# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第七十八条の二 (Article 78-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-78-2. 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: 第七十八条の二 (Article 78-2)（指定行政機関の長等による応急措置の代行） — address `art-78-2` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-78-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-78-2 - 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. --- ### 第七十八条の二（指定行政機関の長等による応急措置の代行） — (Execution of Emergency Measures by the Head of a Designated Administrative Organ) caption: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "(Emergency Measures by the Head of a Designated Administrative Organ)" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb art-78-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-78-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-78-2 **第一項** 指定行政機関の長又は指定地方行政機関の長は、次の各号に掲げる場合のいずれかに該当するときは、法令又は防災計画の定めるところにより、市町村長が第六十四条第一項及び第二項並びに第六十五条第一項の規定により実施すべき応急措置の全部又は一部を当該市町村長に代わつて実施しなければならない。 art-78-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-78-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-78-2/par-1 The head of a designated administrative organ or the head of a designated local administrative organ must, when falling under any of the cases set forth in the following items, implement on behalf of the mayor of a municipality all or a part of the emergency measures to be implemented by the mayor pursuant to the provisions of Article 64, paragraphs (1) and (2), and Article 65, paragraph (1), as provided for by laws and regulations or under a disaster management plan: machine translation, not official **一** 災害の発生により市町村及び当該市町村を包括する都道府県がその全部又は大部分の事務を行うことができなくなつたとき。 art-78-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-78-2/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-78-2/par-1/item-1 when the municipality and the prefecture including the municipality have become unable to perform all or the majority of their affairs due to the occurrence of a disaster; machine translation, not official **二** 災害の発生により施設又は設備に被害が生じ、かつ、市町村長又は都道府県知事による当該施設又は設備に係る応急措置の実施が困難である場合であつて、災害応急対策の円滑な実施のため、当該応急措置を実施する緊急の必要があると認めるとき。 art-78-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-78-2/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-78-2/par-1/item-2 when facilities or equipment have been damaged due to the occurrence of a disaster, it is difficult for the mayor of a municipality or the prefectural governor to implement emergency measures concerning those facilities or equipment, and it is found that there is an urgent need to implement those emergency measures for the smooth implementation of emergency disaster control measures. machine translation, not official **第二項** 指定行政機関の長又は指定地方行政機関の長は、前項の規定により市町村長の事務の代行を開始し、又は終了したときは、その旨を公示しなければならない。 art-78-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-78-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-78-2/par-2 When the head of a designated administrative organ or the head of a designated local administrative organ has begun or completed the implementation of affairs on behalf of the mayor of a municipality pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the head must make a public notice to that effect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の規定による指定行政機関の長又は指定地方行政機関の長の代行に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。 art-78-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-78-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-78-2/par-3 Necessary matters related to the head of a designated administrative organ or the head of a designated local administrative organ acting on behalf of the mayor of a municipality under paragraph (1) are prescribed by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-78-2/par-1: 第六十四条第一項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十四条第一項 (Article 64, paragraph (1)), art-64/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-64/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-64/par-1 - art-78-2/par-1: 第二項 → 災害対策基本法 第六十四条第二項 (Article 64, paragraph (2)), art-64/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-64/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-64/par-2 - art-78-2/par-1: 第六十五条第一項 → 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 - art-78-2/par-2: 前項 → 災害対策基本法 第七十八条の二第一項 (Article 78-2, paragraph (1)), art-78-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-78-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-78-2/par-1 - art-78-2/par-3: 第一項 → 災害対策基本法 第七十八条の二第一項 (Article 78-2, paragraph (1)), art-78-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-78-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-78-2/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 災害対策基本法 第七十八条の二第二項（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-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-78-2/par-2 - 災害対策基本法 第七十八条の二第三項（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-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-78-2/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 78-2 — 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 - 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