# 災害対策基本法 / Basic Act on Disaster Management — 第九十七条 (Article 97) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-97. 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: 第九十七条 (Article 97)（激甚災害の応急措置及び災害復旧に関する経費の負担区分等） — address `art-97` - Text in force since: 2026-11-02 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-97 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-97 - 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. --- ### 第九十七条（激甚災害の応急措置及び災害復旧に関する経費の負担区分等） — (Sharing of Expenses for Emergency Measures and Disaster Recovery Efforts for a Disaster of Extreme Severity) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-97 **第一項** 政府は、著しく激甚である災害（以下「激甚災害」という。）が発生したときは、別に法律で定めるところにより、応急措置及び災害復旧が迅速かつ適切に行なわれるよう措置するとともに、激甚災害を受けた地方公共団体等の経費の負担の適正を図るため、又は被災者の災害復興の意欲を振作するため、必要な施策を講ずるものとする。 art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-97/par-1 In the event of a disaster that is extremely severe (hereinafter referred to as "disaster of extreme severity"), as provided for separately by law, the government is to take action so that emergency measures and disaster recovery efforts may proceed speedily and appropriately, and at the same time, enforce necessary policies for the purposes of making equitable the burden of expenses on the local government, etc., whose area has sustained a disaster of extreme severity and arousing enthusiasm for rehabilitation in the disaster victims. 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 第九十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-98/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-98/par-1 - 災害対策基本法 第九十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/disaster-management-act/art-99/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/336AC0000000223/art-99/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