# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第七十一条 (Article 71)

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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: 第七十一条 (Article 71)（都道府県知事の従事命令等） — address `art-71`
- Text in force since: 2026-11-02
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-71
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-71
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### 第七十一条（都道府県知事の従事命令等） — (Governor's Orders to Work in Emergency Measures)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-71 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-71</sup>

  **第一項**  都道府県知事は、当該都道府県の地域に係る災害が発生した場合において、第五十条第一項第四号から第九号までに掲げる事項について応急措置を実施するため特に必要があると認めるときは、災害救助法第七条から第十条までの規定の例により、従事命令、協力命令若しくは保管命令を発し、施設、土地、家屋若しくは物資を管理し、使用し、若しくは収用し、又はその職員に施設、土地、家屋若しくは物資の所在する場所若しくは物資を保管させる場所に立ち入り検査をさせ、若しくは物資を保管させた者から必要な報告を取ることができる。
  <sup>art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-71/par-1</sup>
  In cases where a disaster involving an area of a prefecture has occurred, when the prefectural governor finds it particularly necessary for implementing emergency measures regarding the matters set forth in Article 50, paragraph (1), items (iv) through (ix), the governor may, in accordance with the provisions of Articles 7 through 10 of the Disaster Relief Act, issue orders for work, cooperation, or custody, manage, use, or expropriate any facility, land, house, or goods, have the governor's officials enter and inspect any facility, land, house, or place where goods are located or any place where goods are to be held in custody, or obtain necessary reports from persons who have been made to hold goods in custody.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  前項の規定による都道府県知事の権限に属する事務は、政令で定めるところにより、その一部を市町村長が行うこととすることができる。
  <sup>art-71/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-71/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-71/par-2</sup>
  As provided for by Cabinet Order, part of the function under the authority of the prefectural governor under the preceding paragraph may be delegated to the mayor of a municipality concerned.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-71/par-1: 第五十条第一項第四号から第九号まで → 災害対策基本法 第五十条第一項第四号 (Article 50, paragraph (1), item (iv)), art-50/par-1/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-50/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-50/par-1/item-4
- art-71/par-1: 第五十条第一項第四号から第九号まで → 災害対策基本法 第五十条第一項第五号 (Article 50, paragraph (1), item (v)), art-50/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-50/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-50/par-1/item-5
- art-71/par-1: 第五十条第一項第四号から第九号まで → 災害対策基本法 第五十条第一項第六号 (Article 50, paragraph (1), item (vi)), art-50/par-1/item-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-50/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-50/par-1/item-6
- art-71/par-1: 第五十条第一項第四号から第九号まで → 災害対策基本法 第五十条第一項第七号 (Article 50, paragraph (1), item (vii)), art-50/par-1/item-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-50/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-50/par-1/item-7
- art-71/par-1: 第五十条第一項第四号から第九号まで → 災害対策基本法 第五十条第一項第八号 (Article 50, paragraph (1), item (viii)), art-50/par-1/item-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-50/par-1/item-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-50/par-1/item-8
- art-71/par-1: 第五十条第一項第四号から第九号まで → 災害対策基本法 第五十条第一項第九号 (Article 50, paragraph (1), item (ix)), art-50/par-1/item-9 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-50/par-1/item-9 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-50/par-1/item-9
- art-71/par-1: 災害救助法第七条 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000118, 第七条 (Article 7), art-7 — not held in this collection
- art-71/par-1: 第十条 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000118, 第十条 (Article 10), art-10 — not held in this collection
- art-71/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第七十一条第一項 (Article 71, paragraph (1)), art-71/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-71/par-1

## Cited by

10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 災害対策基本法 第七十一条第二項（都道府県知事の従事命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-71/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-71/par-2
- 災害対策基本法 第八十一条第一項（公用令書の交付） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-81/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-81/par-1
- 災害対策基本法 第八十二条第一項（損失補償等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-82/par-1
- 災害対策基本法 第八十二条第三項（損失補償等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-82/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-82/par-3
- 災害対策基本法 第八十三条第一項（立入りの要件） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-83/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-83/par-1
- 災害対策基本法 第八十四条第二項（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-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-84/par-2
- 災害対策基本法 第百十三条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-113/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-113/par-1/item-1
- 災害対策基本法 第百十五条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-115/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-115/par-1/item-1
- 災害対策基本法 第百十五条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-115/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-115/par-1/item-2
- 災害対策基本法 附則第三十一条第三項（災害対策基本法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/suppl-4111-87/art-31/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/suppl-4111-87/art-31/par-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-20261103T010525-007, 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
