# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第五十五条 (Article 55) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-55. 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: 第五十五条 (Article 55)（都道府県知事の通知等） — address `art-55` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-55 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-55 - 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. --- ### 第五十五条（都道府県知事の通知等） — (Prefectural Governor's Notification) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-55 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-55 **第一項** 都道府県知事は、法令の規定により、気象庁その他の国の機関から災害に関する予報若しくは警報の通知を受けたとき、又は自ら災害に関する警報をしたときは、法令又は地域防災計画の定めるところにより、予想される災害の事態及びこれに対してとるべき措置について、関係指定地方行政機関の長、指定地方公共機関、市町村長その他の関係者に対し、必要な通知又は要請をするものとする。 art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-55/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-55/par-1 When the prefectural governor has received from the Meteorological Agency or any other agency of the State a notification of a forecast or an alarm of a disaster pursuant to the provisions of laws and regulations, or when that governor has issued an alarm pertaining to a disaster, as provided for by laws and regulations or under an area disaster management plan, that governor is to make necessary notification or requests to the head of a relevant designated local administrative organ, designated local public corporations, the mayor of a municipality concerned, and other parties concerned in regard to the anticipated conditions of the disaster and measures to be taken in response. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第五十六条第一項（市町村長の警報の伝達及び警告） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-56/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-56/par-1 - 災害対策基本法 第五十七条第一項（警報の伝達等のための通信設備の優先利用等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-57/par-1 --- ## 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