# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第九十一条 (Article 91) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-91. 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: 第九十一条 (Article 91)（災害予防等に要する費用の負担） — address `art-91` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-91 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-91 - 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. --- ### 第九十一条（災害予防等に要する費用の負担） — (Burden of Expenses for Disaster Prevention, etc.) caption: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "(Burden of Expenses for Disaster Management)" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb art-91 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-91 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-91 **第一項** 法令に特別の定めがある場合又は予算の範囲内において特別の措置を講じている場合を除くほか、災害予防及び災害応急対策に要する費用その他この法律の施行に要する費用は、その実施の責めに任ずる者が負担するものとする。 art-91/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-91/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-91/par-1 Except as otherwise specified by laws and regulations or when a special action is undertaken within the limits of the budget, expenses for disaster prevention and emergency disaster control measures and other expenses for the implementation of this Act are to be borne by parties responsible for its implementation. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Except as otherwise specified by laws and regulations or when a special action is undertaken within the limits of the budget, expenses for disaster management and emergency disaster control measures and other expenses for the implementation of this Act are to be borne by parties responsible for its implementation." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4171/tb --- ## 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 91 — 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 (災害対策基本法), Article 91, paragraph (1) — 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