# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第六十五条 (Article 65) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-65. 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: 第六十五条 (Article 65) — address `art-65` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-65 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-65 - 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. --- ### 第六十五条 art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-65 **第一項** 市町村長は、当該市町村の地域に係る災害が発生し、又はまさに発生しようとしている場合において、応急措置を実施するため緊急の必要があると認めるときは、当該市町村の区域内の住民又は当該応急措置を実施すべき現場にある者を当該応急措置の業務に従事させることができる。 art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-65/par-1 In cases where a disaster involving an area of a municipality has occurred or is imminent, when the mayor of a municipality finds it urgently necessary for implementing emergency measures, that mayor may cause any residents of the area of the municipality or any persons who are on the site where emergency measures should be taken to engage in operations under the relevant emergency measures. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第六十三条第二項の規定は、前項の場合について準用する。 art-65/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-65/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-65/par-2 The provisions of Article 63, paragraph (2) apply mutatis mutandis to the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の規定は、市町村長その他同項に規定する市町村長の職権を行うことができる者がその場にいない場合に限り、災害派遣を命ぜられた部隊等の自衛官の職務の執行について準用する。この場合において、同項に規定する措置をとつたときは、当該災害派遣を命ぜられた部隊等の自衛官は、直ちに、その旨を市町村長に通知しなければならない。 art-65/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-65/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-65/par-3 Provided that neither the mayor of a municipality nor anyone able to exercise the authority of the mayor of a municipality prescribed in paragraph (1) is present, the provisions of paragraph (1) above apply mutatis mutandis to the performance of the duties of SDF personnel of units under disaster relief operation. In this case, when SDF personnel of units under disaster relief operation have taken measures prescribed in the provisions of the same paragraph, they must immediately notify the mayor of a municipality to that effect. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Provided that neither the mayor of a municipality nor anyone able to exercise the authority of the mayor of a municipality prescribed in the same paragraph is present, the provisions of paragraph (1) above apply mutatis mutandis to the performance of the duties of SDF personnel of units under disaster relief operation. In this case, when SDF personnel of units under disaster relief operation have taken measures prescribed in the provisions of the same paragraph, they must immediately notify the mayor of a municipality to that effect." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb --- ## Cites - art-65/par-2: 第六十三条第二項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十三条第二項 (Article 63, paragraph (2)), art-63/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-63/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-63/par-2 - art-65/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十五条第一項 (Article 65, paragraph (1)), art-65/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-65/par-1 - art-65/par-3: 第一項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十五条第一項 (Article 65, paragraph (1)), art-65/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-65/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第六十五条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-65/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-65/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第六十五条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-65/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-65/par-3 - 災害対策基本法 第七十三条第一項（都道府県知事による応急措置の代行） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-73/par-1 - 災害対策基本法 第七十八条の二第一項（指定行政機関の長等による応急措置の代行） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-78-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-78-2/par-1 - 災害対策基本法 第八十四条第一項（応急措置の業務に従事した者に対する損害補償） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-84/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-84/par-1 --- ## 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 65, 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 - This site's parser, version 221 — 災害対策基本法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02