難所について準用する。この場合において、第四十九条の四第二項中「前項」とあり、及び同条第三項中「第一項」とあるのは「第四十九条の七第一項」と、前条中「第四十九条の四第一項」とあるのは「次条第一項」と読み替えるものとする。 art-49-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-49-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-7/par-2 The provisions of Article 49-4, paragraphs (2) and (3) and the preceding two Articles apply mutatis mutandis to designated shelter. In this case, the term "the preceding paragraph" in Article 49-4, paragraph (2), and the term "paragraph (1)" in the same Article, paragraph (3) are deemed to be replaced with "Article 49-7, paragraph (1)", and the term "Article 49-4, paragraph (1)" in the preceding Article with "the following Article, paragraph (1)". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 都道府県知事は、前項において準用する第四十九条の四第三項又は前条第二項の規定による通知を受けたときは、その旨を内閣総理大臣に報告しなければならない。 art-49-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-49-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-7/par-3 When the prefectural governor receives a notification under Article 49-4, paragraph (3) or the preceding Article, paragraph (2), as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the governor must report to the Prime Minister to that effect. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When the prefectural governor receives a notification under Article 49-4, paragraph (3) or the preceding Article, paragraph (2), as applied mutatis mutandis to the preceding paragraph, the governor must report to the Prime Minister to that effect." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb --- ## Cites - art-49-7/par-2: 第四十九条の四第二項 → 災害対策基本法 第四十九条の四第二項 (Article 49-4, paragraph (2)), art-49-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-49-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-4/par-2 - art-49-7/par-2: 第三項 → 災害対策基本法 第四十九条の四第三項 (Article 49-4, paragraph (3)), art-49-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-49-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-4/par-3 - art-49-7/par-2: 前二条 → 災害対策基本法 第四十九条の五 (Article 49-5), art-49-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-49-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-5 - art-49-7/par-2: 前二条 → 災害対策基本法 第四十九条の六 (Article 49-6), art-49-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-49-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-6 - art-49-7/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第四十九条の四第一項 (Article 49-4, paragraph (1)), art-49-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-49-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-4/par-1 - art-49-7/par-2: 第四十九条の七第一項 → 災害対策基本法 第四十九条の七第一項 (Article 49-7, paragraph (1)), art-49-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-49-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-7/par-1 - art-49-7/par-3: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第四十九条の七第二項 (Article 49-7, paragraph (2)), art-49-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-49-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-7/par-2 - art-49-7/par-3: 第四十九条の四第三項 → 災害対策基本法 第四十九条の四第三項 (Article 49-4, paragraph (3)), art-49-4/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-49-4/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-4/par-3 - art-49-7/par-3: 前条第二項 → 災害対策基本法 第四十九条の六第二項 (Article 49-6, paragraph (2)), art-49-6/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-49-6/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-6/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第四十九条の七第二項（指定避難所の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-49-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-7/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第四十九条の七第三項（指定避難所の指定） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-49-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-49-7/par-3 --- ## 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 49-7, paragraph (3) — 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch disaster-management-act-20261103T010525-006, 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