Order for Enforcement of Basic Act on Disaster Management Cabinet Order (No. 288).

This Order, consisting of 46 articles divided into nine Chapters, aims at implementing the Basic Act on Disaster Management (Act No. 223 of 1961). It establishes composition, duties and responsibilities of competent authorities, in particular, the National Disaster Management Council, which may establish an expert examination committee. The extraordinary phenomena provided for by Cabinet Order set forth in Article 49 of the Act, are: flood;　slope failure, mud flow, and landslide; high tide; earthquake;　tsunami; large fire. The Order is divided as follows: General Provisions (Chap. 1); National Disaster Management Council (Chap. 2); Local Disaster Management Councils (Chap. 3); Dispatch of Officials in Time of a Disaster (Chap. 4); Disaster Management (Chap. 5); Emergency Disaster Control Measures (Chap. 6); Financial Measures (Chap. 7); Financial Measures (Chap. 8); Miscellaneous Provisions (Chap. 9).