Ministerial Ordinancefor Enforcementof the Fire Service Act

MINISTERIAL ORDINANCEFOR
ENFORCEMENT OF THE FIRE SERVICE ACT(Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 6, April 1, 1961)

Amendments(1) Ministerial Ordinance No. 25, Dec. 21 1962(2) Ministerial Ordinance No. 36, Dec. 28 1963
(3) Ministerial Ordinance No. 16, Jul. 1 1964
(4) Ministerial Ordinance No. 27, Sep. 17 1964
(5) Ministerial Ordinance No. 1, Jan. 12 1965
(6) Ministerial Ordinance No. 25, Sep. 27 1965
(7) Ministerial Ordinance No. 6, Apr. 22 1966
(8) Ministerial Ordinance No. 27, Oct. 24 1966
(9) Ministerial Ordinance No. 32, Nov. 14 1967(10) Ministerial Ordinance No. 7, Mar. 30 1968(11) Ministerial Ordinance No. 16, Jun. 12 1968(12) Ministerial Ordinance No. 3, Mar. 28 1969(13) Ministerial Ordinance No. 7, Mar. 31 1970
(14) Ministerial Ordinance No. 27, Dec. 26 1970(15) Ministerial Ordinance No. 20, Aug. 29 1972(16) Ministerial Ordinance No. 13, Jun. 1 1973(17) Ministerial Ordinance No. 27, Jul. 1 1974
(18) Ministerial Ordinance No. 40, Dec. 2 1974
(19) Ministerial Ordinance No. 22, Nov. 18 1975(20) Ministerial Ordinance No. 29, Dec. 22 1975(21) Ministerial Ordinance No. 16, Jun. 7 1976(22) Ministerial Ordinance No. 5, Mar. 23 1979(23) Ministerial Ordinance No. 19, Sep. 13 1979(24) Ministerial Ordinance No. 13, May 28 1981(25) Ministerial Ordinance No. 16, Jun. 20 1981(26) Ministerial Ordinance No. 29, Dec. 1 1981(27) Ministerial Ordinance No. 2, Jan. 20 1982(28) Ministerial Ordinance No. 26, Oct. 17 1983

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Ministerial Ordinance No. 24, Sep. 27 1984
Ministerial Ordinance No. 30, Dec. 15 1984
Ministerial Ordinance No. 17, Aug. 5 1986
Ministerial Ordinance No. 23, Oct. 15 1986
Ministerial Ordinance No. 28, Dec. 9 1986
Ministerial Ordinance No. 31, Dec. 25 1986
Ministerial Ordinance No. 1, Jan. 23 1987
Ministerial Ordinance No. 7, Mar. 18 1987
Ministerial Ordinance No. 30, Oct. 23 1987
Ministerial Ordinance No. 2, Jan. 20 1988
Ministerial Ordinance No. 3, Feb. 20 1989
Ministerial Ordinance No. 25, Jun. 5 1989
Ministerial Ordinance No. 17, May 30 1990
Ministerial Ordinance No. 23, Jul. 27 1990
Ministerial Ordinance No. 29, Oct. 30 1990
Ministerial Ordinance No. 20, May 28 1991
Ministerial Ordinance No. 4, Jan. 29 1992
Ministerial Ordinance No. 2, Jan. 29 1993
Ministerial Ordinance No. 1, Jan. 6 1994
Ministerial Ordinance No. 4, Jan. 19 1994
Ministerial Ordinance No. 44, Nov. 28 1994
Ministerial Ordinance No. 2, Feb. 16 1996
Ministerial Ordinance No.19, Mar. 31 1997
Ministerial Ordinance No. 9, Mar. 30 1998
Ministerial Ordinance No. 31 Jul. 24 1998
Ministerial Ordinance No. 46, Dec. 18 1998
Ministerial Ordinance No. 5, Mar. 17 1999
Ministerial Ordinance No. 34, Sep. 29 1999

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Ministerial Ordinance No. 13, Mar. 24 2000
Ministerial Ordinance No. 36, May. 31 2000
Ministerial Ordinance No. 44, Sep. 14 2000
Ministerial Ordinance No. 50, Nov. 17 2000
Ministerial Ordinance No. 51, Nov. 20 2000
Ministerial Ordinance No. 43, Mar. 29 2001
Ministerial Ordinance No. 68, Apr. 26 2001
Ministerial Ordinance No. 3, Jan. 25 2002
Ministerial Ordinance No. 19, Feb.28 2002
Ministerial Ordinance No. 105, Oct. 7 2002
Ministerial Ordinance No. 90, Jun. 13 2003
Ministerial Ordinance No. 101, Jul. 24 2003
Ministerial Ordinance No. 54, Mar. 26 2004
Ministerial Ordinance No. 93, May. 31 2004
Ministerial Ordinance No. 112, Jul. 30 2004
Ministerial Ordinance No. 15, Feb. 18 2005
Ministerial Ordinance No. 20, Mar. 7 2005
Ministerial Ordinance No. 33, Mar. 22 2005
Ministerial Ordinance No. 96, May. 31 2005
Ministerial Ordinance No. 136, Aug. 31 2005
Ministerial Ordinance No. 64, Mar. 31 2006
Ministerial Ordinance No. 77, Apr. 27 2006
Ministerial Ordinance No. 96, Jun. 14 2006
Ministerial Ordinance No. 116, Sep. 29 2006
Ministerial Ordinance No. 66, Jun. 13 2007
Ministerial Ordinance No. 68, Jun. 19 2007(83) Ministerial Ordinance No. 55, Apr. 30 2008(84) Ministerial Ordinance No. 78, Jul. 2 2008(85) Ministerial Ordinance No. 105, Sep. 24 2008(86) Ministerial Ordinance No. 155, Dec.26 2008(87) Ministerial Ordinance No. 93, Sep. 30 2009(88) Ministerial Ordinance No. 106, Nov. 6 2009(89) Ministerial Ordinance No. 8, Feb. 5 2010(90) Ministerial Ordinance No. 85, Aug. 26 2010(91) Ministerial Ordinance No.109,Dec. 14 2010(92) Ministerial Ordinance No.55, Jun. 17 2011(93) Ministerial Ordinance No.131, Sep. 22 2011(94) Ministerial Ordinance No.16, Mar. 27 2012(95) Ministerial Ordinance No. 91, Oct. 19 2012(96) Ministerial Ordinance No. 21, Mar. 27 2013(97) Ministerial Ordinance No. 22, Mar. 27 2013(98) Ministerial Ordinance No. 23, Mar. 27 2013(99) Ministerial Ordinance No.28, Mar. 27 2013(100) Ministerial Ordinance No. 126, Dec. 27 2013(101) Ministerial Ordinance No. 128, Dec. 27 2013(102) Ministerial Ordinance No. 19, Mar. 26 2014(103) Ministerial Ordinance No. 22, Mar. 27 2014(104) Ministerial Ordinance No.80, Oct. 16 2014(105) Ministerial Ordinance No. 10, Feb. 27 2015(106) Ministerial Ordinance No. 35, Mar. 31 2015(107) Ministerial Ordinance No. 53, May 29 2015(108) Ministerial Ordinance No.10, Feb. 24, 2016

This English translation of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act is an unof‐
ficial translation. Only the original Japanese texts of the Ordinance have legal effect, and this translation
is to be used solely as reference material to aid in the understanding of the Ordinance.
The International Fire Service Information Center (IFSIC) shall not be responsible for the accuracy, reli‐ability or currency of the legislative material provided here, or for any consequences resulting from useof the information in this publication. For all purposes of interpreting and applying the Ordinance to
any legal issue or dispute, users should consult the original Japanese texts published in the Official Ga‐
zette.

The Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act has been prescribed as fol‐lows pursuant to the provisions of the Fire Service Act and the Cabinet Order for Enforce‐
ment of the Fire Service Act to enforce the said Act and the said Order.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1

METHOD FOR PUBLIC NOTICE WHEN AN ORDERTO TAKE MEASURES IS ISSUED (ARTICLE 1) .................................................5

CHAPTER 1‐2 FIRE PROTECTION MANAGER, ETC. (ARTICLE 1‐2 ~ 4‐6)............................6
CHAPTER 2

FIRE DEFENSE EQUIPMENT, ETC. OR SPECIAL
FIRE DEFENSE EQUIPMENT, ETC. (ARTICLE 5‐33) ......................................37

Part 1

Designation of Intended Purpose of Fire Prevention Property (Article 5) ..................37

Part 2

Technical Standards for Installation and Maintenance (Article 5‐2 ~ 33) ..................39
Section 1

Standards for Fire Extinguishing Equipment (Article 5‐2 ~ 22) .....39

Section 2

Standards for Fire Alarms (Article 23 ~ 25‐2) ..................................106

Section 3

Standards for Escape Equipment (Article 26 ~ 28‐3) ......................131

Section 4

Standards for Facilities Necessary
for Fire Extinguishing Activities (Article 29 ~ 31‐2‐2) ....................143

Section 5

Inspection and Checking, etc. of Fire Defense Equipment, etc.
or Special Fire Defense Equipment, etc. (Article 31‐2‐3 ~ 31‐7) ....154

Section 6

Miscellaneous Provisions (Article 31‐8 ~ 33) ...................................160

CHAPTER 2‐2 FIRE DEFENSE EQUIPMENT TECHNICIAN (ARTICLE 33‐2 ~ 33‐18) ......162
CHAPTER 3

FIRE DEFENSE SIGNALS (ARTICLE 34) .........................................................172

CHAPTER 3‐2 DESIGNATED WATER SOURCE FOR FIRE DEFENSE (ARTICLE 34‐2) ...173
CHAPTER 4PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SPECIAL
FIRE DEFENSE EQUIPMENT, ETC. (ARTICLE 34‐2‐2 ~ 34‐2‐3) ..................174

CHAPTER 4‐2 INSPECTION, ETC. OF A MACHINE OR TOOL, ETC. USEDFOR FIRE DEFENSE (ARTICLE 34‐3 ~ 44‐3) ....................................................175
CHAPTER 4‐3 REGISTERED INSPECTION BODY (ARTICLE 44‐4 ~ 44‐12) ........................181
CHAPTER 5PERSONS OBLIGED TO TAKE EMERGENCY MEASURES
TO EXTINGUISH FIRES, ETC. (ARTICLE 45 ~49) ..........................................184

CHAPTER 6

STANDARDS FOR THE ORGANIZATIONOF AN AMBULANCE TEAM (ARTICLE 50 ~ 51‐2) .......................................186

CHAPTER 7MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS (ARTICLE 51‐3 ~ 52) ................................188

SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS .................................................................................................200
APPENDED TABLE 1 .......................................................................................................................240
APPENDED FORM 1 ........................................................................................................................256
APPENDED FIG. 1 ............................................................................................................................294

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 1)

CHAPTER 1 METHOD FOR PUBLIC NOTICE WHEN AN ORDER TO TAKE
MEASURES IS ISSUED(Method for Public Notice When an Order to Take Measures is Issued)
Article 1
A method to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications pursuant to the provision of Article 5, paragraph (3) of the Fire Service Act(Act No. 186 of 1948; hereinafter referred to as the ʺActʺ) (including cases where applied mu‐
tatis mutandis in Article 5‐2, paragraph (2) of the Act, Article 5‐3, paragraph (5) of the Act, Ar‐ticle 8, paragraph (5) of the Act (including the case where applied mutatis mutandis in Article
36, paragraph (1) of the Act), Article 8‐2, paragraph (7) of the Act (including the case whereapplied mutatis mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act), Article 8‐2‐5, paragraph (4)of the Act or Article 17‐4, paragraph (3) of the Act) shall be publication in a municipal bulle‐
tin or any other method to be specified by a municipal mayor.

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CHAPTER 1‐2 FIRE PROTECTION MANAGER, ETC.
(Fire Prevention Management at Fire Prevention Property Which is Under Work)
Article 1‐2
A building to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in Article 1‐2, paragraph (3), item (ii) of the Cabinet Order for En‐
forcement of the Fire Service Act (Cabinet Order No. 37 of 1961; hereinafter referred to as theʺOrderʺ) shall be a building of which a part which has external walls and floor or roof is asize of not less than the size prescribed in (a), (b) or (c) of the said item and where such work
as electrical work, etc. is in progress.
(2) A passenger ship to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in Article 1‐2, paragraph (3), item (iii) of the Order shall be a pas‐
senger ship (meaning a passenger ship prescribed in Article 8 of the Ship Safety Act (Act No.
11 of 1933) after launch and in the process of fitting out.
(Method to Calculate the Capacity of Property)
Article 1‐3
A method to calculate the capacity of property to be specified by an ordinance ofthe Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 1‐2, paragraph (4) of
the Order shall be a method specified in the right‐hand column of the following table accord‐
ing to the category of fire prevention property listed in the left‐hand column of the said table.
Category of Property
Under Fire Prevention Measures
Fire prevention property listed in paragraph(1) of Appended Table 1 of the OrderFire prevention proper‐
ty listed in row (2) androw (3) of Appended
Table 1 of the OrderGame centers

Others6

Calculation Method
Calculation shall be conducted by totaling the numbers listed in thefollowing.
(1) Number of employees(2) Total of the number calculated for each of the following sections(a), (b) and (c) of the auditorium(a) For a section where fixed seats are arranged, the number shallbe that corresponding to the number of seats in the section. In
the case of a bench seat, the number per bench seat shall bethat which is obtained by dividing the front width of the saidbench seat by 0.4 meters (fractions of less than one shall be ig‐
nored)(b) For a section with standing room only, the number shall becalculated by dividing the floor area of the said section by 0.2
square meters.
(c) For other sections, the number shall be calculated by dividing
the floor area of the said section by 0.5 square meters.
Calculation shall be conducted by totaling the numbers listed in thefollowing.
(1) Number of employees(2) Number of persons who are able to play games using game ma‐chines(3) In the case where fixed seats are arranged for viewing, eating,drinking or resting, the number shall be that corresponding to
the number of seats. In the case of a bench seat, the number per
bench seat shall be the number calculated by dividing the front
width of the said bench seat by 0.5 meters (fractions of less than
one shall be ignored).
Calculation shall be conducted by totaling the numbers listed in thefollowing.
(1) Number of employees

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Fire prevention property listed in row (4) ofAppended Table 1 of the OrderFire prevention proper‐
ty listed in row (5) of
Appended Table 1 of
the Order

Fire prevention proper‐
ty listed in row (6) of
Appended Table 1 of
the Order(2) Total of the number calculated for each of the following sections(a) and (b) of the auditorium(a) For a section where fixed seats are arranged, the number shallbe that corresponding to the number of seats in the section. In
the case of a bench seat, the number per bench seat shall be thatwhich is obtained by dividing the front width of the said benchseat by 0.5 meters (fractions of less than one shall be ignored)(b) For other sections, the number shall be calculated by dividing
the floor area of the said section by 3 square meters.
Calculation shall be conducted by totaling the numbers listed in thefollowing.
(1) Number of employees(2) Total of the number calculated for each of the following sections(a) and (b) used primarily by persons other than employees(a) For a section used for eating, drinking or resting, the number
shall be calculated by dividing the floor area of the said sectionby 3 square meters.
(b) For other sections, the number shall be than calculated by di‐viding the floor area of the said section by 4 square meters.

Those listed in row(5)‐(a)Calculation shall be conducted by totaling the numbers listed in thefollowing(1) Number of employees(2) Total of the number calculated for each of the following types ofguest room (a) and (b)(a) For a Western‐style guest room, the number shall be that cor‐
responding to the number of beds in the said room.
(b) For a Japanese‐style guest room, the number shall be calculat‐
ed by dividing the floor area of the said room by 6 square me‐ters (3 square meters in the case of a hostel or accommodation
primarily catering for people on group tours).
(3) The total of the number calculated for each of the following sec‐
tions (a) and (b) used for meetings, eating, drinking or resting(a) For a section where fixed seats are arranged, the number shallbe that corresponding to the number of seats in the section. In
the case of a bench seat, the number per bench seat shall becalculated by dividing the front width of the said bench seatby 0.5 meters (fractions of less than one shall be ignored).
(b) For other sections, the number shall be calculated by dividing
the floor area of the said section by 3 square meters.

Those listed in row(5)‐(b)

The number shall be the number of inhabitants.

Those listed in row(6)‐(a)Calculation shall be conducted by totaling the numbers listed in thefollowing.
(1) Number of physicians, dentists, midwives, pharmacists, nurses
and other employees(2) Number of beds in wards(3) Number obtained by dividing the floor area of the waiting roomby 3 square meters
Number obtained by adding the number of employees to that of oldpeople, babies, infants, physically disabled persons, mentally disa‐
bled persons and others requiring protection
Number obtained by adding the number of teachers and staff offi‐
cials to that of infants, pupils or students

Those listed in row(6)‐(b) and row (6)‐(c)
Those listed in row(6)‐(d)7

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 1‐3~1‐4)Fire prevention property listed in row (7) of
Appended Table 1 of the OrderFire prevention property listed in row (8) of
Appended Table 1 of the OrderFire prevention property listed in row (9) of
Appended Table 1 of the OrderFire prevention property listed in row (11) of
Appended Table 1 of the OrderFire prevention property listed in rows (10)and (12) through (14) of Appended Table 1 of
the Order
Fire prevention property listed in row (15) of
Appended Table 1 of the OrderFire prevention property listed in row (17) of
Appended Table 1 of the OrderFire prevention property listed in Article 1‐2,
paragraph (3), item (ii) of the Order and ap‐
proved for provisional use pursuant to theprovision of Article 7‐6, paragraph (1), item (i)and Article 18, paragraph (22), item (i) of the
Building Standards Act (Act No. 201 of 1950)[hereinafter referred to as ʺprovisional useʺ inthis paragraph and Article 3, paragraph (1)]Fire prevention property listed in Article 1‐2,
paragraph (3), item (ii) (excluding those listed
in the preceding paragraph) and item (iii) of
the said paragraph of the Order

Number obtained by adding the number of teachers and staff offi‐
cials to that of infants, pupils or students.
The number shall be calculated by adding the number of employees
to the number obtained by dividing the total floor area of the read‐ing rooms, display rooms, exhibition rooms, conference rooms andlounges by 3 square meters.
The number shall be calculated by adding the number of employees
to the number obtained by dividing the total floor area of the bath‐rooms, undressing rooms, massage rooms and lounges by 3 square
meters.
The number shall be calculated by adding the number of Shinto
priests, Buddhist monks, Christian ministers and other employees tothe number obtained by dividing the total floor area of spaces used
for worship, assembly or resting by 3 square meters.
The number shall be the number of employees.

The number shall be calculated by adding the number of employees
to the number obtained by dividing the floor area primarily used bypersons other than employees by 3 square meters.
The number shall be calculated by dividing the floor area by 5
square meters.
Total of the number calculated for each of the following sections (1)and (2)(1) For an area approved for provisional use, the number shall becalculated by the method specified in the right‐hand column ofthis table on the assumption that the intended use of the area
approved for the said provisional use falls in the relevant catego‐ry of fire prevention property listed in the left‐hand column ofthis table.
(2) For other areas, the number shall be the number of employees.
The number shall be the number of employees.

(2) With regard to fire prevention property listed in row (16) and row (16‐2) of Appended Table
1 of the Order, the method to calculate the capacity to be specified by an ordinance of the
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 1‐2, paragraph (4) of theOrder shall be the method to calculate the total capacity by adding the capacity of individual
parts when the provision of the preceding paragraph is applied on the assumption that eachpart of the said fire prevention property, which is used for the same intended purpose as theintended purpose listed under each paragraph of the said table, is considered to constitute a
fire prevention property.
(Registered Training Body Pertaining to Training Sessions Concerning Fire Prevention Man‐
agement)
Article 1‐4
Registration by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications pursuant to
the provision of Article 3, paragraph (1), item (i)‐(a) or item (ii)‐(a) of the Order (hereinafterreferred to simply as ʺregistrationʺ in this Article) shall be made on application by a juridical
person who intends to provide training sessions (meaning the Class A fire prevention man‐agement training sessions prescribed in item (i)‐(a) of the said paragraph or the Class B fire8

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prevention management training sessions prescribed in item (ii)‐(a) of the said paragraph;the same shall apply hereinafter in this article).
(2) A juridical person seeking registered status shall submit the documents listed below in addi‐
tion to an application form stating the name of the said juridical person, name of the repre‐
sentative, location of the principal office and intended commencement date of training oper‐
ations.
(i)
Articles of incorporation and certificate of registered matters(ii)
Document stating matters concerning the training operations as listed below(a) Implementation method of training operations, location of the office handling the train‐
ing operations and other matters concerning the implementation system(b) Names and vocations of trainers and matters concerning their careers in brief(c) Training subjects, number of hours, implementation schedule, venues and other mat‐ters concerning the implementation plan(d) Other matters which are necessary for the implementation of the training operations(iii)
Document stating the outline of the businesses currently undertaken(iv)
Document explaining that the applicant does not fall under any of the items of para‐graph (4)(3) The Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications shall complete the registration when ajuridical person who has applied for registration pursuant to the provision of the preceding
paragraph satisfies the following requirements.
(i)
Persons falling under any of the following to conduct training operations and the num‐
ber of such persons are two or more per each office conducting training operations(a) A fire protection manager of a fire prevention property listed in Article 4‐2‐2, para‐graph (1), item (i) of the Order who has five or more years of practical experience as thesaid manager(b) Either an official engaged in the fire service affairs of a prefecture or fire defense per‐sonnel of a municipality with two or more years of practical experience of the work
concerning fire prevention(c) A person who has knowledge and experience equal or superior to those of the persons
listed in (a) and (b) above(ii)
Not engaged in operations which may damage the fairness of training operations(iii)
The criteria listed below, which are necessary to properly conduct training operations,
are met(a) A manager is assigned to the department in charge of conducting training operations.
(b) An appropriate plan concerning the implementation of training operations has been pre‐pared featuring the implementation schedule of training operations, securing of the ven‐ue, requirements for the appointment and dismissal of trainers, preparation of teachingaids and method to issue a certificate of training completion using Appended Form 1.
(c) There is a system capable of fairly conducting training operations for persons through‐out the country who intend to attend the training sessions.
(4) The Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications shall not register a juridical person
who has applied pursuant to the provision of paragraph (1) if the said juridical person falls
under any of the following.
(i)
A juridical person where the said person or its officer executing the business has beensentenced to punishment for violation of the Act or any order based on the said act andwhere a period of two years has not elapsed from the day on which either the executionof the sentence was completed or the execution of such sentence became no longer ap‐
plicable(ii)
A juridical person for which a period of two years has not elapsed from the date of therescission of its registration pursuant to the provision of paragraph (21)9Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 1‐4)
(iii)

A juridical person of which an officer currently executing the business was an officer
serving a juridical person of which the registration was rescinded pursuant to the pro‐vision of paragraph (21) within 30 days prior to the date of the rescission and a periodof two years has not elapsed for this officer from the date of the rescission(5) Registration shall be conducted by entering the following matters in the registry of regis‐
tered training bodies.
(i)
Date of registration and registration number(ii)
Name of the registered juridical person, name of its representative and location of theprincipal office(iii)
Location of the office handling training operations(6) Unless it is renewed every three years, registration shall become invalid on the expiration ofsuch period.
(7) The provisions of paragraph (1) through paragraph (5) shall apply mutatis mutandis to therenewal of registration set forth in the preceding paragraph.
(8) When a registered juridical person (hereinafter referred to as a ʺregistered training bodyʺ)
intends to change any of the matters listed in paragraph (5) item (ii) and item (iii), it shall no‐tify the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications to that effect no later than two
weeks prior to the day on which the change is scheduled.
(9) A registered training body shall organize training sessions at least once a year.
(10) A registered training body shall conduct training sessions fairly using a procedure which
conforms to the standards pertaining to training sessions prescribed in Article 2‐3.
(11) Officers or employees of a registered training body or persons who held these positions shallnot divulge or misappropriate any secret which they have come to know in the course of
performing their duties.
(12) A registered training body shall establish operational rules with regard to the matters listed
below concerning the implementation of training operations and shall notify them to the
Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications prior to the commencement of training op‐
erations. The same shall apply when a registered training body intends to revise the rules.
(i)
Matters concerning the dates and hours of training operations(ii)
Matters concerning offices handling training operations and the geographical areas
covered by the said offices(iii)
Matters concerning the procedure to implement training operations(iv)
Matters concerning the receiving of training fees(v)
Matters concerning the protection of secrets concerning training operations(vi)
Matters concerning the management of books and documents concerning training op‐
erations(vii)
Matters concerning the cost pertaining to requests prescribed in paragraph (15) item (ii)and item (iv)(viii) Other matters which are necessary for the implementation of training operations(13) When the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications finds that the operational rules
which were notified pursuant to the provision of the preceding paragraph have become in‐appropriate for the proper and reliable implementation of training operations, he/she mayorder the registered training body to revise the rules.
(14) A registered training body shall prepare an inventory of assets, balance sheet, profit and loss
statement or statement of income and expenditure and business report (in cases where these
documents are prepared in the form of an electromagnetic record [meaning a record made inelectronic form, a magnetic form or any other form not recognizable to human perception
which is used for information processing by computers; the same shall apply hereinafter inthis paragraph, the following paragraph and Article 44‐10‐2, paragraph (1)], including suchelectromagnetic record; referred to as ʺfinancial statements, etc.ʺ in the following paragraph)
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and submit these documents to the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications within
three months of the end of the business year and shall keep them at its office for five years.
(15) A person who intends to take training sessions and any other interested person may makethe following requests at any time during the business hours of a registered training body;provided, however, that when making a request set forth in item (ii) or item (iv), the re‐quester shall pay the amount of expenses specified by the registered training body.
(i)
Where financial statements, etc. are prepared in the form of documents, a request for
the inspection or copying of such documents(ii)
Request for a transcript or extract of the documents set forth in the preceding item
(iii)
Where financial statements, etc. are prepared in the form of an electromagnetic record,
request for the inspection or copying of the matters which are recorded in the electro‐
magnetic record and indicated by a method to transfer them onto paper or as images onan output device(iv)
Request for the provision of the matters recorded in an electromagnetic record set forthin the preceding item by one of the following electromagnetic methods or for the issue
of a document stating the said matters(a) Method using an electronic data processing system where the computer used by thesender and the computer used by the recipient are connected by a telecommunications
line and where data is sent through the said telecommunications line for recording in afile on the computer used by the recipient(b) Method to issue a file with recorded data which is contained in a magnetic disc or an
object capable of securely recording certain data using a means equivalent to that of amagnetic disc(16) A registered training body shall keep books stating the following matters concerning train‐
ing operations and preserve such books for six years from the date when the training ses‐
sions took place.
(i)
Date of training sessions(ii)
Venue of training sessions(iii)
Name, address and date of birth of each person having undergone training sessions(iv)
Whether or not a certificate of training completion using Appended Form 1 has been is‐sued(v)
Date of issue and serial number of the certificate of training completion prescribed in
the preceding item
(17) When the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications finds that a registered training
body no longer conforms to any of the items of paragraph (3), he/she may order the said reg‐istered training body to take the necessary measures to ensure compliance with these provi‐sions.
(18) When the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications finds that a registered training
body is in violation of the provision of paragraph (9) and paragraph (10), he/she may orderthe said registered training body to conduct training sessions or take the necessary measuresconcerning the improvement of the procedure of conducting the said training sessions andother operational procedures.
(19) When the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications find it necessary in order to en‐sure the proper implementation of training operations, he/she may request a registeredtraining body to make necessary reports on the status of training operations.
(20) When a registered training body intends to suspend or abolish training operations, it shallnotify the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications to that effect in advance with adocument stating the matters listed below.

11Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 1‐4~2)(i)Reason(s) for suspension or abolition(ii)
Intended time of suspension or abolition(iii)
Intended period in the case of suspension(21) When a registered training body falls under any of the following items, the Minister of In‐
ternal Affairs and Communications shall rescind its registration or specify a period and or‐der it to suspend whole or part of its training operations.
(i)When a registered training body is found to no longer satisfy the requirements set forthin the items of paragraph (3)(ii)
When a registered training body falls under paragraph (4), item (i) or item (iii)(iii)
When a registered training body has violated the provision of paragraph (8) throughparagraph (12), paragraph (14), paragraph (16) or paragraph (20)(iv)
When a registered training body has conducted training operations while failing tocomply with the operational rules notified pursuant to the provision of paragraph (12)(v)
When a registered training body has violated an order issued pursuant to the provisionof paragraph (13), paragraph (17) or paragraph (18)(vi)
When a registered training body has refused a request made pursuant to the provisionof any of the items of paragraph (15) without justifiable reasons(vii)
When a registered training body has obtained its registration by wrongful means(22) In the cases listed in the following items, the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions shall give public notice to that effect.
(i)
When registration is made(ii)
When a notification is made pursuant to the provision of paragraph (8)(iii)
When a notification is made pursuant to the provision of paragraph (20)(iv)
When registration is rescinded or the suspension of training operations is ordered pur‐suant to the provision of the preceding paragraph(Persons Recognized as Having the Relevant Knowledge and Experience Required for Fire
Protection Managers)
Article 2
The persons who are recognized as having the relevant knowledge and experi‐ence required for the fire protection managers listed in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (i)‐(d)of the Order shall be those who fall under the category of any of the following items.
(i)Persons who are appointed as safety officers under the provision of Article 11, para‐graph (1) of the Industrial Safety and Health Act (Act No. 57 of 1972)(i‐2)
Persons who have completed a course of training sessions which enables the partici‐
pants to obtain the necessary knowledge and skills concerning the checking of fire pre‐vention properties prescribed in article 4‐2‐4 paragraph (4) and have obtained a license.
(ii)
Persons who have been appointed as hazardous materials security superintendents
pursuant to the provision of Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Act and who have obtained
a Class A hazardous materials engineerʹs license)(iii)
Persons who have been appointed as safety managers pursuant to the provision of Arti‐cle 22, paragraph (3) of the Mine Safety Act (Act No. 70 of 1949) [persons who havebeen appointed as safety controllers pursuant to the provision of paragraph (1) of thesaid act in the case of the second sentence of the said paragraph (3)](iv)
Persons who are engaged in the fire service affairs of the state or prefecture and havebeen in a managerial or supervisory post for one year or more(v)
Persons who are policemen or police personnel treated in the same way as policemen
and have been in a managerial or supervisory post for three years or more(vi)
Persons who are qualified as building officials or first class architects and have practicalexperience of fire prevention management for one year or more(vii)
Persons who are fire corps volunteers of municipalities and have been in a managerial
12Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 2~2‐2)(viii)or supervisory post for three years or more
Persons who are recognized as equivalent to those listed in each of the preceding itemsby the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency(Qualification of Fire Protection Manager in the Case Where Operations Necessary for Fire
Prevention Management Cannot be Performed Properly)
Article 2‐2
A fire prevention property to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of In‐
ternal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 3, paragraph (2) of the Order shall bea fire prevention property listed in each of the following items.
(i)
Multiple fire prevention properties which are managed by the same person who has thetitle to manage multiple fire prevention properties(ii)
A fire prevention property which is subject to management under separate titles andhas any of the following parts(a) Of the parts of a fire prevention property which serve the intended purposes of fire
prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(b), row (16)‐(a) or row (16‐2)of the Order (in the case of fire prevention properties listed in row (16), item (i) or row(16‐2) of the said table, limited to those which have a part serving any of the intended
purposes of a fire prevention property listed in row (6)‐(b) of the said table), any part ofwhich the capacity when the provisions of Article 1‐3, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2)are applied is less than 10 persons on the assumption that the said part of a fire preven‐tion property constitutes one fire prevention property(b) Of the parts of fire prevention properties which serve the intended purposes of fire
prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (1) through row (4), row (5)‐(a),row (6)‐(b), (c) or (d), row (9)‐(a), row (16)‐(a) or row (16‐2) of the Order (with regard to
fire prevention properties listed in row (16), item (i) or row (16‐2), those which have apart serving any of the intended purposes of a fire prevention property listed in row(6)‐(b) of the said table shall be excluded), any part of which the capacity when the pro‐visions of Article 1‐3, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) are applied is less than 30 per‐sons on the assumption that the said part of a fire prevention property constitutes one
fire prevention property(c) Of the parts of fire prevention properties which serve the intended purposes of fire pre‐vention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(b), row (7), row (8), row (9)‐(b),row (10) through row (15), row (16)‐(b) or row (17), any part of which the capacity when
the provisions of Article 1‐3, paragraph 1 and paragraph (2) are applied is less than 50
persons on the assumption that the said part of a fire prevention property constitutes one
fire prevention property(iii)
A fire prevention property which falls under specified assets (meaning the specified as‐
sets prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Investment Trusts and Invest‐
ment Corporations (Act No. 198 of 1951) in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Secu‐
ritization of Assets (Act No. 105 of 1998) or a fire prevention property which falls underreal estate pertaining to a designated real estate joint enterprise agreement [meaning adesignated real estate joint enterprise agreement prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3)of the Act on Designated Real Estate Joint Enterprises (Act No. 77 of 1994)](2) The requirements to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in Article 3, paragraph (ii) of the Order shall be the requirements
listed in any of the following items.
(i)A person who has been granted the authority to execute the necessary operations forfire prevention management by a person who holds the title to manage a fire preven‐tion property and who conducts the necessary operations for fire prevention manage‐
ment.
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(ii)

(iii)

A person must have been issued a document clearly stating the details of the necessary
operations for fire prevention management by the person who holds the title to manage
a fire prevention property and who conducts the necessary operations for fire preven‐tion management, and must have sufficient knowledge of the said details.
A person must have been given an explanation of the location, structure and the condi‐
tions of equipment at a fire prevention property and other matters necessary for fire
prevention management by the person who holds the title to manage the said property
under fire protection measures and who conducts the necessary operations for fire pre‐vention management, and must have sufficient knowledge of the said matters.

(Parts of Fire Prevention Properties for Which Person Having Completed Class B Fire Protection
Management Training Sessions Can be Made a Fire Protection Manager)
Article 2‐2‐2
The parts of fire prevention properties which are to be specified by an ordinanceof the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 3, paragraph (3)of the Order shall be those listed in paragraph (1), item(ii)‐(a) through (c) of the precedingarticle.
(Training Sessions on Fire Prevention Management)
Article 2‐3
The Class A fire prevention management training sessions prescribed in Article
3, paragraph (1), item (i)‐(a) of the Order shall be training sessions for those who have neverundergone such training sessions before (hereinafter referred to as ʺClass A fire prevention
management fresh training sessionsʺ in this Article) and the training sessions to be specified
by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency for fire protection man‐agers (excluding fire protection managers pertaining to the parts of fire prevention proper‐
ties in the preceding article) of the fire prevention properties set forth in Article 4‐2‐2, para‐graph (1), item (i) of the Order after the Class A fire prevention management fresh training
sessions [hereinafter referred to as ʺClass A fire prevention management refresher training
sessionsʺ in this article and Article 4‐2‐4, paragraph (2), item (i)].
(2) Class A fire prevention management fresh training sessions shall be conducted for the pur‐pose of teaching knowledge and skills pertaining to the matters listed in each of the follow‐
ing items and the hours of these training sessions shall be roughly 10 hours.
(i)Matters concerning the significance and system of fire prevention management(ii)
Matters concerning the supervision of the use or handling of fire(iii)
Matters concerning the checking and maintenance of fire defense equipment and mainte‐
nance of the structures and equipment necessary for evacuation or fire prevention(iv)
Matters concerning drills for fire extinguishing, reporting and evacuation and othertypes of necessary drills for fire prevention management(v)
Matters concerning the necessary education for fire prevention management(vi)
Matters concerning the preparation of a fire defense plan(3) Class A fire prevention management refresher training sessions shall be conducted for the
purpose of teaching knowledge and skills pertaining to the matters listed in each of the fol‐lowing items and the hours of these training sessions shall be roughly 2 hours.
(i)Matters concerning the outline of revisions made in approximately the last five years oflaws and regulations concerning fire prevention management(ii)
Matters concerning research on cases of fire, etc.
(4) Class B fire prevention management training sessions shall be conducted for the purpose ofteaching basic knowledge and skills pertaining to the matters listed in each of the items ofparagraph (2) and the hours of these training sessions shall be roughly 5 hours.
(5) When a prefectural governor, fire chief of a municipality with a fire defense headquarters
and a fire station(s) or a juridical person registered by the Minster of Internal Affairs and
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Communications pursuant to the provision of Article 3, paragraph (1), item (i)‐(a) or item(ii)‐(a) has conducted Class A fire prevention management fresh training sessions or Class A
fire prevention management refresher training sessions as Class A fire prevention manage‐
ment training sessions or Class B fire prevention management training sessions, the said
governor, fire chief or juridical person shall issue a certificate of training completion using
Appended Form 1 to those who have completed the course of the said training sessions.
(6) In addition to what is prescribed in each of the preceding paragraphs, details of the mattersnecessary for the implementation of Class A fire prevention management training sessions
and Class B fire prevention management training sessions shall be specified by the Commis‐
sioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(Fire Protection Plans)
Article 3
In accordance with the location and structure of a fire prevention property andthe conditions and status of use of the fire defense equipment, a fire protection manager
shall prepare a fire defense plan pertaining to fire prevention management pursuant to theprovision of Article 3‐2, paragraph (1) of the Order according to the categories listed in eachof the following items on roughly the following matters listed in each of the following items
and on receipt of an instruction from the person who has the title to manage the said fire
prevention property and shall notify it to the competent fire chief (mayor in the case of amunicipality which has no fire defense headquarters; the same shall apply hereinafter) or
fire station chief using Appended Form 1‐2 as the notification form. The same shall apply
when the fire protection manager intends to change the fire defense plan pertaining to fire
prevention management.
(i)
Properties listed in Article 1‐2, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Order and properties listed
in item (ii) of the said paragraph (limited to those or their parts of which provisionaluse has been approved)(a) Matters concerning the organization of fire defense for self‐protection(b) Matters concerning the voluntary inspection of a fire prevention property for the pur‐pose of fire prevention(c) Matters concerning the checking and maintenance of fire defense equipment, etc. or
special fire defense equipment, etc. prescribed in Article 17, paragraph (3) of the Act(hereinafter referred to as ʺspecial fire defense equipment, etc.)(d) Matters concerning the maintenance of and guide signs for escape routes, escape exits,
safety compartments, smoke‐proof compartments and other escape facilities(e) Matters concerning the maintenance of fire walls, interior decoration and other struc‐tural elements for fire prevention(f) Matters concerning compliance with the authorized capacity and other matters for ra‐
tionalization of the capacity(g) Matters concerning education necessary for fire prevention management(h) Matters concerning the periodic implementation of drills for fire extinguishing, report‐
ing and evacuation and other types of necessary drills for fire prevention management(i) Matters concerning fire extinguishing activities, reporting and liaising and escorting forevacuation in the case of a fire, earthquake or other disaster(j) Matters concerning liaising with the fire department for fire prevention management(k) Matters concerning supervision of the use or handling of fire, including the attendanceof the fire protection manager or his/her assistant at a fire prevention property, which isunder work for extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodeling(l) In addition to the matters listed in (a) through (k), necessary matters concerning fire
prevention management at a fire prevention property(ii)
Fire prevention properties listed in Article 1‐2, paragraph (3), item (ii) of the Order
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properties listed in item (iii) of the said paragraph(a) Matters concerning the checking and improvement of fire extinguishers, etc.
(b) Matters concerning the maintenance of escape routes and their guide signs(c) Matters concerning the supervision of the use or handling of fire(d) Matters concerning the management of hazardous materials which are used during
construction work(e) Matters listed in (a) through (g) of the previous item(f) In addition to those listed in (a) through (e), necessary matters concerning fire preven‐tion management at a fire prevention property(2) With regard to a fire prevention property for which part of the necessary operations for fire
prevention management is entrusted to a person other than the person concerned with thesaid fire prevention property (meaning the owner, manager or possessor; the same shall ap‐
ply hereinafter) or a person who is employed by the person concerned [limited to a person
working in the said fire prevention property; the same shall apply in Article 4, paragraph (1),item (ii), Article 28‐3, paragraph (4), item (ii)‐(c) and Article 29, item (ii)], the fire protection
manager of the said fire prevention property shall specify the name and address [in the caseof a juridical person, the name of the company and location of the principal office; the same
shall apply in Article 4, paragraph (1), item(ii)] of the entrustee, the necessary operations forthe said fire prevention management (excluding checking of fire defense equipment, etc. or
special fire defense equipment, etc. pursuant to the provision of Article 17‐3‐3 of the Act; thesame shall apply hereinafter in this paragraph) and the scope and procedures of the neces‐sary operations for fire prevention management to be conducted by the said entrustee in thefire defense plan set forth in the preceding paragraph.
(3) With regard to a fire prevention property which is subject to management under separate
titles, the fire protection manager of the said fire prevention property shall specify the scopeof the said titles for the said fire prevention property in the fire defense plan set forth in par‐agraph (1).
(4) The fire protection managers of the facilities prescribed in Article 4, item (i), item (ii), item
(xiii), item (xiv) and item (xxiii) of the Order for Enforcement of the Act on Special Measures
Concerning Countermeasures for Large‐Scale Earthquakes (Cabinet Order No. 385 of 1978)
of fire prevention properties which are prescribed in Article 1‐2, paragraph (3), item (i) of theOrder and which are located in any of the areas designated as areas for intensified counter‐measures against earthquakes (hereinafter referred to as ʺareas for intensified countermeas‐uresʺ) pursuant to the provision of Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Act on Special Measures
Concerning Countermeasures for Large‐Scale Earthquakes (Act No. 73 of 1978) shall specify
the following matters in the fire defense plan set forth in paragraph (1).
(i)
Matters concerning the organization of fire defense for self‐protection in the case where
the warning declaration set forth in Article 2, item (xiii) of the Act on Special Measures
Concerning Countermeasures for Large‐Scale Earthquakes (hereinafter referred to asʺwarning declarationʺ) is issued(ii)
Matters concerning the transmission of earthquake prediction information set forth in
Article 2, item (iii) of the Act on Special Measures Concerning Countermeasures forLarge‐Scale Earthquakes and warning declaration(iii)
Matters concerning escorting for evacuation in the case where a warning declaration isissued(iv)
Matters concerning emergency measures to prevent the occurrence of or to reduce thedamage by earthquakes, including the checking and maintenance of facilities andequipment, in the case where a warning declaration is issued(v)
Matters concerning the implementation of disaster prevention drills pertaining to large‐
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scale earthquakes(vi)
Matters concerning education and publicity necessary to prevent the occurrence of or to
reduce the damage by large‐scale earthquakes(5) The fire protection managers of the facilities set forth in the preceding paragraph and actu‐
ally located in an area for intensified countermeasures at the time of designation of the area
as an area for intensified countermeasures shall specify the matters listed in each of theitems of the preceding paragraph in the fire defense plan set forth in paragraph (1) within 6months of the date of the said designation.
(6) The fire protection managers of the facilities prescribed in Article 3, item (i), item (ii), item
(xiii), item (xiv) and item (xxiv) of the Order for Enforcement of the Act on Special Measures
Concerning Advancement of Countermeasures against Disasters of Nankai Trough Earth‐quakes (Cabinet Order No. 324 of 2003) [excluding those managed by the persons prescribedin Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Act on Special Measures Concerning Advancement ofCountermeasures against Disasters of Nankai Trough Earthquakes (Act No. 92 of 2002) andlimited to those managed by the persons to be specified in the Basic Plan for Advancementof Countermeasures against Disasters of Nankai Trough Earthquakes prescribed in Article 4,paragraph (1) of the said act as persons to make countermeasures against earthquakes per‐taining to tsunami which may be caused by Nankai Trough earthquakes prescribed in Arti‐cle 2, paragraph (2) of the said act (hereinafter referred to as ʺNankai trough earthquakesʺ)]among fire prevention properties prescribed in Article 1‐2, paragraph (3), item (i) of the saidorder and located in any of the areas designated as areas for the advancement of counter‐measures against disasters of Nankai trough earthquakes pursuant to the provision of Arti‐cle 3, paragraph (1) of the said [referred to as ʺareas for advancementʺ in the following para‐graph and Article 4, paragraph (4)] shall specify the following matters in the fire defense
plan set forth in paragraph (1).
(i)
Matters concerning the securing of smooth evacuation from tsunami caused by Nankai
trough earthquakes(ii)
Matters concerning the implementation of disaster prevention drills pertaining to Nan‐kai trough earthquakes(iii)
Matters concerning education and publicity necessary to prevent the occurrence of or
reduce the damage caused by Nankai trough earthquakes(7) The fire protection managers of the facilities set forth in the preceding paragraph and actual‐
ly located in an area for advancement at the time of designation of the area as an area for ad‐vancement shall specify the matters listed in each of the items of the preceding paragraph in
the fire defense plan set forth in paragraph (1) within 6 months of the date of the said desig‐
nation.
(8) The fire protection managers of the facilities prescribed in Article 3, item (i), item (ii), item
(xiii), item (xiv) and item (xxiv) of the Order for Enforcement of the Act on Special Measures
Concerning Advancement of Countermeasures against Earthquake Disaster in Relation to
Subduction Zone Earthquakes Around Japan Trench and Chishima Trench (Cabinet Order No.
27282 of 2005) (excluding those managed by the persons prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1)of the said act and limited to those managed by the persons to be specified in the Basic Plan for
Advancement of Countermeasures against Earthquake Disasters in Relation to Subduction
Zone Earthquakes Around Japan Trench and Chishima Trench prescribed in Article 5, para‐graph (1) of the said act as persons to make countermeasures against earthquakes pertaining
to tsunami which may be caused by a subduction zone earthquake around the Japan Trench
and Chishima Trench prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the said act (hereinafter referred
to as ʺJapan Trench and Chishima Trench earthquakesʺ) among fire prevention properties pre‐scribed in Article 1‐2, paragraph 3, item (i) of the Order and located in any of the areas desig‐
nated as areas for the advancement of countermeasures against earthquake disaster in relation
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to a subduction zone earthquake around the Japan Trench and Chishima Trench pursuant to
the provision of Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Act on Special Measures Concerning Advance‐
ment of Countermeasures against Earthquake Disaster in Relation to Subduction Zone Earth‐quakes Around Japan Trench and Chishima Trench (Act No. 27 of 2004) [referred to as ʺareas
for advancementʺ in the following paragraph and Article 4, paragraph (6)] shall specify the fol‐lowing matters in the fire defense plan set forth in paragraph (1).
(i)
Matters concerning the securing of smooth evacuation from tsunami caused by subduc‐tion zone earthquakes around the Japan Trench and Chishima Trench(ii)
Matters concerning the implementation of disaster prevention drills pertaining to sub‐duction zone earthquakes around the Japan Trench and Chishima Trench(iii)
Matters concerning education and publicity necessary to prevent the occurrence of or
reduce the damage caused by subduction zone earthquakes around the Japan Trench
and Chishima Trench(9) The fire protection managers of the facilities set forth in the preceding paragraph and actual‐
ly located in an area for advancement at the time of designation of the area as an area for ad‐vancement shall specify the matters listed in each of the items of the preceding paragraph in
the fire defense plan set forth in paragraph (1) within 6 months of the date of the said desig‐
nation.
(10) The fire protection managers of fire prevention properties listed in row (1) through row (4),row (5)‐(a), row (6), row (9)‐(a), row (16)‐(a) or row (16‐2) of Appended Table 1 of the Ordershall conduct the fire extinguishing drills and evacuation drills set forth in Article 3‐2, para‐graph (2) of the Order twice or more a year.
(11) When the fire protection managers set forth in the preceding paragraph intend to implement
the fire extinguishing drills and evacuation drills set forth in the said paragraph, they shallinform a fire department to that effect.
(Notification of Appointment or Dismissal of Fire Protection Manager)
Article 3‐2
Notification of the appointment or dismissal of a fire protection manager pursu‐
ant to the provision of Article 8, paragraph (2) of the Act shall be a written notice using Ap‐
pended Form 1‐2‐2.
(2) The notification form set forth in the preceding paragraph shall be accompanied by a docu‐
ment certifying the qualification of a fire protection manager in the case of notification of
appointment.
(Requirements to Qualify as a Fire Prevention Management Supervisor)
Article 3‐3
The requirements to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Af‐
fairs and Communications set forth in Article 4 of the Order shall be those requirements
listed in each of the following items.
(i)
Of the authority vested in persons holding the title to manage a fire prevention proper‐
ty for which operations necessary for the fire prevention management of the entire fire
prevention property are conducted, the authority necessary for the execution of thenecessary operations for fire prevention management of the entire fire prevention prop‐
erty in question shall have been granted to a fire prevention management supervisor by
the said persons.
(ii)
A fire prevention management supervisor shall have been explained the contents of theoperations necessary for the fire prevention management of the entire fire prevention
property by persons holding the title to manage the said fire prevention property forwhich operations necessary for the fire prevention management of the entire fire pre‐vention property are conducted and shall have sufficient knowledge of the said con‐tents.
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A fire prevention management supervisor shall have been explained the location, struc‐ture and situation of equipment and other matters necessary for the fire prevention
management of the entire fire prevention property by persons holding the title tomanage the said fire prevention property for which operations for the fire prevention
management of the entire fire prevention property are conducted and shall have suffi‐
cient knowledge of the said matters.

(Fire Defense Plan Pertaining to Fire Prevention Management for an Entire Fire Prevention
Property)
Article 4
A fire prevention management supervisor shall, in correspondence with the lo‐
cation, structure, situation of equipment and status of use of a fire prevention property andpursuant to the provision of Article 4‐2 paragraph (1) of the Order, prepare a fire defense
plan pertaining to the fire prevention management of the entire fire prevention property inquestion regarding the matters listed in each of the following items and shall notify thecompetent fire chief or fire station chief to that effect using Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐2 upon
confirmation of the plan by persons holding the title to manage the said fire prevention
property. The same shall apply when it is intended to change the fire defense plan pertain‐
ing to the fire prevention management of the entire fire prevention property in question.
(i)
Matters concerning the extent of the title held by a person to manage the fire prevention
property.
(ii)
In the case of a fire prevention property where part of the necessary operations for thefire prevention management of the entire fire prevention property is entrusted to a per‐son other than a person concerned with the said fire prevention property or a person
employed by the person concerned (including persons concerned with part of the said
fire prevention property or persons employed by the said person concerned), the nameand address of the entrustee for the necessary operations for the fire prevention man‐agement of the entire fire prevention property in question and matters concerning theextent and method of the necessary operations for the fire prevention management of
the entire fire prevention property to be conducted by the said entrustee.
(iii)
Matters concerning the periodic implementation of drills for fire extinguishing, report‐
ing and evacuation based on the fire defense plan for the entire fire prevention property
and other types of necessary drills for the fire prevention management of the entire fire
prevention property.
(iv)
Matters concerning the maintenance of and guide signs for corridors, staircases, escapeexits, safety compartments, smoke‐proof compartments and other escape facilities.
(v)
Matters concerning fire extinguishing activities, reporting and liaising and escorting forevacuation in the case of a fire, earthquake or another disaster.
(vi)
Matters concerning the provision of the necessary information on the structure, etc. of
the fire prevention property to a firefighting team at the time of a fire and guidance fora firefighting team.
(vii)
In addition to what is prescribed in each of the preceding items, matters necessary forthe fire prevention management of the entire property for fire prevention measures.
(2) A fire prevention management supervisor of facilities prescribed in Article 4, item (i), item (ii),item (xiii), item (xiv) and item (xxiii) of the Order for Enforcement of the Act on Special
Measures Concerning Countermeasures for Large‐Scale Earthquakes [excluding those man‐aged by persons prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act on Special Measures Concern‐
ing Countermeasures for Large‐Scale Earthquakes] of fire prevention properties prescribed in
Article 8‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act which are located in areas for intensified countermeasures
shall specify the matters listed in each item of Article 3, paragraph (4) in the fire defense planfor the entire fire prevention property set forth in the preceding paragraph.
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 4~4‐2‐2)(3) The provision of Article 3, paragraph (5) shall apply mutatis mutandis in the case referred toin the preceding paragraph.
(4) A fire prevention management supervisor of facilities prescribed in Article 3, item (i), item(ii), item (xiii), item (xiv) and item (xxiv) of the Order for Enforcement of the Act on Special
Measures Concerning Advancement of Countermeasures against Disasters of Nankai
Trough Earthquakes [excluding those managed by persons prescribed in Article 6, para‐graph (1) of the Act on Special Measures Concerning Advancement of Countermeasuresagainst Disasters of Nankai Trough Earthquakes and limited to those managed by persons
to be specified in the Basic Plan for Advancement of Countermeasures against Disasters ofNankai Trough Earthquakes prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (1) of the said act as persons
to make countermeasures against earthquakes pertaining to tsunami which may be caused
by Nankai Trough earthquakes] of fire prevention properties prescribed in Article 8‐2, para‐graph (1) of the Act and located in areas for advancement shall specify the matters listed ineach item of Article 3, paragraph (6) in the fire defense plan for the entire fire prevention
property set forth in the paragraph (1).
(5) The provision of Article 3, paragraph (7) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred toin the preceding paragraph.
(6) A fire prevention management supervisor of facilities prescribed in Article 3, item (i), item(ii), item (xiii), item (xiv) and item (xxiv) of the Order for Enforcement of the Act on Special
Measures Concerning Advancement of Countermeasures against Earthquake Disaster in Re‐
lation to Subduction Zone Earthquakes Around Japan Trench and Chishima Trench [exclud‐ing those managed by persons prescribed in Article 6, paragraph 1 of the Act on Special
Measures Concerning Advancement of Countermeasures against Earthquake Disaster in Re‐
lation to Subduction Zone Earthquakes Around Japan Trench and Chishima Trench and lim‐
ited to those managed by persons to be specified in the Basic Plan for Advancement of Coun‐termeasures against Earthquake Disaster in Relation to Subduction Zone Earthquakes
Around Japan Trench and Chishima Trench prescribed in Article 5, paragraph (1) of the said
act as persons to make countermeasures against earthquakes pertaining to tsunami which
may be caused by subduction zone earthquakes around the Japan Trench and Chishima
Trench] of fire prevention properties prescribed in Article 8‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act andlocated in areas for advancement shall specify the matters listed in each item of Article 3,
paragraph (8) in the fire defense plan for the entire fire prevention property set forth in theparagraph (1).
(7) The provision of Article 3, paragraph (9) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the case referred toin the preceding paragraph.
(Notification of Appointment or Dismissal of a Fire Prevention Management Supervisor)
Article 4‐2
The notification of the appointment or dismissal of a fire prevention manage‐
ment supervisor pursuant to the provision of Article 8‐2 paragraph (4) of the Act shall be a
written notice using Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐2‐2.
(2) The notification set forth in the preceding paragraph shall be accompanied by a document
certifying the qualifications of a fire prevention management supervisor in the case of thenotification of appointment.
(Effective Opening for Evacuation)
Article 4‐2‐2
An effective opening for evacuation to be specified by an ordinance of the Minis‐try of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 4‐2‐2, item (ii) of the Orderand Article 25, paragraph (1), item (v) of the Order shall be an opening in which a circle witha diameter of 1 meter or more can be inscribed or an opening of which the width and heightare 75 centimeters or more and 1.2 meters or more respectively.
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 4‐2‐2~4‐2‐4)(2) The opening set forth in the preceding paragraph shall conform to each of the following
items.
(i)
The height from the floor level of the lower end of the opening shall be 15 centimetersor less.
(ii)
The opening shall not have a grill or any other structure which prevents easy escape.
(iii)
The opening shall always be maintained in good condition for opening.
(Case of Effective Structure for Evacuation)
Article 4‐2‐3A case of an effective structure for evacuation to be specified by an ordinance ofthe Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 4‐2‐2, item (ii) of theOrder, Article 21, paragraph (1), item (vii) of the Order, Article 35, paragraph (1), item (iv) of
the Order and Article 36, paragraph (2), item (iii) of the Order shall be escape staircases (lim‐ited to those which are located indoors and which have a part to be specified by the Com‐missioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency) or special escape staircases set forthin Article 123 and Article 124 of the Order for Enforcement of the Building Standards Act(cabinet Order No. 338 of 1950).
(Checking of and Reporting on Fire Prevention Property)
Article 4‐2‐4Checking pursuant to the provision of Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act
shall be conducted once a year.
(2) The person who has the title to manage a fire prevention property set forth in Article 8‐2‐2,
paragraph (1) of the Act shall record the results of checking which was conducted pursuant
to the provision of the preceding paragraph in the fire prevention management register(meaning a book filing those listed in each of the following items) and shall preserve the said
register.
(i)
Copy of the certificate of training completion of the Class A fire prevention manage‐
ment refresher training sessions set forth in Article 2‐3, paragraph (5)(i‐2)
Copies of documents pertaining to the notification set forth in Article 3, paragraph (1),Article 3‐2, paragraph (1), Article 4, paragraph (1), Article 4‐2, paragraph (1) and Article
8‐2‐5, paragraph (2) of the Act(ii)
Copy of the report set forth in the following paragraph(iii)
Copy of the application form set forth in Article 4‐2‐8, paragraph (2)(iv)
Notice set forth in Article 4‐2‐8, paragraph (5) or paragraph (6)(v)
Copies of the documents pertaining to the notification set forth in Article 31‐3, para‐graph (1)(vi)
Certificate for inspection completion set forth in Article 31‐3, paragraph (4)(vii)
Copy of the report set forth in Article 31‐6, paragraph (3)(viii) Documents stating the status listed in the following (a) through (i) which are to bechecked based on the fire defense plan pertaining to fire prevention management(a) Status of voluntary inspection for fire prevention with regard to a fire prevention prop‐
erty(b) Status of the checking and improvement of fire defense equipment, etc. or special fire
defense equipment, etc.
(c) Status of the maintenance of escape facilities(d) Status of the maintenance of structure for fire prevention(e) Status of compliance with the authorized capacity and other matters for rationalizationof the capacity(f) Status of education necessary for fire prevention management(g) Status of drills for fire extinguishing activities, reporting and evacuation and othertypes of necessary drills for fire prevention management
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 4‐2‐4)(h) Status of supervision of the use or handling of fire, including the attendance of the fire
protection manager or his/her assistant at a fire prevention property, which is underwork for extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodeling(i) Status of disaster prevention drills, education and publicity pertaining to large‐scale
earthquakes (limited to the facilities prescribed in Article 4, item (i), item (ii), item (xiii),
item (xiv) and item (xxiii) of the Order for Enforcement of the Act on Special Measures
Concerning Countermeasures for Large‐Scale Earthquakes (excluding those managed
by the persons prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act on Special Measures
Concerning Countermeasures for Large‐Scale Earthquakes) of fire prevention proper‐
ties prescribed in Article 1‐2, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Order and located in an areafor intensified countermeasures)(ix)
List of the history of construction work and improvement work, etc. of fire defense
equipment, etc. or special fire defense equipment, etc.
(x)
In addition to what is listed in each of the preceding items, documents necessary for fire
prevention management(3) The form of the report pertaining to the results of checking pursuant to the provision of Ar‐
ticle 8‐2‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act shall be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire andDisaster Management Agency.
(4) The qualified inspector of a fire prevention property prescribed in Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph(1) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as ʺqualified inspector of a fire prevention propertyʺ)shall be a person who falls under any of the following items , who has completed a course of
training sessions to learn the necessary knowledge and skills for the checking of a fire pre‐vention property conducted by a juridical person registered by the Minister of Internal Af‐
fairs and Communications (hereinafter referred to as a ʺregistered training bodyʺ in this Ar‐
ticle and the following article) and who has obtained a document certifying the acquisitionof knowledge and skills necessary for the checking of a fire prevention property which is is‐sued by the said registered training body (referred to as a ʺlicenseʺ in the following para‐graph and paragraph (2) of the following article).
(i)
A person who is a fire defense equipment technician prescribed in Article 17‐6 of the
Act and who has 3 or more years practical experience of the construction work, im‐provement work or checking of fire defense equipment, etc. or special fire defense
equipment, etc.
(ii)
A person who is a qualified inspector of fire defense equipment prescribed in Article
31‐6, paragraph (6) and who has 3 or more years’ practical experience of the checking offire defense equipment, etc. or special fire defense equipment, etc.
(iii)
A person who is a fire protection manager prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (1) of the
Act and who has 3 or more years’ practical experience as a fire protection manager(iii‐2) A person who has completed a course of Class A fire prevention management training
sessions prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (i)‐(a) of the Order or Class B fire
prevention management training sessions prescribed in item (2)‐(a) of the said para‐graph and who has 5 or more years practical experience of the operations necessary forfire prevention management (excluding a person listed in the preceding item)(iv)
A person who has passed the building standard compliance inspector examination pre‐scribed in Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Building Standards Act and who has 2 or more
years practical experience as a building official or a qualified building certification in‐spector(v)
A person who is a qualified special building surveyor prescribed in Article 4‐20, para‐graph (1) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Building Standards Act (Ordinanceof the Ministry of Construction No. 40 of 1950) and who has 5 or more years practicalexperience of the surveying of special buildings, etc.
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A person who is a qualified building equipment inspector prescribed in Article 4‐20,
paragraph (3) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Building Standards Act and who
has 5 or more years practical experience of the inspection of building equipment(vii)
A person who is qualified as a first class architect prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2)of the Architect Act (Act No. 202 of 1950) or a second class architect prescribed in para‐graph (3) of the said article and who has 5 or more years practical experience of design‐
ing buildings or supervising construction work or providing guidance on buildingwork(viii) A person who is a building equipment engineer prescribed in Article 17‐18 of the Ordi‐nance for Enforcement of the Architect Act (Ordinance of the Ministry of Construction
No. 38 of 1950) and who has 5 or more years’ practical experience as a building equip‐
ment engineer(ix)
A person who is a fire defense official of a municipality and who has 1 or more years
practical experience of operations concerning fire prevention(x)
A person who is a fire defense official of a municipality and who has 5 or more years
practical experience as a fire defense official (excluding those listed in the preceding item)(xi)
A person who is a fire corps volunteer of a municipality and who has 8 or more years
practical experience as a fire corps volunteer(xii)
A person who is an official of a specified administrative agency prescribed in Article 2,
item (xxxiii) of the Building Standards Act and who has 5 or more years practical expe‐
rience of operations concerning building administration (limited to those concerning
fire prevention)(xiii) A person who is found by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management
Agency to have knowledge and skills equal or superior to those of a person listed ineach of the preceding items(5) A qualified inspector of a fire prevention property shall lose his/her qualification when
he/she falls under any of the following items.
(i)When he/she becomes an adult ward or person under curatorship(ii)
When he/she is sentenced to punishment by imprisonment or graver(iii)
When he/she is sentenced to punishment by fine for violation of the Act(iv)
When he/she is found not to have properly conducted the checking of the matters nec‐
essary for fire prevention for a fire prevention property(v)
When he/she is found to have falsified his/her qualifications or practical experience, etc.
(vi)
When he/she has failed to complete the training sessions conducted by a registeredtraining body at intervals specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Man‐
agement Agency and to obtain a license issued by the said registered training body.
(Registered Training Body Pertaining to Training Sessions on Checking of Fire Prevention
Property)
Article 4‐2‐5Registration by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications pursuant to
the provision of paragraph (4) of the preceding article shall be made on application by a ju‐
ridical person intending to conduct the training sessions set forth in the said paragraph.
(2) The provisions of Article 1‐4, paragraph (2) through paragraph (7) shall apply mutatis mu‐tandis to the application set forth in the preceding paragraph and the provisions of para‐graph (8) through paragraph (22) of the said article shall apply mutatis mutandis to juridical
persons who are registered pursuant to the provision of the preceding paragraph. In thiscase, the phrase ʺmethod to issue a certificate of training completion using Appended Form1ʺ in paragraph (3), item (iii)‐(b) of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺmeth‐
od to issue and collect the licenseʺ, the phrase ʺthe standards pertaining to training sessions
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 4‐2‐5~4‐2‐6)by ʺthe standards pertaining to training sessions to be specified by the Commissioner of theFire and Disaster Management Agencyʺ, the phrase ʺother matters which are necessary forthe implementation of training operationsʺ in paragraph (12), item (viii) of the said article
shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺmatters concerning the procedure to conduct necessary
measures in the case where a qualified inspector of a fire prevention property has lost
his/her qualification and other matters necessary for the implementation of training opera‐
tionsʺ and the phrases ʺsix years from the date when the training sessions took placeʺ, ʺthecertificate of training completion using Appended Form 1ʺ and ʺthe certificate of training
completion prescribed in the preceding itemʺ in paragraph (16) of the said article shall bedeemed to be replaced by ʺsix years from the date of issue of the licenseʺ, ʺthe licenseʺ andʺthe license set forth in the preceding itemʺ respectively.
(Checking Standards for Fire Prevention Property)
Article 4‐2‐6
The standards to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act shall be those listed
in each of the following items.
(i)
The notifications set forth in Article 3, paragraph (1) and Article 3‐2, paragraph (1) havebeen made.
(i‐2)
In the case of a fire prevention property prescribed in Article 4‐2‐4 of the Order, the noti‐
fication set forth in Article 8‐2‐5, paragraph (2) of the Act has been made.
(ii)
The matters specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agen‐cy are properly conducted based on the fire defense plan pertaining to fire prevention
management.
(iii)
In the case of those designated by a fire chief or fire station chief among high‐rise build‐ings prescribed in Article 8‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act or fire prevention properties pre‐scribed in Article 3‐3 of the Order which are subject to management under separate ti‐tles or underground malls which are designated by a fire chief or fire station chief
among underground malls prescribed in Article 8‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act which are
subject to management under separate titles, the matters specified by the Commissionerof the Fire and Disaster Management Agency are properly conducted.
(iv)
The facilities necessary for evacuation and fire doors prescribed in Article 8‐2‐4 of the
Act are properly managed.
(v)
A label is affixed in accordance with the provisions of Article 8‐3, paragraph (2), Para‐graph (3) and paragraph (5) of the Act to goods under the flame retardancy require‐ment which are used in a high‐rise building or underground mall prescribed in Article
8‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act or fire prevention properties prescribed in Article 4‐3, par‐agraph (1) and paragraph (2) of the Order.
(vi)
In the case of the storage or handling of compressed acetylene gas, liquefied petroleum
gas or any other substance which is likely to seriously hinder fire prevention or fire ex‐tinguishing activities and is prescribed in Article 1‐10, paragraph (1) of the Cabinet Or‐
der Concerning the Control of Hazardous Materials (Cabinet Order No. 306 of 1959)(excluding the case prescribed in a the proviso of Article 9‐3, paragraph (1) of the Act),
notification to that effect has been made.
(vii)
Fire defense equipment, etc. or special fire defense equipment, etc. has been installed inaccordance with the provisions of Article 17, paragraph (1) and paragraph (3) of theAct, Article 17‐2‐5 of the Act and Article 17‐3 of the Act and orders based on these pro‐visions as specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Defense Management Agency.
(viii) Notification has been made and inspection has been conducted based on the provisionof Article 17‐3‐2 of the Act.
(ix)
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municipal mayor concerning the matters prescribed in the Act or orders based on the
Act have been satisfied.
(2) With regard to the following fire prevention properties, which are fire prevention properties
prescribed in Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act, or parts thereof, no provisions of thepreceding paragraph other than the provisions of item (i) through item (iii) shall apply.
(i)Among individual fire prevention properties which are deemed to constitute a single
fire prevention property pursuant to the provision of Article 2 of the order, those which
do not have a part used for the intended purposes of a fire prevention property listed inAppended Table 1, row (1) through row (4), row (5)‐(a), row (6) or row (9)‐(a) of the
Order
(ii)
In the case of compartmentation by walls or floor of a fireproof construction without
openings (fireproof construction prescribed in Article 2, item (vii) of the BuildingStandards Act; the same shall apply hereinafter) and when parts compartmented in thismanner are not used for the intended purpose of a fire prevention property listed inAppended Table 1, row (1) through row (4), row (5)‐(a), row (6) or row (9)‐(a) of theOrder, the said compartmented parts(Checking Label for Fire Prevention Property)
Article 4‐2‐7
The label set forth in Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph (2) of the Act shall not be affixed in
the case where a fire prevention property set forth in paragraph (1) of the said article does
not satisfy the requirement listed in each of the following items.
(i)
Checking has been conducted in accordance with the provision of Article 4‐2‐4, para‐graph (1).
(ii)
The property in question conforms to the standards listed in paragraph (1) of the pre‐ceding article (in the case of the provision of paragraph (2) of the said article being ap‐
plied, the standards listed in paragraph (1), item (i) through item (iii) of the said article;
the same shall apply in the following article).
(2) The label set forth in Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph (2) of the Act shall use the form specified inAppended Table 1 and shall be affixed in an easily visible spot of a fire prevention property.
(3) The matters to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Commu‐
nications set forth in Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph (2) of the Act shall be those listed in each of thefollowing items.
(i)Date one year after the day when the checking was conducted(ii)
Name of the person who holds the title set forth in Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph (1) of the
Act
(iii)
Name of the qualified inspector of a fire prevention property who conducted the check‐ing and other matters to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster
Management Agency(Special Provisions for the Checking of Fire Prevention Property)
Article 4‐2‐8
The standards to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Act shall satisfy
the requirement listed in each of the following items in the inspection by a fire chief or firestation chief prescribed in paragraph (2) of the said article.
(i)
The standards in question conform to the standards prescribed in Article 4‐2‐6, para‐graph (1).
(ii)
In addition to what is listed in the preceding item, fire defense equipment, etc. or spe‐cial fire defense equipment, etc. have been installed or maintained in accordance withthe technical standards for the equipment or an equipment installation and mainte‐
nance plan prescribed in Article 17, paragraph (3) of the Act.
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(iii)
(iv)

The provision of Article 17‐3‐3 of the Act has been observed.
In addition to what is listed in each of the preceding items, the standards in question
conform to the standards to be specified by a municipal mayor concerning the mattersprescribed in the Act or orders based on the Act.
(2) An application pursuant to the provision of Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (2) of the Act shall bemade using the application form in Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐2‐3.
(3) The matters to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Commu‐
nications set forth in Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (2) of the Act shall be those listed in each of thefollowing items.
(i)Date of commencement of the management of fire prevention property(ii)
In addition to what is listed in the previous item, matters to be specified by a municipal
mayor(4) With regard to the matter set forth in item (i) of the preceding paragraph, a document which
can confirm the said matter shall be attached.
(5) A notice on the decision to grant certification pursuant to the provision of Article 8‐2‐3, par‐agraph (3) of the Act shall state the date when the said certification becomes effective.
(6) When a decision is made not to grant certification pursuant to the provision of Article 8‐2‐3,
paragraph (3), a notice stating the reason to that effect shall be given to the applicant set
forth in paragraph (2) of the said article without delay.
(7) The notification pursuant to the provision of Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (5) of the Act shall bemade using Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐3.
(Label for Certification Pursuant to Special Provisions for Checking of Fire Prevention Property)
Article 4‐2‐9The label set forth in Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (7) of the Act shall use the form
specified in Appended Table 1‐2 and shall be affixed in an easily visible spot of a fire preven‐tion property.
(2) The matters to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Commu‐
nications set forth in Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (7) of the Act shall be those listed in each of thefollowing items.
(i)Date when the certification loses its effect pursuant to the provision of Article 8‐2‐3,
paragraph (4), item (i) of the Act (excluding the parenthetic text)(ii)
Name of the person who holds the title set forth in Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (1) of the Act(iii)
Name of the fire defense headquarters or fire station to which the fire chief or fire sta‐tion chief who granted the certification belongs(Matters to be Specified Concerning Operations of Fire Defense Organization for Self‐
Protection in the Fire Defense Plan)
Article 4‐2‐10 A fire protection manager pertaining to a fire prevention property set forth in
Article 4‐2‐4 of the Order shall roughly specify the matters listed in each of the following
items concerning the operations of a fire defense organization for self‐protection in the fire
defense plan pertaining to fire prevention management pursuant to the provision of Article
4‐2‐6 of the Order.
(i)
Matters concerning the procedure for activities pertaining to fire extinguishing activi‐
ties in the early stages of a fire, reporting to the fire department, escorting of those in abuilding for evacuation and other operations conducted by a fire defense organization
for self‐protection as necessary operations to reduce the damage by a fire(ii)
Matters concerning the education and training of the staff of a fire defense organization
for self‐protection(iii)
Other matters necessary for the operations of a fire defense organization for self‐
protection
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 4‐2‐10~4‐2‐12)(2) When the persons who hold the title to manage a fire prevention property set forth in Article
4‐2‐4 of the Order (in the case of a fire prevention property listed in item (ii) of the said arti‐cle, limited to those persons who hold the title for the parts used for the intended purpose of
a subject fire prevention property for the establishment of a fire defense organization forself‐protection [meaning a subject fire prevention property for the establishment of a fire de‐fense organization for self‐protection prescribed in item (i) of the said article; the same shallapply hereinafter)] intend to jointly set up a fire defense organization for self‐protection
pursuant to the provision of Article 4‐2‐5, paragraph (2) of the Order, the fire defense man‐agers pertaining to the said fire prevention property shall roughly specify the matters listed
under each of the following items in the fire defense plan pertaining to fire prevention man‐agement in addition to the matters listed in the preceding paragraph.
(i)
Matters concerning the setting up and administration of a council concerning a fire de‐fense organization for self‐protection(ii)
Matters concerning the appointment of a supervisor of a fire defense organization forself‐protection(iii)
Matters concerning the scope of fire prevention properties which are subject to the op‐
erations of a fire defense organization for self‐protection(iv)
Other matters necessary for the administration of a fire defense organization for self‐
protection(3) When an internal body is to be set up to perform segregated operations of a fire defense or‐
ganization for self‐protection, the necessary staff for the implementation of operations shallbe deployed to the said internal body along with a supervisor for the said internal body.
(4) Among the matters concerning the education of the staff of a fire defense organization forself‐protection listed in paragraph (1), item (ii), matters concerning those persons who su‐
pervise internal bodies set immediately below the supervisor to perform the segregated op‐
erations listed in each item of the following article shall be specified by the Commissioner of
the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(Staff Strength, etc. of Fire Defense Organization for Self‐Protection)
Article 4‐2‐11 A fire defense organization for self‐protection shall roughly deploy two or more
staff members for each type of operations specified in each of the following items.
(i)Operations concerning fire extinguishing activities at the early stage of a fire(ii)
Operations concerning the collection and transmission of information and monitoringof fire defense equipment, etc. and other equipment(iii)
Operations concerning the escorting of people in a building for evacuation(iv)
Operations concerning the rescue of and aid for people in a building(Registered Training Body Pertaining to Training Sessions Concerning Operations of Fire De‐
fense Organization for Self‐Protection)
Article 4‐2‐12 Registration by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications pursuant to
the provision of Article 4‐2‐8, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Order shall be made on receipt ofan application from a juridical person who intends to provide training sessions prescribed in
the said item.
(2) The provisions of Article 1‐4, paragraph (2) through paragraph (7) and the provisions ofparagraph (8) through paragraph (22) of the said article shall apply mutatis mutandis to theapplication prescribed in the preceding paragraph and to the juridical persons which havebeen registered pursuant to the provision of the preceding paragraph respectively. In thiscase, the phrase ʺArticle 4‐2‐2, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Orderʺ in paragraph (3), item (i)‐(a) of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺArticle 4‐2‐4 of the Orderʺ, thephrase ʺfire preventionʺ in (b) of the said item shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺtwo or
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more years of practical experience and disaster prevention management with regard to op‐
erations concerning fire preventionʺ, the phrase ʺAppended Form 1ʺ in item (iii) of the said
paragraph and paragraph (16), item (iv) of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by
ʺAppended Form 1‐2‐2‐3‐2ʺ and the phrase ʺstandards pertaining to training sessions speci‐
fied in Article 2‐3ʺ in paragraph (10) of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced byʺstandards pertaining to training sessions specified in Article 4‐2‐14ʺ.
(Person Qualified as Supervisor)
Article 4‐2‐13 A person listed in Article 4‐2‐8, paragraph (3), item (ii) of the Order shall fall un‐
der one of the following items.
(i)Fire defense personnel of a municipality with one or more years occupying a manageri‐
al or supervisory post(ii)
Fire corps volunteer with three or more years occupying a managerial or supervisory post(iii)
Person specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency as
being equivalent to those persons listed in the two preceding items(Training Sessions Concerning Operations of Fire Defense Organization for Self‐Protection)
Article 4‐2‐14 The training sessions concerning the operations of a fire defense organization forself‐protection prescribed in Article 4‐2‐8, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Order shall be train‐
ing sessions for those who have never undergone such training sessions (hereinafter referred
to as ʺfresh training sessions on fire defense operations for self‐protectionʺ in this Article)
and training sessions to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Manage‐
ment Agency for those who have completed the fresh training sessions on fire defense oper‐
ations for self‐protection after the said fresh training sessions (hereinafter referred to as ʺre‐fresher training sessions on fire defense operations for self‐protectionʺ in this Article).
(2) Fresh training sessions on fire defense operations for self‐protection shall be conducted forthe purpose of teaching knowledge and skills pertaining to the following matters and thehours of these training sessions shall be roughly 12 hours.
(i)Matters concerning general knowledge concerning fire prevention management anddisaster prevention management(ii)
Matters concerning the roles and responsibilities of a fire defense organization for self‐
protection, its supervisor and staff(iii)
Matters concerning knowledge concerning disaster prevention equipment, etc. andtraining on its handling(iv)
Matters concerning comprehensive drills pertaining to the response of the supervisorand staff of a fire defense organization for self‐protection at the time of a disaster(3) Refresher training sessions on fire defense operations for self‐protection shall be conducted
for the purpose of teaching knowledge and skills pertaining to the following matters and thehours of these training sessions shall be roughly 4 hours.
(i)Matters concerning the outline of revised systems concerning fire prevention manage‐
ment, disaster prevention management and fire defense equipment, etc.
(ii)
Matters concerning research on cases of disaster(iii)
Matters concerning comprehensive drills pertaining to the response of the supervisorand staff of a fire defense organization for self‐protection at the time of a disaster(4) When a prefectural governor, fire chief of a municipality with a fire defense headquarters
and fire station(s) or a juridical person registered by the Minister of Internal Affairs andCommunications pursuant to the provision of Article 4‐2‐8, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Or‐
der has conducted fresh training sessions on fire defense operations for self‐protection or re‐
fresher training sessions on fire defense operations for self‐protection, the said governor, fire
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Form 1‐2‐2‐3‐2 to those who have completed the course of the said training sessions.
(5) In addition to what is prescribed in each of the preceding paragraphs, details of the neces‐sary matters concerning the implementation of training sessions concerning the operationsof a fire defense organization for self‐protection shall be specified by the Commissioner of
the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(Notification of Establishment of Fire Defense Organization for Self‐Protection)
Article 4‐2‐15 The matters to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in Article 8‐2‐5, paragraph (2) of the Act shall be the following.
(i)Name and address of the person who holds the title to manage a subject fire prevention
property for the establishment of a fire defense organization for self‐protection (in thecase of a fire prevention property prescribed in Article 4‐2‐4, item (ii) of the Order, theperson who holds the title to manage a part used for the intended purpose of a subject
fire prevention property for the establishment of a fire defense organization for self‐
protection)(ii)
Location, name, intended purpose and gross area (in the case of a fire prevention prop‐
erty prescribed in Article 4‐2‐4, item (ii) of the Order, the total of the gross area andfloor area used for the intended purpose of a subject fire prevention property for the es‐tablishment of a fire defense organization for self‐protection) and number of floors (ex‐cluding the basement floor) of a subject fire prevention property for the establishmentof a fire defense organization for self‐protection(iii)
In the case of a subject fire prevention property for the establishment of a fire defense or‐
ganization for self‐protection which is subject to management under separate titles, extent
of the said titles with regard to the said subject fire prevention property for the establish‐
ment of a fire defense organization for self‐protection(iv)
Organization of an internal body of a fire defense organization for self‐protection anddeployment of staff of a fire defense organization for self‐protection(v)
Name and address of the supervisor(vi)
Equipment held by a fire defense organization for self‐protection(2) Notification of the establishment of a fire defense organization for self‐protection pursuant
to the provision of Article 8‐2‐5, paragraph (ii) of the Act shall be made using Appended
Form 1‐2‐2‐3‐3 as the notification form.
(3) The notification form set forth in the preceding paragraph shall be accompanied by a docu‐
ment certifying the qualification of the supervisor.
(Numerical Values of Standards for Flame Retardancy, etc.)
Article 4‐3Those to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in Article 4‐3, paragraph (1) of the Order shall be those other thanthose listed in each of the following items.
(i)
Buildings (excluding buildings used exclusively as residences in areas other than thecity planning area and those annexed thereto)(ii)
Platform sheds(iii)
Storage tanks(iv)
Production facilities for chemical products(v)
Structure similar to those listed in the two preceding items(2) Those to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions set forth in Article 4‐3, paragraph (3) of the Order (hereinafter referred to as ʺrugs,
etc.ʺ) shall be those listed in each of the following items.
(i)Rugs [meaning woven carpets (excluding hand‐woven dantsu carpets)](ii)
Mosen (meaning felt carpets)
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(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
(vii)

Tufted carpets, knitted carpets, hocked rugs, glued carpets and needle punch carpets
Mats
Artificial lawns
Synthetic resin floor sheets
In addition to those listed under each of the preceding items, those carpets excluding
carpets made of animal skin or fur, hand‐woven dantsu carpets made of wool and othersimilar items(3) The numerical values to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in each item of Article 4‐3, paragraph (4) of the Order shall be thefollowing.
(i)
Length of time set forth in article 4‐3, paragraph (4), item (i) of the Order: three seconds
for thin cloth (meaning cloth of which the mass per square meter is 450 grams or less;hereinafter the same shall apply in this paragraph and the following paragraph), fiveseconds for thick cloth (cloth other than thin cloth; hereinafter the same shall apply inthis paragraph and the following paragraph), 20 seconds for rugs, etc. and ten seconds
for plywood used for display and plywood used for large props on stage [hereinaftercollectively referred to as ʺplywoodʺ in this paragraph, the following paragraph andparagraph (6)](ii)
Length of time set forth in Article 4‐3, paragraph (4), item (ii) of the Order: five seconds
for thin cloth, 20 seconds for thick cloth and 30 seconds for plywood(iii)
Size of area set forth in Article 4‐3, paragraph (4), item (iii) of the Order: 30 square cen‐timeters for thin cloth, 40 square centimeters for thick cloth and 50 square centimeters
for plywood(iv)
Length set forth in Article 4‐3, paragraph (4), item (iv) of the Order: 10 centimeters forrugs, etc. and 20 centimeters for others(v)Frequency set forth in Article 4‐3, paragraph (4), item (v) of the Order: three times(4) The technical standards to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 4‐3, paragraph (5) of the Order pertaining to the af‐
ter‐flame time, after‐ember time, carbonized area and carbonized length of goods (excluding
rugs, etc. and plywood) shall be as follows.
(i)
The combustion test device shall consist of the combustion test box in Appended Fig. 1,
specimen support frame in Appended Fig. 2, electric spark ignition system in Append‐
ed Fig. 3 and micro burner in Appended Fig. 4 in the case of thin cloth or the Meckelburner in Appended Fig. 5 in the case of thick cloth.
(ii)
The fuel shall be Type 2 No. 4 liquefied petroleum gas set forth in the Japan Industrial
Standards (meaning the Japan Industrial Standard set forth in Article 17, paragraph (1)of the Industrial Standardization Act; the same shall apply hereinafter) K2240.
(iii)
The specimens shall be as specified in the following.
(a) Piece of cloth of 35 centimeters in length and 25 centimeters in width randomly cut
from a cloth of two square meters or more(b) In the case of a construction sheet or other for outdoor use, the specimen must havebeen immersed for thirty minutes in hot water with a temperature of 50C±2C prior
to its treatment set forth in (c).
(c) The specimen must have been left in a desiccator containing silica gel for at least twohours after being left for 24 hours in a thermostatic dryer with a temperature of 50C±
2C; provided, however, that in the case of those specimens which are unlikely to be af‐
fected by heat, the specimens for use may be those which have been left in a desiccator
containing silica gel for at least two hours after being left for one hour in a thermostatic
dryer with a temperature of 105C±2C.
(iv)
The measuring method shall be as specified in the following.
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 4‐3)(a) The specimen shall be firmly fixed to a specimen support frame; provided, however, thatin the case of the measuring of a carbonized length of a good having the nature of melting
in contact with a flame, a rectangular part of 263 millimeters in length and 158 millime‐ters in width of the specimen must be set against a rectangular area of 250 millimeters inlength and 150 millimeters in width inside the specimen support frame in a manner thatthe lengths and widths of these two rectangular areas correspond with each other.
(b) The length of the flame shall be 45 millimeters for a micro burner and 65 millimeters fora Meckel burner.
(c) The burner shall be placed so that the tip of the flame comes into contact with the cen‐tral under part of the specimen.
(d) The carbonized length shall be the maximum length of the carbonized area of the spec‐imen.
(e) Using three specimens, thin cloth specimens shall be heated for one minute and thickcloth specimens shall be heated for two minutes. In this case, with regard to a specimen
which catches fire during the heating process, the burner shall be removed from thetwo additional specimens three seconds after catching fire for thin cloth specimens andsix seconds after catching fire for thick cloth specimens.
(5) The technical standards to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 4‐3, paragraph (5) of the Order pertaining to the af‐
ter‐flame time and carbonized length shall be as specified in the following.
(i)
The combustion test device shall consist of the combustion test box in Appended Fig. 1,
the specimen hold‐down frame and calcium silicate board (meaning the calcium silicate
board set forth in Japan Industrial Standard A5430; the same shall apply hereinafter) in
Appended Fig. 2‐3, the electric spark ignition system in Appended Fig. 3 and the air‐mixed burner in Appended Fig. 6.
(ii)
The fuel shall be Type 2 No. 4 liquefied petroleum gas set for in Japan Industrial Stand‐ard K2240.
(iii)
The specimens shall be as specified in the following.
(a) Piece of 40 centimeters in length and 22 centimeters in width which is cut randomly
from a rug, etc. of one square meter or more(b) The specimen must have been left in a desiccator containing silica gel for at least twohours after being left for 24 hours in a thermostatic dryer with a temperature of 50C±
2C; provided, however, that in the case of a specimen which is unlikely to be affectedby heat among specimens of which the fibers making up the piles are 100% wool (in thecase of pile‐less specimens, those specimens of which the composing fibers are 100%wool), the specimen to be used may be that which has been left in a desiccator contain‐
ing silica gel for at least two hours after being left for one hour in a thermostatic dryer
with a temperature of 105C±2C.
(iv)
The measuring method shall be as specified in the following.
(a) The specimen shall be firmly fixed to the calcium silicate board using the specimen
hold‐down frame.
(b) The gas pressure shall be four kilopascals and the length of the flame shall be 24 milli‐meters.
(c) The burner shall be kept horizontal and its tip shall be detached by one millimeter fromthe surface of the specimen.
(d) Six specimens shall be heated for 30 seconds.
(6) The technical standards to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 4‐3, paragraph (5) of the Order pertaining to the af‐
ter‐flame time, after‐ember time and carbonized area of plywood shall be as specified in thefollowing.
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The combustion test device shall consist of the combustion test box in Appended Fig. 1,
the specimen support frame in Appended Fig. 2, the electric spark ignition system inAppended Fig. 3 and the Meckel burner in Appended Fig. 5.
(ii)
The fuel shall be Type 2 No. 4 liquefied petroleum gas set forth in Japan Industrial
Standard K2240.
(iii)
The specimens shall be as specified in the following.
(a) The specimen shall be 29 centimeters in length and 19 centimeters in width which is
randomly cut from plywood of 1.6 square meters or larger.
(b) The specimen must have been left in a desiccator containing silica gel for at least 24
hours after being left for 24 hours in a thermostatic dryer with a temperature of 40±
C5C.
(iv)
The measuring method shall be as specified in the following.
(a) The specimen shall be firmly fixed to the specimen support frame.
(b) The length of the flame shall be 65 millimeters.
(c) The burner shall be placed so that the tip of the flame comes into contact with the cen‐tral underpart of the specimen.
(d) Three specimens shall be heated for two minutes.
(7) The technical standards to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 4‐3, paragraph (5) of the Order pertaining to thenumber of contacts of the goods with the flame shall be as specified in the following.
(i)
The combustion test device shall consist of the combustion test box in Appended Fig. 1,
the electric spark ignition system in Appended Fig. 3, the micro burner in Appended
Fig. 4 and the specimen support coil in Appended Fig. 7.
(ii)
The specimen support coil shall be made of rigid stainless steel wire with a diameter of
0.5 millimeters conforming to Japan Industrial Standard G4309 and shall have an inside
diameter of ten millimeters, spacing of two millimeters between the wires and a lengthof 15 centimeters.
(iii)
The fuel shall be Type 2 No. 4 liquefied petroleum gas set forth in Japan Industrial
Standard K2240.
(iv)
The specimen shall be as specified in the following.
(a) The specimen shall be 10 centimeters in width and one gram in mass which is random‐ly cut from the remaining piece of cloth from which specimens were previously cut inaccordance with the provision of paragraph (4), item (iii)‐(a); provided, however, that in
the case of a specimen of 10 centimeters in width and 20 centimeters in length but lessthan one gram in mass, the specimen shall be one which has the said width and length.
(b) The specimen must have been treated in the same manner as that prescribed in para‐graph (4), item (iii)‐(b) and (c).
(v)
The testing method shall be as specified in the following.
(a) The specimen shall be rounded up to 10 centimeters in width and placed inside thespecimen support coil.
(b) The length of the flame shall be 45 millimeters.
(c) The burner shall be fixed so that the tip of the flame comes into contact with the lower
end of the specimen and heating shall continue until the specimen stops melting.
(d) Using five specimens, the heating process set forth in (c) shall be repeated until the
specimens are melted up to 9 centimeters from the lower end.
(Flame Retardant Label, etc.)
Article 4‐4
The label to be affixed to a flame retardant good pursuant to the provision of
Article 8‐3, paragraph (2) of the Act to indicate the flame retardancy of the said good (here‐
inafter referred to as ʺflame retardant labelʺ in this article and the following article) shall be
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affixed as specified in each of the following items.
(i)
The person who affixes a flame retardant label shall be a person registered by theCommissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(ii)
The fire retardant label shall use the form specified in Appended Table 1‐2‐2.
(iii)
The fire retardant label shall be positioned in an easily visible spot of each fire retardant
good using such method as stitching, pasting, tagging or other means.
(2) A person who intends to obtain the registration set forth in item (i) of the preceding para‐graph shall apply to the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency by at‐taching a document certifying conformity to the criteria set forth in paragraph (4) to the ap‐
plication form specified in Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐4.
(3) When the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency intends to conduct
the registration set forth in paragraph (1), item (i), he/she shall notify the fire chief who has
jurisdiction for the location of the person intending to obtain registration. In this case, thesaid fire chief may state his/her opinion on the said registration.
(4) The criteria for registration set forth in paragraph (1), item (i) shall be specified by the com‐missioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(5) When a person who is registered pursuant to the provision of paragraph (1), item (i) (here‐
inafter referred to as ʺregistered labelling personʺ in this paragraph and the following para‐graph) intends to change any of the matters stated in the application form set forth in para‐graph (2) or attached documents (including the document certifying that the application set
forth in paragraph (2) of the following article has been made), he/she shall notify the Com‐missioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency to that effect in advance; provided,
however, that this shall not apply to a minor change.
(6) When the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency finds that a regis‐
tered labelling person falls under any of the following items, he/she may rescind the said
registration.
(i)
When the said registered labelling person does not conform to the criteria for registra‐tion set forth in paragraph(ii)
When the said registered labelling person has obtained registration by wrongful means(iii)
When the said registered labelling person fails to properly attach the fire retardant label(7) When the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency rescinds the registra‐tion set forth in paragraph (1), item (i) or pursuant to the provision of the preceding para‐graph, he/she shall make a public notice to that effect.
(8) The designated label set forth in Article 8‐3, paragraph (3) of the Act shall be a label whichindicates the flame retardancy and which is designated by the Commissioner of the Fire andDisaster Management Agency as a label to be affixed to goods under the fire retardancy re‐quirement or materials thereof which have a fire retardancy equivalent to or higher than thefire retardancy standards prescribed in paragraph (1) of the said article.
(9) When a person concerned with a fire prevention property set forth in Article 8‐3, paragraph(1) of the Act has used a third party to treat goods to make them goods meeting the flame re‐tardancy requirement or to manufacture goods under the flame retardancy requirement pre‐scribed in paragraph (5) of the said article, he/she shall clearly indicate the matters listed ineach of the following items in an easily visible spot or shall make the person who has treatedthe said goods to provide the said flame retardancy or manufactured the said goods under
the flame retardancy requirement affix a flame retardant label.
(i)
Letters ʺTreated Goods for Flame Retardancyʺ or ʺGoods Made as Flame Retardant
Goodsʺ
(ii)
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 4‐5~4‐6)(Confirmation of Flame Retardancy)
Article 4‐5
When a registered labelling person has received confirmation of flame retardan‐cy for goods under the flame retardancy requirement or materials thereof of their flame re‐tardancy by a juridical person registered by the Commissioner of Fire and Disaster Man‐
agement Agency (hereinafter referred to as a ʺ registered confirmation bodyʺ), he/she shallstate the name of the said registered confirmation body on the flame retardant label to be af‐
fixed to the flame retardant goods pertaining to the said confirmation or state his/her own
name and his/her own confirmation of flame retardancy on the flame retardant label to beaffixed to flame retardant goods in the case where no confirmation by a registered confirma‐tion body has been made; provided, however, that this provision shall not prevent a regis‐
tered labelling person who has been confirmed by a registered confirmation body regarding
flame retardancy from stating his/her own name and his/her own confirmation of flame re‐tardancy in lieu of the name of the said registered confirmation body on the flame retardantlabel to be affixed to the flame retardant goods pertaining to the said confirmation.
(2) A person who intends to obtain the registration set forth in paragraph (1), item (i) of the pre‐ceding article may submit a document certifying his/her application to a registered confir‐
mation body for the confirmation set forth in the preceding paragraph in lieu of the docu‐
ment designated by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency among
the documents to be attached set forth in paragraph (2) of the said article in the case whereconfirmation by a registered confirmation body is to be sought for the purpose of affixing aflame retardant label to flame retardant goods.
(Registered Confirmation Body)
Article 4‐6
Registration by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency
pursuant to the provision of paragraph (1) of the preceding article (hereinafter simply re‐ferred to as ʺregistrationʺ in this article) shall be made on application by a juridical person
who intends to confirm that goods under the flame retardancy requirement or the materials
thereof possess flame retardancy (hereinafter simply referred to as ʺconfirmationʺ).
(2) The Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency shall register a juridical
person who has applied for registration pursuant to the provision of the preceding para‐graph (hereinafter referred to as ʺapplicant for registrationʺ in this paragraph) if the appli‐
cant satisfies the following requirements.
(i)
A person who falls under one of the following conducts operations and the number of
persons is two or more at each office which conducts operations of the confirmation(a) A person who has graduated from a university or college of technology set forth in the
School Education Act (Act No. 26 of 1947) by completing a major or program in indus‐
trial chemistry or applied chemistry and who has work experience of confirming theflame retardancy of goods under the flame retardancy requirement or the materials
thereof for a total of at least one year(b) A person who has knowledge and experience equivalent or superior to those of a per‐son listed in (a)(ii)
A juridical person who holds the machine, tool and other equipment listed in the fol‐lowing(a) Combustion test box(b) Specimen support frame(c) Specimen hold‐down frame(d) Calcium silicate board(e) Electric spark ignition system(f) Micro burner(g) Meckel burner
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 4‐6)(h) Air‐mixed burner(i) Specimen support coil(j) Desiccator(k) Thermostatic dryer(l) Washing machine(m) Dry cleaning machine(n) Dehydrator(o) Deliquoring machine(p) Dryer(iii)
The applicant for registration, as a person controlled by a business operator engaged in
the design, manufacture, processing, sale or display for sale of goods under the flame
retardancy requirement or the materials thereof to which the label set forth in Article 8‐3, paragraph (2) of the Act may be affixed pursuant to the provision of the said para‐graph (hereinafter simply referred to as ʺbusiness operatorʺ in this item and paragraphdoes not fall under any of the following(a) Where the applicant for registration is a stock company, the business operator is thecompanyʹs parent company [meaning a parent juridical person prescribed in Article
897, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act (Act No. 86 of 2005); the same shall apply inarticle 31‐5, paragraph (2), item (iii)‐(a)](b) More than half of the officers (in the case of a membership company (meaning a mem‐bership company prescribed in Article 575, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act), themembers executing the business) of the applicant for registration are officers or em‐
ployees of the business operator (including persons who were officers or employees ofthe business operator in the past two years)(c) The representative officer of the applicant for registration is an officer or employee ofthe business operator (including a person who was an officer or employee of the busi‐
ness operator in the past two years)(iv)
The applicant for registration conforms to the following criteria as required to properly
conduct the operations of confirmation.
(a) A manager shall be assigned to the department in charge of conducting the operationsof confirmation.
(b) A document has been prepared for management of the operations of confirmation andensuring the accuracy thereof.
(c) A specialist department or organization in charge of managing the operations of con‐firmation and ensuring the accuracy thereof shall be established in accordance with theentries in the document listed in (b).
(d) There is a system capable of fairly conducting the operations of confirmation for per‐sons throughout the country who wish to obtain confirmation.
(3) A registered confirmation body shall keep a book stating matters concerning the operationsof confirmation which are listed in the following and shall preserve it for 10 years from thedate of confirmation.
(i)Name and address of the person who has applied for confirmation (in the case of a ju‐
ridical person, name of the company and location of the principal office)(ii)
Date of receiving the application for confirmation(iii)
The registration number at the time of registration by the Commissioner of the Fire andDisaster Management Agency set forth in Article 4‐4, paragraph (1), item (i) of the per‐son who has applied for confirmation(iv)
Outline of the shape, structure, materials, ingredients and performance of the goods
under the flame retardancy requirements or the materials thereof(v)
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quirement or the materials thereof(vi)Name of the person who conducted the inspection set forth in the previous item
(vii)
Whether confirmed or not confirmed (including the reason(s) for no confirmation)(viii) Date of a notice of either confirmed or not confirmed(4) The provisions of Article 1‐4, paragraph (2) and paragraph (4) through paragraph (7) shallapply mutatis mutandis to the application set forth in paragraph (1) and the provisions ofparagraph (8) through paragraph (15) and paragraph (17) through paragraph (22) of the said
article shall apply mutatis mutandis to registered juridical persons. In this case, shall bedeemed to be replaced by ʺperson conducting the operations of confirmationʺ and ʺ outlinesof machines, tools and other equipment used for the operations of confirmation ʺrespective‐
ly, the phrase ʺlocation of the principal officeʺ in the said paragraph and paragraph (5) shallbe deemed to be replaced by ʺlocation of the principal office and goods under the flame re‐tardancy requirement and the materials thereof for which confirmation is to be conductedʺ,the phrase ʺparagraph (1) through paragraph (5)ʺ in paragraph (7) of the said article shall bedeemed to be replaced by ʺparagraph (2), paragraph (4) and paragraph (5) and Article 4‐6,
paragraph (1) and paragraph (2)ʺ, the phrase ʺat least once a yearʺ in paragraph (9) of thesaid article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺwithout delay when confirmation is request‐
ed except in the case where there is a justifiable reasonʺ, the phrase ʺstandards pertaining totraining sessions prescribed in Article 2‐3ʺ in paragraph (10) of the said article shall bedeemed to be replaced by ʺthe standards specified in Article 4‐3, paragraph (4) and para‐graph (5) of the Order and Article 4‐3, paragraph (3) through paragraph (7) and the stand‐ards for the washing‐proof performance pertaining to the flame retardancy to be specified
by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency set forth in Appendix
Table 1‐2‐2ʺ, the phrase ʺa person who intends to take training sessionsʺ in paragraph (15) of
the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺa business operatorʺ, the phrase ʺpara‐graph (3)ʺ in paragraph (17) and paragraph (21), item (i) of the said article shall be deemed
to be replaced by ʺArticle 4‐6, paragraph (2)ʺ and the phrase ʺparagraph (16) or paragraph(20)ʺ in paragraph (21), item (iii) of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺpara‐graph (20) or Article 4‐6, paragraph (3)ʺ.

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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 5)

CHAPTER 2 FIRE DEFENSE EQUIPMENT, ETC. OR SPECIAL FIRE DEFENSEEQUIPMENT, ETC.
Part 1

Designation of Intended Purpose of Fire Prevention Property(Designation of Intended Purpose of Fire Prevention Property)
Article 5
Those to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in Appended Table 1, row (2)‐(c) shall be those listed in each of
the following items.
(i)
A store of which the business is to primarily introduce a person of the opposite sex to aperson who seeks contact with an unacquainted person of the opposite sex to satisfy
his/her temporary sexual curiosity and of which the business consists of relaying a re‐quest for contact via a mechanical instrument relevant to information communicationfrom one party to another party who has been allowed to enter the said store using tel‐ecommunications equipment (including stores where one party is a person engaged in
the said business but excluding stores which run a business prescribed in Article 2, par‐agraph (9) of the Act Regulating Adult Entertainment Business, Etc. (Act No. 122 of
1948); hereinafter referred to as the ʺAdult Entertainment Actʺ)(ii)
A store which runs the business of setting up private rooms and providing the serviceof touching a customer in response to the sexual curiosity of the said customer (exclud‐ing those which run a business prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (6), item (ii) of the
Adult Entertainment Act)
(2) The stores to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communi‐
cations shall be as specified in the following.
(i)
A store of which the business is to provide the service of using the Internet or browsing
comic books in a private room (including similar facilities)(ii)
A store which runs a store‐based opposite sex introduction business by telephone pre‐scribed in Article 2, paragraph (9) of the Adult Entertainment Act(iii)
A performance hall prescribed in Article 2, item (i) of the Order for Enforcement of the
Adult Entertainment Act (Cabinet Order No. 319 of 1984) (limited to a store used for
performance where images of naked people are shown to incite the sexual curiosity ofcustomers)(3) Hospitals to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communi‐
cations in Appendix Table 1, row (6)‐(a)‐1. of the Order shall be hospitals with a regime
which falls under all of the following items.
(i)A regime where the number of doctors, nurses, administrative staff members and otherstaff members never falls below two when the number of beds is 26 or less or the number
calculated by adding one for every 23 additional beds if the number of beds exceeds 26.
(ii)
A regime where the number of doctors, nurses, administrative staff members and otherstaff members (excluding those on night duty) does not fall below two when the num‐
ber of beds is 60 or less or the number calculated by adding two for every 60 beds if thenumber of beds exceeds 60.
(4) The names of the clinical departments to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of In‐
ternal Affairs and Communications in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(a)‐1.‐i of the Order shallbe those listed in the following among clinical departments prescribed in Article 3‐2 of the
Cabinet Order for Enforcement of the Medical Care Act (Cabinet Order No. 326 of 1948).
(i)
Colorectal surgery; breast surgery; plastic surgery; cosmetic surgery; pediatrics; derma‐
tology; urology; obstetrics; ophthalmology; otolaryngology; gynecology

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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 5)(ii)Names which combine those listed in the preceding items with the matters specified in
Article 3‐2, paragraph (1), item (i)‐(c)‐1. through 4. of the Cabinet Order for Enforce‐
ment of the Medical Care Act.
(iii)
Dentistry(iv)
Names which combine dentistry with the matters specified in Article 3‐2, paragraph (1),item (ii)‐(b)‐1. and 2. of the Cabinet Order for Enforcement of the Medical Care Act.
(5) The categories to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Com‐
munications set forth in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(b)‐1 shall be the categories listed in Ar‐
ticle 1, paragraph (1), item (iii) through item (v) of the Ordinance for Examination by the
Certification Committee for Needed Long‐Term Care and the Judgement Criteria Pertaining
to the Certification, etc. of Needed Long‐Term care (Ordinance of the Ministry of Health No.
58 of 1999).
(6) The facilities to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Commu‐
nications set forth in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(b)‐1) shall be those listed in each of the fol‐lowing items.
(i)Facilities which mainly house persons with a state of difficulty in terms of evacuationprescribed in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(b)‐1 of the Order (hereinafter referred to as“persons who find evacuation difficult in the following item) and of which the busi‐
nesses offer care such as that for bathing, body waste elimination, meals, etc., functional
training, nursing, management of medical treatment and other medical care [excluding
those listed in (a) of the said row].
(ii)
Facilities which mainly accommodate persons who find evacuation difficult and ofwhich the businesses offer care such as that for bathing, body waste elimination, meals,
etc., functional training, nursing, management of medical treatment and other medicalcare [excluding those listed in (a) of the said row].
(7) The categories to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Commu‐
nications set forth in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(b)‐5 of the Order shall be the categories listed
in Article 1, item (v) through item (vii) of the Ordinance for Examination by a Municipal Ex‐
amination Committee and the Judgement Criteria Pertaining to the Categories of Assistancefor Persons with Disabilities (Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare).
(8) Other facilities to be prescribed by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(c)‐1 of the Order shall be those ofwhich the businesses offer case such as that for bathing, body waste elimination, meals, etc.,
functional training, nursing, management of medical treatment and other medical care [ex‐cluding those listed in (a) and (b)‐1] of the said row] for the elderly.
(9) Other facilities to be prescribed by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(c)‐3 of the Order shall be those ofwhich the businesses offer temporary child minding services or daycare services for infants
and toddlers.
(10) A vessel or vehicle to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in Appended Table 1, row (20) of the Order shall be a vessel orvehicle listed in each of the following items of vessels or vehicles prescribed in Article 2,paragraph (6) of the Act.
(i)
Any vessel of which the gross tonnage is five tons or more and which has a propulsion
engine(ii)
Any vehicle to which a fire extinguishing appliance must be installed pursuant to theprovision of the Railway Operations Act (Act No. 65 of 1900), the Tramways Act (ActNo. 76 of 1921) or the Road Transport Vehicle Act (Act No. 185 of 1951) or the provisionof an order based on any of these acts

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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 5‐2~6)Part 2

Technical Standards for Installation and Maintenance

Section 1

Standards for Fire Extinguishing Equipment(Floors with No Effective Openings for Evacuation or Fire Extinguishing Activities)
Article 5‐2
Floors with no effective openings for evacuation or fire extinguishing activities
to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications set
forth in Article 10, paragraph (1), item (v) of the Order shall be those other than a floor
where the total area of the openings in which a circle with a diameter of 50 centimeters ormore can be inscribed exceeds one‐thirtieth of the floor area of the said floor (hereinafter re‐ferred to as an ʺordinary floorʺ) for the 11th and higher floors or a floor other than an ordi‐
nary floor which has two or more openings in which a circle with a diameter of one meter orlarger can be inscribed or each of which has a width of at least 75 centimeters and a height ofat least 1.2 meters for the 10th and lower floors.
(2) The opening set forth in the preceding paragraph shall conform to each of the following
items (excluding item (ii) for openings on the 11th and higher floors).
(i)
The height from the floor surface and lower edge of an opening must not exceed 1.2 meters.
(ii)
An opening must face a road, a passageway with a width of 1.0 meters or more leading
to a road or another vacant space.
(iii)
An opening must not have latticework or any other structure which prevents evacua‐tion from inside and it can be opened or easily destroyed from outside to allow entry.
(iv)
An opening must be maintained in good condition to allow its opening.
(Installation of Fire Extinguishing Appliances Other Than Large Fire Extinguishers)
Article 6
In the case of a fire prevention property listed in each item of Article 10, para‐graph (1) of the Order (excluding vehicles listed in Article 5, paragraph (10), item (ii); hereaf‐
ter the same shall apply in this article through Article 8) or parts thereof, the number of fire
extinguishing appliances recognized as being suitable for fire extinguishing in buildings orother structures in Appended Table 2 of the Order (excluding large fire extinguishers andfire extinguishers for home use; hereinafter the same shall apply in this article through Arti‐cle 8 for large fire extinguishers and in this article through Article 10 for fire extinguishers
for home use) shall be installed in such a manner that the total of the unit capacity value ofsuch equipment (for fire extinguishers, the numerical value of the unit capacity measured by
the method specified in Article 3 or Article 4 of the Ordinance for Technical Standards forFire Extinguishers (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 27 of 1964); for water
buckets, the numerical value indicating the fire extinguishing capacity calculated using threebuckets with a capacity of 8 liters or more each as one unit; for water tanks, the numericalvalue indicating the fire extinguishing capacity calculated using a water tank with a capaci‐ty of 80 liters or more and with three or more buckets with a capacity of 8 liters or more eachfor their exclusive use for fire extinguishing as 1.5 units or a water tank with a capacity of
190 liters or more and with six or more buckets with a capacity of 8 liters or more each fortheir exclusive use for fire extinguishing as 2.5 units; for dry sand, the numerical value indi‐
cating the fire extinguishing capacity calculated using a mass of 50 liters or more accompa‐
nied by a shovel as 0.5 unit; for vermiculite or perlite, the numerical value indicating the fire
extinguishing capacity calculated using a mass of 160 liters or more accompanied by a shov‐el as one unit; the same shall apply hereinafter) shall be equivalent to or higher than the
numerical value [1 in the case of vessels listed in Article 5, paragraph (10), item (i)] calculat‐
ed by dividing the total area or floor area of the said fire prevention property or parts there‐of with the value of area specified in the following table.

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Category of Fire Prevention Property
Fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (1)‐(a), row (2), row(16‐2), row (16‐3) and row (17) of the OrderFire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (1)‐(b), row (3)through row (6), row (9) and row (12) through row (14) of the OrderFire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (7), row (8), row (10),row (11) and row (15)Area
50 square meters
100 square meters
200 square meters(2) For the application of the provision set forth in the preceding paragraph, each numericalvalue for the area in the table in the said paragraph shall be doubled for a fire prevention
property of which the main structural sections are of a fireproof construction and of which
the finishing of the parts (excluding moldings, window sills and other similar parts) of thewalls and ceiling (in the case of no ceiling, the roof) facing inwards uses flame‐resistive ma‐
terials (meaning flame‐resistive materials prescribed in Article 1, item (vi) of the Order for
Enforcement of the Building Standards Act) (the same shall apply hereinafter).
(3) Of the fire prevention properties prescribed in paragraph (1) or parts thereof, those storingor handling small quantity hazardous materials (of hazardous materials, those of which thequantities are one‐fifth or more of the designated numerical quantities prescribed in Article
1‐11 of the Cabinet Order for Control of Hazardous Materials but less than the designatednumerical quantities; the same shall apply hereinafter) or designated flammable goods(those goods listed in the name column of Appended Table 4 of the said Cabinet Order; thesame shall apply hereinafter) shall have fire extinguishing appliances which are prescribedas suitable for the extinguishing of fire for each type of hazardous material or designatedflammable good in Appended Table 2 of the Order installed so that the total figure of thenumerical values of their unit capacities exceeds the figure which is calculated by dividing
the numerical quantities of small quantity hazardous materials or designated materials to be
stored or handled at the said fire prevention properties by the relevant numerical quantities
set forth in the following table in addition to their being subject to the provisions of the two
preceding paragraphs.
Classification
Small quantity hazardous materials
Designated flammable goods

Quantity
Designated numerical quantity prescribed in Article 1‐11 of the
Cabinet Order for Control of Hazardous Materials
Fifty times the numerical quantity prescribed in Article 1‐12 of
the Cabinet Order for Control of Hazardous Materials(4) In the case where there is a transformer, distributing panel and other electrical equipment ina fire prevention property set forth in paragraph (1) or parts thereof, fire extinguishers rec‐ognized as being suitable for the extinguishing of a fire involving electrical equipment inAppended Table 2 of the Order, in addition to what is prescribed in the three preceding par‐agraphs, shall be installed at a rate of one such fire extinguisher per every 100 square metersor less of the floor area of the place in which the said electrical equipment is located.
(5) In the case where there is a forging shop, boiler room, drying room or other places where
fire is used in great quantity in a fire prevention property set forth in paragraph (1) or parts
thereof, fire extinguishing appliances recognized as being suitable for the extinguishing of afire in buildings or other structures in Appended Table 2 of the Order shall, in addition towhat is prescribed in the four preceding paragraphs, be installed so that the total figure of
the numerical unit capacity value of each equipment exceeds the value obtained by dividing
the floor area of the said place(s) by 25 square meters.

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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 6~8)(6) Each of the fire extinguishing appliances to be installed pursuant to the provisions of the five
preceding paragraphs shall be deployed on each floor of a fire prevention property so thatthe walking distance to a fire extinguishing appliance shall not exceed 20 meters from eachpart of a fire prevention property for those prescribed in paragraph (1) and paragraph (5),from each part of a place for the storage or handling of hazardous substances or designatedflammable goods for those prescribed in paragraph (3) or from each part of a place where
electrical equipment is installed for those prescribed in paragraph (4).
(7) In the case of a fire prevention property or parts thereof where the total figure of the numer‐
ical unit capacity value of each fire extinguishing appliance to be installed in accordancewith the provision of each of the preceding paragraphs is two or more, the total figure of thenumerical unit capacity value of each simplified fire extinguishing appliance shall not ex‐
ceed one‐half of the total figure of the numerical unit capacity value of each fire extinguish‐
er; provided, however, that this shall not apply when dry sand, dilated vermiculite or dilat‐
ed perlite is provided for peroxide of alkaline metal, iron powder, metal powder, magnesi‐um or anything containing any of these or any water‐suppressive substances.
(Installation of Large Fire Extinguishers)
Article 7
At any fire prevention property listed in each item of Article 10, paragraph (1) of
the Order or parts thereof where a designated flammable good is stored or handled in a quan‐tity of 500 times the specified quantity in Appended Table 4 of the Cabinet Order for Control
of Hazardous Substances, large fire extinguishers recognized as being suitable for the extin‐
guishing of a fire by the type of designated flammable good in Appended Table 2 of the Ordershall be installed on each floor of a fire prevention property so that the walking distance to oneof these large fire extinguishers from any part of the place where a designated flammablegood(s) is stored or handled shall not exceed 30 meters.
(2) In the case where large fire extinguishers have been installed in a fire prevention property
listed in each item of Article 10, paragraph (1) of the Order or parts thereof in accordancewith the technical standards specified in the preceding paragraph or an example of the said
technical standards, when the suitability of the said large fire extinguishers for the subject
goods is equal to the suitability of the fire extinguishing appliances to be installed pursuant
to the provisions of the preceding article, the total figure of the numerical unit capacity valueof each of the said fire extinguishing appliances may be reduced to one‐half of the total fig‐
ure of the numerical unit capacity values specified in the previous article for parts within theeffective ranges of the said large fire extinguishers.
(Reduction of the Number of Installed Fire Extinguishing Appliances)
Article 8
In the case where an indoor fire hydrant system or sprinkler system is installed
in a fire prevention property listed in each item of Article 10, paragraph (1) of the Order orparts thereof in accordance with the technical standards specified in Article 11 of the Orderor Article 12 of the Order or an example of the said technical standards, when the suitabilityof the said fire extinguishing system for the subject property or parts thereof is equal to thesuitability of the fire extinguishing appliances to be installed pursuant to the provision of
Article 6, paragraph (1), paragraph (2), paragraph (3), paragraph (4) or paragraph (5), the to‐tal figure of the numerical unit capacity value of each of the said fire extinguishing applianc‐es can be reduced by up to one‐third of the total figure of the numerical unit capacity value
specified in each of the said paragraphs for parts within the effective range of the said fire
extinguishing system.
(2) In the case where a water spray fire extinguishing system, foam fire extinguishing system,
inert gas fire extinguishing system, halon fire extinguishing system or dry chemical fire ex‐tinguishing system is installed in a fire prevention property listed in each item of Article 10,41

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 8~11)
paragraph (1) of the Order or parts thereof in accordance with the technical standards speci‐
fied in Article 13 of the Order, Article 14 of the Order, Article 15 of the Order, Article 16 of
the Order, Article 17 of the Order or Article 18 of the Order or an example of the said tech‐nical standards, when the suitability of the said fire extinguishing system for the subject
property or parts thereof is equal to the fire extinguishing appliances to be installed pursu‐
ant to the provision of Article 6, paragraph (3), paragraph (4) or paragraph (5), the total fig‐
ure of the numerical unit capacity value of each of the said fire extinguishing appliances canbe reduced by up to one‐third of the total figure of the numerical unit capacity value speci‐
fied in each of the said paragraphs for parts within the effective range of the said fire extin‐
guishing system.
(3) In the case of the two preceding paragraphs, when the suitability of the said fire extinguish‐
ing system for the subject property or parts thereof is equal to the suitability of large fire ex‐tinguishers to be installed pursuant to the provision of paragraph (1) of the preceding arti‐cle, the said large fire extinguishers may not be installed in parts within the effective rangeof the said fire extinguishing system.
(4) The provisions of paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) shall not apply to fire extinguishing ap‐
pliances to be installed on the 11th and higher floors of a fire prevention property.
(Details of the Standards Concerning Fire Extinguishing Appliances)
Article 9
The details of the technical standards concerning the installation and mainte‐
nance of fire extinguishing appliances shall be the following.
(i)
A fire extinguishing appliance shall be installed at a place where the height from thefloor surface does not exceed 1.5 meters.
(ii)
A fire extinguishing appliance shall be installed at a place where there is little risk of
the water or other fire extinguishing agent being frozen, degenerated or spouted; pro‐vided, however, that this shall not apply when an effective measure for protection has
been taken.
(iii)
A fire extinguisher shall be provided with a suitable measure designed to prevent itfrom overturning due to vibrations caused by an earthquake or another reason; provid‐ed, however, that this shall not apply to dry chemical fire extinguishers and other fire
extinguishers for which there is no risk of the leakage of the fire extinguishing agent
due to overturning.
(iv)
At places where fire extinguishing appliances are installed, a sign stating ʺfire extin‐
guisherʺ in the case of fire extinguishers, ʺfire extinguishing bucketʺ in the case of water
buckets, ʺfire cisternʺ in the case of fire cisterns, ʺfire sandʺ in the case of dry sand orʺfire vermiculiteʺ in the case of dilated vermiculite or dilated perlite shall be displayedin an easily visible place.
(Standards Concerning Fire Extinguishing Appliances Pertaining to Vehicles)
Article 10
The technical standards concerning the installation and maintenance of fire ex‐tinguishing appliances pertaining to vehicles listed in Article 5, paragraph (10), item (ii) shallbe those specified by the Railway Operations Act, the Tramways Act or the Road Transport
Vehicle Act or an order based on any of these acts.
(Halon Fire Extinguishers, Etc. Which Can be Installed in Underground Malls, Etc.)
Article 11
The halon to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in the proviso of Article 10, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Ordershall be bromotrifluoromethane.

42Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 11~12)(2) Basement floors, windowless floors and other places to be specified by an ordinance of the
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in the proviso of Article 10, para‐graph (2), item (i) of the Order shall be basement floors, windowless floors or rooms (mean‐
ing rooms prescribed in Article 2, item (iv) of the Building Standards Act; the same shall ap‐
ply hereinafter) where the area of an effective opening(s) for ventilation is one‐thirtieth orless of the floor area and the said floor area is 20 square meters or less.
(Standards for Indoor Fire Hydrant Systems Which Can be Operated by a Single Person)
Article 11‐2
The standards to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 11 paragraph (3) item (ii)‐(a)‐3. And (b)‐3. shall be
the following.
(i)
Hoses shall be shape retaining hoses prescribed in Article 2 item (iii) of the Ordinancefor Technical Specifications Pertaining to Fire Hoses (Ordinance of the Ministry of In‐
ternal Affairs and Communications No. 22 of 2013).
(ii)
Hoses shall be stored in a manner complying with the standards specified by theCommissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency to allow easy extension
and storage.
(Details of the Standards Concerning Indoor Fire Hydrant Systems)
Article 12
The details of the technical standards concerning the installation and mainte‐
nance of an indoor fire hydrant system (excluding those to be installed in accordance withthe technical standards listed in Article 11, paragraph (3), item (ii)‐(a) or (b) of the Order; thesame shall apply hereinafter in this paragraph) shall be the following.
(i)
The on‐off valve of an indoor hydrant shall be installed at a height of 1.5 meters or lessfrom the floor surface or mounted on the ceiling; provided, however, when it is mount‐
ed on the ceiling, the said on‐off valve shall be of the automatic type.
(i‐2)
Indoor hydrants and appliances required for water discharge of an indoor fire hydrant
system shall conform to the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fireand Disaster Management Agency.
(ii)
The indicator lamp to show the start of the pressurized water supply unit shall be red incolor and shall be installed either inside the indoor hydrant box or in a place immediately
adjacent thereto; provided, however, that such indicator lamp may not be installed in thecase where the start of the pressurized water supply unit can be indicated by a flickering
red lamp installed pursuant to the provision of the following item (b) or (c)‐1.
(iii)
The marking for the installation of an indoor fire hydrant system shall be as specified in
the following (a) through (c).
(a) The marking of ʺFire Hydrantʺ shall be indicated on the surface of the indoor fire hy‐
drant box.
(b) A red lamp which can be easily recognized from a distance of 10 meters in the direction
forming an angle of 15 degrees or more against the mounting face shall be installed at
an upper part of the indoor fire hydrant box.
(c) In the case where the on‐off valve of an indoor fire hydrant system is mounted on theceiling, it shall comply with the provisions of the following 1. and 2. In this case, theprovision of (b) shall not apply.
1. A red lamp which can be easily recognized from a distance of 10 meters and 1.5
meters above the floor surface shall be installed in a place immediately adjacent to
the indoor hydrant box.
2. A red lamp which can be easily recognized from a distance of 10 meters in the di‐rection forming an angle of 15 degrees or more against the mounting face shall be
installed at the upper part of the device designed to descend fire hoses.
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 12)(iii‐2)A pressurized water supply unit of which the water level at the water source is locatedlower than the pump shall be equipped with a priming device as specified in the fol‐lowing (a) through (c).
(a) A dedicated priming tank shall be installed to the priming device.
(b) The capacity of the priming tank shall be sufficient to effectively activate the pressur‐
ized water supply unit.
(c) The priming tank shall be equipped with a low water level warning system and a sys‐
tem capable of automatically resupplying water to the priming tank.
(iv)
An emergency power source for an indoor fire hydrant system shall be an exclusive
power receiving system for emergency power supply, in‐house power generation sys‐tem, storage battery system or fuel cell system [in‐house power generation system,
storage battery system or fuel cell system in the case of a specified fire prevention prop‐
erty prescribed in Article 17‐2‐5, paragraph (2), item (iv) of the Act (hereinafter referred
to as a ʺspecified fire prevention propertyʺ) with a total area of 1,000 square meters ormore (excluding small‐scale fire prevention properties serving specified intended pur‐poses prescribed in Article 13, paragraph (1), item (ii))] and shall be as specified in thefollowing (a) through (e).
(a) An exclusive power receiving system for emergency power supply shall be as specified
in the following 1. through 7.
1. The system shall be installed in a place which is convenient for checking and is lesslikely to be damaged by fire and other disasters.
2. The system shall not be shut off by a switch or breaker belonging to another elec‐
trical circuit.
3. The switch shall be indicated for its use for the indoor fire hydrant system.
4. In the case of an exclusive power receiving system for emergency power supply
which receives high voltage or special high voltage power, the system shall be in‐stalled in a dedicated room which is partitioned by walls, pillars and a ceiling (roofin the case of no ceiling) made of incombustible materials [meaning incombustible
materials prescribed in Article 2, item (ix) of the Building Standards Act; the same
shall apply hereinafter] and of which the windows and doorways are equippedwith fire‐retarding doors [limited to fire prevention equipment prescribed in Arti‐cle 2, item (ix‐2) of the Building Standards Act; the same shall apply hereinafter];provided, however, that this shall not apply in the case of the following i. or ii.
i.
In the case where a cubicle‐type exclusive power receiving system for emergen‐cy power supply conforming to the standards specified by the Commissioner of
the Fire and Disaster Management Agency is installed in a transformer room,
generator room, machine room, pump room or any other similar room com‐
partmented by incombustible materials or outdoors or on the roof of a building
ii. In the case of installing outdoors or on the roof of a building of which the main
structural sections are of a fireproof construction, the distance to an adjacentbuilding or structure (hereinafter referred to as ʺbuilding, etc.ʺ) is 3 meters ormore or parts of an adjacent building, etc. within a range of less than 3 metersfrom the said power receiving system are made of incombustible materials andhave fire‐retarding doors to the openings of the said building, etc.
5. The switchboard or distribution panel of an exclusive power receiving system for
emergency power supply receiving low voltage power supply shall be a Type 1
switchboard or Type 1 distribution panel conforming to the standards specified by
the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency; provided, how‐ever, that a switchboard or distribution panel other than a Type 1 switchboard orType 1 distribution panel may be used in the case of its installation in a place listed

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in the following i. or ii. or a Type 2 switchboard or Type 2 distribution panel con‐forming to the standards specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster
Management Agency may be used in the case of its installation in a place listed in
the following iii.
i.
An exclusive room compartmented by walls, pillars and a ceiling (roof in thecase of no ceiling) made of incombustible materials and equipped with fire‐
retarding doors for windows and doorways
ii. Outdoors or on the roof of a building of which the main structural sections areof a fireproof construction (limited to the case where a distance of 3 meters ormore to an adjacent building, etc. is secured or where parts of an adjacent build‐ing, etc. within a range of less than 3 meters from the said power receiving sys‐
tem are made of incombustible materials and are equipped with fire‐retarding
doors for windows and doorways)
iii. The transformer room, machine room (excluding a machine room where
equipment or mechanical instruments which may start a fire are installed),
pump room or any similar room compartmented by incombustible materials
6. A cubicle‐type exclusive power receiving system for emergency supply shall have avacant space of 1 meter or more in width in front of the said power receiving systemand shall have a distance of 1 meter or more from any other non‐cubicle type in‐house power generation system, non‐cubicle type storage battery system or build‐ing, etc. (limited to the case of installing the said power receiving system outdoors).
7. An exclusive power receiving system for emergency power supply (excluding a
cubicle‐type) shall have a vacant space of 1 meter (1.2 meters when the control
sides face each other) or more in width in front of its control side.
(b) An in‐house power generating system shall be as specified in the following 1. through4. in addition to what is prescribed in the provisions of (a) (excluding 5. and 7.).
1. The capacity shall be sufficient to effectively operate an indoor fire hydrant systemfor 30 minutes or more.
2. Whenever the normal power source fails, the system shall automatically switchfrom the normal power source to the emergency power source.
3. A non‐cubicle type in‐house power generation system shall be as specified in thefollowing i. through iii.
i.
An in‐house power generation system (meaning a system where a generator is
coupled with a motor; the same shall apply hereinafter) has a vacant space of 0.6
meters or more in width around it.
ii. The distance between the fuel tank and the motor shall be 2 meters or more for a
pre‐heating type motor and 0.6 meters or more for other types of motors; pro‐vided, however, that this shall not apply in the case where an effective barrier
for fire prevention made of an incombustible material is installed between thefuel tank and the motor.
iii. The control panel which houses an operation control device, protective device,
exciting device and other similar devices (excluding the built‐in control panel of
an in‐house power generation system) shall be housed in a box made of steel
plates and shall have a vacant space of 1 meter or more in front of the said box.
4. An in‐house power generation system shall conform to the standards specified by
the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(c) A storage battery system shall be as specified in the following 1. through 4. in addition
to what is specified in (a) (excluding 5. and 7.) and (b)‐1.
1. Whenever the normal power source fails, the storage battery system shall automati‐
cally switch from the normal power source to the emergency power supply source.
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In the case of a storage battery system which is not equipped with an AC‐DC con‐verter, the system shall be capable of automatically switching to the normal power
supply source from the emergency power supply source when the normal power
supply source is restored after failure.
3. A storage battery system other than the cubicle‐type shall be as specified in the fol‐lowing i. through v.
i.
A storage battery system shall have a distance of 0.1 meters or more from a wallof the room of its installation.
ii. In the case of the installation of two or more storage battery systems in the sameroom, the distance between the storage battery systems shall be 0.6 meters (1.0meters when the height of these systems exceeds 1.6 meters because of the in‐stallation of their mounting pads or other) or more.
iii. A storage battery system shall be installed at a place where there is no risk of theinflux or infiltration of water.
iv. A room housing a storage battery system shall have effective ventilation equip‐
ment connected to the outdoors.
v. In the case where a battery charger and a storage battery are installed in thesame room, the battery charger shall be housed in a steel box and a vacant spaceof 1 meter or more shall be secured in front of the said box.
4. A storage battery system shall conform to the standards specified by the Commis‐
sioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(d) A fuel cell system shall be as specified in the following 1. and 2. in addition to what is
specified in (a) (excluding 5. and 7.) and (b)‐1. and 2.
1. It shall be the cubicle‐type.
2. It shall conform to the standards specified by the Commissioner of the Fire andDisaster Management Agency.
(e) Wiring shall be as specified in the following 1. through 3. in addition to what is pre‐scribed in laws and regulations pertaining to electrical structures and shall incorporate
measures designed not to be disrupted by other circuits.
1. Type 2 vinyl insulated 600 V electrical wires or other electrical wires of which theheat resistance performance is equivalent to or higher than the said Type 2 electri‐
cal wires shall be used.
2. Electrical wires shall be protected by means of laying them in the main structural
sections of fireproof construction or any other method which has a heat resistanceeffect equivalent to or higher than laying in the said sections; provided, however,that this shall not apply to MI cables or the case where electrical wires conforming
to the standards specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Manage‐
ment Agency are used.
3. Switches, overcurrent protectors and other mechanical instruments for wiring
shall be protected by a method which provides a heat resistant effect.
(v)
The wiring for the operating circuit or for the circuit for the red lamp set forth in item(iii)‐(b) shall be as specified in the following (a) and (b) in addition to what is prescribedin the provisions of laws and regulations pertaining to electrical structures.
(a) Type 2 vinyl insulated 600 V electrical wires or other electrical wires of which the heat
resistance performance is equivalent to or higher than the said Type 2 electrical wires
shall be used.
(b) Electrical wires shall be laid by the work using metal pipes, flexible conduits, metalducts or cables (limited to cables to be laid in incombustible ducts); provided, however,that this shall not apply to the case where electrical wires conforming to the standards
specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency are used.
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 12)(vi)
Pipework shall be as prescribed in the following (a) through (i).
(a) Pipework shall exclusively serve the indoor fire hydrant system; provided, however,that this shall not apply in the case where arrangements are made not to disrupt theperformance of the said indoor fire hydrant system, including the immediate shutting
off of water supply to pipework serving the purpose of other fire extinguishing systems
by means of operating the starting device of the indoor fire hydrant system.
(b) Pipework immediately close to the discharge side of a pressurized water supply unit
shall be equipped with a check valve and a water stop valve.
(c) The suction pipe of a pressurized water supply unit using a pump shall be as specified
in the following 1. through 3.
1. An exclusive suction pipe shall be used for each pump.
2. The suction pipe shall be equipped with a filtration system (including a system fit‐
ted to the foot valve) along with a foot valve when the water level at the watersupply source is lower than the position of the pump or the water stop valve inother cases.
3. The foot valve shall be of a construction which allows its easy checking.
(d) Pipework shall use those listed in the following 1. or 2.
1. Pipes conforming to Japan Industrial Standard G3442, G3448, G3452, G3454 or
G3459 or metal pipes of which the strength, corrosion resistance and heat re‐sistance are equivalent to or higher than those of pipes conforming to a Japan In‐
dustrial Standard.
2. Synthetic resin pipes conforming to the standards specified by the Commissionerof the Fire and Disaster Management Agency regarding air‐tightness, strength,
corrosion resistance, weather resistance and heat resistance(e) Pipe joints shall be as specified in the following 1. or 2.
1. In the case of pipe joints connecting metal pipes or valves at the said connecting
sections, pipe joints shall be made of metal and shall conform to the Japan Indus‐
trial Standard listed in the right‐hand column of the following table according to
the type listed in the left‐hand column of the said table or shall conform to thestandards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Manage‐
ment Agency as pipe joints which have strength, corrosion resistance and heat re‐sistance equivalent to or higher than those of pipe joints conforming to a Japan In‐
dustrial Standard.
Type
Flange joints

Joints other thanflange joints

Japan Industrial Standard
Screw‐in joint
Welded joint
Screw‐in joint

Welded joint

Joints conforming to B 2220 or B 2239
Joints conforming to B 2220
Of joint conforming to B 2301, B 2302 or B 2308, those which use amaterial conforming to G 3214 (limited to SUS F 304 or SUS F 316) orG 5121 (limited to SCS 13 or SCS 14)
Joints conforming to B 2309, B 2311, B 2312 or B 2313 (excluding
those using the material under G 3468)

2.

(f)

In the case of pipe joints connecting synthetic resin pipes at the said connecting
sections, pipe joints shall be made of a synthetic resin and shall conform to thestandards specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management
Agency as pipe joints having air‐tightness, strength, corrosion resistance, weather
resistance and heat resistance.
Of the main pipes, the riser pipe shall have a nominal pipe diameter of 50 millimeters
or more.

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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 12)(g) Valves shall be as specified in the following 1. through 3.
1. The quality of the material shall conform to Japan Industrial Standard G5101,
G5501, G5502, G5705 (limited to blackheart malleable cast iron products), H5120 or
H5121 or conform to the standards specified by the Commissioner of the Fire andDisaster Management Agency as valves having strength, corrosion resistance andheat resistance equivalent to or higher than those of valves conforming to a Japan
Industrial Standard.
2. In the case of on‐off valves, water stop valves and check vales, these valves shallconform to the standards specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster
Management Agency as valves conforming to Japan Industrial Standard B 2011, B
2031 or B 2051 or those having a performance equivalent to or higher than the per‐formance of valves conforming to a Japan Industrial Standard.
3. In the case of on‐off valves and water stop valves, the opening and closing direc‐
tions shall be indicated while the direction of flow shall be indicated in the case ofcheck valves.
(h) The pipe diameter of pipework shall be the nominal bore of the pipework as calculated
by means of hydraulic calculation.
(i) The pressure resistance performance of pipework shall be that which withstands thewater pressure when a pressure which is 1.5 times the shutoff pressure of the pressur‐
ized water supply unit supplying water to the said pipework is applied.
(vii)
The pressurized water supply unit shall be as specified in the following (a) through (g).
(a) A pressurized water supply unit using an elevated water tank shall be as specified in
the following 1. and 2.
1. The head (meaning the vertical distance from the bottom end of the water tank to thehose connection port; the same shall apply hereinafter in this item) shall be a value
which is equal to or higher than the value calculated by the following equation.
H = h1 + h2 + 17m
Where,
H: Required head (unit: meters)
h1: Friction loss of water head due to fire hose (unit: meters)
h2: Friction loss of water head due to pipework (unit: meters)
2. An elevated water tank shall be equipped with a water level gauge, drainpipe,
overflow pipe, make‐up pipe and manhole.
(b) A pressurized water supply unit using a pressurized water tank shall be as specified in
the following 1. through 3. (in the case of a system using pressure generated by the ac‐
tivation of a pressurizing gas container, 1. and 3.).
1. The pressure of the pressurized water tank shall be a value which is equal to or
higher than the value calculated by the following equation.
P = p1 + p2 + p3 + 0.17 MPa
Where,
P: Required pressure (unit: mega pascals)
p1: Friction loss of water head pressure due to fire hose (unit: mega pascals)
p2: Friction loss of water head pressure due to pipework (unit: mega pascals)
p3: Converted water head pressure of the head (unit: mega pascals)
2. The water quantity in the pressurized water tank shall be two‐thirds or less of thevolume of the said pressurized water tank.
3. The pressurized water tank shall be equipped with a pressure gauge, water level
gauge, drainpipe, make‐up pipe, air supply pipe and manhole.
(c) A pressurized water supply unit using a pump shall be as specified in the following 1.
through 8.
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The discharge rate of the pump shall be equal to or higher than the rate calculated
by multiplying the highest number of indoor fire hydrants on one floor (2 if thenumber of installed indoor fire hydrants on one floor exceeds 2) by 150 liters per
minute.
2. The total head of the pump shall be a value equal to or higher than the value calcu‐
lated by the following equation.
H = h1 + h2 + h3 + 17m
Where,
H: Total head of the pump (unit: meters)
h1: Friction loss of the water head due to fire hose (unit: meters)
h2: Friction loss of the water head due to pipework (unit: meters)h3: Head (unit: meters)
3. The total head when the discharge rate of the pump is 150 percent of the rated dis‐charge rate shall be 65 percent of the rated total head or higher.
4. The pump shall exclusively serve the system; provided, however, that this shallnot apply if the performance of both of the fire extinguishing systems is not dis‐
rupted when the pump is used in combination with or for another fire extinguish‐
ing system.
5. The pump shall be equipped with a pressure gauge on its discharge side and acompound gauge on its suction side.
6. A pressurized water supply unit shall be equipped with pipework to test the per‐formance of the pump at the time of rated load operation.
7. A pressurized water supply unit shall be equipped with an escape pipe to preventa rise of the water temperature at the time of shutoff operation.
8. The motor shall be an electric motor.
(d) The structure and performance of a pressurized water supply unit shall conform to thestandards specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency
in addition to what is prescribed in (a) through (c).
(e) A pressurized water supply unit shall be provided with a measure designed to preventthe water discharge pressure at the tip of the nozzle of the said indoor fire hydrant sys‐
tem from exceeding 0.7 MPa.
(f) The starting device shall be that which can be directly operated and can be remotely
operated from the operating part (including a Type P electric manual call point of an
automatic fire alarm system) installed inside an indoor fire hydrant box or a place im‐mediately nearby; provided, however, that this shall not apply to a starting device
which employs a method of starting linked to the opening of the on‐off valve, the ex‐tension operation of the fire hose and other actions and conforms to the following 1.
and 2. for starting devices which can be directly operated.
1. The nozzle shall have a device to allow its easy opening and closing.
2. The fire hose shall be installed to conform to the standard prescribed in each itemof the preceding paragraph.
(g) A pressurized water supply unit shall be that which can only be stopped by direct op‐
eration.
(h) Calculation of the friction loss due to the fire hose and pipework shall be conducted inaccordance with the standards specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster
Management Agency.
(viii) In the case of an indoor fire hydrant system unit to be installed in a high‐rise building,large‐scale building or other fire prevention property listed in the following (a) through(c) among such buildings or properties, a master control panel capable of monitoringand operating the said system and conforming to the standards specified by the Com‐49

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missioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency (meaning equipment having
the functions required to monitor and control fire defense equipment, etc. or special fire
defense equipment, etc.; the same shall apply hereinafter) shall be installed at a disasterprotection center (meaning a place to control the system and equipment for disasterprevention, such as fire defense equipment, etc. or special fire defense equipment, etc.
or those similar to these in a fire prevention property by means of a master control pan‐el or other similar to the said panel; the same shall apply hereinafter) of a fire preven‐tion property where the said system has been installed, a central control room (meaninga central control room prescribed in Article 20‐2, item (ii) of the Building StandardsAct), a guard room or other similar place (limited to a place always occupied by a per‐son; hereinafter referred to as a ʺdisaster protection center, etc.ʺ) as specified by theCommissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(a) Fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (1) through row (16) of theOrder and which fall under one of the following
1. A fire prevention property of which the total area is 50,000 square meters or more
2. A fire prevention property of which the number of floors is 15 or more with a total
area of 30,000 square meters or more(b) An underground mall of which the total area is 1,000 square meters or more(c) A fire prevention property which is designated by a fire chief or fire station chief be‐cause of the necessity to prevent a fire among fire prevention properties listed in the fol‐lowing (excluding those falling under 1. or 2.)
1. A fire prevention property of which the number of floors excluding basement
floors is 11 or more with a total floor area of 10,000 square meters or more
2. A specified fire prevention property of which the number of floors excluding
basement floors is 5 or more with a total floor area of 20,000 square meters or more
3. A fire prevention property of which the total floor area of the basement floors is
5,000 square meters or more(ix)
A water tank, pressurized water supply unit, emergency power source and pipework(hereinafter referred to as ʺwater tank, etc.ʺ) shall be provided with effective measures
to withstand the vibration, etc. of an earthquake.
(2) The details of the technical standards concerning the installation and maintenance of an in‐door fire hydrant system prescribed in Article 11, paragraph (3), item (ii)‐(a) of the Ordershall be as specified in the following in addition to what is prescribed in the preceding para‐graph [excluding item (vi)‐(f), item (vii)‐(a)‐1., (b)‐1., (c)‐1. and 2. and (f)].
(i)
The nozzle shall have a device to allow its easy opening and closing.
(ii)
Of the main pipes, the riser pipe shall have a nominal diameter of 32 millimeters or
more.
(iii)
The head (meaning the vertical distance from the bottom end of the water tank to thehose connection port; the same shall apply hereinafter in this item) of a pressurized wa‐
ter supply unit using an elevated water tank shall be a value which is equal to or higher
than the value calculated by the following equation.
H = h1 + h2 + 25m
Where,
H: Required head (unit: meters)
h1: Friction loss of water head due to fire hose (unit: meters)
h2: Friction loss of water head due to pipework (unit: meters)(iv)
The pressure of the pressurized water tank of a pressurized water supply unit using apressurized water tank shall be a value which is equal to or higher than the value calcu‐
lated by the following equation.
P = p1 + p2 + p3 + 0.25 MPa
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Where,
P: Required pressure (unit: mega pascals)
p1: Friction loss of water head pressure due to fire hose (unit: mega pascals)
p2: Friction loss of water head pressure due to pipework (unit: mega pascals)
p3: Converted water head pressure of the head (unit: mega pascals)(v)
A pressurized water supply unit using a pump shall be as specified in the following.
(a) The discharge rate of the pump shall be equal to or higher than the rate calculated bymultiplying the highest number of indoor fire hydrants on one floor (2 if the number of
installed indoor fire hydrants on one floor exceeds 2) by 70 liters per minute.
(b) The total head of the pump shall be a value equal to or higher than the value calculatedby the following equation.
H =h1+h2+h3 +25 m
Where,
H: Total head of the pump (unit: meters)
h1: Friction loss of the water head due to fire hose (unit: meters)
h2: Friction loss of the water head due to pipework (unit: meters)h3: Head (unit: meters)(vi)
A pressurized water supply unit shall be that which can be started by direct operationand can also be started in conjunction with the opening of the on‐off valve, the exten‐
sion operation of the fire hose or other action.
(3) The details of the technical standards concerning the installation and maintenance of an in‐door fire hydrant system prescribed in Article 11 paragraph (3) item (ii)‐(b) of the Ordershall be as specified in the following in addition to what is prescribed in the preceding para‐graph [excluding item (vi)‐(f), item (vii)‐(c)‐i. and (f)].
(i)
Of the main pipes, the riser pipe shall have a nominal diameter of 32 millimeters or more.
(ii)
The discharge rate of the pump shall be equal to or higher than the rate calculated bymultiplying the highest number of indoor fire hydrants on one floor (2 if the number of
installed indoor fire hydrants on one floor exceeds 2) by 90 liters per minute.
(Construction Not Requiring the Installation of a Sprinkler System)
Article 12‐2
The construction to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(a)‐1. and 2. and (b), row (16)‐(a)and row (16‐2) of the Order shall be that which, in accordance with the category of a fire preven‐tion property listed in each of the following items or parts thereof, has a compartment installedin the said fire prevention property or parts thereof as specified in each of the following items.
(i)A fire prevention property listed in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (i) and item (ix) of
the Order [in the case of fire prevention properties listed in row (16)‐(a) and row (16‐2)of the said table, limited to those parts which are served for the intended purpose of fire
prevention properties listed in row (6)‐(a)‐1. or 2. or (b) of the said table; the same shallapply in the following item] of which the reference area [meaning the total of floor are‐as prescribed in Article 12, paragraph (2), item (iii‐2) of the Order; the same shall apply
hereinafter in this paragraph, Article 13, paragraph (3), Article 13‐5, paragraph (1) and
Article 13‐6, paragraph (1)] is less than 1,000 square meters: those having a compart‐
ment to be installed as specified in the following(a) The rooms of the said fire prevention property and parts thereof shall be compartment‐
ed by walls and a floor with a semi‐fireproof construction (meaning a semi‐fireproof
construction prescribed in Article 2, item (vii‐2) of the Building Standards Act; the same
shall apply hereinafter).
(b) The finishing of the parts (excluding moldings, window sills and other similar parts) of
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(c)
(d)

(e)
(ii)

(a)
(b)

(c)
(d)

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semi‐incombustible materials (meaning the semi‐incombustible materials prescribed in
Article 1, item (v) of the Building Standards Act; the same shall apply hereinafter) for amain corridor and other passageways leading to the ground or flame retardant materi‐als for other parts; provided, however, that this shall not apply to fire prevention prop‐
erties or parts thereof which follow an example provided for in item (ii) of the follow‐
ing paragraph of those fire prevention properties where rooms (excluding those which
are exclusively used by staff members of the facilities concerned; hereinafter referred toas “rooms serving residents, etc.” in the following paragraph) are only located on theevacuation floor and of which the gross area is less than 276 square meters.
The total area of the openings of compartmenting walls and floor shall be 8 square me‐ters or less and the area of one opening shall be 4 square meters or less.
Each opening set forth in (c) shall be equipped with a fire door (excluding fire shuttersat openings other than those at parts compartmenting a corridor from staircases) with
an automatic closing device which can be opened as required or with a construction as
specified in the following.
1. A fire door shall be that which can be closed as required and which is also closed
in conjunction with the activation of a smoke detector (meaning an ionization spot‐
type detector, photoelectric detector or smoke combined spot‐type detector; thesame shall apply hereinafter).
2. In the case of a fire door which is installed on a main corridor, staircases or otherpassageway leading to the ground from a room, it shall have a part which can bedirectly opened by the hand and which is automatically closed and of which thewidth, height and height of its lower end from the floor surface are 75 centimeters
or more, 1.8 meters or more and 15 centimeters or less respectively.
The total floor area of compartmented parts shall be 100 square meters or less and noneof the compartmented parts shall have four or more rooms.
A fire prevention property listed in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(a)‐1. and 2. and (b), row(16)‐(a) and row(16‐2) of the Order of which the reference area is 1,000 square meters ormore: those having a compartment to be installed as specified in the following.
The rooms in the said fire prevention property or parts thereof shall be compartmented
by walls and a floor with a fireproof construction.
The finishings of parts (excluding moldings, window sills and other similar parts) of
the walls and ceiling (roof in the case of no ceiling) facing inwards shall be made ofsemi‐incombustible materials for the main corridor and other passageways leading to
the ground or flame retardant materials for other parts.
The total area of the openings of compartmented walls and floor shall be 8 square me‐ters or less and the area of one opening shall be 4 square meters or less.
Each opening set forth in (c) shall be equipped with a fire door which is specified fire
prevention equipment prescribed in Article 112, paragraph (1) of the Order for En‐
forcement of the Building Standards Act (hereinafter referred to as ʺfire door as speci‐
fied fire prevention equipment) (excluding fire shutters at openings other than those atparts compartmenting a corridor from staircases) with an automatic closing device orwith a construction as specified in the following or a door with steel‐wire reinforced
glass window (limited to those to be installed at openings other than doorways of parts
from which evacuation can be conducted through two or more different routes, whichface a corridor, staircase or other passageway directly open to the outside air and ofwhich the total area is 4 square meters or less).
1. A fire door as specified fire prevention equipment shall be that which can beclosed as required and can also be closed in conjunction with the activation of asmoke detector.

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2.

In the case of a fire door as specified fire prevention equipment which is installed
on a main corridor, staircases or other passageway leading to the ground from aroom, it shall have a part which can be directly opened by the hand and which is
automatically closed and of which the width, height and height of its lower end
from the floor surface are 75 centimeters or more, 1.8 meters or more and 15 cen‐timeters or less respectively.
(e) The total floor area of the compartmented parts shall be 200 square meters or less.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, a construction to be specified
by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article
12, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Order shall be as specified in any of the following items for
those fire prevention properties where rooms serving residents, etc. are only located on theevacuation floor and of which the gross area is less than 100 square meters [excluding thosewith a compartment installed as specified in item (i) of the preceding paragraph] of the fire
prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row(6)‐(a)‐1. and 2. and (b) of the Order.
(i)
A construction which follows the provision of the main clause of item (i)‐(b) of the pre‐ceding paragraph(ii)
A construction where the time calculated by a method specified by the Commission of
the Fire and Disaster Management Agency as the time required for the evacuation ofresidents, persons admitted or guests (hereinafter referred to as “residents, etc.” in thisitem) does not exceed the time specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster
Management Agency as the evacuation time to be secured at the time of the occurrenceof a fire among the facilities where rooms are compartmented by walls, pillars and aceiling (roof in the case of no ceiling) with doors (limited to those with an automatic
closing device which can be opened as required) installed at doorways and which con‐form to the following (a) through (e)(a) The detector of an automatic fire alarm system shall be a smoke detector except in thoseplaces listed in Article 23, paragraph (4), item (i)‐(d).
(b) A room serving residents, etc. shall have an opening which can be easily opened frominside or outside by a person concerned with the facility in question at the time of theoccurrence of a fire.
(c) The opening set forth in (b) shall face a road or a passageway with a width of one meteror more leading to a road or vacant space.
(d) The shape, including the width, height and height of the lower end from the floor sur‐face, of the opening set forth in (b) shall not prevent the easy escape of residents, etc.
from inside.
(e) There shall be two or more escape routes from rooms serving residents, etc.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), with regard to parts of the fire prevention
properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (xvi)‐(a) of the Order [limited to those which do
not have any parts serving intended purposes other than the intended purposes of the fire
prevention properties listed in row (v)‐(b) and row (6)‐(b) of the said table], which are parts
serving the intended purposes of the fire prevention properties listed in row (6)‐(b) of thesaid table and of which the gross area is less than 275 square meters [excluding those having
compartments which are installed pursuant to the provision of paragraph (1), item (i); here‐
inafter referred to as “specified parts as an apartment block” in the rest of this article], theconstruction to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Commu‐
nications set forth in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Order shall have the compart‐ments specified in each of the following items.
(i)Each apartment of the specified parts as an apartment block shall be compartmented bywalls and a floor with a semi‐fireproof construction.
(ii)
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(iii)
(iv)

(v)
(vi)
(vii)

be open directly to the outside air and shall face a corridor which can effectively dis‐charge smoke at the time of a fire in the said part.
The main doorway set forth in the preceding item shall have a construction pursuant to
the provision of paragraph (1), item (i)‐(d).
The finishing of the parts (excluding moldings, window sills and other similar parts) of
the walls and ceiling (roof in the case of no ceiling) facing inwards shall be made ofsemi‐incombustible materials in the case of passageways leading to the corridor set
forth in item (ii) or flame retardant materials for other parts>
Passageways leading to the corridor set forth in item (ii) shall be installed as specified
by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
Smoke detectors shall be installed in rooms and passageways.
The floor area of each apartment in the specified parts as an apartment block shall be
100 square meters or less.

(Persons Who Cannot Evacuate Without Assistance)
Article 12‐3
Persons to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications as persons who cannot evacuate without assistance set forth in Article 12,
paragraph (1), item (i)‐(b) of the Order shall be babies, those falling under one of the follow‐
ing items among infants, residents of facilities prescribed in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(b)‐2., 4. and 5. [in the case of the residents of facilities prescribed in row (6)‐(b)‐5., limited topersons, etc. with disabilities who find evacuation difficult prescribed in row (6)‐(b)‐5. of thesaid table].
(i)
Persons who do not fall under the description of “assistance not required” or “assis‐
tance such as watching over is required” in the category of “transfer” in Group III of thequalification survey items [meaning the items listed in Appended Table 1 of the Ordi‐nance for Examination by a Municipal Examination Committee and the Judgement Cri‐teria Pertaining to the Categories of Support for Persons with Disabilities (Ordinance ofthe Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare No. 5 of 2014); the same shall apply in therest of this article](ii)
Persons who do not fall under the description of “assistance not required” or “assis‐
tance such as watching over is required” in the category of “movement” in Group III of
the qualification survey items(iii)
Persons who do not fall under the description of “assistance not required” or “partial
assistance is required” in the category of “awareness of danger” in Group VI of thequalification survey items(iv)
Persons who do not fall under the description of “can understand” in the category of“understanding of explanations” in Group VI of the qualification survey items(v)
Persons who do not fall under the description of “assistance not required” in the categoryof “stoppage of hyperactivity or action” in Group VII of the qualification survey items(vi)Persons who do not fall under the description of “assistance not required” in the cate‐gory of “unstable behavior” in Group VIII of the qualification survey items(Parts, etc. of Floors Not Requiring the Installation of a Sprinkler System)
Article 13
The parts to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Order shall be theparts listed in one of the following.
(i)
10th and lower floors of a fire prevention property which has no parts serving an in‐tended purpose other than the intended purpose of any of the fire prevention proper‐
ties listed in Appended Table 1, row (5)‐(b) and row (6)‐(b) and (c) of the Order [in thecase of fire prevention properties listed in row (6)‐(b) and (c) of the said table, limited to54

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(a)

(b)

(c)
(d)

(e)
(ii)

(a)
(b)
(c)

fee‐paying nursing homes, welfare homes and facilities providing the service of assist‐ing the communal living of old people, including those suffering from dementia, pre‐scribed in Article 5‐2, paragraph (6) of the Act for the Welfare of the Aged (Act No. 133
of 1963) or facilities providing the service of caring or assisting communal living pre‐scribed in Article 5, paragraph (15) of the Services and Supports for Persons with Disa‐bilities Act (Act No. 123 of 2005); the same shall apply hereinafter in this item, Article
28‐2, paragraph (1), item (iv) and paragraph (2), item (iii) of the said article] and has
compartments to be set up as specified in each of the following items in parts serving
the intended purposes of fire prevention properties listed in row (6)‐(b) and (c) of thesaid table among the fire prevention properties listed in row (16)‐(a) of the said table.
Rooms shall be compartmented by walls and a floor of a semi‐fireproof construction (inthe case of rooms on the third or higher floor, walls and a floor of a fireproof construc‐tion)
The finishing of the parts (excluding moldings, window sills and other similar parts) of
the walls and ceiling (roof in the case of no ceiling) facing inwards shall be made ofsemi‐incombustible materials for a main corridor and other passageways leading to theground or flame retardant materials for other parts.
The total area of the openings of compartmenting walls and floor shall be 8 square me‐ters or less and the area of one opening shall be 4 square meters or less.
Each opening set forth in (c) shall be equipped with a fire door (limited to the fire door
which is the specified fire prevention equipment in the case of openings on the third or
higher floor, while excluding fire shutters at openings at parts other than parts com‐
partmenting a corridor from staircases) with an automatic closing device which can be
opened as required or with a construction as specified in the following or a door withsteel‐wire reinforced glass window (limited to those to be installed at openings otherthan doorways of parts from which evacuation can be conducted through two or moredifferent routes, which face a corridor, staircase of other passageway directly open to
the outside air and of which the total area is 4 square meters or less).
1. A fire door shall be that which can be closed as required and can also be closed inconjunction with the activation of a smoke detector.
2. In the case of a fire door which is installed on a main corridor, staircases or otherpassageway leading to the ground from a room, it shall have a part which can bedirectly opened by the hand and which is automatically closed and of which thewidth, height and height of its lower end from the floor surface is 75 centimeters or
more, 1.8 meters or more and 15 centimeters or less respectively.
The total floor area of the compartmented parts shall be 100 square meters or less.
Parts which are not the parts listed in the following of a small‐scale multi‐purpose fire
prevention property serving specified intended purposes [meaning a fire prevention
property where the total floor area of parts serving the intended purpose of a fire pre‐vention property listed in Appended Table 1, rows (1) through 4], row (5)‐(a), row (6) orrow (9)‐(a) of the Order is one‐tenth of the gross area of the fire prevention property inwhich the said parts exist or less and is less than 300 square meters among the fire pre‐vention properties listed in row (xvi)‐(a) of the said table; the same shall apply hereinaf‐ter] and which exist on the tenth or lower floors
Parts serving the intended purposes of the fire prevention properties listed in Append‐
ed Table 1, row (6)‐(a)‐1. and 2.
Parts serving the intended purposes of the fire prevention properties listed in Append‐
ed Table 1, row (6)‐(b)‐1. and 3. of the Order
Parts serving the intended purposes of the fire prevention properties listed in Append‐
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mainly housing the persons prescribed in Article 12‐3, limited to parts of which thefloor area is 275 square meters or more)(2) The parts to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communi‐
cations set forth in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (iii), item (iv) and item (x) through item(xii) of the Order shall be the parts, as listed in the following, (excluding basement floors andwindowless floors) of fire prevention properties of which the main structural sections are ofa fireproof construction (excluding fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 2,row (2), row (4 ) or row (5), item (ii) of the Order and fire prevention properties listed in row(16) of the said table, which have parts serving the intended purposes for fire prevention
properties listed in row (2), row (4) or row (5)‐(b) of the said table).
(i)Parts which are compartmented by walls and a floor of fireproof construction andwhich fall under the following(a) The finishing of the parts (excluding moldings, window sills and other similar parts) of
the walls and ceiling (roof in the case of no ceiling) facing inwards shall be made ofsemi‐incombustible materials for a main corridor and other passageways leading to theground or flame retardant materials for other parts.
(b) The total floor area of the openings of compartmenting walls and floor shall be 8 square
meters or less and the area of one opening shall be 4 square meters or less.
(c) Each opening set forth in (b) shall be equipped with a fire door as specified fire preven‐tion equipment (excluding fire shutters at openings at parts other than parts compart‐
menting a corridor from staircases) with an automatic closing device which can be
opened as required or with a construction as specified in the following or a door withsteel‐wire reinforced glass window (limited to those to be installed at openings otherthan doorways of parts from which evacuation can be conducted through two or moredifferent routes, which face a corridor, staircase or other passageway directly open to
the outside air and of which the total area is 4 square meters or less).
1. A fire door shall be that which can be closed as required and can also be closed inconjunction with the activation of a smoke detector.
2. In the case of a fire door which is installed on a main corridor, staircases or otherpassageway leading to the ground from a room, it shall have a part which can bedirectly opened by the hand and which is automatically closed and of which thewidth, height and height of its lower end from the floor surface is 75 centimeters or
more, 1.8 meters or more and 15 centimeters or less respectively.
(d) The total floor area of each floor shall be 200 square meters or less for floors up to thetenth floor of a fire prevention property or 100 square meters or less for the eleventhand higher floors.
(ii)
Corridors which are compartmented by walls and a floor of fireproof construction andwhich fall under (a) and (c) of the preceding item
(3) The parts to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communi‐
cations set forth in Article 12, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Order shall be parts other thanthe parts listed under each of the following items.
(i)Staircases (in the case of those to be installed in a fire prevention property listed in Ap‐
pended Table 1, row (2), row (4) and row (16‐2) of the Order and in parts serving the in‐tended purpose of a fire prevention property listed in row (2) and row (4) of the said
table of properties listed in row (16)‐(a) of the said table, limited to escape staircases or
special escape staircases prescribed in Article 123 of the Order for Enforcement of the
Building Standards Act [referred to as ʺescape staircases or special escape staircasesʺ in
Article 26)], bathrooms, toilets and other similar places(ii)
Communication equipment rooms, computer rooms, electron microscope rooms andother similar rooms
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(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
(vii)
(viii)(ix)(ix‐2)

(x)

(x‐2)
(xi)

(xii)

Machine rooms for elevators, machine rooms for mechanical ventilation systems andother similar rooms
Places where a generator, transformer and other similar equipment are installed
Elevator shafts, linen shoots, pipe ducts and other similar parts
Corridors directly open to the outside air and other places where outside air currents
circulate
Operating theatres, delivery rooms, endoscopic examination rooms, hemodialysis rooms,
anesthesia rooms, intensive care units for seriously ill patients and other similar rooms
Rooms such as X‐ray rooms where a radiation source is used, stored or disposed ofPlaces where the height of the installation face of the sprinkler heads (part of a ceiling,
to which sprinkler heads are mounted, facing inwards or the lower face of the floor of
the floor above or the roof; the same shall apply in the following article) is 8 meters ormore in properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (1) of the Order and parts serving
the intended purpose set forth in row (1) of the said table (limited to parts where fixedseats are arranged) of fire prevention properties listed in row (16)‐(a), and item (16‐3) of
the said table
Corridors [excluding those listed in item (vi)], storage facilities (limited to those ofwhich the floor area is less than 2 square meters), undressing rooms and other similarplaces of fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(a)‐1. and 2. and(b) of the Order and parts serving the intended purpose set forth in row (6)‐(a)‐1. or 2.
or (b) of the said table of fire prevention properties listed in row (16)‐(a), row (16‐2) androw (16‐3) of the said table (limited to the fire prevention properties or parts thereof ofwhich the reference area is less than 1,000 square meters)
Boarding area and staircases and passageways leading to this area of parts serving theintended purpose of fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1,row (10) of
the Order of fire prevention properties listed in row (16)‐(a) of the said table
Parts serving as passageways of underground passages of fire prevention properties
listed in Appended Table 1, row (16‐3) of the Order
Parts (excluding parts serving the intended purposes of fire prevention properties listed
in Appended Table 1, row (5)‐(b) of the Order) of floors (excluding basement floors andwindowless floors) of fire prevention properties set forth in Article 12, paragraph (1), item(iii) and item (ix) [limited to those listed in Appended Table 1, row (2), row (4) and row(6)‐(a)], fire prevention properties listed in paragraph (1), item (iv) and item (x) of the said
article and fire prevention properties listed in item (xii) of the said paragraph (limited tothose listed in Appended Table 1, row (16)‐(b) of the order) with their main structural sec‐
tions being of a fireproof construction, which fall under item (i) of the preceding para‐graph (in the case of applying to floors up to the tenth floor where there are no parts serv‐
ing the intended purposes of fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row(1) through row (6) or row (9)‐(a) of fire prevention properties (limited to those listed inrow (16)‐(a) of the said table) set forth in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Order,
the phrase ʺ200 square metersʺ in item (i)‐(d) of the preceding paragraph shall be deemed
to be replaced by ʺ400 square metersʺ) or item (ii) of the said paragraphOf parts serving the intended purposes of fire prevention properties listed in Appended
Table 1, row (7), row (8), row (9)‐(b) or row (10) through row (15) of the Order of floors(excluding basement floors and windowless floors) of fire prevention properties ofwhich the main structural sections are of a fireproof construction (excluding those ofwhich the number of floors excluding basement floors is 11 or more) listed in row (16)‐(a) of the said table, those parts which are compartmented by walls and a floor of a fire‐
proof construction from parts other than parts serving the intended purposes andwhich fall under the following (a) and (b)57Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 13~13‐2)(a) The total area of the openings of compartmenting walls and floor shall be 8 square me‐ters or less and the area of one opening shall be 4 square meters or less.
(b) Each opening set forth in (a) shall be equipped with a fire door as specified fire preven‐tion equipment specified in item (i)‐(c) of the preceding paragraph.
(Standard Heads, etc.)
Article 13‐2
The types of sprinkler heads to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry ofInternal Affairs and Communications which shall be installed to achieve the distance speci‐
fied in the right‐hand column of the table in Article 12, paragraph (2), item (ii)‐(a) of the Or‐
der pursuant to the provision of the said item (ii)‐(a) shall be open sprinkler heads for fire
prevention properties or parts thereof (limited to the stage section of fire prevention proper‐
ties listed in Appended Table 1, row (1) of the Order) listed in paragraph (1), item (ii)through item (iv) and item (x) through item (xii) of the said article or standard heads (lim‐ited to those of which the class of sensitivity (referred to as the ʺsensitivity classʺ in the fol‐lowing paragraph, paragraph (1) of the following article and paragraph (1) of Article 13‐6)
set forth in Article 12 of the Ordinance to Specify the Technical Standards for Closed Sprin‐kler Heads (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 2 of 1965) is Class 1 for standard
heads prescribed in Article 2, item (i) of the said Ordinance (excluding small compartment
type heads prescribed in item (i‐2) of the said article) or those of which the effective sprin‐kling radius set forth in Article 14 of the said Ordinance [referred to as the ʺeffective sprin‐kling radiusʺ in the following paragraph, paragraph (3) and Article 13‐5, paragraph (3)] is
2.3; the same shall apply hereinafter in this article, Article 13‐5, Article 13‐6 and Article 30‐3)of closed sprinkler heads.
(2) Those to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
as sprinkler heads capable of the early detection of a fire in the table in Article 12, paragraph(2), item (ii)‐(a) of the Order and also of sprinkling water over a wide area shall be standard
heads of which the sensitivity class is Class 1 and the effective sprinkling radius is 2.6 or more[referred to as ʺhigh sensitivity headsʺ in Article 13‐5, paragraph 12)] of closed sprinkler heads.
(3) The distance to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Commu‐
nications set forth in the table in Article 12, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Order shall be thevalue calculated by the following equation.
R = Xr
Where,
R: Horizontal distance to the sprinkler head (unit: meters)r:Effective sprinkling radius of the sprinkler head
X: Value listed in the right‐hand column of the following table according to the category of afire prevention property listed in the left‐hand column of the said table or parts thereofFire Prevention Properties or Parts ThereofFire prevention properties listed in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the Order
Properties and parts thereof listed in Arti‐ Buildings other than fireproof buildingscle 12, paragraph (1), item (iii), item (iv)(meaning fireproof buildings prescribedand item (x) through item (xii) of the Order in Article 2, item (ix‐2) of the Building(excluding the stage section of fire preven‐ Standards Act; the same shall apply here‐tion properties listed in Appended Table 1, inafter)row (1) of the Order)
Fireproof buildings

Value of X
0.75

0.9

1

(4) The details of the technical standards concerning the installation and maintenance of sprinkler
heads prescribed in paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) shall be as specified in the following.
(i)Standard heads of closed sprinkler heads shall be as specified in the following.

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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 13‐2~13‐3)(a) A sprinkler head shall be installed in each part which is compartmented by a beam, etc.
protruding by 0.4 meters or more from the mounting face for the said head provided,
however, that this shall not apply in the case where the center‐to‐center distance of thesaid beam, etc. is 1.8 meters or less.
(b) In the case where a ventilation duct, shelf or other (hereinafter referred to as ʺduct,
etc.ʺ) of which the width or depth exceeds 1.2 meters exists, a sprinkler head shall bemounted on the lower face of the said duct, etc.
(c) The distance between the deflector of a sprinkler head and the mounting face of thesaid head shall be 0.3 meters or less.
(d) Each sprinkler head shall be mounted in a manner where the axis of the said head runs
at a right angle to the mounting face of the said head.
(e) Nothing shall be installed or placed within a distance of 0.45 meters (0.9 meters in thecase of a sprinkler head to be mounted at a part storing easily combustible materials)
below and 0.3 meters in the horizontal direction from the deflector of a sprinkler head.
(f) A sprinkler head to be mounted at an opening shall be mounted on a wall surface at aheight of 0.15 meters or less from the head of the said opening.
(g) A sprinkler head mounted on the secondary side of a dry or pre‐activation type waterflow detection device shall be a sprinkler head which is mounted in a manner where
the deflector is positioned above the mounting part of the sprinkler head; provided,
however, that this shall not apply in the case of mounting in a place where the sprinkler
head is unlikely to be frozen.
(ii)Open sprinkler heads shall be mounted on the ceiling or roof frame of a stage section
facing inwards and on the lower face of the gridiron or planks in the same manner asthat prescribed in (d) and (e) of the preceding item; provided, however, that sprinkler
heads may not be mounted on the said ceiling or roof frame facing inwards in the casewhere no flammable goods are placed on top of the gridiron or planks.
(Small Compartment Type Heads, etc.)
Article 13‐3
In addition to what is prescribed in the preceding article, small compartment typeheads (limited to those of which the sensitivity class is Class 1 of small compartment typeheads set forth in Article 2, item (i‐2) of the Ordinance to Specify the Technical Standards for
Closed Sprinkler Heads; the same shall apply in Article 13‐5, Article 13‐6 and Article 14) orside wall type heads (limited to those of which the sensitivity class is Class 1 of side wall typeheads set forth in Article 2, item (ii) of the said Ordinance; the same shall apply in Article 13‐6)
among closed sprinkler heads may be mounted to fire prevention properties listed in Append‐
ed Table 1, row (5) or row (6) or parts which serve the intended purposes of fire prevention
properties listed in row (5) or row (6) of the said table of fire prevention properties listed inrow (16) of the said table among fire prevention properties and parts thereof listed in the left‐
hand column of the table in Article 12, paragraph (2), item (ii)‐(a) of the Order.
(2) The small compartment type heads prescribed in the preceding paragraph shall be mounted
as specified in the following in addition to what is prescribed in paragraph (4), item (i) of thepreceding article [excluding the proviso of (b) and (g)].
(i)
Sprinkler heads shall be mounted in bedrooms, patientsʹ rooms and other similar parts(referred to as ʺbedrooms, etc.ʺ in the following paragraph) of fire prevention properties
listed in Appended Table 1, row (5) or row (6) of the Order or parts which serve the in‐tended purposes of fire prevention properties listed in row (5) or row (6) of the said ta‐
ble of fire prevention properties listed in row (16) of the said table among fire preven‐tion properties listed in the left‐hand column of the table in Article 12, paragraph (2),item (ii)‐(a) of the Order or parts thereof.
(ii)
Sprinkler heads shall be mounted on parts of the ceiling ng facing inwards.
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 13‐3~13‐4)(iii)

Sprinkler heads shall be mounted so that the horizontal distance from any part of theceiling to any sprinkler head is 2.6 meters or less and any area of a part protected by
one sprinkler head is 13 square meters or less.
(3) Side wall type sprinkler heads prescribed in paragraph (1) shall be mounted as specified in
the following in addition to what is prescribed in paragraph (4), item (i) [excluding (a) and(c)] of the preceding article.
(i)Sprinkler heads shall be mounted in bedrooms, etc., corridors, passageways and othersimilar parts of fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (5) or row (6)of the Order or parts which serve the intended purposes of fire prevention properties
listed in row (5) or row (6) of the said table of fire prevention properties listed in row(16) of the said table among fire prevention properties listed in the left‐hand column of
the table in Article 12, paragraph (2), item (ii)‐(a) of the Order or parts thereof.
(ii)
Sprinkler heads shall be mounted on parts of walls facing inwards of fire prevention
properties.
(iii)
Sprinkler heads shall be mounted so that each part of the floor surface is included in apart protected by one sprinkler head (meaning a part of the floor surface where an area
stretching horizontally by up to 1.8 meters on both sides and by up to 3.6 meters for‐ward of the mounting surface of a sprinkler head is horizontally projected).
(iv)
A sprinkler head shall be mounted so that it is positioned 0.15 meters or less from thesurface to which it is mounted.
(v)
The deflector of a sprinkler head shall be mounted so that it is positioned 0.15 meters orless from the ceiling surface.
(vi)
Nothing shall be installed or placed within a distance of 0.45 meters below and 0.45 me‐ters in the horizontal direction from the deflector of a sprinkler head.
(Sprinkler Heads, etc. to be Mounted at High Ceiling Parts)
Article 13‐4
The parts to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in Article 12, paragraph (2), item (ii)‐(b) shall be the parts listed in
the following.
(i)Parts which store or handle designated flammable goods(ii)Fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (4) of the Order or parts offire prevention properties listed in row (16)‐(a) of the said table (excluding passage‐
ways, staircases and other similar parts) serving the intended purposes of properties
listed in row (4) of the said table(2) The types of sprinkler heads to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 12, paragraph (2), item (ii)‐(b) of the Order shall bewater discharging type sprinkler heads and other types of sprinkler heads which have the per‐formance specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency (re‐ferred to as ʺwater discharging type heads, etc.ʺ in Article 13‐5 through Article 14).
(3) The water discharging type heads, etc. prescribed in the preceding paragraph shall bemounted as specified in the following.
(i)
Sprinkler heads shall be mounted as specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Dis‐
aster Management Agency so that a fire at a part with a high ceiling can be effectively
extinguished according to the performance of the said sprinkler heads.
(ii)
Sprinkler heads shall be mounted so that a quantity of water based on a discharge rateof 5 liters per minute [10 liters per minute in the case of those to be installed at parts
listed in paragraph (1), item (i)] per square meter of the floor area of the water dis‐charge area shall be discharged.

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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 13‐5)(Sprinkler Heads etc. to be Mounted in Rack Type Warehouse, etc.)
Article 13‐5
Among the types of sprinkler heads to be specified by an ordinance of the Minis‐try of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 12, paragraph (2), item (ii)‐(c)of the Order, those to be mounted in fire prevention properties prescribed in paragraph (1),item (i) and item (ix) of the said article or parts thereof shall be the type of sprinkler headspecified in the right‐hand column of the following table according to the category listed in
the left‐hand column of the said table.
Parts of Fire Prevention Properties
Parts of fire prevention properties of which the reference area is lessthan 1,000 square meters or parts thereof where the height from thefloor surface to the ceiling is less than 3 meters
Parts of fire prevention properties of which the reference area is 1,000
square meters or more or parts thereof where the height from the floor
surface to the ceiling is less than 3 meters
Parts of fire prevention properties of which the reference area is lessthan 1,000 square meters or parts thereof where the height from thefloor surface to the ceiling is 3 meters or more but 10 meters or lessParts of fire prevention properties of which the reference area is 1,000
square meters or more or parts thereof where the height from the floor
surface to the ceiling is 3 meters or more but 10 meters or lessParts of fire prevention properties or parts thereof where the heightfrom the floor surface to the ceiling exceeds 10 meters

Type of Sprinkler Head
Small compartment type head ofclosed sprinkler head
Small compartment type head or
standard head of closed sprin‐kler head
Small compartment type head ofclosed sprinkler head or open
sprinkler head
Small compartment type head or
standard head of closed sprin‐kler head or open sprinkler head
Water discharge type head, etc.

(2) Fire prevention properties and parts thereof listed in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (i) anditem (ix) of the Order shall be equipped with sprinkler heads prescribed in the preceding
paragraph according to what is prescribed in Article 13‐3, paragraph (2) [excluding item (i)]in the case of small compartment type heads, pursuant to the provision of item (i) in the caseof open sprinkler heads, according to what is prescribed in Article 13‐2, paragraph (4), item(i) and pursuant to the provision of item (ii) in the case of standard heads or according towhat is prescribed in paragraph (3) of the preceding article in the case of water discharging
type heads.
(i)Open sprinkler heads shall be mounted to the ceiling so that the horizontal distancefrom any part of the said ceiling to a sprinkler head is 1.7 meters or less.
(ii)
Standard heads shall be mounted to the ceiling so that the horizontal distance from any
part of the said ceiling to a sprinkler head is 2.1 meters [in the case of high sensitivity
heads, the distance calculated by the equation set forth in Article 13‐2, paragraph (3)] or
less in the case of buildings other than fireproof buildings or 2.3 meters (in the case ofhigh sensitivity heads, the distance calculated by the equation set forth in the said par‐agraph) or less in the case of fireproof buildings.
(3) Among the types of sprinkler heads to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Inter‐
nal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 12, paragraph (2), item (ii)‐(c) of the Or‐
der, those to be mounted in fire prevention properties listed in paragraph (1), item (v) of thesaid article [referred to as ʺrack type warehousesʺ in the following paragraph, paragraph (5),Article 13‐6, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) and Article 14, paragraph (1)] shall be standard
heads among closed sprinkler heads [limited to those of which the effective sprinkling radi‐
us is 2.3 and of which the nominal diameter of the head set forth in Article 3, paragraph (2)of the Ordinance to Specify the Technical Standards for Closed Sprinkler Heads is 20].
(4) The rack type warehouses prescribed in the preceding paragraph shall be classified into thefollowing classes specified in the right‐hand column of the following table according to the61Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 13‐5)
types of goods to be housed, etc. listed in the left‐hand column of the said table in the fol‐lowing paragraph and Article 13‐6, paragraph (1), item (i).
Types of Goods to be Housed, etc.
Goods to be Stored
Containers, Packing Materials and Others
Designated flammable goods of which the quantity is
Hot‐melt goods of which the quantity is
1,000 times (300 times in the case of hot‐melt goods
10 times or more the quantity specified in[meaning goods of which the combustion calorie is 34
Appended Table 4 of the Hazardous Ma‐
kilojoules per gram or more and which have the proper‐ terials Cabinet Orderty of melting when in contact with a flame; the same
Othersshall apply hereinafter in this table)] or more of thequantity specified in Appended Table 4 of the Cabinet
Order Concerning the Control of Hazardous Materials(hereinafter referred to as ʺAppended Table 4 of the
Hazardous Materials Cabinet Orderʺ in this table)
Designated flammable goods of which the quantity is
Hot‐melt goods of which the quantity is
100 times (30 times in the case of hot‐melt goods) or
10 times or more the quantity specified inAppended Table 4 of the Hazardous Ma‐
more of the quantity specified in Appended Table 4 ofterials Cabinet Orderthe Hazardous Materials Cabinet Order
OthersOthers
Hot‐melt goods of which the quantity is
10 times or more the quantity specified inAppended Table 4 of the Hazardous Ma‐
terials Cabinet Order
Others

Class

I

II

III

IV

(5) The standard heads prescribed in paragraph (3) shall be mounted as specified in the following.
(i)
Sprinkler heads shall be mounted as specified in the following in parts where shelves orsimilar items (hereinafter referred to as ʺracks, etc.ʺ in this paragraph) are installed.
(a) Sprinkler heads shall be mounted so that the horizontal distance from each part of parts
where racks, etc. are installed to a sprinkler head is 2.5 meters or less.
(b) One or more sprinkler heads shall be mounted at the height specified in the right‐handcolumn of the following table in accordance with the class of rack type warehouse listed
in the left‐hand column of the said table.
Class
I, II and III
IV(c)Height
4 meters
6 meters

In addition to what is prescribed in (a) and (b), sprinkler heads shall be mounted so thata fire can be effectively extinguished according to the class of rack type warehouse andstate of installation of horizontal closure plates (meaning plates which horizontallyshield the inside of parts where racks, etc. are installed; the same shall apply hereinafterin this paragraph and paragraph (1) of the following article) as specified by the Com‐missioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(ii)
At parts other than parts where racks, etc. are installed, sprinkler heads shall be mount‐
ed on the ceiling or roof frame so that the horizontal distance from any part of the said
ceiling or roof frame to a sprinkler head is 2.1 meters or less; provided, however, thatsprinkler heads may not be mounted to parts listed in the following (a) through (c).
(a) Staircases, bathrooms, toilets and other similar places(b) Communication equipment rooms, computer rooms and other similar rooms(c) Places where a generator, transformer and other similar equipment are installed

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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 13‐5)(iii)

Sprinkler heads mounted in parts where racks, etc. are installed shall be provided witha suitable measure to prevent water sprinkled from other sprinkler heads splashing onto them.
(iv)
Horizontal closure plates shall be installed in parts where racks, etc. are installed as
specified in the following; provided, however, that this shall not apply in the casewhere the class of a rack type warehouse is III or IV and sprinkler heads are mounted
as specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(a) The material of horizontal closure plates shall be a flame resistant material.
(b) Horizontal closure plates shall be installed so that no gap which hampers the preven‐tion of the spread of fire is created between the horizontal closure plates and racks, etc.
(c) Horizontal closure plates shall be installed at each repetition of the height specified in
the right‐hand column of the following table according to the class of rack type ware‐house listed in the left‐hand column of the said table. In this case, the ceiling or roof
frame is deemed to constitute a closure plate.
Class
I
II and III

Height
4 meters or less8 meters or lessIV

12 meters or less

(6) Among the types of sprinkler heads to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Inter‐
nal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 12, paragraph (2), item (ii)‐(c) of the Or‐
der, those to be mounted in fire prevention properties listed in paragraph (1), item (iv) of thesaid article shall be water discharge type heads, etc. in parts where the height from the floor
surface to the ceiling exceeds 6 meters of stores, offices or other similar facilities and parts
where the height from the floor surface to the ceiling exceeds 10 meters of underground pas‐sages or standard heads of closed sprinkler heads for other parts.
(7) In fire prevention properties set forth in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (vi) of the Order,
standard heads or water discharge type heads among sprinkler heads prescribed in the pre‐ceding paragraph shall be mounted as specified in the following or in the same manner asprescribed in paragraph (3) of the preceding article respectively.
(i)
Sprinkler heads shall be mounted on parts of the ceiling facing inwards and in the loft;
provided, however, that they may not be mounted in a loft above those parts of the ceil‐
ing where the finish for the ceiling facing inwards is made of an incombustible material
or in the loft where the height of the loft is less than 0.5 meters.
(ii)
Sprinkler heads shall be mounted so that the horizontal distance from any part of the ceil‐
ing or loft to a sprinkler head is the distance specified in the right‐hand column of the fol‐lowing table according to the category listed in the left‐hand column of the said table.
Parts of Fire prevention
properties

Kitchen or other parts where
equipment or appliances using afire are installed

Other parts

Horizontal Distance
1.7 meters [in the case of high sensitivity heads (meaning highsensitivity heads prescribed in the table in Article 12, paragraph 2,
item (ii)‐(a) of the Order; the same shall apply hereinafter in thisarticle and Article 13‐6), the distance calculated in the same man‐ner as that prescribed in Article 13‐2, paragraph (3) (the value of X
in the said paragraph shall be set at 0.75)] or less
2.1 meters (in the case of high sensitivity heads, the distance calcu‐
lated in the same manner as prescribed in Article 13‐2, paragraph(3) (the value of X in the said paragraph shall be set at 0.9) or less

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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 13‐5~13‐5‐2)(8) Among the types of sprinkler heads to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of In‐
ternal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 12, paragraph (2), item (ii)‐(c) of theOrder, those to be mounted in fire prevention properties listed in paragraph (1), item (vii) of
the said article shall be water discharge type heads, etc. for parts where the height from thefloor surface to the ceiling exceeds 6 meters and standard heads of closed sprinkler heads forother parts.
(9) In fire prevention properties set forth in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (vii) of the Order,
standard heads or water discharge type heads, etc. among sprinkler heads prescribed in thepreceding paragraph shall be mounted as specified in the following or same manner as pre‐scribed in paragraph (3) of the preceding article respectively.
(i)
Sprinkler heads shall be mounted on parts of the ceiling facing upwards.
(ii)
Sprinkler heads shall be mounted so that the horizontal distance from any part of theceiling to a sprinkler head is the distance specified in the right‐hand column of the fol‐lowing table according to the category listed in the left‐hand column of the said table.
Parts of Fire Prevention Properties
Kitchen or other parts where equipment or appli‐
ances using a fire are installed.

Horizontal Distance
1.7 meters [in the case of high sensitivity heads, thedistance calculated in the same manner as that pre‐scribed in Article 13‐2, paragraph (3) (the value of X in
the said paragraph shall be set at 0.75)] or less

Other parts

2.1 meters [in the case of high sensitivity heads, thedistance calculated in the same manner as that pre‐scribed in Article 13‐2, paragraph (3) (the value of X in
the said paragraph shall be set at 0.9)]or less
2.3 meters [in the case of high sensitivity heads, thedistance calculated in the same manner as that pre‐scribed in Article 13‐2, paragraph (3) (the value of X in
the said paragraph shall be set at 1)] or less

Other than fire prevention proper‐
ties of which the main structural
sections are of a fireproof construc‐tion
Those of which the main structural
sections are of a fireproof construc‐tion(Parts Having an Effective Construction for Fire Prevention)
Article 13‐5‐2 The parts to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in Article 12, paragraph (2), item (iii‐2) shall be parts which fallunder all of the following (in the case where the total of the floor areas of the said parts ex‐
ceeds the value which is obtained by multiplying the gross area of the fire prevention prop‐
erty where the said parts are located by 0.5, limited to those parts equivalent to the area of
which the value is obtained by the said multiplication by 0.5).
(i)Parts listed in Article 12, paragraph (3), item (vii) or item (viii)(ii)
Parts to which one of the following fire prevention measures has been applied.
(a) Parts which are compartmented by walls and a floor with a semi‐fireproof construction
and which have fire doors (limited to those equipped with an automatic closing devicefor opening as required and those which can be opened as required and can also be
closed in conjunction with the activation of a smoke detector)(b) Parts which are compartmented by walls, pillars, a floor and ceiling (roof in the case ofno ceiling) made of incombustible materials and which have doors (limited to thoseequipped with an automatic closing device) made of incombustible materials at open‐
ings and all parts [excluding the parts listed in Article 13, paragraph (3), item (vi)] adja‐
cent to the said parts are located within the effective range of a sprinkler system(iii)
Not parts which are located on a basement or windowless floor of which the floor area
is 1,000 meters or more or on the fourth floor up to the tenth floor of which the floor ar‐ea is 1,500 square meters or more

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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 13‐6)(Water Quantity, etc. at Water Source for Sprinkler System)
Article 13‐6
The water quantity set forth in Article 12, paragraph (2), item (iv) of the Ordershall be calculated as specified in the following according to the intended purpose, construc‐tion or size of the fire prevention property or type of sprinkler head.
(i)
In the case of using standard heads of closed sprinkler heads, the water quantity shallbe the quantity obtained by multiplying the number specified in the right‐hand columnof the following table when the number of mounted sprinkler heads is equal to or high‐er than the number specified in the right‐hand column of the said table (in the case of asprinkler system equipped with a dry or pre‐activation type water flow detection de‐vice, the number obtained by multiplying the number specified in the right‐hand col‐umn of the said table by 1.5; the same shall apply hereinafter in this item) or the num‐
ber of mounted sprinkler heads when the said number of mounted sprinkler heads isless than the number specified in the right‐hand column of the said table by 1.6 cubic
meters [2.28 cubic meters in the case of rack type warehouses of which the class is Class
III or Class IV and in which horizontal closure plates are installed pursuant to the pro‐vision Article 13‐5, paragraph (5), item (iv) or 3.42 cubic meters for other rack type
warehouses] according to the category of a fire prevention property listed in the left‐
hand column of the following table.
Category of Fire Prevention Properties
Fire prevention
properties listed
in Article 12,
paragraph (1),item (i) throughitem (iv) anditem (ix) throughitem (xii) of the
Order

Rack type ware‐housesFire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1,row (4) of the Order and, among the fire prevention
properties listed in row (16)‐(a) of the said table, thosewhich have parts serving the intended purposes set
forth in row (4) of the said table (limited to department
stores prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Act)
OthersFire prevention properties of which thenumber of floors excluding basement
floors is 10 or lessFire prevention properties of which thenumber of floors excluding basement
floors is 11 or moreClass I, II or III
Class IV

Fire prevention properties set forth in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (vi) or
item (vii) of the Order
Those which store or handle designated flammable goods set forth in Arti‐cle 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) of the Order in a quantity of 1,000 times
the quantity specified in Appended Table 4 of the Cabinet Order Concern‐
ing the Control of Hazardous Substances(ii)

Number15 (12 in the case of high sensi‐
tivity heads)

10 (8 in the case of high sensitivi‐
ty heads)
15 (12 in the case of high sensi‐
tivity heads)
30 (24 in the case of Class 1 sen‐sitivity type of standard heads)
20 (16 in the case of Class 1 sen‐sitivity type of standard heads)
15 (12 in the case of high sensi‐
tivity heads)
20 (16 in the case of Class 1 sen‐sitivity type of standard heads)

In the case of using small compartment type heads of closed sprinkler heads, the water
quantity shall be the quantity obtained by multiplying the number specified in theright‐hand column of the following table when the number of mounted sprinkler heads
is equal to or higher than the number specified in the right‐hand column of the said ta‐
ble or the number of mounted sprinkler heads when the said number of mounted
sprinkler heads is less than the number specified in the right‐hand column of the said
table by 1 cubic meters [1.2 cubic meters in the case of a sprinkler system connected towater supply for a specified facility prescribed in Article 12, paragraph (2), item (iii‐2)

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heads in the said table or the said number of mounted sprinkler heads by 0.6 cubic me‐ters in the case where the finish for parts (excluding moldings, window sills and othersimilar parts) of the walls and ceiling (roof in the case of no ceiling) facing inwards ismade of materials other than semi‐incombustible materials)] according to the categoryof a fire prevention property listed in the left‐hand column of the said table.
Category of Fire Prevention Properties
Any fire prevention property listed in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (i) or item (ix) of the Order orparts thereof of which the reference area is less than 1,000 square meters
Any fire prevention property of which the number of floors excluding basement floors is 10 orless (excluding any fire prevention property listed in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Or‐
der of which the reference area is less than 1,000 square meters)
Any fire prevention property of which the number of floors excluding basement floors is 11 or
more

(iii)

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4

8

12

In the case of using side wall type heads of closed sprinkler heads, the water quantity
shall be the quantity obtained by multiplying the number specified in the right‐handcolumn of the following table when the number of mounted sprinkler heads is equal toor higher than the number specified in the right‐hand column of the said table (in thecase of a sprinkler system equipped with a dry or pre‐activation type water flow detec‐tion device, the number obtained by multiplying the number specified in the right‐handcolumn of the said table by 1.5; the same shall apply hereinafter in this item) or thenumber of mounted sprinkler heads in the case where the said number of mounted
sprinkler heads is less than the number specified in the right‐hand column of the said
table by 1.6 cubic meters according to the category of a fire prevention property listed
in the left‐hand column of the said table.

Category of Fire Prevention Properties
Any fire prevention property of which the number of floors excluding basement floors is 10 orless
Any fire prevention property of which the number of floors excluding basement floors is 11 or
more

(iv)

NumberNumber8
12

In the case of using open sprinkler heads, the water quantity shall be the quantity ob‐tained by multiplying the number specified in the right‐hand column of the following
table by 1.6 cubic meters [1.2 cubic meters in the case of a sprinkler system connected towater supply for a specified facility (the quantity obtained by multiplying the numberof sprinkler heads in the said table or the said number of mounted sprinkler heads by
0.6 cubic meters in the case where the finish for parts (excluding moldings, window
sills and other similar parts) of the walls and ceiling (roof in the case of no ceiling) fac‐
ing inwards is made of materials other than semi‐incombustible materials)] in accord‐
ance with the category of a fire prevention property listed in the left‐hand column ofthe said table.

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Category of Fire Prevention Properties
Any fire prevention property listed in Article 12, paragraph (1),item (i) and item (ix) of the Order or parts thereof of which thereference area is less than 1,000 square meters
Any fire prevention property listed in Article 12, paragraph (1),item (i) of the Order (excluding those of which the reference area isless than 1,000 square meters) of which the number of floors ex‐cluding basement floors is 10 or less and any fire prevention prop‐
erty where the stage section is located on the 10th or lower floor
Any fire prevention property where the stage section is locatedon the 11th or higher floor

Number4 (number of mounted sprinkler heads inthe case where the said number ofmounted sprinkler heads is less than 4)
Number obtained by multiplying thenumber of sprinkler heads mounted in
the largest water discharge area by 1.6

Number of mounted sprinkler heads onthe floor where the number of mounted
sprinkler heads is the largest(v)

In the case of using water discharge type heads, the quantity calculated as specified by
the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency as the quantity capableof effectively extinguishing a fire in a water discharge area in accordance with the per‐formance of the said heads(2) The performance of a sprinkler system shall be the same as that specified in each of the fol‐lowing items according to the intended purpose, construction or size of the fire prevention
property or type of sprinkler head listed in each of the said items pursuant to the provisionof Article 12, paragraph (2), item (v).
(i)
Standard heads of closed sprinkler heads: The required performance shall be that whensprinkler heads of the number calculated pursuant to the provision of item (i) of thepreceding paragraph are used simultaneously, each sprinkler head is capable of dis‐charging water at a rate of 80 liters per minute (114 liters per minute in the case of racktype warehouses) or more with a water discharge pressure of 0.1 MPa or more at its tip.
(ii)
Small compartment type heads of closed sprinkler heads: The required performanceshall be that when sprinkler heads of the number calculated pursuant to the provisionof item (ii) of the preceding paragraph [number of sprinkler heads to be mounted in thelargest water discharge area in the case of a sprinkler system connected to water supply
for a specified facility (4 when the said number is 4 or more)] are used simultaneously,
each sprinkler head is capable of effectively discharging water at a rate of 50 liters per
minute [15 liters per minute for a sprinkler system connected to water supply for a
specified facility (30 liters per minute in the case where the finish for parts (excluding
moldings, window sills and other similar parts) facing inwards of the walls and ceiling(roof in the case of no ceiling) is made of materials other than semi‐incombustible mate‐rials)] or more with a water discharge pressure of 0.1 MPA or more [0.02 MPa for asprinkler system connected to water supply for a specified facility (0.05 MPa in the casewhere the finish of parts (excluding moldings, window sills and other similar parts)
facing inwards of the walls and ceiling (roof in the case of no ceiling) is made of materi‐als other than semi‐incombustible materials)] or more at its tip.
(iii)
Side wall type heads of closed sprinkler heads: The required performance shall be thatwhen sprinkler heads of the number calculated pursuant to the provision of item (iii) of
the preceding paragraph are used simultaneously, each head is capable of discharging
water at a rate of 80 liters per minute or more with a water discharge pressure of 0.1
MPa or more at its tip.
(iv)
Open sprinkler heads: The required performance shall be that when sprinkler heads ofthe number to be mounted in the largest water discharge area [number of mounted
sprinkler heads on the floor where the number of mounted sprinkler heads is the larg‐
est when the stage section is located on the 11th or higher floor of a fire prevention

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property or number of sprinkler heads to be mounted in the largest water discharge ar‐
ea for a sprinkler system connected to water supply for a specified facility (4 when thesaid number is 4 or more)] are used simultaneously, each sprinkler head is capable ofeffectively discharging water at a rate of 80 liters per minute [15 liters per minute for asprinkler system connected to water supply for a specified facility (30 liters per minutein the case where the finishing of the parts (excluding moldings, window sills and othersimilar parts) of the walls and ceiling (roof in the case of the ceiling) facing inwards ismade of materials other than semi‐incombustible materials)] or more with a water dis‐charge pressure of 0.1 MPa [0.02 MPa for a sprinkler system connected to water supply
for a specified facility (0.05 MPa in the case where the finishing of the parts (excluding
moldings, window sills and other similar parts) of the walls and ceiling (roof in the caseof no ceiling) facing inwards is made of materials other than semi‐incombustible mate‐rials)] or more at its tip.
(v)
Water discharge type heads, etc.: The required performance shall be that specified by
the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency as being able to effec‐
tively discharge water to the water discharge area in accordance with the performanceof the said sprinkler heads.
(3) A sprinkler system connected to the water supply to a specified facility to be specified by an
Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 12,
paragraph (2), item (vi) of the Order shall be a sprinkler system connected to the water sup‐ply to a specified facility which possesses the performance specified in item (ii) or item (iv)of the preceding paragraph without the installation of a pressurized water supply unit.
(4) When auxiliary hydrants are to be installed to a sprinkler system pursuant to the provisionof Article 12, paragraph (2), item (viii) of the Order, they shall be installed as specified in thefollowing.
(i)
Auxiliary hydrants shall be installed on each floor of a fire prevention property so thatthe horizontal distance from any part of any floor to a hose connection port is 15 metersor less; provided, however, that this shall not apply when auxiliary hydrants are to beinstalled at a part where sprinkler heads have been mounted.
(ii)
On every floor where auxiliary hydrants are to be installed, when all auxiliary hydrants
on the said floor [2 when the number of installed auxiliary hydrants exceeds 2 (1 in thecase where the horizontal distance between the hose connection ports of neighboring
auxiliary hydrants exceeds 30 meters)] are used simultaneously, each auxiliary hydrant
is capable of performing water discharge at a rate of 60 liters per minute or more with awater discharge pressure of 0.25 MPa or more at the tip of its nozzle.
(iii)
The marking for the mounting of auxiliary sprinkler heads shall be as specified in thefollowing (a) and (c).
(a) The marking of ʺFire Extinguishing Hydrantʺ shall be indicated on the surface of theauxiliary hydrant box.
(b) A red lamp which can be easily recognized from a distance of 10 meters in the direction
forming an angle of 15 degrees or more against the mounting face shall be installed at
an upper part of the auxiliary hydrant box.
(c) In the case where the on‐off valve of an auxiliary hydrant is to be installed on the ceiling,it shall conform to the following 1. and 2. In this case, the provision of (b) shall not apply.
1. A red lamp which can be easily recognized from a distance of 10 meters and 1.5
meters above the floor surface shall be installed in a place immediately adjacent tothe auxiliary hydrant box.
2. A red lamp which can be easily recognized from a distance of 10 meters in the di‐rection following an angle of 15 degrees or more against the mounting surface
shall be installed at the upper part of the device designed to descend fire hoses.
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(iv)
(v)

A nozzle shall have a device to allow its easy opening and closing.
The on‐off valve of an auxiliary hydrant shall be installed at a height of 1.5 meters or lessfrom the floor surface or on the ceiling provided, however, that in the case where the said
on‐off valve is installed on the ceiling, the said on‐off valve shall be of the automatic type.
(vi)
A fire hose shall be houses as specified in the following (a) and (b).
(a) It shall be housed to conform to the standards prescribed in each item of Article 11‐2.
(b) The length of a fire hose on a flood where an auxiliary hydrant is installed shall be alength capable of effectively discharging water to each part of the floor in question within
the range of 15 meters in terms of the horizontal distance from the hose connection portof the auxiliary hydrant provided, however, that this shall not apply in the case where an
auxiliary hydrant is installed at a part where a sprinkler head(s) is installed.
(vii)
Auxiliary hydrants and appliances required for water discharge shall conform to thestandards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management
Agency.

(Details of the Standards Concerning Sprinkler Systems)
Article 14
The details of the technical standards concerning the installation and mainte‐
nance of a sprinkler system (excluding those specified in the following paragraph) shall be
the following.
(i)
A deluge valve or manual open valve for a sprinkler system which uses open sprinkler
heads shall be as specified in the following.
(a) A valve shall be installed for each water discharge area.
(b) The pressure acting on the deluge valve or manual open valve shall be equal to or lessthan the maximum working pressure for the said deluge valve or manual open valve.
(c) The start‐up operating part of the deluge valve or manual open valve shall be installed
in a place which can be easily approached at the time of a fire on a floor where open
sprinkler heads are mounted and of which the height shall be 0.8 meters or higher but
not exceeding 1.5 meters from the floor surface.
(d) The part on the secondary side piping of the deluge valve or manual open valve [lim‐ited to those to be installed in a fire prevention property set forth in Article 12, para‐graph (1), item (ii) or parts thereof] shall have a device which can testing the working
order of the said valve without discharging water to the said water discharge area.
(e) In the case of a manual open valve, the force required to open the said valve shall be 150
newtons or less.
(ii)
The number of water discharge areas for a sprinkler system using open sprinkler heads
shall be 4 or less for one stage section or room while neighboring water discharge areas
shall overlap each other to effectively extinguish a fire when two or more water dis‐charge areas are set up; provided, however, that the number of water discharge areas ina room may be 5 or more if the said sprinkler system can effectively discharge water at
the time of a fire.
(iii)
Control valves shall be as specified in the following.
(a) One control valve shall be installed for each water discharge area in the case of a sprin‐kler system using open sprinkler heads (excluding a sprinkler system connected to wa‐
ter supply for a specified facility), every floor of a fire prevention property (every pip‐
ing system in the case of a rack type warehouse) at a place of which the height from thefloor surface is 0.8 meters or more but 1.5 meters or less for a sprinkler system using
closed sprinkler heads and in a fire prevention property of each part thereof for asprinkler system connected to water supply for a specified facility.
(b) A control valve shall have a device which prevents the valve being closed without due
course.
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(c)
(iv)

(a)
(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

(iv‐2)(iv‐3)(iv‐4)(iv‐5)

(v)

(v‐2)

(a)

(b)

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A control valve shall have a sign in an easily visible place nearby to indicate that it is acontrol valve for a sprinkler system.
An automatic alarm device shall be as specified in the following; provided, however,that an automatic alarm device may not be installed for a sprinkler system connected towater supply for a specified facility while an audible alarm device may not be installedin the case where an alarm is set off by an automatic fire alarm system.
An alarm shall be set off with the opening of a sprinkler head or the opening of the on‐off valve for an auxiliary hydrant.
An initiating system shall be installed for each floor (each piping system in the case of arack type warehouse) or water discharge area and the said initiating system shall use ei‐ther a water flow detection device or a pressure detecting device.
The pressure on a water flow detection device or pressure detection device set forth in(b) shall be equal to or less than the maximum working pressure for the said water flow
detection device or pressure detection device.
A receiving system shall be installed with a display unit which shows the floor or water
discharge area where a sprinkler head(s) or fire detection head(s) has opened at a disas‐
ter protection center, etc.; provided, however, that this shall not apply in the case wherea master control panel is installed pursuant to the provision of Article 12, paragraph (1),item (viii) which is applied mutatis mutandis in item (xii).
When two or more receiving systems are installed in a single fire prevention property, asystem which allows simultaneous conversations between the places where the said re‐ceiving systems are located shall be installed.
The water flow detection device for a sprinkler system using small compartment typeheads of closed sprinkler heads shall be the wet type; provided, however, that a waterflow detection device may not be installed for a sprinkler system connected to watersupply for a specified facility.
The water flow detection device for a sprinkler system to be installed in a rack type
warehouse shall be that other than the pre‐activation type.
A pressure gauge shall be mounted on the primary side of the water flow detection de‐vice.
In the case of a sprinkler system which requires setting of the pressure on the secondaryside of a water flow detection device, a system to automatically set off the alarm when
the pressure on the secondary side falls below the set pressure value for the said waterflow detection device shall be installed.
A priming device shall be installed in the same manner as that prescribed in Article 12,
paragraph (1), item (iii‐2); provided, however, that a priming device may not be in‐stalled for a sprinkler system connected to water supply for a specified facility.
A valve to test the working order of a water flow detection device or pressure detection
device shall be installed as specified in the following at the end of the pipework for asprinkler system using closed sprinkler heads (hereinafter referred to as ʺend valve fortestingʺ); provided, however, that an end valve for testing may not be installed for thetype of sprinkler system connected to water supply for a specified facility where thewater discharge pressure and rate of water discharge can be measured.
An end valve for testing shall be installed for each pipework system for which either awater flow detection device or pressure detection device is installed at a part of thepipework where the water discharge pressure is anticipated to become the lowest.
The primary side and secondary side of an end valve for testing shall allow the installa‐tion of a pressure gauge and an orifice or another water discharge port for testing pur‐poses of which the water discharge performance is equal to that of a sprinkler head re‐spectively.

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An end valve for testing shall have a sign which indicates that it is an end valve for test‐
ing in an easily visible place nearby.
(vi)
A fire department supply port shall be as specified in the following.
(a) A fire department supply port shall be exclusively used for its intended purpose.
(b) The metal coupling for a fire department supply port shall be either the snap type orscrew type and the construction of the metal coupling shall conform to an inlet of nom‐
inal diameter class 65 prescribed in the Ordinance for Technical Specifications Pertain‐
ing to Snap or Screw Type Metal Couplings Used for Fire Hoses and Screw Type Metal
Couplings Used for Fire Suction Hoses (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications No. 23 of 2013) in the case of the snap type or to female screw of
the clamping ring of nominal diameter class 65 prescribed in the said ordinance in thecase of the screw type.
(c) The metal coupling for a fire department supply port shall be mounted in a place of
which the height from the ground surface is 0.5 meters or more but 1 meter or less andwhich does not hinder water supply.
(d) A fire department supply port shall be connected through exclusive pipework to thepipework from the pressurized water supply unit of the said sprinkler system to thewater flow detection device or pressure detection device or deluge valve or manual
open valve.
(e) A fire department supply port shall have a sign which indicates that it is a fire depart‐
ment supply port for a sprinkler system and its range of water supply pressure in aneasily visible place nearby.
(f) Fire department supply ports shall conform to the standards to be specified by theCommissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(vi‐2) An emergency power source shall be installed in the same manner as that prescribed in
Article 12, paragraph (1), item (iv).
(vii)
The closed sprinkler heads to be installed shall be those which are capable of indicating
the temperature range specified in the following according to the maximum ambient
temperature at the normal time of the place of mounting.
Maximum Ambient Temperature
at Place of Mounting

Capable Temperature Range IndicatedLess than 39°C

Less than 79°C

39°C or higher but less than 64°C

79°C or higher but less than 121°C

64°C or higher but less than 106°C

121°C or higher but less than 162°C

106°C or higher

162°C or higher(viii) The starting device shall be as specified in the following.
(a) An automatic starting device shall be as specified in the following 1. and 2.
1. In the case of a sprinkler system using open sprinkler heads, an automatic starting
device shall be capable of starting the pressurized water supply unit and deluge
valve (deluge valve in the case of a sprinkler system connected to water supply fora specified facility where a pressurized water supply unit is not installed) in con‐junction with the activation of the detector of an automatic fire alarm system or theactivation of a pressure detection device following the activation or opening of afire detection head; provided, however, that this shall not apply in the case where
the receiver of an automatic fire alarm system or the display unit for a sprinkler
system is installed in a disaster protection center, etc. or a master control panel isinstalled pursuant to the provision of item (xii) or the provision of Article 12, para‐graph (1), item (viii) which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 24, item (ix) along
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with arrangements for the immediate start of the pressurized water supply unit
and deluge valve by a manual starting device at the time of a fire.
2. In the case of a sprinkler system using closed sprinkler heads, an automatic start‐
ing device shall be capable of starting the pressurized water supply unit in con‐junction with the activation of the detector of an automatic fire alarm system or theactivation of a water flow detection device or water pressure controlled starter.
(b) A manual starting device shall be as specified in the following.
1. A manual starting device shall be capable of starting the pressurized water supply
unit and manual open valve or pressurized water supply unit and deluge valve bydirect operation or remote operation respectively (in the case of a sprinkler system
connected to water supply for a specified facility where a pressurized water sup‐ply unit is not installed, manual open valve or deluge valve respectively).
2. In the case of a sprinkler system with two or more water discharge areas, a manual
starting device shall have a construction which allows the selection of the water
discharge areas.
(viii‐2) In the case of a sprinkler system where a dry or pre‐activation type water flow detection
device is installed, the starting device shall be that which is capable of discharging wa‐
ter from the sprinkler heads within one minute from the time of the opening of the said
sprinkler heads.
(ix)
The wiring for the operating circuit shall be conducted in a similar manner to that pre‐scribed in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (v).
(x)
The pipework shall be installed in a similar manner to that prescribed in Article 12, para‐graph (1), item (vi) (excluding (d) through (g) in the case of a sprinkler system connected
to water supply for a specified facility) and shall also be as specified in the following.
(a) Corrosion resistance treatment, such as zinc plating, etc., shall be applied to metal
pipework on the secondary side of a dry or pre‐activation type water flow detection
device or deluge valve.
(b) The secondary side pipework of a dry or pre‐activation type water flow detection de‐vice shall be provided with a measure designed to effectively drain water from the said
pipework.
(c) Pipes, pipe joints and valves, etc. pertinent to a sprinkler system connected to watersupply for a specified facility shall be those which conform to the standards to be speci‐
fied by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(xi)
A pressurized water supply unit shall use the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (1),item (7)‐(a)‐2., (b)‐2. and 3., (c)‐3. through 8., (d) and (g) as relevant examples and shallalso be as specified in the following; provided, however, that the head of the pressur‐
ized water supply unit, pressure of the pressure water tank or total head of the pump in
the case of installing auxiliary hydrants prescribed in paragraph (3) of the preceding ar‐
ticle shall be the value calculated by (a), (b) or (c)‐2. or the value calculated using theprovision of Article 12, paragraph (2), item (iii), item (iv) or item (v)‐(b) as the relevant
example, which ever is the higher.
(a) The head of the pressurized water system using an elevated water tank (meaning thevertical distance from the bottom end of the water tank to the sprinkler head; the same
shall apply hereinafter in this item) shall be the value which is equal to or higher thanthe value calculated by the following equation.
H = h1 + 10 m
Where,
H: Required head (unit: meters)
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be the value which is equal to or higher than the value calculated by the following
equation.
P = p1 + p2 + 0.1 Mpa
Where,
P: Required pressure (unit: mega pascals)
p1: Friction loss of water head pressure due to pipework (unit: mega pascals)
p2: Converted water head pressure of the head (unit: mega pascals)(c) A pressurized water supply unit using a pump shall be as specified in the following.
1. The discharge rate of the pump shall be equal to or higher than the rate calculated
by multiplying the number of sprinkler heads prescribed in paragraph (2), item (i)through item (iv) of the preceding article by 90 liters per minute (60 liters per minutein the case of using small compartment type heads of closed sprinkler heads or 130
liters per minute in the case of those to be mounted in a rack type warehouse).
2. The total head of the pump shall be a value equal to or higher than the value calcu‐
lated by the following equation.
H = h1 + h2 + 10 m
Where,
H: Total head of the pump (unit: meters)
h1: Friction loss of the water head due to pipework (unit: meters)h2: Head (unit: meters)(d) A pressurized water supply unit shall be provided with a measure designed to makethe water discharge pressure at the sprinkler heads not exceed 1 MPa.
(e) Calculation of the friction loss due to pipework shall be based on the standards to be
specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(xi‐2) A pressurized water supply unit to be installed to a sprinkler system connected to watersupply for a specified facility shall follow the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (1), item(vii)‐(a)‐2., (b)‐2. and 3, (c)‐4. through 6., (d) and (g) as the relevant examples and shall use
mutatis mutandis provisions (a) through (e) of the preceding item. In this case, the phrase
ʺ10 metersʺ in (a) of the said item shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺ2 meters [5 meters in
the case where the finishing of the parts (excluding moldings, window sills and othersimilar parts) of the walls and ceiling (roof in the case of no ceiling) facing inwards ismade of materials other than semi‐incombustible materials]ʺ, the phrase ʺ0.1 MPaʺ in (b)of the said item shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺ0.02 MPa [0.05 MPa in the case where
the finishing of the parts (excluding moldings, window wills and other similar parts) of
the walls and ceiling (roof in the case of no ceiling) facing inwards is made of materials
other than semi‐incombustible materials]ʺ, the phrases ʺsmall compartment type heads ofclosed sprinkler headsʺ and ʺ60 liters per minuteʺ in (c)‐1. of the said item shall bedeemed to be replaced by ʺsmall compartment type heads of closed sprinkler heads for asprinkler system connected to water supply for a specified facilityʺ and ʺ20 liters per mi‐nute [35 liters per minute in the case where the finishing of the parts (excluding mold‐ings, window sills and other similar parts) of the walls and ceiling (roof in the case of noceiling) facing inwards is made of materials other than semi‐incombustible materials]ʺ re‐spectively and the phrase ʺ10 metersʺ in (c)‐2. of the said item shall be deemed to be re‐placed by ʺ2 meters [5 meters in the case where the finish of parts (excluding moldings,
window sills and other similar parts) of the walls and ceiling (roof in the case of no ceil‐ing) facing inwards is made of materials other than semi‐incombustible materials]ʺ.
(xii)
The provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) shall apply mutatis mutandis to asprinkler system.
(xiii) The water tank, etc. shall be provided with a measure prescribed in Article 12, para‐graph (1), item (ix).
73Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 14~16)(2) The details of the technical standards for the installation and maintenance of sprinkler systems(limited to those using water discharge type heads, etc.) shall be as specified in the following.
(i)
The water discharge type heads, etc. shall be those which automatically start water dis‐charge in conjunction with the detection of a fire; provided, however, that this shall not
apply in the case where an outbreak of a fire can be confirmed by a disaster protection
center, etc. and the said system can be immediately activated to start water discharge.
(ii)
The parts to which water discharge type heads, etc. are mounted shall have a drainage
facility of the size and gradient capable of effectively draining the quantity of water cor‐
responding to the maximum capacity of the pressurized water supply unit; provided,
however, that this shall not apply in the case where, in view of the structural design ofthe building, water discharge type heads, etc. pose no risk of disrupting the operationof the said sprinkler system and other fire defense equipment or special fire defense
equipment or hindering evacuation and fire extinguishing activities.
(iii)
In addition to what is specified in the two preceding items, a sprinkler system using thewater discharge type head, etc. shall conform to the necessary matters to be specified by
the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency concerning its installa‐tion and maintenance.
(Fire Prevention Equipment to be Installed at Openings)
Article 15
Those to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications as fire prevention equipment prescribed in the proviso of Article 12, para‐graph (2), item (iii) of the Order shall be fire doors or a drencher system.
(2) A drencher system set forth in the preceding paragraph shall conform to each of the follow‐
ing items.
(i)Drencher heads shall be installed on the head of an opening at the rate of one drencher
head per 2.5 meters or less of the length of the said head.
(ii)
A control valve shall be installed on each floor of a fire prevention property in a posi‐tion of which the height from the floor surface of the said floor is 0.8 meters or more but
1.5 meters or less.
(iii)
A water source shall be installed so that its quantity of water shall be equal to or higher
than the quantity obtained by multiplying the number of installed drencher heads (5 ifthe number of the said installed drenchers exceeds 5) by 0.4 cubic meters.
(iv)
A drencher system shall have the performance where the water discharge pressure andrate of water discharge at the tip of each drencher head are 0.1 MPa or higher and 20 li‐
ters per minute or more respectively in the case where all drencher heads (5 if the num‐
ber of the said installed drenchers exceeds 5) are used simultaneously.
(v)
A pressurized water supply unit connected to a water source shall be installed in a place
which is convenient for checking and is less likely to be damaged by fire or other disasters.
(Standards Concerning Water Spray Fire Extinguishing System)
Article 16
The number and layout of water spray heads to be mounted in a fire prevention
property which stores or handles designated flammable goods shall be as specified in eachof the following items.
(i)Each head shall be mounted so that the entire surface of a protected property shall beincorporated in the effective protection space of the said head (space in which a fire canbe effectively extinguished by water spray, foam, halon fire extinguishing agent or dry
chemical fire extinguishing agent sprayed from the heads of a water spray fire extin‐
guishing system, foam fire extinguishing system, halon fire extinguishing system or dry
chemical fire extinguishing system (foam head of the foam outlet in the case of a foam
fire extinguishing system; the same shall apply hereinafter).
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Water spray heads shall be mounted so that the quantity of water calculated on thebasis of the proportional quantity specified in the following paragraph for each 1
square meter of the floor area can be sprayed at the standard spray rate (meaning thestandard spray rate set forth in Article 14, item (i) of the Order; the same shall apply
hereinafter) according to the category of a fire prevention property or parts thereof.
(2) The water quantity at the water source for a water spray fire extinguishing system set forthin the preceding paragraph shall be equal to or higher than the quantity capable of spraying
water of the quantity calculated on the basis of 10 liters per minute per 1 square meter of thefloor area (in the case where the floor area of the said fire prevention property or parts
thereof exceeds 50 square meters, the quantity calculated on the basis of a floor area of 50
square meters) for 20 minutes.
(3) The details of the technical standards for the installation and maintenance of a water sprayfire extinguishing system set forth in paragraph (1) shall be as specified in the following.
(i)A spray area (meaning an area to which water is sprayed simultaneously from a singledeluge valve) shall be set up for each floor where a protected property is located.
(ii)
The installation of a priming device and emergency power source shall follow the pro‐vision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (iii‐2) or item (iv) as a relevant example.
(ii‐2) Pipework shall be installed in a similar manner to that prescribed in Article 12, para‐graph (1), item (6) and corrosion resistance treatment, such as zinc plating, etc., shall beapplied to metal pipework on the secondary side of the deluge valve.
(iii)
The installation of a pressurized water supply unit shall follow the provisions of Article
12, paragraph (1), item (vii)‐(a)‐2., (b)‐2. and 3., (c)‐3. through 8., (d) and (g) as the rele‐vant examples and shall also be as specified in the following.
(a) The head of the pressurized water unit using an elevated water tank (meaning the ver‐tical distance from the bottom end of the water tank to the water spray head; the same
shall apply hereinafter in this item) shall be the value which is equal to or higher thanthe value calculated by the following equation.
H = h1 +h2
Where,
H: Required head (unit: meters)
h1: Converted water head of the design pressure of the water spray heads installed tothe said system prescribed in Article 32 (unit: meters)
h2: Friction loss of water head due to pipework (unit: meters)(b) The pressure of the pressurized water tank of a pressurized water supply unit using apressurized water tank shall be the value which is equal to or higher than the value cal‐culated by the following equation.
P = p1 + p2 + p3
Where,
p : Required pressure (unit: mega pascals)
p1: Design pressure of the water spray heads installed to the said system prescribed in
Article 32 (unit: mega pascals)
p2: Friction loss of water head pressure due to pipework (unit: mega pascals)
p3: Converted water head pressure of the head (unit: mega pascals)(c) A pressurized water supply unit using a pump shall be as specified in the following.
1. The discharge rate of the pump shall be equal to or higher than the rate capable ofdischarging water at the rate prescribed in paragraph (1), item (ii) from all the wa‐
ter spray heads spraying water simultaneously.
2. The total head of the pump shall be the value which is equal to or higher than thevalue calculated by the following equation.
H = h 1 + h2 + h3
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Where,
H: Total head of the pump (unit: meters)
h1: Converted water head of the design pressure of the water spray heads installed tothe said system prescribed in Article 32 (unit: meters)
h2: Friction loss of the water head due to pipework (unit: meters)h3: Head (unit: meters)(d) A pressurized water supply unit shall be provided with a measure designed to makethe spray pressure at the water spray heads to be mounted to the said system not ex‐
ceed the upper limit value of the performance range of the said water spray heads.
(e) The starting device shall be as specified in the following.
1. An automatic starting device shall be capable of starting the pressurized watersupply unit and deluge valve in conjunction with the activation of the detector of
an automatic fire alarm system, opening of a closed sprinkler head or the activa‐tion or opening of a fire detection head; provided, however, that this shall not ap‐
ply in the case where the receiver of an automatic fire alarm system is installed in adisaster protection center, etc. or a master control panel is installed pursuant to theprovision of item (xi) or the provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) which
is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 24, item (ix) along with arrangements for theimmediate start of the pressurized water supply unit and deluge valve by a manu‐
al starting device at the time of a fire.
2. In addition to what is prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (1), item (viii)‐(b), a
manual starting device shall have a sign in an easily visible place nearby to indi‐cate that it is a starting device.
(f) Calculation of the friction loss due to pipework shall be based on the standards to be
specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(iv)
The installation of the deluge valve and control valve shall follow the provision of Arti‐cle 14, paragraph (1), item (i) or item (iii) as the relevant example.
(v)
The drainage facility shall have the size and gradient capable of effectively draining thequantity of water corresponding to the maximum capacity of a pressurized water sup‐ply unit.
(vi)
The provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) shall apply mutatis mutandis to awater spray fire extinguishing system.
(vii)
The water tank, etc. shall be provided with a measure prescribed in Article 12, para‐graph (1), item (ix).
Article 17
The number and layout of the water spray heads of a water spray fire extin‐
guishing system to be installed at parts serving as roads or parts serving as car parking
spaces of a fire prevention property shall be as specified in the following.
(i)Water spray heads shall be mounted so that the protected property is effectively cov‐
ered by water sprayed from the said water spray heads in consideration of the roadwidth or parking locations of vehicles for the effective extinguishing of a fire on thefloor around vehicles.
(ii)
Water spray heads shall be mounted so that spray heads spraying at the standard dis‐charge rate collectively achieve a spray rate of 20 liters per minute per 1 square meter ofthe floor area.
(2) In addition to what is prescribed in paragraph (3), item (iii) of the preceding article, the pres‐surized water supply unit shall be that which is capable of supplying the largest quantity ofwater among those specified in the following items.
(i)
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ferred to as ʺarea of road sectionʺ), in the case where the part serving as a road is divid‐
ed into sections of 10 meters or more in length, simultaneously spray water at thestandard discharge rate(ii)
The quantity of water when all the water spray heads mounted in the largest area
among areas, each of which consists of an area of a section compartmented by the sec‐tion boundary mound specified in paragraph (5), item (ii) and an area of vehicle pathalong this section (in the case where parking spaces for vehicles are on both sides of thevehicle path, the area up to the center line of the said vehicle path) (hereinafter referred
to as the ʺsectional areaʺ in the following item), simultaneously spray water at thestandard spray rate(iii)
The quantity of water in the case when all the water spray heads mounted in the largest
area among areas, each of which consists of two adjacent areas of road sections or sec‐
tional areas, simultaneously spray water at the standard spray rate(3) The quantity of water at the water source for a water spray fire extinguishing system set
forth in paragraph (1) shall be equal to or higher than the quantity capable of spraying at therate specified in each of the following items for 20 minutes.
(i)
For parts serving as a road, the quantity calculated on the basis of 20 liters per minute per
1 square meter of the floor area of the part where the area of the road section is the largest(ii)
For parts serving as a parking space, the quantity calculated on the basis of 20 liters per
minute per 1 square meter of the floor area (50 square meters in the case where the said
floor area exceeds 50 square meters) of the said fire prevention property or parts thereof(4) The drainage system to be installed at parts serving as a road shall be installed as specifiedin each of the following items.
(i)
The road shall have a gradient capable of draining water towards a ditch.
(ii)
A ditch shall be installed at the center or edge of the road.
(iii)
The ditch shall have a water collecting conduit every 40 meters or less in length which
is directly connected to a fire pit.
(iv)
The fire pit shall be equipped with an oil separator and shall be installed in a place
where there is little fire risk.
(v)
The ditch and water collecting conduits shall have a sufficient size and gradient capableof effectively draining the quantity of water corresponding to the maximum capacity ofthe pressurized water supply unit.
(5) The drainage system to be installed at parts serving as a parking space shall be installed as
specified in each of the following items.
(i)
The floor surface of the parking space for vehicles shall have a gradient of two in one
hundred towards the ditch.
(ii)
The parking space for vehicles shall have a boundary mound of 10 centimeters or morein height except at the side along the vehicle path.
(iii)
The fire pit shall be equipped with an oil separator and shall in installed in a place
where there is little fire.
(iv)
A ditch shall be installed at the center or both edges of the vehicle path.
(v)
Each ditch shall have a water collecting conduit every 40 meters or less in length which
is directly connected to the fire pit.
(vi)
The ditch and water collecting conduits shall have a sufficient size and gradient capableof effectively draining the quantity of water corresponding to the maximum capacity ofthe pressurized water supply unit.
(6) The provision of paragraph (3) [excluding item (iii) and item (v)] of the preceding article
shall apply mutatis mutandis to the details of the technical standards concerning the installa‐tion and maintenance of a water spray fire extinguishing system set forth in paragraph (1).

77Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 18)(Standards Concerning Foam Fire Extinguishing System)
Article 18
The foam outlets of a fixed type foam fire extinguishing system shall be as speci‐
fied in the following.
(i)
The type of foam outlet shall be that listed in the right‐hand column of the following
table according to the type of foam based on the expansion rate (meaning the value ob‐tained by dividing the volume of generated foam by the volume of foam solution(meaning the mixed liquid of the foam fire extinguishing agent and water; the same
shall apply hereinafter in this article); the same shall apply hereinafter in this article)
listed in the left‐hand column of the said table.
Type of Foam Based on Expansion Rate
Foam of which the expansion rate is 20 or lower(referred to as ʺlow expansion foamʺ in this article
Foam of which the expansion rate is 80 or higher but less than 1,000(referred to as ʺhigh expansion foamʺ in this article

(ii)

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Type of Foam Outlet
Foam head
Foam outlet for high expan‐
sion foamWith regard to foam heads, foam water sprinkler heads for a fire prevention property
listed in Appended Table 1, row (xiii)‐(b) of the Order or the rooftop part of a fire pre‐vention property which is used for the taking off or landing of rotary‐wing aircraft or
for the vertical taking off and landing of aircraft, foam heads for a part used as a road, apart used for the repair or maintenance of automobiles or a part used for vehicle park‐ing or foam water sprinkler heads or foam heads for a fire prevention property andparts thereof which stores or handles designated flammable goods shall be mounted as
specified in the following.
(a) Foam water sprinkler heads shall be mounted on the ceiling or roof frame of a fire pre‐vention property or parts thereof at a rate of one or more heads per 8 square meters of
the floor area so that the entire surface of the protected property shall be included in theeffective protection area of the said heads.
(b) Foam heads shall be mounted on the ceiling or roof frame of a fire prevention property
or parts thereof at a rate of one or more heads per 9 square meters of the floor area sothat the entire surface of the protected property shall be included in the effective protec‐
tion area of the said heads.
(c) The spray rate of a foam head shall be set to allow the spraying of foam solution of thequantity calculated on the basis of the rate listed in the right‐hand column of the fol‐lowing table according to the category of a fire prevention property or parts thereof andthe type of foam fire extinguishing agent listed in the left‐hand column and middle col‐umn respectively of the said table.
Spray Rate per 1
Square Meterof Floor Area

Fire Prevention Property
or Parts ThereofType of Foam Fire Extinguishing Agent

Part used as a road, part used
for the repair or maintenance ofautomobiles or part for vehicle
parking

Protein foam fire extinguishing agent
Synthetic surfactant foam fire extinguishing
agent
Aqueous film foam fire extinguishing agent

6.5 liters per minuteFire prevention property orparts thereof which stores orhandles designated flammable
goods

Protein foam fire extinguishing agent
Synthetic surfactant foam fire extinguishing
agent
Aqueous film foam fire extinguishing agent

6.5 liters per minute

8.0 liters per minute
3.7 liters per minute

6.5 liters per minute
6.5 liters per minuteMinisterial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 18)(iii)
Foam outlets for high expansion foam shall be mounted as specified in the following (a) or (b).
(a) Whole area discharge type foam outlets for high expansion foam shall be mounted tothose compartmented parts set forth in Article 16, item (i) of the Order (hereinafter re‐ferred to as ʺprotected partsʺ) where the opening is provided with an automatic closing
device (meaning a device which is either a fire door or a door made of an incombustible
material and which automatically closes the opening immediately before the dischargeof foam solution) and shall be as specified in the following; provided, however, that an
automatic closing device for the said opening may not be provided in the case of a sys‐
tem which is capable of effectively releasing additional foam solution of which thequantity is equal to or higher than the quantity of foam solution leaking outwards fromthe said protected part.
1. The discharge rate of foam solution at a foam outlet (including a foam generator in
the case where there is no built‐in foam generator; the same shall apply hereinaf‐ter) shall be set to allow the discharge of foam solution of the quantity calculatedon the basis of the quantity listed in the right‐hand column of the following tableper 1 cubic meter of the foam filled volume (meaning the volume from the said
floor surface to a level which is 0.5 meters higher than the highest level of the pro‐tected property; the same shall apply hereinafter) in the said protected part ac‐
cording to the category of a fire prevention property or parts thereof and the typeof foam outlet based on the expansion rate in the left‐hand column and middle
column respectively of the said table.
Fire Prevention Property
or Parts ThereofFire prevention property listed inAppended Table 1, row (13)‐(b) of
the Order

Type of Foam Outlet Based
Discharge Rate of Foam Solution
on Expansion Rate
per Minute per 1 Cubic Meter
Foam outlet of which the expansion rate is
80 or higher but less than 250 (hereinafter
2.00 liters
referred to as ʺType 1ʺ in this article)
Foam outlet of which the expansion rate is
250 or higher but less than 500 (hereinafter
0.50 liters
referred to as ʺType 2ʺ in this article)
Foam outlet of which the expansion rate is
500 or higher but less than 1,000 (hereinaf‐
0.29 liters
ter referred to as ʺType 3) in this article
Part used for the repair or mainte‐
Type 1
1.11 liters
nance of automobiles or part used
Type 20.28 liters
for vehicle parking
Type 30.16 1iters
Fire prevention property or parts
1.25 liters
Type 1
thereof which stores or handles
Type 20.31 liters
waste cloth or waste paper (lim‐ited to cloth of paper soaked withanimal fat or plant oil or productsType 30.18 liters
made of such cloth or paper),flammable solids or flammableliquids
Fire prevention property or parts
thereof which stores or handles
designated flammable goods (ex‐cluding waste cloth and waste
paper) (limited to cloth and paper
Type 11.25 liters
soaked with animal fat or plant oilor products of such cloth paper) ,flammable solids or flammableliquids)

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2.

One or more foam outlets shall be mounted for every 500 square meters of the floorarea of one protected part so that foam can be effectively discharged to the said part.
3. Each foam outlet shall be mounted in a place higher than the highest level of a pro‐tected property; provided, however, that the height of the foam outlet may corre‐
spond to the height of a protected property in the case where a foam outlet has theability to push up foam.
(b) Localized discharge type foam outlets for high expansion foam shall be as specified in
the following.
1. In the case where protected properties are located side by side with a risk of the
spread of a fire between them, protected properties within the range of the said
spread of a fire shall be deemed to constitute a single protected property for the
purpose of mounting localized discharge type foam outlets.
2. The discharge volume of foam solution from a foam outlet shall be equal to or
higher than the value calculated on the basis of the rate listed in the right‐handcolumn of the following table per 1 square meter of the protected area [meaning
the area of the part enclosing the said protected property by an outer line (mean‐
ing a line which maintains a horizontal distance of three times of the value of theheight of the highest level of the protected property or 1 meter, which ever is thegreater, from any part of the said protected property; the same shall apply herein‐
after in this article)] according to the category of the protected property listed in
the left‐hand column of the said table.
Protected Property
Designated flammable goods
OthersDischarge Quantity
per 1 Square Meter of Protected Area
3 liters per minute
2 liters per minute(2) The water quantity at a water source shall be equal to or more than the quantity required to
produce foam solution of the quantity specified in each of the following items.
(i)Quantity which is capable of discharging for 10 minutes at the standard discharge rateprescribed in Article 32 when all the foam heads mounted in parts of which the area isequal to or more than one‐third of the floor area or the area of the rooftop in the case of afoam fire extinguishing system using foam water sprinkler heads which is installed at afire prevention property listed in Appended Table 1, row (13)‐(b) of the Order or the roof‐
top of a fire prevention property which is used for the taking off and landing of rotary
wing aircraft or vertical taking off and landing aircraft or all the foam heads mounted inparts with a floor area of 50 square meters in the case of a foam fire extinguishing systemusing foam water sprinkler heads which is installed at a fire prevention property storingor handling designated flammable goods or thereof are simultaneously opened.
(ii)
Quantity which is capable of spraying for 10 minutes at the spray rate specified in item(ii)‐(c) of the preceding paragraph when all the heads of a foam fire extinguishing sys‐
tem using foam heads which are mounted in an area with a floor area of 80 square me‐ters in the case of foam heads to be mounted in a part used as a road, an area where thefloor area is the largest in a part compartmented by beams, etc. protruding by 0.4 me‐ters or more from a wall or ceiling made of an incombustible material (area with a floorarea of 50 square meters in the case of no protruding beams, etc. in the said ceiling) in
the case of foam heads mounted in a part used for vehicle parking or a spray area withthe largest floor area in the case of any other fire prevention property or parts thereof
are simultaneously opened.
(iii)
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 18)(a) In the case of the whole area discharge type, the quantity of foam solution calculated at therate listed in the right‐hand column of the following table per 1 cubic meter of the foam
filled volume in a protected part where the floor area is the largest according to the type offoam outlet listed in the left‐hand column of the said table (in the case where an automatic
closing device is not installed at the opening of the protected part, the quantity added witha quantity capable of effectively discharging a quantity of foam solution which is equal toor more than the quantity leaking outwards from the said protected part)
Type of Foam Outlet
Type 1
Type 2Type 3

Quantity of Foam Solution per 1
Cubic Meter of Foam Filled Volume0.040 cubic meters0.013 cubic meters0.008 cubic meters(b) In the case of the localized discharge type, the quantity capable of discharging for 20
minutes at the foam solution discharge rate specified in item (iii)‐(b)‐2. of the preceding
paragraph to the discharge area with the largest floor area(iv)
In the case of a mobile foam fire extinguishing system, the quantity capable of spraying
foam solution for 15 minutes at the spray rate of 100 liters per minute per nozzle in thecase of the said system installed at a part used as a road, part used for the repair ormaintenance of vehicles or part used for vehicle parking or 200 liters per minute per
nozzle in the case of the said system installed at any other fire prevention property orparts thereof when two (one if there is only one hose connection port) nozzles are usedsimultaneously(v)
In addition to the quantity of foam solution listed in each of the preceding items, thequantity of foam solution required to fill the pipework(3) The stored quantity of foam fire extinguishing agent shall be equal to or more than the quan‐tity obtained by multiplying the quantity of foam solution specified in the preceding para‐graph by the concentration of diluted foam solution to be specified by the Commissioner of
the Fire and Disaster Management Agency in accordance with the type of each foam fire ex‐tinguishing agent as suitable to generate effective foam to extinguish a fire.
(4) The details of the technical standards concerning the installation and maintenance of a foam
fire extinguishing system are as specified in the following.
(i)
A system to be installed at a place which has a risk of being filled with dense smoke at
the time of a fire shall be the fixed type.
(i‐2)
A fixed type foam fire extinguishing system shall be installed at a part used as a road;provided, however, that this shall not apply to a system to be installed on the rooftop.
(ii)
A foam fire extinguishing system using foam outlets for high expansion foam to be
mounted in places exceeding 5 meters in height from the floor surface to protect a pro‐tected property shall be the whole area type.
(iii)
The foam fire extinguishing agent to be used by a mobile foam fire extinguishing sys‐
tem shall be limited to the type of low expansion foam.
(iii‐2) The fire hose of a mobile foam fire extinguishing system shall conform to the standards
to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(iv)
The indication of a mobile foam fire extinguishing system shall be as specified in thefollowing.
(a) A box storing foam spraying apparatus shall have the indication ʺMobile Foam Fire
Extinguishing Systemʺ on its surface.
(b) A red lamp shall be mounted at the upper part of a box storing mobile foam fire extin‐
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The area of one spraying area of a foam fire extinguishing system using foam heads
shall be 80 square meters or more but 160 square meters or less for a part used as a roador 50 square meters or more but 100 square meters or less for any other fire prevention
property or parts thereof.
(vi)
The installation of a priming device shall follow the provision of Article 12, paragraph(1), item (iii‐2) as the relevant example.
(vii)
The wiring for the operating circuit and circuit for the lamp set forth in item (iv)‐(b)shall follow the provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (v) as the relevant example.
(viii) In addition to following the provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (vi) as the relevant
example for installation, pipework shall be given corrosion resistance treatment, such as
zinc plating, etc. , for the metal section on the secondary side of the deluge valve.
(ix)
In addition to following the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (vii)‐(a)‐2., (b)‐2. and 3., (c)‐3. through 8., (d), (g) and (h) as the relevant examples, a pressurized watersupply unit shall be as specified in the following.
(a) The head (meaning the vertical distance from the bottom end of the water tank to thefoam outlet; the same shall apply hereinafter in this item) of a pressurized water supply
unit using a pressurized water tank shall be a value which is equal to or higher than thevalue calculated by the following equation.
H = h1 + h2 + h3
Where,
H: Required head (unit: meters)
h1: Converted water head of the design pressure of the fixed foam outlet installed tothe said system prescribed in Article 32 or converted water head of the nozzle
spray pressure of a mobile foam fire extinguishing system (unit: meters)
h2: Friction loss of water head due to fire hose (unit: meters)
h3: Friction loss of water head due to fire hose of a mobile foam fire extinguishing sys‐tem (unit: meters).
(b) The pressure of the pressurized water tank of a pressurized water supply unit using apressurized water tank shall be a value which is equal to or higher than the value calcu‐
lated by the following equation.
P = p1 + p2 + p3 + p4
Where,
P: Required pressure (unit: mega pascals)
p1: Design pressure of the fixed foam outlet installed to the said system prescribed in
Article 32 or the nozzle spray pressure of a mobile foam fire extinguishing unit
(unit: mega pascals)
p2: Friction loss of water head pressure due to pipework (unit: mega pascals)
p3: Converted water head pressure of the head (unit: mega pascals)
p4: Friction loss of water head pressure due to fire hose of a mobile foam fire extin‐
guishing system (unit: mega pascals)(c) A pressurized water supply unit using a pump shall be as specified in the following.
1. The discharge rate of the pump shall be the rate capable of discharging or spraying
foam solution within the tolerable range of the design pressure of the fixed foam
outlet or the spray pressure of the nozzle.
2. The total head of the pump shall be a value equal to or higher than the value calcu‐
lated by the following equation.
H = h1 + h2 + h3 + h4
Where,
H: Total head of the pump (unit: meters)
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the said system prescribed in Article 32 or converted water head of the spray pres‐sure at the tip of the nozzle of a mobile foam fire extinguishing system (unit: me‐ters)h2: Friction loss of the water head due to pipework (unit: meters)h3: Head (unit: meters)
h4: Friction loss of the water head due to the fire hose of a mobile foam fire extinguish‐
ing system (unit: meters)(d) A pressurized water supply unit shall be provided with a measure designed to prevent thedischarge pressure at the foam outlet or the spray pressure at the tip of the nozzle from ex‐
ceeding the upper limit of the performance range of the said foam outlet or nozzle.
(x)
The starting device shall be as specified in the following.
(a) An automatic starting device shall be capable of starting the pressurized water supply
unit, deluge valve and foam fire extinguishing agent mixing device in conjunction withthe activation of the detector of an automatic fire alarm system, opening of a closed
sprinkler head or the activation or opening of a fire detection head; provided, however,that this shall not apply in the case where the receiver of an automatic fire alarm system
is installed in a disaster protection center, etc. or a master control panel is installed pur‐suant to the provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) which is applied mutatis
mutandis in item (xv) or Article 24, item (ix) along with arrangements for the immediate
start of the pressurized water supply unit, deluge valve and foam fire extinguishing
agent mixing device by a manual starting device at the time of a fire.
(b) A manual starting device shall be as specified in the following.
1. A manual starting device shall be capable of starting the pressurized water supply
unit, deluge valve and foam fire extinguishing agent mixing device by direct oper‐
ation or remote operation.
2. A manual starting device for a foam fire extinguishing system with two or more
spray areas shall be capable of selecting the spray area(s).
3. The operating part of a starting device shall be installed at a place which can beeasily approached at the time of a fire and of which the height from the floor sur‐face is 0.8 meters or higher but 1.5 meters or lower.
4. The operating part of a starting device shall have an effective protection measure,
such as organic glass, etc.
5. The operating part and hose connection port of a starting device shall have indi‐vidual signs indicating the operating part and connection port at an easily visible
place nearby.
(xi)
A foam fire extinguishing system using foam outlets for high expansion foam shall beequipped with a device to stop the discharge of foam.
(xii)
The installation of an automatic fire alarm system shall follow the provision of Article
14, paragraph (1), item (iv) as the relevant example.
(xiii) The installation of an emergency power source shall follow the provision of Article 12,
paragraph (1), item (iv) as the relevant example.
(xiv) The foam outlets and foam fire extinguishing agent mixing device shall be those which
conform to the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and disaster
Management Agency.
(xv)
The provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) shall apply mutatis mutandis to afoam fire extinguishing system.
(xvi) The water tank shall be provided with a measure prescribed in Article 12, paragraph(1), item (ix).

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Article 19
The fire prevention equipment to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry ofInternal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 16, item (i) of the Order shall be afire‐retarding door.
(2) The discharge heads of a whole area discharge type inert gas fire extinguishing system shallbe mounted as specified in the following.
(i)Discharge heads shall be mounted so that the discharged fire extinguishing agent uni‐
formly and swiftly spreads in the whole area.
(ii)
The discharge pressure of a discharge head shall be as specified in the following (a) and (b).
(a) In the case of an inert gas fire extinguishing system discharging carbon dioxide, the dis‐charge pressure shall be 1.4 MPa or higher in the case of a high pressure type (meaningthat carbon dioxide is stored at the ordinary temperature in the container; the same
shall apply hereinafter in this article) or 0.9 MPa or higher in the case of a low pressure
type (meaning that carbon dioxide is stored at a temperature of minus 18C or lower inthe container; the same shall apply hereinafter in this article).
(b) In the case of an inert gas fire extinguishing system discharging nitrogen or a 50‐50
mixture of nitrogen and argon in terms of volume (hereinafter referred to as ʺIG‐55ʺ) ora 52‐40‐8 mixture of nitrogen, argon and carbon dioxide respectively in terms of volume(hereinafter referred to as ʺIG‐541ʺ), the discharge pressure shall be 1.9 MPa or higher.
(iii)
The discharge duration of a fire extinguishing agent shall be as specified in the follow‐
ing (a) or (b).
(a) In the case of the said system discharging carbon dioxide, it shall be capable of dis‐charging the quantity of fire extinguishing agent specified in paragraph (4), item (i)‐(a)within the time listed in the right‐hand column of the following table according to thecategory of a fire prevention property listed in the left‐hand column of the said table orparts thereof.
Fire Prevention Property or Parts ThereofCommunication equipment room
Fire prevention property which stores or handles designated flammable
goods (excluding flammable solids, etc. and flammable liquids, etc.) or parts
thereof
Other fire prevention property or parts thereof

Duration
3 and a half minutes
7 minutes
1 minute(b) In the case of the said system discharging IG‐55 or IG‐541, it shall be capable of dis‐charging the quantity equivalent to or more than nine‐tenths of the quantity of fire ex‐tinguishing agent specified in paragraph (4), item (i)‐(b) within one minute.
(iv)
Discharge heads shall conform to the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of
the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(3) In addition to what is prescribed in item (ii)‐(a) of the preceding paragraph, discharge headsof a localized discharge type inert gas fire extinguishing system shall be mounted as speci‐
fied in each of the following items.
(i)Discharge heads shall be mounted so that the surface of a protected property falls with‐in the effective range of one discharge head.
(ii)
Discharge heads shall be mounted in places where flammable goods will not be
splashed due to the discharge of a fire extinguishing agent.
(iii)
Discharge heads shall be capable of discharging the quantity of fire extinguishing agent
specified in item (ii) of the following paragraph within 30 seconds.
(iv)
Discharge heads shall be those which conform to the standards to be specified by theCommissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.

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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 19)(4) The quantity of fire extinguishing agent to be stored in the storage container of an inert gas
fire extinguishing agent (hereinafter referred to as ʺstorage containerʺ in this article) shall be
as specified in each of the following items.
(i)
In the case of a whole area discharge type inert gas fire extinguishing system, the stor‐
age container shall be as specified in the following (a) or (b).
(a) In the case of an inert gas fire extinguishing system discharging carbon dioxide, thequantity shall be equal to or more than the quantity calculated as specified in the fol‐lowing 1. through 3.
1. In the case of a communication equipment room or a fire prevention property
which stores or handles designated flammable goods (excluding flammable solids
and flammable liquids) or parts thereof, the quantity shall be that calculated on thebasis of the quantity listed in the right‐hand column of the following table per 1
cubic meter of the volume of a protected part (in the case where a fixed airtightstructure made of an incombustible material exists, the volume after the subtrac‐
tion of the volume of the said structure from the volume of the protected part; thesame shall apply hereinafter in this article, the following article and Article 21) ac‐
cording to the category of a fire prevention property listed in the left‐hand columnof the said table or parts thereof.

Fire Prevention Property or Parts ThereofCommunication equipment room
Fire prevention
Those pertinent to cotton, wood filaments or savings,
property whichwaste cloth or waste paper (excluding waste cloth orstores or handles
waste paper soaked with animal fat or plant oil anddesignated flamma‐ products made of such waste cloth or waste paper),ble goods (excluding yarn, straw, fuel made of recycled materials or syn‐thetic resins (limited to rubber products, intermediate
flammable solids
and flammable liq‐ rubber products, raw rubber and waste rubber whichuids) or parts there‐ are not incombustible or fire resistant) (hereinafterreferred to as ʺcotton, etc.ʺ)ofThose pertinent to processed wood and wood chips
Those pertinent to synthetic resins (excluding rubber
products, intermediate rubber products, raw rubber
and waste rubber which are not incombustible orfire resistant)

2.

Quantity of Fire Extinguish‐
ing Agency per 1 Cubic Meterof Volume of Protected Part
1.2 kilograms

2.7 kilograms

2.0 kilograms

0.75 kilograms

In the case of those other than a fire prevention property listed in (a) or parts
thereof, the quantity shall be that calculated on the basis of the quantity listed in
the middle column of the following table according to the volume of a protectedpart listed in the left‐hand column of the said table; provided, however, that thequantity shall be that listed in the right‐hand column of the said table in the casewhere the calculated quantity is less than the quantity listed in the said right‐handcolumn of the said table.

Volume of Protected Part
Less than 50 cubic meters
50 cubic meters or more but
less than 150 cubic meters

Quantity of Fire Extinguishing Agent per 1
Cubic Meter of Volume of Protected Part
1.00 kilograms

Minimum Total Quantity ofFire Extinguishing Agent

0.90 kilograms

50 kilograms

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150 cubic meters or more but
less than 1,500 cubic meters
1,500 cubic meters or more

3.

0.80 kilograms

135 kilograms

0.75 kilograms

1,200 kilograms

In the case where an automatic closing device is not installed at the opening of aprotected part, the quantity shall be that where the quantity calculated on the basisof the rate listed in the right‐hand column of the following table according to thecategory of a fire prevention property listed in the left‐hand column of the said ta‐
ble or parts thereof is added to the quantity calculated in 1. or 2.

Fire Prevention Property or Parts ThereofFire preven‐ Communication equipment roomtion proper‐ Fire prevention prop‐ Those pertaining to cotton, etc.
ty listed in 1. erty which stores or Those pertaining to processed
handlesdesignated wood or wood chips
flammable goods (ex‐ Those pertaining to synthetic resinscluding
flammable (excluding rubber products, inter‐solids and flammable mediate rubber products, raw rub‐liquids) or parts there‐ ber and waste rubber which are notofincombustible or fire resistant)
Fire prevention property listed in 2. or parts thereof

Quantity of Fire Extinguish‐
ing Agent per 1 Square Meterof Area of Opening
10 kilograms
20 kilograms
15 kilograms

5 kilograms

5 kilograms(b) In the case of a system discharging nitrogen, IG‐55 or IG‐541, the quantity shall be that
calculated on the basis of the rate listed in the right‐hand column of the following tableaccording to the type of fire extinguishing agent listed in the left‐hand column of thesaid table.
Type of Fire
Extinguishing Agent
Nitrogen
IG‐55
IG‐541(ii)

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Quantity of Fire Extinguishing Agentper 1 Cubic Meter of Volume of Protected Part
0.516 cubic meters or more but 0.740 cubic meters or less(volume converted to the state of 1 atmosphere at a temperature of 20C)
0.477 cubic meters or more but 0.562 cubic meters or less0.472 cubic meters or more but 0.562 cubic meters or lessIn the case of a localized discharge type inert gas fire extinguishing system, the quantity
shall be that which is equivalent to or higher than the value obtained by multiplying thequantity calculated as specified in the following (a) or (b) by 1.4 for the high pressure
type or 1.1 for the low pressure type.
(a) In the case where the burning face at the time of a fire is restricted to one face and there
is no risk of the splashing of flammable goods, including the case where a combustible
solid or combustible liquid is stored in a container of which the upper face is opened,
the quantity shall be that which is calculated on the basis of a rate of 13 kilograms per 1
square meter of the surface area (in the case of a protected property of which the lengthof one side is 0.6 meters or less, the area calculated on the basis of the length of the said
side as 0.6 meters; the same shall apply in the following article and Article 21) of a pro‐tected property.
(b) In the case other than the case listed in (a), the quantity shall be that which is calculated
by multiplying the quantity calculated by the following equation by the volume of theprotected space (meaning a part which is a space enclosed by a part which is away byMinisterial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 19)
0.6 meters from all parts of a protected property).

Q 86aA

Where
Q : Quantity of fire extinguishing agent per unit volume(unit: kilograms/cubic meter)a : Total area of the walls actually installed around the protected property(unit: square meters)
A : Total area of walls (in the case of parts without walls, the area of walls when suchwalls are assumed to exist) of the protected space (unit: square meters)(iii)
In the case where two or more protected parts or protected properties exist in the same
fire prevention property or parts thereof which is served by either a whole area dis‐charge type or localized discharge type inert gas fire extinguishing system, the quantity
shall be that which is equal to or higher than the largest quantity among the quantities
calculated for such protected parts or protected properties following the provisions of
the two preceding items as the relevant examples.
(iv)
In the case of a mobile inert gas fire extinguishing system, the quantity shall be thatwhich is equal to or more than 90 kilograms per nozzle.
(5) The details of the technical standards concerning the installation and maintenance of awhole area discharge type or localized discharge type inert gas fire extinguishing systemshall be as specified in the following.
(i)
A whole area discharge type inert gas fire extinguishing system shall be installed at apart used for vehicle parking and part of the communication equipment room where
people are normally absent.
(i‐2)
A whole area discharge type or localized discharge type inert gas fire extinguishing systemshall not be installed at parts other than those parts where people are normally absent.
(ii)
The fire extinguishing agent to be used for an inert gas fire extinguishing system shallbe carbon dioxide [limited to carbon dioxide which conforms to Type 2 or Type 3 of Ja‐
pan Industrial Standard K116; the same shall apply hereinafter in this item, item (ii‐3)
and item (i) of the following paragraph], nitrogen (limited to nitrogen which conforms
to Class 2 of Japan Industrial Standard K1107; the same shall apply hereinafter in thisitem), a mixture of nitrogen and argon (limited to argon which conforms to Class 2 ofJapan Industrial Standard K1105; the same shall apply hereinafter in this item) withvolume ratios of 50% and 50% or a mixture of nitrogen, argon and carbon dioxide withvolume ratios of 52%, 40% and 8% respectively.
(ii‐2) The fire extinguishing agent to be used for a whole area discharge type inert gas fire ex‐tinguishing system shall be the fire extinguishing agent listed in the right‐hand columnof the following table according to the category of fire prevention property listed in theleft‐hand column of the said table or parts thereof in which the said fire extinguishingsystem is to be installed.
Fire Prevention Property or Parts ThereofType of Fire
Extinguishing Agent

Forging shop, boiler room, drying room or other part where a large quantityof fire is used, part where a generator using a gas turbine as the motive
Carbon dioxide
power is installed or fire prevention property which stores or handles des‐ignated flammable goods or parts thereof
Other fire prevention
Protected part of which the area is 1,000 square
Carbon dioxide, nitro‐
property or parts thereof meters or more but 3,000 square meters or lessgen, IG‐55 or IG‐541
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(iii)
(iv)

(a)

(b)

(v)
(a)

(b)

(vi)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(vi‐2)(vi‐3)

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The fire extinguishing agent to be used for a localized discharge type inert gas fire ex‐tinguishing system shall be carbon dioxide.
The ventilation system in a protected part shall have a construction capable of stopping
its operation prior to the discharge of a fire extinguishing agent.
The openings of a fire prevention property or parts thereof where a whole area dis‐charge type inert gas fire extinguishing system is installed shall be as specified in thefollowing (a) or (b).
In the case of a system spraying carbon dioxide, the openings shall be as specified in thefollowing 1. through 3.
1. An opening shall not be provided facing a stairwell, access lobby to an emergency
elevator or any other similar places.
2. An opening of which the height from the floor surface is equal to or less than two‐
thirds of the floor height and where there is a risk of reducing the fire extinguish‐
ing effect due to the loss of sprayed fire extinguishing agent or a safety risk shallbe equipped with an automatic closing device capable of closing the opening prior
to the spraying of the fire extinguishing agent.
3. The total numerical value of the area of an opening to which an automatic closing
device is not installed shall be equal to or less than 1 percent of the numerical val‐ue of the enclosing wall area (total area of the walls, floor and ceiling or roof of theprotected part; the same shall apply hereinafter) in the case of a fire prevention
property listed in item (i)‐(a)‐1. of the preceding paragraph or equal to or less than
10 percent of the numerical value of the volume of the protected part or the nu‐
merical value of the enclosing wall area, which ever is the lower, in the case of afire prevention property listed in item (i)‐(a)‐2. of the preceding paragraph.
In the case of a system spraying nitrogen, IG‐55 or IG‐541, each opening shall beequipped with an automatic closing device capable of closing the opening prior to thespraying of the fire extinguishing agent.
The filling of a storage container shall be as specified in the following (a) or (b).
In the case of using carbon dioxide as the fire extinguishing agent, the filling ratio (ratio
between the numerical value of the internal capacity of the container and the numericalvalue of the weight of the fire extinguishing agent; the same shall apply hereinafter)shall be 1.5 or more but 1.9 or less for the high pressure type and 1.1 or more but 1.4 orless for the low pressure type.
In the case of using nitrogen, IG‐55 or IG‐541 as the fire extinguishing agent, the fillpressure of the storage container shall be equal to or less than 30.0 MPa at a tempera‐ture of 35C.
A storage container shall be installed as specified in the following (a) through (c).
A storage container shall be placed in a location other than a protected part.
A storage container shall be placed in a location where the ambient temperature isequal to or less than 40C and there is little temperature fluctuation.
A storage container shall be placed in a location where it is less likely to be exposed todirect sunlight or rainwater.
A storage container shall be equipped with a safety device [including that installed tothe container valve; the same shall apply hereinafter in item (xiii)‐(c) of this paragraph,paragraph (4), item (iv)‐(a) and item (vi‐2) of the following article and Article 21, para‐graph (4), item (iii)‐(c) and item (v‐2)] which conforms to the standards to be specified
by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
The quantity of filled fire extinguishing agent and the type, year of manufacture andname of the manufacturer of the fire extinguishing agent shall be indicated at an easily
visible place of the storage container; provided, however, that the type of fire extin‐

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guishing agent may not be indicated for a storage container storing carbon dioxide.
(vii)
Pipework shall be as specified in the following (a) through (d).
(a) Pipework shall exclusively serve the inert gas fire extinguishing system.
(b) Pipework shall be as specified in the following 1. or 2.
1. Pipework for an inert gas fire extinguishing system spraying carbon dioxide shallbe as specified in the following.
i.
Pipework using steel pipes shall use steel pipes which conform to the nominal
thickness of Schedule No. 80 or more for the high pressure type or the nominal
thickness of Schedule No. 40 for the low pressure type among STPG370 pipes ofJapan Industrial Standard G3454 or those steel pipes of which the strength isequivalent to or more than that of these pipes and which have received corro‐sion resistance treatment, such as zinc plating, etc.
ii. Pipework using copper pipes shall use copper pipes which conform to toughpitch copper of Japan Industrial Standard H3300 or those of which the strengthis equivalent to or more than that of these pipes and which shall withstand apressure of 16.5 MPa or higher for the high pressure type or 3.75 MPa or higher
for the low pressure type.
2. Pipework for an inert gas fire extinguishing system spraying nitrogen, IG‐55 or IG‐
541 shall be as specified in the following; provided, however, that steel pipes (lim‐ited to hose having received corrosion resistance treatment, such as zinc plating,etc.) or copper pipes which have the strength to withstand the maximum adjustingpressure at a temperature of 40C may be used for pipework for the secondaryside of a pressure adjustment device.
i.
Pipework using steel pipes shall use steel pipes which conform to the nominal
thickness of Schedule No. 80 or more among STPG370 pipes of Japan Industrial
Standard G3454 or those of which the strength is equivalent to or more than thatof these pipes and which have received corrosion resistance treatment, such as
zinc plating, etc.
ii. Pipework using copper pipes shall use copper pipes which conform to toughpitch copper of Japan Industrial Standard H3300 or those of which the strengthis equivalent to or more than that of these pipes and which can withstand apressure of 16.5 MPa or higher.
iii. Notwithstanding the provisions of i. and ii., if a selector valve or on‐off valve(hereinafter referred to as ʺselector valve, etc.ʺ) is to be installed to pipework,
steel pipes (limited to those which have received corrosion resistance treatment,such as zinc plating, etc.) or copper pipes which can withstand the internal pres‐sure at a temperature of 40C shall be used for the section from the storage con‐tainer to the selector valve, etc.
(c) Pipe joints shall be as specified in the following 1. or 2.
1. Pipe joints for an inert gas fire extinguishing system spraying carbon dioxide shallbe those which can withstand a pressure of 16.5 MPa or higher in the case of thehigh pressure type or 3.75 MPa in the case of the low pressure type and whichhave received a suitable corrosion resistance treatment.
2. Pipe joints for an inert gas fire extinguishing system spraying nitrogen, IG‐55 orIG‐541 shall follow the provision of (b)‐2. as the relevant example.
(d) The head [meaning the vertical distance from the lowest part of the pipework to thehighest part of the pipework; the same shall apply in paragraph (4), item (vii)‐(e) of thefollowing article and Article 21, paragraph (4), item (vii)‐(g)] shall be 50 meters or less.
(viii) A container to store carbon dioxide at an ordinary temperature or a container to store
nitrogen, IG‐55 or IG‐541 shall have a container valve which conforms to the standards
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(ix)

(a)
(b)
(c)

(d)

(x)

(xi)
(a)

(b)
(c)
(d)
(xii)

(xiii)
(a)
(b)

(c)

(xiv)
(a)

(b)
(xv)
(a)

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to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
A container to store carbon dioxide at a temperature of minus 18C or lower (hereinaf‐
ter referred to as ʺlow pressure type storage containerʺ) shall be as specified in the fol‐lowing (a) through (d).
A low pressure type storage container shall be equipped with a liquid‐level gauge anda pressure gauge.
A low pressure type storage container shall be equipped with a pressure alarm unit
which is activated by a pressure of 2.3 MPa or higher or 1.9 MPa or lower.
A low pressure type storage container shall be equipped with an automatic freezer
capable of maintaining the temperature inside the container at minus 20C or higher
but minus 18C or lower.
A low pressure type storage container shall be equipped with a rupture disc which con‐forms to the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster
Management Agency.
A low pressure type storage container shall be equipped with a discharge valve which
conforms to the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disastermanagement Agency.
A selector valve shall be as specified in the following (a) through (d).
When a storage container is shared for use in the case where there are two or more pro‐tected parts or protected properties exist in a single fire prevention property or parts
thereof, a selector valve shall be installed for each protected part or protected property.
A selector valve shall be installed in a place other than a protected part.
A selector valve shall have an indication that it is a selector valve for which protectedpart or protected property.
A selector valve shall conform to the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of
the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
In the case where a selector valve, etc. is installed between the storage container anddischarge head, either a safety device or a rupture disc which conforms to the standards
to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency shallbe installed between the storage container and selector valve, etc.
A starting gas container shall be as specified in the following (a) through (c).
A starting gas container shall be able to withstand a pressure of 24.5 MPa or higher.
The inner volume of a starting gas container shall be 1 liter or more, the quantity of car‐bon dioxide to be stored in the said container shall be 0.6 kilograms or more and the fill‐ing ratio shall be 1.5 or higher.
A starting gas container shall be equipped with a safety device and container valve,both of which shall conform to the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of
the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
A starting device shall be as specified in the following (a) or (b).
In the case of an inert gas fire extinguishing system spraying carbon dioxide, the start‐
ing device shall be a manual starting device; provided, however, that the starting de‐vice to be installed may be an automatic starting device at a property under fire protec‐
tion measures where people are normally absent or any other place where the installa‐tion of a manual starting device is inappropriate.
In the case of an inert gas fire extinguishing system spraying nitrogen, IG‐55 or IG‐541,
the starting device shall be an automatic starting device.
A manual starting device shall be as specified in the following (a) through (h).
A starting device shall be installed at a place outside the said protective part from
where the said protected part can be thoroughly viewed and where it is easy for a per‐son operating the device to evacuate, such as near the doorway of the protected part.

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 19)(b) A starting device shall be installed in each protected part or protected property.
(c) The operating part of a starting device shall be installed at a place where the heightfrom the floor surface is 0.8 meters or higher but not exceeding 1.5 meters.
(d) A starting device shall have a marking at an easily visible place nearby to indicate that
it is a starting device for an inert gas fire extinguishing system and the type of fire ex‐tinguishing agent.
(e) The color of the external surface of a starting device shall be red.
(f) A starting device using electricity shall be equipped with a power indicator lamp.
(g) The discharge switch, trigger valve or any other such device of a starting device shall bea type which can only be operated after the operation to start an audible alarm device
with the said starter device being effectively protected by organic glass, etc.
(h) The name of the protected part, handling method, safety precautions and other relevant
matters shall be indicated on the starting device or at a place nearby.
(xvi) An automatic starting device shall be as specified in the following (a) through (d).
(a) A starting device shall be that which starts in conjunction with the activation of a detec‐
tor of an automatic fire alarm system.
(b) A starting device shall be equipped with a manual/automatic switchover device as
specified in the following 1. through 3.
1. A switchover device shall be installed at a place where it can be easily operated.
2. A switchover device shall be equipped with an indicator lamp which indicates ei‐
ther manual or automatic mode.
3. A switchover device shall have a mechanism where switching between manualmode and automatic mode can only be done with a key, etc.
(c) In the case of an inert gas fire extinguishing system spraying nitrogen, IG‐55 or IG‐541, theactivation of the discharge switch, trigger valve or other similar device of the starting device
shall immediately open the container valve or discharge valve of the storage container.
(d) The handling method shall be indicated on the automatic/manual switchover device or
nearby.
(xvii) An audible alarm device shall be as specified in the following (a) through (d).
(a) An audible alarm device shall be that which automatically sets off the alarm in conjunc‐tion with the operation or activation of a manual or automatic starting device andwhich is not shut off before the spraying of a fire extinguishing agent.
(b) An audible alarm device shall be installed so that every person in a protected part orprotected property is effectively informed of the imminent spraying of a fire extinguish‐
ing agent.
(c) An audible alarm device to be installed for a whole area discharge type shall be an
alarm device using a voice; provided, however, that this shall not apply to a fire pre‐vention property where people are normally absent.
(d) An audible alarm device shall conform to the standards to be specified by the Commis‐
sioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(xviii) A place where an inert gas fire extinguishing system is installed shall be provided witha measure designed to discharge the discharged fire extinguishing agent and combus‐
tion gas to a safe place.
(xix)
Safety measures shall be provided for a whole area discharge type as specified in thefollowing (a) or (b).
(a) Safety measures for a whole area discharge type spraying carbon dioxide shall be as
specified in the following 1. through 3.
1. A delay unit shall be installed so that it takes 20 or more seconds from the activationof the discharge switch, trigger valve or other similar device of a starting device tothe opening of the container valve or discharge valve of the storage container.
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A manual starting device shall be provided with a measure designed to preventthe discharge of a fire extinguishing agent within the time specified in 1.
3. An indicator lamp indicating the discharge of a fire extinguishing agent shall be
installed at an easily visible place, such as the doorway of a protected part.
(b) A whole area discharge type using nitrogen, IG‐55 or IG‐541 shall follow the provisionof (a)‐3. as the relevant example.
(xix‐2) In the case where an opening exists at a wall, pillar, floor or ceiling [referred to as ʺwall, etc.ʺ
in (b)] which compartments a protected part where a whole area discharge type inert gas
fire extinguishing system (limited to a system discharging carbon dioxide) is installed froma part adjacent to the said protected part (hereinafter referred to as ʺadjacent part to a pro‐tected partʺ), the adjacent part to the protected part shall be provided with a safety measure
as specified in the following (a) through (c); provided, however, that this shall not apply inthe case where there is no risk of the fire extinguishing agent discharged in the protectedarea flowing into the part adjacent to the protected part or there is no safety risk.
(a) A measure designed to discharge a fire extinguishing agent to a safe place shall be pro‐vided.
(b) An indicator lamp indicating the discharge of a fire extinguishing agent to a protectedpart shall be installed at an easily visible place, such as a doorway (excluding a door‐
way with a wall, etc. which compartments a protected part from a part adjacent to aprotected part), of a part adjacent to a protected part.
(c) A part adjacent to a protected part shall be provided with an audible alarm device
which is capable of effectively informing the imminent discharge of a fire extinguishing
agent in a protected area following the provision of item (xvii) as the relevant example.
(xix‐3) A whole area discharge type shall be equipped with a control panel which conforms to
the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Manage‐
ment Agency and controls the start, stop and other operations of the said inert gas fire
extinguishing system.
(xx)
An emergency power source for an inert gas fire extinguishing system shall be an in‐house power generation system, storage battery system or fuel cell system, shall have aminimum capacity which is capable of effectively operating the said system for one
hour and its installation shall follow the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (1), item(iv)‐(b), (c), (d) and (e) as the relevant examples.
(xxi)
Wiring for the operating circuit, circuit for the audible alarm device and circuit for the in‐dicator lamp (referred to as ʺoperating circuit, etc.ʺ in the following article and Article 21)
shall follow the provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (v) as the relevant example.
(xxii) Calculation of the pressure loss at the time of the discharge of a fire extinguishing agent
shall be based on the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire andDisaster Management Agency.
(xxii‐2) A protected part where a whole area discharge type inert gas fire extinguishing system
is installed (limited to a system spraying nitrogen, IG‐55 or IG‐541) shall be provided
with a measure designed to prevent a pressure rise inside the said protected part.
(xxiii) The provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) shall apply mutatis mutandis to aninert gas fire extinguishing system.
(xxiv) A storage container, pipework and emergency power source shall be provided with themeasures prescribed in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (ix).
(6) The details of the technical standards concerning the installation and maintenance of a mo‐bile inert gas fire extinguishing system shall follow the provisions of item (v)‐(a), item (vi)‐(b) and (c), item (vi‐2), item (vi‐3) (excluding parts pertaining to nitrogen, IG‐55 and IG‐541),
item (vii) (excluding (b)‐2. and (c)‐2.) item (viii) (excluding parts pertaining to nitrogen, IG‐
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also be as specified in the following.
(i)
The fire extinguishing agent to be used for a mobile inert gas fire extinguishing systemshall be carbon dioxide.
(i‐2)
Each nozzle shall be capable of spraying 60 kilograms or more of a fire extinguishing
agent per minute at a temperature of 20C.
(ii)
The container valve and discharge valve of a storage container shall be those which canbe manually opened or closed at the place of installation of the hose.
(iii)
A storage container shall be installed at each place where a hose is installed.
(iv)
A red lamp and signs to indicate the presence of a mobile inert gas fire extinguishingsystem and the type of fire extinguishing agent shall be installed at an easily visible
place near a storage container.
(v)
A mobile inert gas fire extinguishing system shall be installed at a place other thanplaces where there is a risk of them being filled with dense smoke.
(v‐2) In the case of installation in a part used as a road, the said system shall only be installedon the rooftop section.
(vi)
The hose, nozzle, nozzle on‐off valve and hose reel shall conform to the standards to be
specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(Standards Concerning Halon Fire Extinguishing System)
Article 20
The installation of the discharge heads of a whole area discharge type halon fire
extinguishing system shall follow the provision of paragraph (2), item (i) of the preceding ar‐
ticle as the relevant example and shall also be as specified in each of the following items.
(i)A discharge head spraying dibromotetrafluoroethane (hereinafter referred to as ʺHalon
2402ʺ in this article and Article 32) or dodeca‐fluoro‐2‐methylpentan‐3‐one (hereinafterreferred to as ʺFK‐5‐1‐12ʺ in this article and Article 32) shall be that which sprays thesaid fire extinguishing agent in the form of a mist.
(ii)
The spray pressure of a discharge head shall be as specified in the following (a) or (b).
(a) The spray pressure shall be 0.1 MPa or higher for a halon fire extinguishing system
spraying Halon 2402, 0.2 MPa or higher for a halon fire extinguishing system spraying
bromochlorodifluoromethane (hereinafter referred to as ʺHalon 1211ʺ in this article) or
0.9 MPa or higher for a halon fire extinguishing system spraying bromotrifluoro‐
methane (hereinafter referred to as ʺHalon 1301ʺ in this article).
(b) The spray pressure shall be 0.9 MPa or higher for a halon fire extinguishing system
spraying trifluoromethane (hereinafter referred to as ʺHFC‐23ʺ in this article) or 0.3
MPa or higher for a halon fire extinguishing system spraying heptafluoropropane(hereinafter referred to as ʺHFC‐227eaʺ) or FK‐5‐1‐12.
(iii)
The spray duration of a fire extinguishing agent shall be as specified in the following (a)or (b).
(a) Discharge heads spraying Halon 2402, Halon 1211 or Halon 1301 shall be able to spraya quantity of fire extinguishing agent as specified in paragraph (3), item (i)‐(a) within 30
seconds.
(b) Discharge heads spraying HFC‐23, HFC‐227ea or FK‐5‐1‐12 shall be able to spray aquantity of fire extinguishing agent as specified in paragraph (3), item (i)‐(b) within 10
seconds.
(iv)
Discharge heads shall conform to the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of
the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(2) Discharge heads for a localized discharge type halon fire extinguishing system shall follow
the provisions of paragraph (3), item (i) and item (ii) of the preceding article and item (i) anditem (ii)‐(a) of the preceding paragraph as the relevant examples and shall also be as speci‐
fied in each of the following items.
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 20)(i)Discharge heads shall be able to spray a quantity of fire extinguishing agent as specified
in item (ii) of the following paragraph within 30 seconds.
(ii)
Discharge heads shall conform to the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of
the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(3) The quantity of fire extinguishing agent to be stored in a storage container or storage tankfor a halon fire extinguishing agent (hereinafter referred to as ʺstorage container, etc.ʺ in thisarticle) shall be as specified in each of the following items.
(i)
In the case of a whole area discharge halon fire extinguishing system, the quantity shallbe as specified in the following (a) or (b).
(a) The quantity shall be equal to or more than the quantity calculated as specified in the fol‐lowing 1. or 2. in the case of a system spraying Halon 2402, Halon 1211 or Halon 1301.
1. The quantity shall be that which is calculated on the basis of the rate listed in theright‐hand column of the following table according to the category of a fire preven‐tion property listed in the left‐hand column of the said table or parts thereof and thetype of fire extinguishing agent listed in the middle column of the said table.

Fire Prevention Property or Parts Thereof

Part used for the repair or maintenance of automobiles, partused for vehicle parking, part where a generator, transformer
and other similar electrical equipment are installed, forging
shop, boiler room, drying room or other part where fire isused in great quantity or communication equipment room
Fire prevention Those pertaining to flammable solids orproperty which flammable liquids
stores or han‐dles designated Those pertaining to processed wood or
flammablewood chips
goods or parts
Those pertaining to synthetic resins (ex‐thereofcluding incombustible or fire resistantrubber products, intermediate rubber
products, raw rubber and waste rubber)

2.

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Extinguishing
Agent

Quantity of Fire Extin‐
guishing Agentper 1 Cubic Meter ofVolume of Protected Part

Halon 1301

0. 32 kilograms

Halon 2402
Halon 1211
Halon 1301
Halon 1211
Halon 1301

0.40 kilograms
0.36 kilograms
0.32 kilograms
0.60 kilograms
0.52 kilograms

Halon 1211

0.36 kilograms

Halon 1301

0.32 kilograms

In the case where an automatic closing device is not installed at the opening of aprotected part, the quantity shall be that where the quantity calculated on the basisof the rate listed in the right‐hand column of the following table according to thecategory of a fire prevention property listed in the left‐hand column of the said ta‐
ble or parts thereof and the type of fire extinguishing agent listed in the middle
column of the said table is added to the quantity calculated in 1.

Fire Prevention Property or Parts ThereofType of Fire
Extinguishing
Agent

Quantity of Fire Extinguish‐
ing Agent per 1
Square Meter of the Opening

Part used for the repair or maintenance of automo‐biles, part used for vehicle parking, part where a gen‐erator, transformer and other similar electricalequipment are installed, forging shop, boiler room,
drying room or other part where fire is used in great
quantity or communication equipment room

Halon 1301

2.4 kilograms

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Fire prevention
property which
stores or handles
designatedflammable goods
or parts thereofThose pertaining to flammablesolids or flammable liquids
Those pertaining to processedwood or wood chips
Those pertaining to synthetic
resins (excluding incombustible
or fire resistant rubber products,
intermediate rubber products,
raw rubber and waste rubber)Halon 2402
Halon 1211
Halon 1301
Halon 1211
Halon 1301

3.0 kilograms
2.7 kilograms
2.4 kilograms
4.5 kilograms
3.9 kilograms

Halon 1211

2.7 kilograms

Halon 1301

2.4 kilograms(b) In the case of a system spraying HFC‐23, HFC‐227ea or FK‐5‐1‐12, the quantity shall bethat which is calculated on the basis of the rate listed in the right‐hand column of thefollowing table according to the type of a fire extinguishing agent listed in the left‐handcolumn of the said table.

HFC‐23

Quantity of Fire Extinguishing Agentper 1 Cubic Meter of Volume of Protected Part
0.52 kilograms or more but 0.80 kilograms or less

HFC‐227ea
FK‐5‐1‐120.55 kilograms or more but 0.72 kilograms or less
0.84 kilograms or more but 1.46 kilograms or lessType of Fire Extinguishing Agent(ii)

In the case of a localized discharge type halon fire extinguishing system, the quantity
shall be equal to or more than the quantity obtained by multiplying the quantity calcu‐
lated as specified in the following (a) or (b) by 1.1 in the case of Halon 2401 or Halon
1211 or 1.25 in the case of Halon 1301.
(a) In the case where the burning face at the time of a fire is restricted to one face and there
is no risk of the splashing of flammable goods, including the case where a combustible
solid or combustible liquid is stored in a container of which the upper face is opened,
the quantity shall be that which is calculated on the basis of the rate listed in the right‐
hand column of the following table according to the type of fire extinguishing agent
listed in the left‐hand column of the said table.
Type of Fire Extinguishing Agent
Halon 2402
Halon 1211
Halon 1301

Quantity of Fire Extinguishing Agentper 1 Square Meter of the Surface Area of Protected Property
8.8 kilograms
7.6 kilograms
6.8 kilograms(b) In the case other than the case listed in (a), the quantity shall be that which is calculated
by multiplying the quantity calculated by the following equation by the volume of theprotected space.

Q  XYa
A

Where,Q : Quantity of fire extinguishing agent per unit volume(unit: kilograms/cubic meter)a : Total area of walls actually installed around the protected property(unit: square meters)
A : Total area of walls (in the case of parts without walls, the area of walls when suchwalls are assumed to exist) of the protected space (unit: square meters)
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The values of X and Y shall be those listed in the middle column and the right‐handcolumn of the following table respectively according to the type of fire extinguishing
agent listed in the left‐hand column of the said table.
Type of Fire Extinguishing Agent
Halon 2402
Halon 1211
Halon 1301

(iii)

(iv)

Value of X
5.2
4.4
4.0

Value of Y
3.9
3.3
3.0

When installing a whole area discharge type or localized discharge type halon fire ex‐tinguishing system at a single fire prevention property or parts thereof where two or
more protected parts or protected properties exist, the quantity shall be equal to or
larger than the largest quantity among the quantities calculated following the provi‐sions of the two preceding items as the relevant examples for individual protected partsor protected properties.
In the case of a mobile halon fire extinguishing system, the quantity shall be equal to or
more than the quantity for each nozzle listed in the right‐hand column of the following
table according to the type of fire extinguishing agent listed in the left‐hand column ofthe said table.
Type of Fire Extinguishing Agent
Halon 2402
Halon 1211 or Halon 1301

Quantity of Fire Extinguishing Agent
50 kilograms
45 kilograms(4) The details of the technical standards concerning the installation and maintenance of awhole area discharge type or localized discharge type halon fire extinguishing system shallfollow the provisions of paragraph (5), item (iii) and item (xviii) of the preceding paragraphas the relevant examples and shall also be as specified in the following.
(i)
A whole area discharge type halon fire extinguishing system shall be installed at a partused for vehicle parking, communication equipment room and a fire prevention prop‐
erty which stores or handles designated flammable goods (excluding flammable solids
and flammable liquids) or parts thereof.
(ii)
The fire extinguishing agent to be used for a halon fire extinguishing system shall be
Halon 2402, Halon 1211, Halon 1301, HFC‐23, HFC‐227ea or FK‐5‐1‐12.
(ii‐2) The fire extinguishing agent to be used for a whole area discharge type halon fire extin‐
guishing system shall be the fire extinguishing agent listed in the right‐hand column ofthe following table according to a category of fire prevention property listed in the left‐
hand column of the said table or parts thereof in which the said fire extinguishing sys‐
tem is to be installed.
Fire Prevention Property or Parts Thereof
Forging shop, boiler room, drying room or other part where a large quan‐tity of fire is used or part where a generator using a gas turbine as the mo‐tive power is installed.
Part other than parts where people
Part used for repair of automobiles,
are normally absent or a protectedpart used for vehicle parking, part
part of which the area is 1,000
where a generator (excluding a gas
turbine as the motive power), trans‐ square meters or more or the vol‐ume is 3,000 cubic meters or moreformer or other similar electricalequipment is installed or communi‐
Otherscation equipment room

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Type of Fire
Extinguishing Agent

Halon 1301

Halon 1301, HFC‐23,
HFC‐227ea or FK‐5‐1‐12

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Fire prevention property which stores or handles designated flammable
goods or parts thereof(ii‐3)(ii‐4)

(a)

(b)
(iii)

(iv)

(a)

(b)

(c)

(v)

(vi)
(vi‐2)

(vii)
(a)
(b)

(c)

Halon 2402, 1211 or 1301

The fire extinguishing agent for a localized discharge type halon fire extinguishing sys‐
tem shall be Halon 2402, Halon 1211 or Halon 1301.
An opening of a property under fire protection measures or parts thereof where awhole area discharge type halon fire extinguishing system is installed shall be as speci‐
fied in the following (a) or (b).
In the case of a system spraying Halon 2402, Halon 1211 or Halon 1301, such opening
shall follow the provisions of paragraph (5), item (iv)‐(a)‐2. and 3. of the preceding arti‐
cle as the relevant examples.
In the case of a system spraying HFC‐23, HFC‐227ea or FK‐5‐1‐12, such opening shallfollow the provision of paragraph (5), item (iv)‐(b) as the relevant example.
The filling ratio of a storage container, etc. shall be 0.51 or higher but 0.67 or lower for
Halon 2402 when stored in an external pressure type storage container, etc., 0.67 or
higher but 2.75 or lower for Halon 2402, 0.7 or higher but 1.4 or lower for Halon 1211,
0.9 or higher but 1.6 or lower for Halon 1301 and HFC‐227ea, 1.2 or higher but 1.5 orlower for HFC‐23 and 0.7 or higher but 1.6 or lower for FK‐5‐1‐12 when stored in stored
pressure type storage container, etc.
A storage container, etc. shall follow the provision of paragraph (5), item (iv) of the pre‐ceding article as the relevant example and shall also be as specified in the following (a)through (c).
A storage container, etc. shall be equipped with a safety device which conforms to thestandards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management
Agency.
An external pressure type storage container, etc. shall be equipped with a discharge
valve which conforms to the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fireand Disaster Management Agency.
The quantity of the filled fire extinguishing agent, type, maximum working pressure(limited to the external pressure type), year of manufacture and name of the manufac‐
turer shall be indicated at an easily visible place of a storage container, etc.
A stored pressure type storage container, etc. shall have an internal pressure of 1.1 MPa
or 2.5 MPa for Halon 1211 and 2.5 MPs or 4.2 MPa for Halon 1301, HFC‐227ea or FK‐5‐
1‐12 as pressurized by nitrogen gas at a temperature of 20C.
A pressurizing gas container shall be filled with nitrogen gas.
A pressurizing gas container shall be equipped with a safety device and a container
valve, both of which conform to the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of
the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
Pipework shall be as specified in the following (a) through (e).
Pipework shall exclusively serve a halon fire extinguishing system.
Pipework using steel pipes shall use steel pipes which conform to Japan Industrial
Standard G 3452 in the case of those pertaining to Halon 2402, the nominal thickness of
Schedule No. 40 or more among STPG370 pipes of Japan Industrial Standard G3454 in
the case of those pertaining to Halon 1211, Halon 1301, HFC‐227ea or FK‐5‐1‐12, thenominal thickness of Schedule No. 80 or more among STPG370 pipes of Japan Industri‐al Standard G3454 in the case of those pertaining to HFC‐23 or those steel pipes ofwhich the strength is equivalent to or more than that of these pipes and which have re‐ceived corrosion resistance treatment, such as zinc plating, etc.
Pipework using copper pipes shall use copper pipes which conform to tough pitch
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to or more than that of these pipes.
(d) Pipe joints and valves shall be those of which the strength and corrosion resistance are
equivalent to or higher than those of the steel pipes or copper pipes.
(e) The head shall be 50 meters or less.
(viii) A storage container (limited to the stored pressure type where the internal pressure is 1
MPa or higher) shall be equipped with a container valve which conforms to the stand‐ards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(ix)
In the case of the external pressure type, a pressure adjustment device which can adjust
the pressure to 2 MPa or lower shall be installed.
(x)
A selector valve shall follow the provisions of paragraph (5), item (xi)‐(a) through (c) of
the preceding article as the relevant examples and shall also conform to the standards
to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(xi)
In the case where a selector valve is installed between the storage container and dis‐charge head, either a safety device or a rupture disc which conforms to the standards tobe specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency shall be
installed between the storage container and the selector valve.
(xii)
The installation of a starting gas container shall follow the provision of paragraph (5),item (xiii) of the preceding article as the relevant example.
(xii‐2) A starting device shall be as specified in the following (a) or (b).
(a) In the case of a halon gas fire extinguishing system spraying Halon 2402, Halon 1211 orHalon 1301, a starting device shall be installed following the provisions of paragraph(5), item (xiv)‐(a), item (xv) and item (xvi) [excluding (c) of the said item] of the preced‐
ing article as the relevant examples.
(b) In the case of a halon fire extinguishing system spraying HFC‐23, HFC‐227ea or FK‐5‐1‐
12, a starting device shall be installed following the provisions of paragraph (5), item(xiv)‐(b) and item (xvi) of the preceding article as the relevant examples.
(xiii) The installation of an audible alarm device shall follow the provision of paragraph (5),item (xvii) of the preceding article as the relevant example; provided, however, that an
audible alarm device may not use a voice in the case of a whole area discharge type
halon fire extinguishing system spraying Halon 1301.
(xiv) A whole area discharge type halon fire extinguishing system shall be provided withsafety measures as specified in the following (a) or (b).
(a) Safety measures for a whole area discharge type spraying Halon 2402, Halon 1211 orHalon 1301 shall be as specified in the following 1. through 3.
1. A delay unit shall be installed so that it takes 20 or more seconds from the activa‐tion of the discharge switch, trigger valve or other similar device of a starting de‐vice to the opening of the container valve or discharge valve of the storage con‐tainer; provided, however, that a delay unit may not be installed with a whole area
discharge type spraying Halon 1301.
2. A manual starting device shall be provided with a measure designed to preventthe discharge of a fire extinguishing agent within the time specified in 1.
3. An indicator lamp indicating the discharge of a fire extinguishing agent shall be
installed at an easily visible place, such as the doorway of a protected part.
(b) A whole area discharge type spraying HFC‐23, HFC‐227ea or FK‐5‐1‐12 shall follow theprovision of (a)‐3. as the relevant example.
(xiv‐2) A whole area discharge type shall be equipped with a control panel which conforms to
the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Manage‐
ment Agency and controls the start, stop and other operations of the said inert gas fire
extinguishing system.
(xv)
Wiring for the emergency power source, operating circuit, circuit and other shall follow
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the provisions of paragraph (5), item (xx) and item (xxi) of the preceding article as therelevant examples.
(xvi) Calculation of the pressure loss at the time of the discharge of a fire extinguishing agent
shall be based on the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire andDisaster Management Agency.
(xvi‐2) A protected part where a whole area discharge type halon fire extinguishing system isinstalled (limited to a system spraying HFC‐23, HFC‐227ea or FK‐5‐1‐12) shall be pro‐vided with a measure designed to prevent a pressure rise inside the said protected part.
(xvi‐3) A protected part where a whole area discharge type halon fire extinguishing system isinstalled (limited to a system spraying FK‐5‐1‐12) shall be provided with a measure de‐signed to prevent an excessive temperature decline so that the sprayed fire extinguish‐
ing agent can effectively spread.
(xvii) The provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) shall apply mutatis mutandis to ahalon fire extinguishing system.
(xviii) The storage container, etc., pressurizing gas container, pipework and emergency powersource shall be provided with the measures prescribed in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (ix).
(5) The details of the technical standards concerning the installation and maintenance of a mo‐bile halon fire extinguishing system shall follow the provisions of paragraph (5), item (vi)‐(b)and (c) of the preceding article, paragraph (6), item (ii) through item (v) of the said article
and item (iii) (excluding parts pertaining to HFC‐23 and HFC‐227ea), item (iv)‐(a) through(c), item (v) (excluding parts pertaining to HFC‐227ea), item (vi), item (vi‐2), item (vii) (ex‐cluding parts pertaining to HFC‐23 and HFC‐227ea), item (viii) and item (xvi) of the preced‐
ing paragraph as the relevant examples and shall also be as specified in the following.
(i)
A fire extinguishing system used for a mobile halon fire extinguishing system shall be
Halon 2402, Halon 1211 or Halon 1301.
(ii)
Each nozzle shall be capable of spraying the quantity which is equal to or more than thequantity listed in the right‐hand column of the following table per minute according to
the type of fire extinguishing agent listed in the left‐hand column of the said table at atemperature of 20C.
Type of Fire Extinguishing Agent
Halon 2402
Halon 1211
Halon 1301

(iii)

Quantity of Fire Extinguishing Agent
45 kilograms
40 kilograms
35 kilograms

The hose, nozzle, nozzle on‐off valve and hose reel shall conform to the standards to be
specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.

(Standards Concerning Dry Chemical Fire Extinguishing System)
Article 21
The installation of the discharge heads of a whole area discharge type dry chemi‐
cal fire extinguishing system shall follow the provision of Article 19, paragraph (2), item (i) of
Article 19 as the relevant example and shall also be as specified in each of the following items.
(i)
The spray pressure of a discharge head shall be 0.1 MPa or higher.
(ii)
The said system shall be able to spray a quantity of fire extinguishing agent as specifiedin paragraph (3), item (i) within 30 seconds.
(iii)
Discharge heads shall conform to the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of
the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(2) Discharge heads for a localized discharge type dry chemical fire extinguishing system shallfollow the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (3), item (i) and item (ii) and shall also be as
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The said system shall be able to spray a quantity of fire extinguishing agent as specified
in item (ii) of the following paragraph within 30 seconds.
(ii)
Discharge heads shall conform to the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of
the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(3) The quantity of fire extinguishing agent to be stored in a storage container or storage tankfor a dry chemical fire extinguishing agent (hereinafter referred to as ʺstorage container, etc.ʺ
in this article) shall be as specified in each of the following items.
(i)
In the case of a whole area discharge type dry chemical fire extinguishing system, thequantity shall be equal to or more than the quantity calculated as specified in the fol‐lowing (a) or (b).
(a) The quantity shall be that which is calculated on the basis of the rate listed in the right‐
hand column of the following table according to the type of fire extinguishing agent
listed in the left‐hand column of the said table.

Type of Fire Extinguishing Agent
Sodium hydrogen carbonate is the main ingredient (hereinafter re‐ferred to as ʺType 1 dry chemicalʺ in this article)
Potassium bicarbonate is the main ingredient (hereinafter referred to as
ʺType 2 dry chemicalʺ in this article) or phosphate is the main ingredi‐ent (hereinafter referred to as ʺType 3 dry chemicalʺ in this article)
Reactant between potassium bicarbonate and urea (hereinafter referred
to as ʺType 4 dry chemicalʺ in this article)

Quantity of Fire Extinguish‐
ing Agent per 1 Cubic Meterof Volume of Protected Part
0.60 kilograms

0.36 kilograms

0.24 kilograms(b) In the case where an automatic closing device is not installed at the opening of a pro‐tected part, the quantity shall be that where the quantity calculated on the basis of therate listed in the right‐hand column of the following table according to the type of fire
extinguishing agent listed in the left‐hand column of the said table is added to thequantity calculated in (a).
Type of Fire Extinguishing AgentType 1 dry chemical
Type 2 dry chemical or Type 3 dry chemical
Type 4 dry chemical(ii)

In the case of a localized discharge type dry chemical fire extinguishing system, thequantity shall be that which is equal to or more than the quantity obtained by multiply‐
ing the quantity calculated as specified in the following (a) or (b) by 1.1.
(a) In the case where the burning face at the time of a fire is restricted to one face and there
is no risk of the splashing of flammable goods, including the case where a combustible
solid or combustible liquid is stored in a container of which the upper face is opened,
the quantity shall be that which is calculated on the basis of the rate listed in the right‐
hand column of the following table according to the type of fire extinguishing agent
listed in the left‐hand column of the said table.
Type of Fire Extinguishing AgentType 1 dry chemical
Type 2 dry chemical or Type 3 dry chemical
Type 4 dry chemical

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Quantity of Fire Extinguishing Agent per 1
Square Meter of the Area of the Opening
4.5 kilograms
2.7 kilograms
1.8 kilograms

Quantity of Fire Extinguishing Agent per 1 Square
Meter of the Surface Area of Protected Property
8.8 kilograms
5.2 kilograms
3.6 kilograms

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 21)(b) In the case other than the case listed in (a), the quantity shall be that which is calculated
by multiplying the quantity calculated by the following equation by the volume of theprotected space (in the case of a communication equipment room, the quantity obtainedby further multiplying the quantity obtained by the said multiplication by 0.7).

Q  XYa
A

Where,Q : Quantity of fire extinguishing agent per unit volume (unit: kilograms/cubic meter)a : Total area of walls actually installed around the protected property (unit: square
meters)A : Total area of walls (in the case of parts without walls, the area of walls when suchwalls are assumed to exist) of the protected space (unit: square meters)
The values of X and Y shall be those listed in the middle column and the right‐handcolumn of the following table respectively according to the type of fire extinguishing
agent listed in the left‐hand column of the said table.
Type of Fire Extinguishing AgentType 1 dry chemical
Type 2 dry chemical or Type 3 dry chemical
Type 4 dry chemical

(iii)

(iv)

Value of X
5.2
3.2
2.0

Value of Y
3.9
2.4
1.5

When installing a whole area discharge type or localized discharge type dry chemicalfire extinguishing system at a single fire prevention property or parts thereof where
two or more protected parts or protected properties exist, the quantity shall be equal toor larger than the largest quantity among the quantities calculated following the provi‐sions of the two preceding items as the relevant examples for individual protected partsor protected properties.
In the case of a mobile dry chemical fire extinguishing system, the quantity shall beequal to or more than the quantity for each nozzle listed in the right‐hand column ofthe following table according to the type of fire extinguishing agent listed in the left‐
hand column of the said table.
Type of Fire Extinguishing AgentType 1 dry chemical
Type 2 dry chemical or Type 3 dry chemical
Type 4 dry chemical

Quantity of Fire Extinguishing Agent
50 kilograms
30 kilograms
20 kilograms(4) The details of the technical standards concerning the installation and maintenance of awhole area discharge type or localized discharge type dry chemical fire extinguishing sys‐
tem shall follow the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (5), item (iii) and item (iv)‐(a)‐2. and3. as the relevant examples and shall also be as specified in the following.
(i)
The fire extinguishing agent to be used for a dry chemical fire extinguishing systemshall be a Type 1 dry chemical, Type 2 dry chemical, Type 3 dry chemical or Type 4 drychemical; provided, however, that a Type 3 dry chemical shall be used for a dry chemi‐
cal fire extinguishing system to be installed at a part used for vehicle parking.
(i‐2)
A whole area discharge type or localized discharge type dry chemical fire extinguishingsystem shall not be installed at a part used as a road.
(ii)
The filling ratio of a storage container, etc. shall be within the range listed in the right‐
hand column of the following table according to the type of fire extinguishing agent
listed in the left‐hand column of the said table.
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Type of Fire Extinguishing AgentType 1 dry chemical
Type 2 dry chemical or Type 3 dry chemical
Type 4 dry chemical

(iii)
(a)

(b)
(c)

(d)

(e)

(iv)

(v)
(v‐2)

(vi)
(a)
(b)

(c)

(d)
(vii)
(a)

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Range of Filling Ratio
0.85 or higher but 1.45 or lower
1.05 or higher but 1.75 or lower
1.50 or higher but 2.50 or lower

A storage container, etc. shall follow the provision of Article 19, paragraph (5), item (vi)as the relevant example and shall also be as specified in the following (a) through (e).
A storage tank shall be that which conforms to Japan Industrial Standard B8270 or thatwhich has the strength and corrosion resistance equivalent to or higher than that speci‐
fied by the said standard.
A storage container, etc. shall be equipped with a safety device which conforms to the stand‐ards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
A storage container, etc. (limited to the stored pressure type where the internal pressure is 1
MPa or higher) shall be equipped with a container valve which conforms to the standards
to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
An external pressure type storage container, etc. shall be equipped with a discharge
valve which conforms to the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fireand Disaster Management Agency.
The quantity of the filled fire extinguishing agent, type, maximum working pressure(limited to the external pressure type), year of manufacture and name of the manufac‐
turer shall be indicated at an easily visible place of a storage container, etc.
A storage container, etc. shall be equipped with a discharge device to discharge residu‐
al gas and pipework shall be provided with a cleaning device to treat residual fire ex‐tinguishing agent.
A pressurizing gas container shall be installed next to a storage container, etc. and shallbe securely connected to the storage container, etc.
A pressurizing gas container shall be equipped with a safety device and a container
valve, both of which conform to the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of
the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
The gas used for pressurizing or to create stored pressure shall be that which conforms
to the following (a) through (d).
The gas used for pressurizing or stored pressure shall be either nitrogen gas or carbon
dioxide.
The quantity of the pressurizing gas shall be equal to or more than 40 liters, when con‐verted to the volume at 1 atmosphere and a temperature of 35C, per 1 kilogram of thefire extinguishing agent in the case of using nitrogen gas as the pressurizing gas or thequantity which is obtained by adding the quantity calculated on the basis of 20 gramsper 1 kilogram of the fire extinguishing agent to the quantity required for cleaning in
the case of using carbon dioxide as the pressurizing gas.
The quantity of gas to create stored pressure shall be equal to or more than the quantity
which is obtained by adding the quantity calculated on the basis of 10 liters, when con‐verted to the volume of 1 atmosphere and a temperature of 35C, per 1 kilogram of thefire extinguishing agent to the quantity required for cleaning in the case of using nitro‐
gen or the quantity which is obtained by adding the quantity calculated on the basis of
20 grams per 1 kilogram of the fire extinguishing agent to the quantity required forcleaning in the case of using carbon dioxide.
The quantity of gas required for cleaning shall be stored in a separate container.
Pipework shall be as specified in the following (a) through (h).
Pipework shall exclusively serve a dry chemical fire extinguishing system.

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 21)(b) Pipework using steel pipes shall use steel pipes which conform to Japan Industrial
Standard G3452 and which have received corrosion resistance treatment, such as zincplating, etc., or those steel pipes of which the strength and corrosion resistance are
equivalent to or more than those of these pipes; provided, however, that pipework shalluse pipes which conform to those of which the nominal thickness of Schedule No. 40 or
more among STPG370 pipes of Japan Industrial Standard G3454 and which have re‐ceived corrosion resistance treatment, such as zinc plating, etc. or those steel pipes ofwhich the strength and corrosion resistance are equivalent to or more than those of
these pipes in the case where the pressure of the stored pressure type at the tempera‐ture of 20C exceeds 2.5 MPa but does not exceed 4.2 MPa.
(c) Pipework using copper pipes shall use copper pipes which conform to tough pitch
copper of Japan Industrial Standard H3300 or those of which the strength and corrosion
resistance are equivalent to or more than those of these pipes and which can withstandan adjusting pressure or a pressure of 1.5 times the maximum working pressure.
(d) The installation of pipe joints and valves shall follow the provision of Article 12, para‐graph (1), item (vi)‐(e)‐1. as the relevant example.
(e) Valves shall be as specified in the following 1. through 6.
1. Valves shall have a construction where there is no risk of significant separation be‐
tween the fire extinguishing agent and gas creating the external pressure or stored
pressure or of the fire extinguishing agent remaining in the case where a fire extin‐
guishing agent has been sprayed.
2. The nominal diameter of a valve shall be the size equivalent to the nominal bore of
the pipe to which the said valve is connected.
3. Valves shall be those of which the quality of the material conforms to Japan Industrial
Standard H5120, H5121 or G5501 and which have received corrosion resistance treat‐ment or those having the strength, corrosion resistance and heat resistance equivalent
to or higher than those of valves conforming to a Japan Industrial Standard.
4. Valves shall have an indication of the open and closed positions or the direction for
opening and closing.
5. The manual operating part of the discharge valve and pressurizing gas container
valve shall be installed at a place which is safe and which can be easily approachedat the time of a fire.
6. The discharge valve shall conform to the standards to be specified by the Commis‐
sioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(f) The distance from the storage container, etc. to a bend in the pipework shall be equal toor more than 20 times the pipe diameter; provided, however, that this shall not apply inthe case where a measure to prevent the separation between the fire extinguishing
agent and gas creating external pressure or stored pressure is provided.
(g) The head shall be 50 meters or less.
(h) Pipework shall be installed so that the discharge pressure of the discharge heads whichspray simultaneously is uniform.
(viii) An external pressure type dry chemical fire extinguishing system shall be equippedwith a pressure regulator capable of regulating the pressure at 2.5 MPa or lower.
(ix)
An external pressure type dry chemical fire extinguishing system shall be equippedwith a set pressure activation device as specified in the following (a) through (c).
(a) The set pressure activation device shall be that which opens the discharge valve when
the pressure of the storage container, etc. reaches the set pressure after the activation of
the starting device.
(b) A set pressure activation device shall be installed at each storage container, etc.
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Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(x)
A stored pressure type dry chemical fire extinguishing system shall be equipped with apressure indicating gauge which indicates the range of the working pressure in green.
(xi)
A selector valve shall follow the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (5), item (xi)‐(a)through (c) as the relevant examples and shall also conform to the standards to be spec‐
ified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(xii)
In the case where a selector valve, etc. is installed between the storage container, etc. andthe discharge head, either a safety device or a rupture disc which conforms to the stand‐ards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency
shall be installed between the said storage container, etc. and the selector valve, etc.
(xiii) A starting gas container shall follow the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (50), item(vi) and item (xiii)‐(a) and (c) as the relevant examples and shall also be as specified in
the following (a) and (b).
(a) The internal capacity shall be 0.27 liters or more and the quantity of gas to be stored in
the said container shall be 145 grams or more.
(b) The filling ratio shall be 1.5 or higher.
(xiv) A starting device shall follow the provisions of Article 19, paragraph (5), item (xiv)‐(a),item (xv) and item (xvi) (excluding (c) of the said item) as the relevant examples.
(xv)
An audible alarm device shall follow the provision of Article 19, paragraph (5), item
(xvii) as the relevant example.
(xvi) A whole area discharge type shall be provided with a safety measure prescribed in Ar‐
ticle 19, paragraph (5), item (xix)‐(a).
(xvii) Wiring for the emergency power source, operating circuit and other shall follow the pro‐visions of Article 19, paragraph (5), item (xx) and item (xxi) as the relevant examples.
(xviii) Calculation of the pressure loss at the time of the discharge of a fire extinguishing agent
shall be based on the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire andDisaster Management Agency.
(xix)
The provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) shall apply mutatis mutandis to a
dry chemical fire extinguishing system.
(xx)
A storage container, etc., pressurizing gas container, pipework and emergency power source
shall be provided with the measures prescribed in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (ix).
(5) The details of the technical standards concerning the installation and maintenance of a mo‐bile dry chemical fire extinguishing system shall follow the provisions of Article 19, para‐graph (6), item (ii) through item (v‐2) and item (i), item (ii), item (iii)‐(a) through (e), item (iv)through (vii) and item (x) of the preceding paragraph as the relevant examples and shall also
be as specified in the following.
(i)
The fire extinguishing agent to be used for a dry chemical fire extinguishing system to
be installed at a part used as a road shall be Type 3 dry chemical.
(ii)
Nozzles shall be those which can spray the quantity equivalent to or more than the quan‐tity listed in the right‐hand column of the following table per minute per nozzle accord‐
ing to the type of fire extinguishing agent listed in the left‐hand column of the said table.
Type of Fire Extinguishing AgentType 1 dry chemical
Type 2 dry chemical or Type 3 dry chemical
Type 4 dry chemical

(iii)

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Quantity of Fire Extinguishing Agent
45 kilograms
27 kilograms
18 kilograms

The hose, nozzles, nozzle on‐off valve and hose reel shall conform to the standards tobe specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 22)(Details of Standards Concerning Outdoor Hydrants)
Article 22
The details of the technical standards concerning the installation and mainte‐
nance of an outdoor fire hydrant system shall be the following.
(i)
The on‐off valve of an outdoor fire hydrant shall be installed at a place of which theheight from the ground surface is 1.5 meters or less or of which the depth from theground surface is 0.6 meters or less. The hose connection port of an outdoor fire hy‐
drant to be installed below the ground surface shall be installed at a depth of 0.3 metersor less from the ground surface.
(i‐2)
The discharge appliance of an outdoor fire hydrant system shall conform to the stand‐ards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(ii)
A box storing the discharge appliance of an outdoor fire hydrant system (hereinafter re‐ferred to as ʺoutdoor fire hydrant boxʺ in this article) shall be installed within a walking
distance of 5 meters from the outdoor fire hydrant; provided, however, that this shallnot apply when it is installed at an easily visible place on an external wall of a building
facing the outdoor fire hydrant.
(iii)
The indicator lamp to show the start of the pressurized water supply unit shall be redin color and shall be installed either inside the outdoor fire hydrant box or in a place
immediately adjacent thereto.
(iv)
The marking for the installation of an outdoor fire hydrant system shall be as specified
in the following (a) and (b).
(a) The sign ʺHose Storage Boxʺ shall be indicated on the surface of the outdoor fire hy‐
drant box.
(b) The sign ʺFire Hydrantʺ shall be indicated at an easily visible place immediately adja‐
cent to an outdoor fire hydrant.
(v)
A pressurized water supply unit of which the water level at the water source is locatedlower than the pump shall be equipped with a priming device following the provisionof Article 12, paragraph (1), item (iii‐2) as the relevant example.
(vi)
An emergency power source shall be installed following the provision of Article 12,
paragraph (1), item (iv) as the relevant example.
(vii)
Wiring for the operating circuit shall be installed in a similar manner to that prescribedin Article 12, paragraph (1), item (v); provided, however, that this shall not apply in thecase of underground wiring.
(viii) Pipework for the operating circuit shall be installed in a similar manner to that pre‐scribed in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (vi).
(ix)
A pressurized water supply unit shall be installed in a place which is convenient forchecking and is less likely to be damaged by fire or other disasters.
(x)
A pressurized water supply unit shall follow the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (1),item (vii)‐(a)‐2., (b)‐2. and 3., (c)‐3. through 8., (d), (g) and (h) and shall also be as speci‐
fied in the following.
(a) The head (meaning the vertical distance from the bottom end of the water tank to thehose connection port; the same shall apply hereinafter in this item) shall be a value
which is equal to or higher than the value calculated by the following equation.
H = h1 + h2 + 25 m
Where,
H: Required head (unit: meters)
h1: Friction loss of water head due to fire hose (unit: meters)
h2 Friction loss of water head due to pipework (unit: meters)(b) The pressure of the pressurized water tank of a pressurized water supply unit using apressurized water tank shall be a value which is equal to or higher than the value calcu‐
lated by the following equation.
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P = p1 + p2 + p3 + 0.25 MPa
P: Required pressure (unit: mega pascals)
p1: Friction loss of water head pressure due to fire hose (unit: mega pascals)
p2: Friction loss of water head pressure due to pipework (unit: mega pascals)
p3: Converted water head pressure of the head (unit: mega pascals)(c) A pressurized water supply unit using a pump shall be as specified by the following.
1. The discharge rate of the pump shall be equal to or higher than the rate calculated
by multiplying the number of outdoor fire hydrants (2 if the number of installed
outdoor fire hydrants exceeds 2) by 400 liters per minute.
2. The total head of the pump shall be a value equal to or higher than the value calcu‐
lated by the following equation.
H = h1 + h2 + h3 + 25 m
Where,
H: Total head of the pump (unit: meters)
h1: Friction loss of the water head due to fire hose (unit: meters)
h2: Friction loss of the water head due to pipework (unit: meters)
h1: Head (unit: meters)(d) A pressurized water supply unit shall be provided with a measure designed to preventthe water discharge pressure at the tip of the nozzle of the said outdoor fire hydrant
system from exceeding 0.6 MPa.
(e) The starting device shall be that which can be directly operated and can be remotely
operated from the operating part (including a Type P electric manual call point of an
automatic fire alarm system) installed inside an outdoor fire hydrant box or a place
immediately nearby.
(xi)
The provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) shall apply mutatis mutandis to an
outdoor fire hydrant system.
(xii)
The water tank, etc. shall be provided with the measures prescribed in Article 12, para‐graph (1), item (ix).
Section 2

Standards for Fire Alarms(Detector, Etc. of Automatic Fire Alarm System)
Article 23
The case to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in the proviso of Article 21, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Ordershall be the case where one detection zone of an automatic fire alarm system is 500 square
meters or less and the said detection zone stretches over two floors of a fire prevention
property or the case where a smoke detector is installed pursuant to the provision of para‐graph (5) [limited to item (i) and item (iii)].
(2) Those which are to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in Article 21, paragraph (3) of the Order shall be fire prevention
properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (1) through row (4), row (5)‐(a), row (6), row (9),item (i), row (16)‐(a), row (16‐2) and row (16‐3) of the Order or parts thereof and the places
listed in each item of paragraph (5) and paragraph (6), item (ii).
(3) The closed sprinkler heads to be specified by an ordinance of the Fire and Disaster Man‐
agement Agency set forth in Article 21, paragraph (3) of the Order shall be those of which
the capable temperature range indicated is 75C or lower and of which the activation time is
60 seconds or less.
(4) The installation of detectors for an automatic fire alarm system shall be as specified in thefollowing.
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where checking and other maintenance can be conducted.
(a) Place where the height of the installation face (part of the ceiling facing inwards or thefloor of the floor above or the lower face of the roof to which a detector is to be in‐stalled; the same shall apply hereinafter in this article) for a detector [excluding a flame
detector (meaning a detector which automatically detects the occurrence of a fire using
the flames produced by a fire; the same shall apply hereinafter); the same shall apply
hereinafter in this item (excluding (e))] is 20 meters or higher(b) Roofed area or other place where external air circulates, making it impossible for a de‐tector to effectively detect the occurrence of a fire at the said place(c) Loft space where the distance between the ceiling and the floor of the floor above is lessthan 0.5 meters(d) In the case of a smoke detector or heat‐smoke combined spot type detector, the places
listed in the following in addition to those listed in (a) through (c)1. Places where dust, fine powder or water vapor remains in a large quantity
2. Places where there is a risk of the generation of a corrosive gas
3. Kitchens and other places where smoke remains in normal times
4. Places where the temperature becomes extremely high
5. Places where exhaust gas remains in a large quantity
6. Places where there is a risk of the inflow of a large quantity of smoke
7. Places where condensation occurs
8. In addition to the places listed in 1. through 7., places where the function of a de‐tector may be hindered(e) In the case of a flame detector, the places listed in the following in addition to the places
listed in (c)1. Places listed in (d)‐2. through 4., 6. and 7.
2. Places where water vapor remains in a large quantity
3. Places where the flames from a device using fire flash out
4. In addition to the places listed in 1. through 3., places where the function of a de‐tector may be hindered(f) Of parts [excluding parts of fire prevention properties listed in Article 21, paragraph(1), item (v) and item (xi) through item (xv) of the Order] of parts of small‐scale fire
prevention properties serving specified intended purposes [excluding fire prevention
properties listed in item (viii) of the said paragraph], a part serving intended purposes
other than the intended purpose of a fire prevention property in each row of Appended
Table 1 of the Order and a part serving any of the intended purposes of the fire preven‐tion properties in each row [excluding row (13)‐(b) and row (16) through row (20)] of
the said table of which the floor area serving the intended purpose in question [in thecase where the floor area of a part serving the intended purpose in question is the larg‐
est in the said small‐scale multi‐purpose fire prevention property serving a specified in‐tended purpose, the total of the floor areas of the part serving the intended purposes ofthe fire prevention properties listed below] is less than 500 square meters [less than
1,000 square meters in the case of a part(s) serving the intended purpose of a fire pre‐vention property listed in row (11) and row (15) of the said table].
1. Fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (2)‐(d), row (5)‐(a) androw (6)‐(a)‐1 through 3. and (b), of the Order
2. Fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(c) (limited to thosewhich house or accommodate users)(ii)
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Height of Installation Face
Less than 4 meters
4 meters or more but
less than 8 meters
8 meters or more but
less than 15 meters
15 meters or more but
less than 20 meters

Type of Detector
Rate‐of‐rise spot type, rate‐of‐rise line type, compensatory spot type,
fixed temperature type, ionisation spot type or photoelectric spot type
Rate‐of‐rise spot type, rate‐of‐rise line type, compensatory spot type,special or Type 1 fixed temperature type, Type 1 or Type 2 ionisation
spot type or Type 1 or Type 2 photoelectric spot type
Rate‐of‐rise line type, Type 1 or Type 2 ionisation spot type or Type 1 orType 2 photoelectric spot typeType 1 ionisation spot type or Type 1 photoelectric spot type(iii)

A detector of the rate‐of‐rise spot type, fixed temperature spot type or compensatory
spot type or other heat combined spot type shall be as specified in the following.
(a) The lower end of the detector shall be located at a position which is within 0.3 meters
below the installation surface.
(b) One or more detectors per floor area specified in the following table [in the case of mul‐ti‐signal detectors, the largest floor area among the floor areas specified according to
the types constituting the said detectors; the same shall apply in item (iv)‐3. and item(vii)] shall be installed for each sensing zone [meaning a part compartmented by beams,
etc. protruding by 0.4 meters (0.6 meters in the case of installing rate‐of‐rise line detec‐
tors or smoke detectors) or more from the walls or installation face; the same shall ap‐
ply hereinafter] according to the type of detector and height of the installation face sothat a fire can be effectively detected.
Type of Detector
Height of Installation Face

Fire prevention property orparts thereof where themain structural sections are
Less thanof a fireproof construction
4 meters
Fire prevention property orparts thereof with a non‐fireproof construction
Fire prevention property orparts thereof where the
4 meters or
main structural sections are
more butof a fireproof construction
less thanFire prevention property or
8 meters
parts thereof with a non‐fireproof construction(iv)

Rate‐of‐Rise
Spot Type

Compensatory
Spot Type

Fixed Temperature
Spot TypeSpecialType 2Type 1 Type 2
Type

Type 1

Type 2Type 1

90 m2

70 m2

90 m2

70 m2

70 m2

60 m2

20 m2

50 m2

40 m2

50 m2

40 m2

40 m2

30 m2

15 m2

45 m2

35 m2

45 m2

35 m2

35 m2

30 m2

30 m2

25 m2

30 m2

25 m2

25 m2

15 m2

Rate‐of‐rise line type detectors (those using an air sampling pipe) shall be as specified
in the following.
(a) The exposed part of a detector shall be 20 meters or more in each sensing zone.
(b) Each detector shall be installed at a position which is within 0.3 meters below the instal‐lation face.
(c) Each detector shall be installed at a position which is within 1.5 meters from each side of
the installation face of a sensing zone so that the distance between opposing detectors

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(a)
(b)

(c)
(d)
(iv‐3)(a)(b)

shall be 9 meters or less in the case of fire prevention properties or parts thereof where themain structural sections are of a fireproof construction or 6 meters or less in the case offire prevention properties or parts thereof with a non‐fireproof construction; provided,
however, that this shall not apply in the case where the occurrence of a fire can be effec‐
tively detected by the size or shape of the sensing zone.
The length of the air sampling pipe connected to one detection unit shall be 100 meters or less.
The detection unit of the detector shall be installed in a manner to avoid its slanting by
5 degrees or more.
Rate‐of‐rise line type detectors (those using thermocouples) shall be as specified in thefollowing.
Each detector shall be installed at a position which is within 0.3 meters below the instal‐lation face.
A detector shall have 4 or more thermocouples in the case where the floor area of thesensing zone is 72 square meters (88 square meters in the case of fire prevention proper‐
ties where the main structural sections are of a fireproof construction) or less or thenumber of thermocouples obtained by adding one thermocouple by each increment of
18 square meters (22 square meters in the case of fire prevention properties where themain structural sections are of a fireproof construction) to 4 in the case where the floorarea of the sensing zone exceeds 72 square meters (88 square meters in the case of fire
prevention properties where the main structural sections are of a fireproof construction)
installed in each sensing zone so that a fire can be effectively detected.
The number of thermocouples connected to one detection unit shall be 20 or less.
The detection unit of the detector shall be installed in a manner to avoid its slanting by
5 degrees or more.
Rate‐of‐rise line type detectors (those using temperature sensitive semiconductors) shallbe as specified in the following.
The lower end of each detector shall be installed at a position which is within 0.3 meters
below the installation face.
Each detector shall have 2 (1 in the case where the height of the installation face is lessthan 8 meters and the floor area does not exceed the figure specified in the following
table) temperature sensing pieces in the case where the floor area is equal to or less thandouble the floor area specified in the said table according to the type of detector andheight of the installation face or the number of temperature sensing pieces which isequal to or more than the number obtained by adding one unit per increment up to thefloor area specified in the said table to 2 in the case where the floor area exceeds double
the floor area specified in the said table.
Height of Installation Face(c)Less than
8 meters

Fire prevention property or parts thereof where the main struc‐tural sections are of a fireproof construction
Fire prevention property or parts thereof with a non‐fireproof
construction

8 meters or
higher but
less than
15 meters

Fire prevention property or parts thereof where the main struc‐tural sections are of a fireproof construction
Fire prevention property or parts thereof with a non‐fireproof
construction

Type of Detector
Type 1 Type 2
65 m2

36 m2

40 m2

23 m2

50 m2
30 m2

The number of temperature sensing pieces connected to one detector shall be two or
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5 degrees or more.
(v)
Fixed temperature line type detectors shall be as specified in the following.
(a) Each detector shall be installed at a position which is within 0.3 meters below the instal‐lation face.
(b) Each detector shall be installed so that the horizontal distance from each part of the in‐stallation face to any part of the detector is 3 meters (4.5 meters in the case of fire pre‐vention properties or parts thereof where the main structural sections are of a fireproof
construction) or less for a special type or Type 1 detector or 1 meter (3 meters in thecase of fire prevention properties or parts thereof where the main structural sections areof a fireproof construction) or less for a Type 2 detector in each sensing zone.
(vi)
Detectors with the capability of a fixed temperature type detector shall be installed at a
position where the maximum ambient temperature at normal times is below the nomi‐
nal fixed temperature point in the case of a compensatory spot detector or 20C or more
lower than the nominal activation temperature (lowest nominal activation temperature
for a detector with two or more nominal activation temperatures) in the case of otherdetectors with the capability of a fixed temperature type detector.
(vii)
Smoke detectors (excluding projected beam type detectors) shall be as specified in thefollowing.
(a) A detector shall be installed near a doorway in the case of a room with a low ceiling ora small room.
(b) A detector shall be installed near an air inlet in a room where the said air inlet is locatednear the ceiling.
(c) The lower end of a detector shall be installed at a position which is within 0.6 meters
below the installation face.
(d) A detector shall be installed at a position which is away from a wall or beam by 0.6 me‐ters or more.
(e) One or more detectors shall be installed for each floor area specified in the following
table according to the type of detector and height of the installation face in each sensing
zone, excluding corridors, passageways, staircases and ramps, so that a fire can be ef‐
fectively detected.
Height of Installation Fact
Less than 4 meters
4 meters or higher but less than 20 meters

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Type of Detector
Type 1 and 2
150 m275 m2Type 350 m2

1 or more detectors shall be installed every 30 meters (20 meters in the case of Type 3 de‐tectors) of walking distance in the case of corridors or passageways or 1 or more detectors
shall be installed every 15 meters (10 meters in the case of Type 3 detectors) of verticaldistance in the case of staircases and ramps [1 or more Type 1 or Type 2 detectors every
7.5 meters of vertical distance in the case where the total number of staircases and ramps
directly leading to an evacuation floor or ground level from a floor other than the said
evacuation floor is 2 (1 in the case where the said staircases and ramps are located out‐
doors or in the case where an effective structure for evacuation prescribed in Article 4‐2‐3exists) or less in a fire prevention property where a part used for the intended purpose of
the fire prevention property listed in Appended Table 1, row (1) through row (4), row (5)‐(a), row (6) or row (9)‐(a) of the Order exists on a floor other than the evacuation floor
prescribed in Article 4‐2‐2, item (ii) of the Order among the said staircases and ramps (ex‐cluding small‐scale multi‐purpose fire prevention properties serving specified intended

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(a)
(b)

(c)
(d)

(e)
(f)
(g)
(vii‐4)
(a)
(b)

(c)
(d)

(vii‐5)
(a)
(b)

(c)

purposes; hereinafter referred to as ʺspecified fire prevention properties with a single
staircase, etc.ʺ)] so that a fire can be effectively detected.
In addition to what is prescribed in item (iii)‐(a) and (a), (b), (d) and (f) of the preceding
item (in the case of (f), limited to parts pertaining to corridors and passageways), 1 ormore heat‐smoke combined spot type detectors shall be installed per largest floor area
among the floor areas specified in the tables in item (iii)‐(b) and (e) of the preceding
item according to the type of detector and height of installation face in each of the sens‐
ing zones, excluding corridors, passageways, staircases and ramps, so that a fire can beeffectively detected.
Project beam type detectors shall be as specified in the following.
A detector shall be installed so that the beam receiving face of the detector does not re‐ceive sunlight.
A detector shall be installed so that the optical axis (meaning the line connecting thecenter of the beam transmitting face and the center of the beam receiving face of the de‐tector; the same shall apply hereinafter) is located at a distance of 0.6 meters or morefrom a wall which runs parallel to it.
The beam transmitting face and beam receiving face of a detector shall be installed at a
position within 1 meter from the wall behind them.
A detector shall be installed at a place other than a place where the height of the ceiling,etc. of the zone in which the detector to be installed (meaning part of the ceiling facing
inwards or the lower face of the floor above or roof; the same shall apply hereinafter) is
25 meters or higher. In this case, the detector to be installed at a place of which the said
ceiling, etc. is 15 meters or higher shall be a Type 1 detector.
A detector shall be installed so that the height of the optical axis is equal to or higher
than 80% of the height of the ceiling, etc.
A detector shall be installed so that the length of the optical axis falls within the rangeof the nominal monitoring distance of the said detector.
A detector shall be installed so that the horizontal distance from any part of each zone
compartmented by walls to the optical axis is 7 meters or less.
Flame detectors (excluding those installed at parts used as roads) shall be as specified
in the following.
A detector shall be installed on the ceiling, etc. or a wall.
A detector shall be installed so that the distance from any part of the space up to aheight of 1.2 meters from the floor surface in each zone compartmented by walls (here‐
inafter referred to as ʺmonitoring spaceʺ) to the said detector falls within the range ofthe nominal monitoring distance.
A detector shall be installed so that the effective detection of the occurrence of a fire is
not prevented by an obstructive object, etc.
A detector shall be installed at a position which does not receive sunlight; provided,
however, that this shall not apply in the case where a light‐shielding plate or similar is
installed to prevent any hindrance to detection.
Flame detectors to be installed at parts used as roads shall be as specified in the following.
A detector shall be installed on the side wall section of a road or above the roadside.
A detector shall be installed in a section of which the height from the road surface (inthe case where there is a path for patrolmen, the height from the said path) is 1.0 meters
or higher but 1.5 meters or lower.
A detector shall be installed so that the distance from any part of the road to the said
detector (hereinafter referred to as ʺmonitoring distanceʺ) is within the range of thenominal monitoring distance; provided, however, that two detectors shall be installed if
the number of detectors to be installed in this manner becomes one.
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 23)(d) A detector shall be installed so that the effective detection of the occurrence of a fire is
not prevented by an obstructive object, etc.
(e) A detector shall be installed at a position which does not receive sunlight; provided,
however, that this shall not apply in the case where a light‐shielding plate or similar is
installed to prevent any hindrance to detection.
(vii‐6) A detector which is equipped with a linked alarm function and which falls under one of
the following shall not be used for an automatic fire alarm system other than an auto‐
matic fire alarm system for a specified small facility prescribed in Article 2, item (ii) of
the Ordinance Concerning Fire Defense Equipment, etc. Which Have Fire Prevention
and Safety Performance Required for Specified Small Facilities (Ordinance of the Minis‐try of Internal Affairs and Communications No. 156 of 2008).
(a) Among detectors which receive power supply from a source other than a terminaltransmitting a fire signal (excluding detectors using a battery as the power source),
those which cannot transmit a signal indicating the stoppage of power supply when the
power supply is terminated)(b) Among detectors using a battery as the power source, those which cannot automatical‐
ly transmit a drop of the voltage to the lower limit of the voltage capable of effectively
activating the detector when the voltage of the battery drops to the said lower limit(c) Detectors (excluding the waterproof type) which have not undergone the test set forthin Article 21‐2 of the Ordinance for Technical Specifications Pertaining to Detectors andManual Call Points of Fire Alarm Systems [Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs
No. 17 of 1981; referred to as the ʺOrdinance for Specifications Pertaining to Detectors,
etc.ʺ in (d)](d) Detectors which have not undergone the test set forth in each item of Article 22, para‐graph (1) of the Ordinance for Specifications Pertaining to Detectors, etc.
(viii) Detectors, excluding the rate‐of‐rise line type, projected beam type and flame detectors,
shall be installed at a position which is at least 1.5 meters away from an air outlet, suchas an air vent or similar.
(ix)
Spot type detectors (excluding flame detectors) shall be installed so as not to slant by 45
degrees or more.
(5) Among fire prevention properties listed in Article 21, paragraph (1) [excluding item (xii)] of
the Order or parts thereof, those places listed in item (i) and item (iii) shall have smoke de‐tectors installed, those listed in item (ii) and item (iii‐2) shall have smoke detectors or heat‐smoke combined type spot detectors installed, those places listed in item (iv) shall havesmoke detectors or flame detectors installed, those places listed in item (v) shall have flame
detectors installed and those places listed in item (vi) shall have smoke detectors, heat‐smoke combined spot detectors or flame detectors installed.
(i)
Staircases and ramps(ii)
Corridors and passageways (limited to parts of fire prevention properties listed in Ap‐
pended Table 1, row (1) through row (6), row (9), row (12), row (15), row (16), item (i),row (16‐2) and row (16‐3) of the Order(iii)
Elevator shafts, linen chutes, pipe ducts and other similar parts(iii‐2) Private rooms used for the service of allowing customers to use entertainment equip‐
ment or goods (including similar facilities) [limited to parts of fire prevention proper‐
ties listed in Appended Table 1, row (2)‐(d), row (16)‐(a), row (16‐2) and row (16‐3) (inthe case of fire prevention properties listed in row (16), item (i), row (16‐2) and row (16‐3) of the said table, limited to parts used for the intended purposes of fire prevention
properties listed in row (2)‐(d) of the said table)](iv)
Places where the height of the ceiling, etc. in a zone where detectors are installed is 15
meters or higher but less than 20 meters
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Places where the height of the ceiling, etc. of a zone in which detectors are installed is
20 meters or higher.
(vi)Parts of basement floors, windowless floors and 11th and higher floors other than parts
listed in each of the preceding items (limited to fire prevention properties listed in Ap‐
pended Table 1, row (1) through row (4), row (5)‐(a), row (6), row (9)‐(a), row (15), row(16)‐(a), row (16‐2) and row (16‐3) or parts thereof)(6) A place which is a fire prevention property or part thereof listed in Article 21, paragraph (1)[excluding item (xii)] and which falls under one of the following items shall have a detector(s) installed according to what is specified in the said item.
(i)
Places of a fire prevention property listed in item (vi) of the preceding paragraph orparts thereof where neither smoke detectors nor heat‐smoke combined spot detectors
are installed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4), item (i)‐d) (excluding 8.) andno flame detectors are installed pursuant to the provisions of (e) (excluding 4.) of thesaid item: detectors of a type which is prescribed as suitable for the category of place inAppended Table 1‐2‐3(ii)
Basement floors, windowless floors or 11th and higher floors which are not places listed
in each item of the preceding paragraph: Type 1 or Type 2 rate‐of‐rise or compensatory
detectors, special type or Type 1 fixed temperature detectors (limited to those of which
the nominal activation temperature is 75C or lower), type 1 or Type 2 or Type 3 ionizedor photoelectric detectors or detectors or flame detectors with the performance of any ofthese detectors(iii)
Places other than those listed in the preceding paragraph or two preceding items (ex‐cluding corridors, toilets and other similar places): detectors which are suitable for theirplaces of use(7) In this article [excluding paragraph (4), item (vi)], the standards concerning analogue detec‐
tors (meaning those prescribed in Article 2, item (vii) or item (xii) through item (xiv) of thesaid article of the Ordinance to Specify the Technical Standards Pertaining to Detectors andElectric Manual Call Points for Fire Alarm Systems (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Af‐
fairs No. 17 of 1981); the same shall apply hereinafter) of the types listed in the left‐handcolumn of the following table shall follow detectors of the type listed in the right‐hand col‐umn of the said table as the relevant examples according to the category of the range of theirrespective set temperature indication, etc. listed in the middle column of the said table.
Type ofType ofRange of Set Indication Temperature, etc.
Detector
Analogue Detector
Heat sensing spot Set indication tem‐ Equal to or higher than the temperature which is Special type
type analogue de‐ perature pertaining 20C higher than the maximum ambient tem‐
fixed tem‐
tectorto the indication of perature at normal times but equal to or lower
perature spot
cautiondetector
than the temperature which is 10C lower than
the set temperature for the indication of a fireSet indication tem‐ Equal to or higher than the temperature which isperature pertaining 30C higher than the maximum ambient tempera‐
to the indication of ture at normal times but equal to or lower thanfire
the temperature which is 50C higher than the
maximum ambient temperature at normal times
Ionisation spot type Set indication densi‐ Above 2.5% but not exceeding 5%
Type 1 pho‐analogue detector ty pertaining to thetoelectricor photoelectricindication of caution
spot detector
spot type analogue Set indication den‐ Above the set indication density for caution but
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Set indication densi‐ Above 5% but not exceeding 10%
ty pertaining to theindication of caution
Set indication den‐ Above the set indication density for caution but
sity pertaining to
not exceeding 22.5%
the indication of fireSet indication densi‐ Above 10% but not exceeding 15%
ty pertaining to theindication of caution
Set indication den‐ Above the set indication density for caution but
sity pertaining to
not exceeding 22.5%
the indication of fire
Projected beam
type analogue de‐tector (L1 < 45 m)

Type 2 pho‐toelectric
spot detector

Type 3 pho‐toelectric
spot detector

Set indication densi‐ Above 0.3 x L2% but not exceeding (2/3) (0.8 x L1 Type 1 pro‐ty pertaining to the + 29)%
jected beam
indication of caution
detector
Set indication den‐ Above the set indication density for caution but
sity pertaining to
not exceeding (L1 + 40)%
the indication of fireSet indication densi‐ Above 2/3 (0.8 x L1 + 29)% but not exceeding 2/3 Type 2 pro‐ty pertaining to the (L1 + 40)%
jected beam
indication of caution
detector
Set indication den‐ Above the set indication density for caution but
sity pertaining to
not exceeding (L1 + 40)%
the indication of fireSet indication densi‐ Above 0.3 x L2% but not exceeding 43.3%
Type 1 pro‐ty pertaining to thejected beam
indication of caution
detector
Set indication den‐ Above the set indication density for caution but
sity pertaining to
not exceeding 85%
the indication of fireSet indication densi‐ Above 43.3% but not exceeding 56.7%
Type 2 pro‐ty pertaining to thejected beam
indication of caution
detector
Set indication den‐ Above the set indication density for caution but
sity pertaining to
not exceeding 85%
the indication of fire

Note: L1 is the minimum value for the nominal monitoring distance and L2 is the maximum value forthe nominal monitoring distance.

(8) Parts used as roads listed in Article 21, paragraph (1), item (xii) of the Order shall have flame
detectors suitable for their places of use installed.
(9) The installation of a repeater for an automatic fire alarm system shall be as specified in eachof the following items.
(i)
In the case where the receiver cannot check the conduction of the wiring from the re‐ceiver to a detector, a repeater shall be installed between the receiver and each detector
so that conduction can be checked for each circuit.
(ii)
A repeater shall be installed at a place which is convenient for checking and where aneffective measure for fire prevention has been provided.
(Details of Standards Concerning Automatic Fire Alarm System)
Article 24
The details of the technical standards for the installation and maintenance of an
automatic fire alarm system are as specified in the following.
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(i)
(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

(f)

(g)
(h)

(i‐2)

(a)

(b)

The wiring shall be as specified in the following in addition to what is prescribed inlaws and regulations pertaining to electrical structures.
The signal circuit of the detector shall use the series wiring method so that the conduc‐tion test can be easily conducted and shall be provided with an electric manual callpoint, push button or terminator at the end of the circuit; provided, however, that thisshall not apply in the case where a receiver automatically issues a warning when thewiring is disconnected from the detector or electric manual call point or the wiring isbroken.
The value of the insulation resistance between the source circuit and the ground and be‐
tween the wires of the source circuit when measured by a 250 volt DC insulation re‐sistance meter shall be equal to or higher than 0.1 megohms in the case where the volt‐age of the source circuit to the ground is 150 volts or lower or equal to or higher than
0.2 megohms in the case where the voltage of the source circuit to the ground exceeds
150 volts while the value of the insulation resistance between the detector circuit (ex‐cluding the source circuit) or the circuit for an auxiliary device (excluding the source
circuit) and the ground and between the wires of each circuit shall be equal to or higher
than 0.1 megohms in each detection zone when measured by a 250 volt DC insulation
resistance meter.
The wiring shall not use any of the circuit modes listed in the following.
1. Circuit mode with a constant direct current to the grounding electrode
2. Circuit mode where a circuit for a detector, electric manual call point or repeaterand another circuit for a system other than an automatic fire alarm system use thesame wiring (excluding those where the transmission of a signal for the occurrenceof a fire is not affected)
Electrical wires used for the wiring of an automatic fire alarm system and other electri‐
cal wires shall not be placed in the same tube, duct (in the case of a duct being parti‐
tioned by something which is effective for insulation, a partitioned section is deemed toconstitute a separate duct) or raceway or pull box or similar; provided, however, that
this shall not apply to electrical wires used for low current circuits of 60 volts or lower.
The wiring from a detector and repeater which are connected to a R‐type receiver or
GR‐type receiver and which have their own intrinsic signals to the receiver shall follow
the provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (v).
When common lines are installed for the wiring for detectors, the number of detection
zones per each line shall be 7 or less; provided, however, that this shall not apply to a
detector circuit to which a detector or repeater connected to a R‐type receiver or GR‐
type receiver and with its own intrinsic signal is connected.
The wiring shall be conducted so that the resistance of the cable run for the detector cir‐
cuit of a P‐type receiver or GP‐type receiver shall be equal to or lower than 50 ohms.
The wiring shall be conducted so that the short‐circuiting or breakage of a speaker(s) or
the wiring for a speaker(s) on one floor due to a fire does not hinder the fire alarm op‐
eration on other floors.
The installation of a detector, repeater, receiver, zonal sounding device or electric man‐ual call point which either transmit or receive a signal for the occurrence of a fire by ra‐
dio shall be as specified in the following.
A detector, repeater, receiver, zonal sounding device or electric manual call point shallbe installed at a position where a signal can be transmitted or received between themwithout fail.
A receiver shall be provided with a measure designed to check its capacity to receive asignal from a detector, repeater, zonal sounding device or electric manual call point [re‐ferred to as ʺdetector, etc.ʺ in item (iii)‐(a) and item (iv)‐(d)].
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(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)
(e)

(f)

(g)

(h)

(i)

(iii)
(a)

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The installation of a receiver shall be as specified in the following.
A receiver shall be capable of indicating the detection zone where a detector, repeateror electric manual call point is activated in conjunction with the activation of the said
detector, repeater or electric manual call point.
The operating switch of a receiver shall be installed at a position of which the heightfrom the floor surface is 0.8 meters (0.6 meters in the case of an operator sitting in achair) or higher but 1.5 meters or lower.
In the case of a receiver which is installed in a fire prevention property with a single
staircase, etc. or other property where a part used for the intended purpose of a fire
prevention property listed in Appended Table 1, row (2)‐(d) of the Order exists andwhich has a switch to stop the sounding of the zonal sounding device (hereinafter re‐ferred to as ʺzonal sounding stop switchʺ in this item), when the receiver receives a fire
signal during a period when the said zonal sounding stop switch is in the mode ofstopping the sounding of the zonal sounding device (hereinafter referred to as ʺstopmodeʺ in this item), the said zonal sounding stop switch shall automatically move tothe mode to sound the zonal sounding device within a certain time (automatically inthe case where the zonal sounding device changes to the stop mode while sounding).
A receiver shall be installed at a disaster protection center, etc.
The sound pressure and tone of the primary sounding device and secondary sounding
device shall be as specified in the following 1. and 2.
1. The sound pressure and tone of these devices shall be those which can be heard as
being clearly different from other alarm sounds or noises.
2. In the case where a primary sounding device and secondary sounding device are
installed at a dance hall, karaoke box or similar where indoor or outdoor sounds
are difficult to hear, an appropriate measure shall be provided so that the fire
alarm can be heard as being clearly different from other alarm sounds or noises.
Not more than three Class 1 P‐type receivers of which the number of connectable lines isone, Class 2 P‐type receivers, Class 3 P‐type receivers or Class 1 GP‐type receivers ofwhich the number of connectable lines is one or Class 2 GP‐type receivers or Class 3 GP‐
type receivers shall be installed at a single fire prevention property [in the case of a floor
pertaining to Article 21, paragraph (1), item (x), item (xi) and item (xiii), the said floor].
When two or more receivers are installed in a single fire prevention property [in thecase of a floor pertaining to Article 21, paragraph (1), item (x), item (xi) and item (xiii),
the said floor] a system capable of simultaneously communicating between these places
where the receivers are installed shall be installed.
No Class 2 P‐type receivers or Class 2 GP‐type receivers, the number of connectablelines of which is one, shall be installed in a fire prevention property listed in Appended
Table 1 of the Order of which the total area [in the case of installation on a floor pertain‐
ing to Article 21, paragraph (1), item (x), item (xi) and item (xiii) of the Order, the floorarea of the said floor] exceeds 350 square meters.
No Class 3 P‐type receivers or Class 3 GP‐type receivers shall be installed in a fire pre‐vention property listed in Appended Table 1 of the Order of which the total area [in thecase of installation on a floor pertaining to Article 21, paragraph (1), item (x) of the Or‐
der, the floor area of the said floor] exceeds 150 square meters.
The power source shall be as specified in the following.
The power source shall be secured from a storage battery or main indoor low voltage
DC line without branching out; provided, however, that this shall not apply when ameasure to confirm a voltage drop of the said storage battery to the lower limit of therange capable of effectively activating the detector, etc. by the receiver is provided in
the case where a battery is used as the power source for the detector, etc.

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 24)(b) The switch of a power source shall be indicated for its use for an automatic fire alarmsystem.
(iv)
An emergency power source shall be installed as specified in the following.
(a) A storage battery system (excluding a storage battery system equipped with an AC‐DC
converter; the same shall apply hereinafter in this item) in the case of an emergency
power source for an automatic fire alarm system to be installed at a specified fire pre‐vention property of which the total area is equal to or more than 1,000 square meters or
an exclusive power receiving system for emergency power supply or a storage battery
system in the case of an emergency power source for an automatic fire alarm system to
be installed at other fire prevention properties(b) A storage battery system shall follow the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (1), item(iv)‐(a)‐1. through 4. and 6., (c)‐1. through 4. and (e) as the relevant examples and its ca‐
pacity shall be equal to or more than the capacity which can effectively operate an au‐
tomatic fire alarm system for 10 minutes.
(c) An exclusive power receiving system for emergency power supply shall follow theprovisions of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (iv)‐(a) and (e) as the relevant examples.
(d) In the case of the proviso of (a) of the preceding item, if a battery is capable of operatinga detector for 10 minutes or more after the transmission of a message that the voltage ofthe said battery has reached the lower limit of the voltage range to effectively operate
the detector, etc. to the receiver for 168 hours or longer, the said battery may be used as
an emergency power source.
(v)
A zonal sounding device (excluding those listed in the following item; the same shallapply hereinafter in this item) shall be installed as specified in the following excluding
the case where a Class 2 P‐type receiver with one connectable line, Class 3 P‐type re‐ceiver or Class 2 GP‐type receiver with one connectable line or Class 3 GP‐type receiveris installed in the detection zone of an automatic fire alarm system using the said re‐ceiver or a public address system is installed as specified in Article 25‐2.
(a) The sound pressure or tone shall be as specified in the following 1. through 3.
1. The sound pressure shall be equal to or higher than 90 decibels at a position whichis 1 meter away from the center of the installed sounding device.
2. In the case where a zonal sounding device is installed at a dance hall, karaoke box
or similar where indoor or outdoor sounds are difficult to hear, an appropriate
measure shall be provided so that the fire alarm can be heard as being clearly dif‐ferent from other alarm sounds or noises.
3. In the case of fire prevention properties which have private rooms used for theservice of allowing customers to use headphones, earphones or other similar items
for entertainment purposes (including similar facilities; the same shall apply here‐
inafter in this item, (a)‐3 of the following item and Article 25‐2, paragraph (2), item(i)‐(a)‐3. and item (iii)‐(a)‐3.) among fire prevention properties listed in Appended
Table 1, row (2)‐(d), row (16)‐(a), row (16‐2) and row (16‐3) of the Order (in the caseof fire prevention properties listed in row (16), item (i), row (16‐2) and row (16‐3)of the said table, limited to parts used for the intended purpose of a fire prevention
property listed in row (2)‐(d) of the said table; the same shall apply in (a)‐3. of thefollowing item and Article 25‐2, paragraph (2), item (i)‐(a)‐3. and item (iii)‐(a)‐3.), ameasure shall be provided so that the alarm sound can be heard in the said privaterooms without fail while the said service is being provided.
(b) Excluding the case of installation at a staircase or ramp, a zonal sounding device shallbe installed so that it can be activated in conjunction with the activation of a detector
and that all zones of a fire prevention property for which the said system is installed
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(d)

(e)

(f)
(g)
(v‐2)

(a)

(b)

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article] are effectively alarmed.
In the case of a fire prevention property of which the number of floors excluding base‐ment floors is 5 or more and of which the total area exceeds 3,000 square meters orparts thereof, zonal sounding devices shall be capable of sounding the alarm exclusive‐ly at the floor of fire origin and floor immediately above when the floor of fire origin is
the second floor or higher, the floor of fire origin, floor immediately above and base‐ment floors when the floor of fire origin is the first floor or the floor of fire origin, floor
immediately above and other basement floors when the floor of fire origin is a base‐ment floor. In this case, a measure shall be provided so that the fire alarm is automati‐
cally sounded in all zones of a fire prevention property or parts thereof [excluding parts
listed in paragraph (4), item (i)‐(f) of the preceding article] where the said system is in‐stalled when a certain length of time has elapsed or a new fire signal has been received.
Zonal sounding devices shall be installed on each floor so that the horizontal distancefrom any part of the floor [excluding parts listed in paragraph (4), item (i)‐(f) of the pre‐ceding article] to a zonal sounding device is 25 meters or less.
The wiring from the receiver to the zonal sounding devices shall follow the provision of
Article 12, paragraph (1), item (v); provided, however, that this shall not apply in thecase where signals are transmitted and received between the receiver and zonal sound‐ing devices by radio in accordance with the standards to be specified by the Commis‐
sioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency set forth in (g) below and (d) of thefollowing item.
When two or more receivers are installed in a single fire prevention property, zonal
sounding devices shall be able to be activated by any of the receivers.
Zonal sounding devices shall conform to the standards to be specified by the Commis‐
sioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
The installation of zonal sounding devices (limited to those which issue an alarm byvoice; the same shall apply hereinafter in this item) shall follow the provisions of thepreceding item [excluding (a), (c) and (g)] as the relevant examples and shall also be as
specified in the following.
The sound pressure or tone shall be as specified in the following 1. through 3.
1. The sound pressure shall be equal to or higher than 92 decibels at a position whichis 1 meter away from the center of the installed sounding device.
2. In the case where a zonal sounding device is installed at a dance hall, karaoke box
or similar where indoor or outdoor sounds are difficult to hear, an appropriate
measure shall be provided at the said place so that the fire alarm can be heard as
being clearly different from other alarm sounds or noises.
3. In the case of fire prevention properties which have private rooms used for theservice of allowing customers to use headphones, earphones or other similar items
for entertainment purposes listed in Appended Table 1, row (2)‐(d), row (16)‐(a),row (16‐2) and row (16‐3) of the Order, a measure shall be provided so that thealarm sound can be heard in the said private rooms without fail while the said ser‐vice is being provided.
In the case of a fire prevention property of which the number of floors excluding basement
floors is 5 or more and of which the total floor area exceeds 3,000 square meters or parts
thereof, zonal sounding devices shall be those in the following 1. or 2.
1. Zonal sounding devices shall be capable of sounding the alarm exclusively at thefloor of fire origin and floor immediately above when the floor of fire origin is thesecond floor or higher, the floor of fire origin, floor immediately above and base‐ment floors when the floor of fire origin is the first floor or the floor of fire origin,floor immediately above and other basement floors when the floor of fire origin isMinisterial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 24)
a basement floor. In this case, a measure shall be provided so that the fire alarm is
automatically sounded in all zones of a fire prevention property or parts thereof[excluding parts listed in paragraph (4), item (i)‐(f) of the preceding article] where
the said system is installed when a certain length of time has elapsed or a new fire
signal has been received.
2. Zonal sounding devices shall be capable of informing the place of fire origin to allzones of a fire prevention property or parts thereof [excluding parts listed in para‐graph (4), item (i)‐(f) of the preceding article]where the said system is installed.
(c) The circuit leading to the speakers shall be installed so that it does not affect the trans‐mission of signals on the signal circuit of the automatic fire alarm system and does not
suffer inductive interference by other electrical circuits.
(d) Zonal sounding devices shall conform to the standards to be specified by the Commis‐
sioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(vi)
When one of the following events takes place, the receiver does not indicate the occur‐
rence of a fire.
(a) Earth fault with a wired line(b) Change of the circuit voltage or current due to switching, etc. of the switch(c) Subjected to vibration or impact(vii)
The installation of a delay type detector or delay type repeater or receiver shall be as
specified in the following for each detection zone.
(a) The total time of the nominal delay time of a detector and the maximum delay time set
for a repeater or receiver shall not exceed 60 seconds.
(b) When a detector other than a smoke detector is installed in the case where a delay typerepeater or receiver is installed, the total time of the delay times set for the repeater andreceiver shall not exceed 20 seconds.
(viii) When a delay type detector or delay type repeater is installed in a single detection zone,
the receiver shall not have the two‐signal type function in the said detection zone.
(viii‐2) The installation of an electric manual call point shall be as specified in the following ex‐cluding the case where it is installed for a Class 2 P‐type receiver of which the numberof connectable lines is one, Class 3 P‐type receiver, Class 2 GP‐type receiver of which
the number of connectable lines is one or Class 3 GP‐type receiver or emergency alarmsystem is installed pursuant to the provision of Article 25‐2, paragraph (2).
(a) An electric manual call point shall be installed on each floor so that the walking dis‐
tance from any part of the said floor [excluding parts listed in paragraph (4), item (i)‐(f)of the preceding article] to one electric manual call point shall be 50 meters or less.
(b) Each electric manual call point shall be installed at a position of which the height fromthe floor surface is 0.8 meters or higher but 1.5 meters or lower.
(c) An indicator lamp shall be installed immediately adjacent to each electric manual callpoint.
(d) An indicator lamp shall be a red lamp of which the light can be easily recognized froma distance of 10 meters in the direction forming an angle of 15 degrees or more against
the installation face.
(e) The electric manual call point to be connected to a Class 1 P‐type receiver, Class 1 GP‐
type receiver, R‐type receiver or GR‐type receiver shall be a Class 1 P‐type electricmanual call point and the electric manual call point to be connected to a Class 2 P‐typereceiver or Class 2 GP‐type receiver shall be a Class 2 P‐type electric manual call point.
(ix)
The provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) shall apply mutatis mutandis to an
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Article 24‐2
The technical standards concerning the maintenance of an automatic fire alarmsystem shall be the following in addition to what is specified in the preceding article.
(i)
Receivers shall be maintained as specified in the following (a) through (d).
(a) No objects hampering the operation of a receiver shall be present near the said receiver.
(b) All switches of the operating part shall be positioned appropriately.
(c) A chart showing the locations of all detection zones shall be provided near the receiver;provided, however, that this shall not apply in the case where a master operating panel
is installed pursuant to the provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) which isapplied mutatis mutandis in item (ix) of the preceding article.
(d) In the case of an analogue repeater and analogue receiver, a chart showing the indication
temperature and all other settings shall be provided near the said repeater and receiver.
(ii)
Detectors shall be maintained as specified in the following (a) and (b).
(a) Sensing zones shall be appropriate for detectors other than flame detectors and moni‐
toring space or monitoring distance shall be appropriate for flame detectors.
(b) No measures which obstruct the detection of a fire shall be in place.
(iii)
Electric manual call points and repeaters shall be maintained so that no objects hamper‐
ing the operation of the said equipment shall be present nearby.
(iv)
The regular power source, emergency power source and spare power source for an au‐
tomatic fire alarm system shall be maintained as specified in the following.
(a) Power shall be supplied by the regular power source in a normal manner.
(b) The voltage and capacity of the emergency power source and spare power source shallbe appropriate.
(v)
In the case of an analogue type automatic fire alarm system (meaning an automatic fire
alarm system which has the functions of receiving fire information signals from detectors
by means of a repeater or receiver and of setting the indication temperature, etc.), the in‐dication temperature, etc. shall be maintained in the range of the set indication tempera‐ture, etc. listed in the middle column of the table in Article 23, paragraph (7) according to
the type of analogue detector pertaining to the said automatic fire alarm system.
(vi)
Detectors, repeaters, receivers, zonal sounding devices and electric manual call points
which transmit or receive signals indicating the occurrence of a fire by radio shall bemaintained in good condition so that signals are transmitted and received between
them without fail.
(Fire Prevention Property, etc. Not Requiring Installation of Gas Leakage and Fire Alarm Sys‐
tem)
Article 24‐2‐2 What shall be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in Article 21‐2, paragraph (1) of the Order shall be those not listed
in the following among fire prevention properties prescribed in the said paragraph or parts
thereof.
(i)
Those where fuel gas (excluding liquefied petrol gas of which the sale is conducted un‐
der the liquefied petroleum gas sale business prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) ofthe Act on Maintenance of Safety and Regulation of Trade of Liquefied Petroleum Gas(Act No. 149 of 1967); the same shall apply hereinafter) is used(ii)
Those where a system to extract hot spring water listed in paragraph (3) (excluding asystem used by a person verified under Article 14‐5, paragraph (1) of the Hot Spring
Act (Act No. 125 of 1948) to extract hot spring water at a place of extracting hot springwater pertaining to the said verification) is installed inside(iii)
Those which are designated as liable to the spontaneous generation of combustible gas
by a fire chief or fire station chief(2) The number to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Commu‐
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nications set forth in Article 21‐2, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Order shall be 1.
(3) A system to extract hot spring water to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Inter‐
nal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 21‐2, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Or‐
der shall consist of a hot spring well, gas separator, gas exhaust and connecting pipeworkprescribed in Article 6‐3, paragraph (3), item (v)‐(a) of the Order for Enforcement of the Hot
Spring Act (Ordinance of the Ministry of Health No. 35 of 1948) (excluding those which areinstalled at places where there is no risk of the retention of combustible natural gas).
(4) The case to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions set forth in the proviso of Article 21‐2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Order shall be thecase where the area of a single detection zone of a gas leakage and fire alarm system is 500
square meters or less and where the said detection zone covers two floors at a fire preven‐tion property.
(5) The case to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
set forth in the proviso of Article 21‐2, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Order shall be the casewhere the area of a single detection zone of a gas leakage and fire alarm system is 1,000 square
meters or less and where the alarm device as specified in paragraph (1), item (iv)‐(b) of the fol‐lowing article in the said detection zone can be easily seen from the center of a passageway.
(Details of Standards Concerning Gas Leakage and Fire Alarm System)
Article 24‐2‐3 The details of the standards for the installation and maintenance of a gas leakage
and fire alarm system shall be as specified in the following.
(i)A gas leakage detector (hereinafter referred to as ʺdetectorʺ) shall be installed on a partof the ceiling facing inwards (in the case of no ceiling, the lower face of the floor of thefloor above; hereinafter referred to as the ʺceiling surface, etc.ʺ) or a wall which is con‐venient for checking as specified in the following (a) or (b) and according to the natureof the gas; provided, however, that it shall not be installed at a place near a doorway
where an external air current frequently circulates, a place which is within 1.5 meters of
the air outlet of an air vent, a place liable to contact waste gas from a gas burning appli‐
ance (hereinafter referred to as ʺburning applianceʺ) or any other place where the oc‐
currence of gas leakage cannot be effectively detected.
(a) In the case where the specific gravity of the target gas for detection in the air is less than
1, the installation of a detector shall be as specified in the following 1. through 4.
1. A detector shall be installed at a position which is 8 meters or less in terms of thehorizontal distance from a burning appliance [limited to those to be specified by
the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency in the case of
those installed in a fire prevention property listed in Article 21‐2, paragraph (1),item (iii) of the Order; the same shall apply hereinafter] or a through section[meaning a place where a pipe supplying fuel gas to a fire prevention property
listed in item (i), item (ii), item (iv) or item (v) of the said paragraph or parts there‐of or part of a fire prevention property listed in item (iii) of the said paragraphruns through an external wall of the said fire prevention property or parts thereof;
the same shall apply hereinafter]; provided, however, that in the case where theceiling surface, etc. is compartmented by beams, etc. which protrude by 0.6 meters
or more, a detector shall be installed on the burning appliance side or through sec‐tion side of the said beams, etc.
2. A detector shall be installed at places near a system to extract hot spring water[meaning the system prescribed in paragraph (3) of the preceding article; the same
shall apply hereinafter] where gas can be effectively detected (in the case where
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(b)

(ii)
(a)

(b)
(iii)
(a)
(b)
(c)

(d)
(e)

(f)
(iv)
(a)

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said beams, etc.) at a rate of one or more detectors per 10 meters of the circumfer‐ential length of the said system to extract hot spring water and shall be provided
with a device to indicate the density of the gas. In this case, the said device shall be
installed at a disaster protection center, etc.
3. In the case where a burning appliance or system to extract hot spring water (here‐
inafter referred to as ʺburning appliance, etc.ʺ in this item) is used or there is an air
inlet near the ceiling surface, etc. of the room where a through section is located, adetector shall be installed near the nearest air inlet to the burning appliance, etc. or
through section among air inlets where the ceiling surface, etc. between these in‐lets and the burning appliance, etc. or through section is not compartmented bybeams, etc. which protrude by 0.6 meters or more.
4. The lower end of a detector shall be located at a position which is within 0.3 meters
below the ceiling surface, etc.
In the case where the specific gravity of the target gas for detection in the air exceeds 1,
the installation of a detector shall be as specified in the following 1. through 3.
1. A detector shall be installed at a position of which the horizontal distance from aburning appliance or through section is 4 meters or less.
2. A detector shall be installed at places near a system to extract hot spring waterwhere gas can be effectively detected at a rate of one or more detectors per 10 me‐
ters of the circumferential length of the said system to extract hot spring water andshall be provided with a device to indicate the density of the gas. In this case, thesaid device shall be installed at a disaster protection center, etc.
3. The upper end of a detector shall be located at a position which is within 0.3 me‐ters above the floor surface.
Repeaters shall be installed as specified in the following (a) and (b).
In the case of a receiver which cannot confirm the conduction of wiring from the receiv‐
er to the detector, a repeater shall be installed between the receiver and detector so that
conduction can be confirmed for each line; provided, however, that this shall not apply
to a receiver of which the number of connectable lines is 5 or less.
A repeater shall be installed at a place which is convenient for checking and where aneffective measure for fire prevention has been provided.
In the case where a detector is installed as specified in item (i)‐(a)‐1. or (b)‐1. of the said
item, the receiver shall be installed as specified in the following (a) through (f).
In conjunction with the activation of a detector or repeater, the receiver shall be able toindicate the detection zone in which the detector is activated.
The receiver shall be able to indicate the detection zone pertaining to a detector installed ata through section separately from the detection zones pertaining to other detectors.
The operating switch of the receiver shall be installed at a position of which the heightfrom the floor surface is 0.8 meters (0.6 meters in the case of an operator sitting in achair) or higher but 1.5 meters or lower.
The sound pressure and tone of the primary sounding device shall be those which canbe heard as being clearly different from other alarm sounds or noises.
When two or more receivers are installed in a single fire prevention property, a systemcapable of simultaneously communicating between those places where the receivers are
installed shall be installed.
A receiver shall be installed at a disaster protection center, etc.
The type of alarm device listed in the following (a) through (c) shall be installed as
specified in the following (a) through (c).
The installation of a device using a voice to alarm of the occurrence of gas leakage topersons concerned with and users of a fire prevention property (hereinafter referred toMinisterial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 24‐2‐3)
as ʺvoice alarm deviceʺ) shall be as specified in the following 1. or 2.
1. In the case of installation in a fire prevention property listed in Article 21‐2, para‐graph (1), item (i), item (ii), item (iv) or item (v) of the Order or parts thereof orparts of a fire prevention property specified by the Commissioner of the Fire andDisaster Management Agency, installation shall be as specified in the following i.
through iii; provided, however, that a voice alarm device may not be installed inparts located within the effective range of a public address system installed as
specified in Article 25‐2, paragraph (2), item (iii).
i.
The sound pressure and tone shall be those which can be heard as being clearly
different from other alarm sounds or noises.
ii. Speakers shall be installed on each floor so that the horizontal distance from any
part of the said floor to a speaker is 25 meters or less.
iii. When two or more receivers are installed in a single fire prevention property,
they shall be able to be activated from any place where one of the receivers is lo‐cated.
2. The sounding alarm device to be installed in a fire prevention property listed in
Article 21‐2, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Order [limited to those where a part
specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency set
forth in 1. (hereinafter referred to as ʺCommissioner designated partʺ in this item)
does not exist] or part of a fire prevention property set forth in the said item (lim‐ited to those where a Commissioner designated part exists) shall be as specified in
the following i. and ii; provided, however, that a voice alarm device may not be in‐stalled at places where people are normally absent or any part located within theeffective range of a public address system installed as specified in Article 25‐2,
paragraph (2), item (iii) or a detector equipped with an alarm function or a detec‐tion area alarm device.
i.
The sound pressure and tone shall be those which can be heard as being clearly
different from other alarm sounds or noises.
ii. Speakers shall be installed on each floor so that the horizontal distance from any
part of the said floor to a speaker is 25 meters or less.
(b) The installation of a device to alarm of the occurrence of gas leakage using an indication
lamp to persons concerned with a fire prevention property who are present in a pas‐sageway (hereinafter referred to as ʺgas leakage indication lampʺ) in conjunction withthe activation of a detector, shall be as specified in the following 1. and 2; provided,
however, that a gas leakage indication lamp may not be installed in the case where one
detection zone consists of a single room.
1. In the case where the room in which a detector is to be installed faces a passage‐
way, a gas leakage indication lamp shall be installed near the doorway of a partfacing the said passageway.
2. A gas leakage indication lamp shall be installed so that its light can be clearly rec‐ognized from a point which is 3 meters away in front.
(c) A device to alarm of the occurrence of gas leakage in a detection area (meaning an area
where one detector can effectively detect gas leakage; the same shall apply hereinafter)
using sound to persons concerned with a fire prevention property (hereinafter referred
to as ʺdetection area alarm deviceʺ) in conjunction with the activation of a detector shallbe capable of producing a sound pressure of 70 decibels or higher at a position which is
1 meter away from the said detection area alarm device; provided, however, that a de‐tection area alarm device may not be installed in the case where a detector with analarm function is installed or at a machine room or other places where people are nor‐mally absent and through sections.
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(v)
(a)

(b)

(c)

(vi)
(a)
(b)
(vii)
(a)

(b)
(c)

(d)
(viii)(ix)

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The wiring shall be as specified in the following (a) through (c) in addition to what isprescribed by laws and regulations pertaining to electrical structures.
The signal circuit of a continuously open circuit type detector shall have a terminator at
the end of the circuit so that the conduction test can be easily conducted and shall use
the series wiring method except in the case where one detector is connected to one line.
The value of the insulation resistance between the source circuit and the ground and be‐
tween the wires of the source circuit when measured by a 500 volt DC insulation re‐sistance meter shall be equal to or higher than 0.1 megohms in the case where the volt‐age of the source circuit to the ground is 150 volts or lower or equal to or higher than
0.2 megohms in the case where the voltage of the source circuit to the ground exceeds
150 volts while the value of the insulation resistance between the detector circuit (ex‐cluding the source circuit) or the circuit for an auxiliary device (excluding the source
circuit) and the ground and between the wires of each circuit shall be equal to or higher
than 0.1 megohms in each detection zone when measured by a 500 volt DC insulation
resistance meter.
The wiring shall not use any of the circuit modes listed in the following.
1. Circuit mode with a constant direct current to the grounding electrode
2. Circuit mode where a circuit for a detector or repeater and another circuit for asystem other than a gas leakage and fire alarm system use the same wiring (ex‐cluding those where the transmission of a signal for the occurrence of gas leakage(hereinafter referred to as ʺgas leakage signalʺ is not affected)
The power source shall be installed as specified in the following.
The power source shall be secured from a storage battery or main indoor low voltage
DC line without branching out.
The switch of a power source shall be indicated for its use for a gas leakage and fire
alarm system.
An emergency power source shall be installed as specified in the following (a) through (d).
A storage battery system without an AC‐DC converter shall be used and its capacity
shall be equal to or more than the capacity capable of effectively operating two lines for
10 minutes while holding other lines in the monitoring state simultaneously for 10
minutes; provided, however, that in the case where a spare power source or a storage
battery system without an AC‐DC converter, the capacity of which is equal to or morethan the capacity capable of effectively operating two lines for 1 minute while holding
other lines in the monitoring state simultaneously for 1 minute is installed, a storage
battery system with an AC‐DC converter, in‐house power generation system or fuel cellsystem may be installed.
A storage battery system shall follow the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (1), item(iv)‐(a)‐1. through 4. and 6. and (c)‐1. through 4. as the relevant examples.
An in‐house power generation system shall follow the provisions of Article 12, para‐graph (1), item (iv)‐(a)‐1. through 4. and 6. and (b)‐2. through 4. as the relevant exam‐ples.
A fuel cell system shall follow the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (iv)‐(a)(excluding 5. and 7.), (b)‐2. and (d)‐1. and 2. as the relevant examples.
The total of the standard delay time of the detector (meaning the standard time fromthe detection by the detector of the sufficient level of gas density to generate a gas leak‐age signal to the transmission of the gas leakage signal) and standard delay time of thereceiver (meaning the standard time from reception by the receiver of the gas leakage
signal to the indication of the occurrence of gas leakage) shall be within 60 seconds.
When any of the events listed in the following (a) through (c) occurs, the receiver shallnot indicate the occurrence of gas leakage.

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 24‐2‐3~24‐3)(a) Earth fault with a wired line(b) Change of the circuit voltage or current due to switching, etc. of the switch(c) Subjected to vibration or impact(x)
The provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) shall apply mutatis mutandis to agas leakage and fire alarm system.
(2) The detectors in addition to the repeaters and receivers to be used for a gas leakage and fire
alarm system designed to detect liquid petroleum gas shall conform to the standards to be
specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
Article 24‐2‐4The technical standards for the maintenance of a gas leakage and fire alarm systemshall be as specified in the following in addition to what is prescribed in the preceding article.
(i)A detector shall be maintained so that it is unnecessary to adopt a measure which mayhinder its detection function.
(ii)
A repeater shall be maintained so that there are no objects which may obstruct theoperation of the said repeater.
(iii)
A receiver shall be maintained as specified in the following (a) through (e).
(a) Power shall be supplied by a regular power source in the normal manner.
(b) The voltage and capacity of the emergency power source and spare power source shallbe appropriate.
(c) All switches of the operating part shall be positioned appropriately.
(d) No objects hampering the operation of the receiver shall be present near the said receiver.
(e) A chart showing the locations of all detection zones shall be provided near the receiver;provided, however, that this shall not apply in the case where a master operating panel
is installed pursuant to the provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) which isapplied mutatis mutandis in paragraph (1), item (ix) of the preceding article.
(Details of Standards Concerning Electrical Leakage and Fire Alarm Devices)
Article 24‐3
The details of the technical specifications for the installation and maintenance ofelectrical leak fire alarm devices shall be as specified in the following(i)A current transformer to be installed shall be that of which the current value (in thecase of installation for a B type earthing wire, a value which is equal to or higher thanthe current expected to flow through the said earthing line) is equal to or higher than
the rated current of the detection cable run.
(ii)
A current transformer shall be installed on an outdoor cable run supplying power to abuilding (in the case where installation on an outdoor cable run is difficult from theviewpoint of building construction, an indoor cable run adjacent to the service entranceof the cable run) or Type B earthing wire in a secured manner at a position where it iseasy to check the said current transformer.
(iii)
The installation of a sounding device shall be as specified in the following (a) and (b).
(a) The installation of a sounding device shall be as specified in the following (a) and (b).
(b) The sound pressure and tone of a sounding device shall be those which can be heard as
being clearly different from other alarm sounds or noises.
(iv)
The set value for the detection of leak current shall be an appropriate value correspond‐
ing to the state of the detection cable run of the said building so that no false alarm issounded.
(v)
In the case where an electrical leak fire alarm device is to be installed at a place where
there is a risk of combustible vapor, combustible dust or similar remaining, a device toshut off the electric current in conjunction with the operation of the said fire alarm de‐vice shall be installed at a safe location other than the said place.

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Article 25
The places to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in the proviso of Article 23, paragraph (1) of the Order shall bethat specified in each of the following items according to the category of the fire prevention
property.
(i)Fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row 6)‐(a)‐1. and 2., row (xvi)‐(a), row (16‐2) and row (16‐3) [limited to those having parts serving the intended pur‐pose of the fire prevention properties listed in row (6)‐(a)‐1. or 2. of the said table in thecase of the fire prevention properties listed in row (16)‐(a). row (16‐2) and row (16‐3)]:
Inside the building where a fire department is situated(ii)Fire prevention properties other than the fire prevention properties listed in the preced‐
ing item: place to which the walking distance from a fire department is 500 meters or
less(2) A fire alarm system pursuant to the provision of Article 23, paragraph (2) of the Order shallbe installed at a place specified in each of the following items according to the type of sys‐
tem listed in each said item.
(i)
A device capable of reporting to a fire department with the operation of a single pushbutton, etc. (limited to those using a telephone line; hereinafter referred to as ʺfire re‐porting deviceʺ in this article): disaster protection center, etc.
(ii)
An electric manual call point of a fire alarm system (excluding a fire reporting device)reporting to a fire department: place where the electric manual call point is likely to be
noticed by many people and can be quickly operated at the time of a fire and disasterprotection center, etc.
(3) The details of the technical standards for the installation and maintenance of a fire reporting
device shall be as specified in the following.
(i)
A fire reporting device shall conform to the standards to be specified by the Commis‐
sioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(ii)
A telephone line with no risk of hindering the functions of a fire reporting device shallbe used.
(iii)
A fire reporting device shall be connected to a section of the telephone line referred toin the preceding item, where the said telephone line can be used properly and there isno risk of hindering the functions of the said fire reporting device due to impacts ofcommunications conducted by other equipment,.
(iv)
A power source shall be installed as specified in the following.
(a) Power supply shall be made using a storage battery or indoor low voltage AC trunkline as the power source without the branching out of any other line; provided, howev‐
er, that this shall not apply in the case where power supply for a fire reporting device to
be installed in a fire prevention property listed in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(a)‐1through 3. and (b) of the Order of which the total area is less than 500 square meters ismade from an electrical line where neither switch nor the connecting part of an electri‐
cal line (excluding the connecting part between the said electrical line and a fir report‐
ing device) is installed between the said device and distribution panel and the connect‐
ing part of the said electrical line has an appropriate measure to prevent its loosening
by vibration or impact easily.
(b) The switch of the power source shall be indicated for its use for a fire reporting device.
(v)
The fire reporting devices to be installed at fire prevention properties listed in Append‐
ed Table 1, row (6)‐(a)‐1 and 2. and (b), row (16)‐(a), row (16‐2) and row (16‐3) of theOrder [in the case of fire prevention properties listed in row (16)‐(a), row (16‐2) and row(16‐3) of the said table, limited to those where a part(s) serving the intended purpose ofa fire prevention property listed in row (6)‐(a)‐1 or 3. or (b) of the said table exists; the126

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same shall apply in the following paragraph] shall start in conjunction with the activa‐tion of the detector of an automatic fire alarm system provided, however, that this shallnot apply in the case where the receiver and fire reporting device of an automatic fire
alarm system are installed at a disaster protection center [limiter to that permanently
manned by a person(s)].
(4) The details of the technical standards for the installation and maintenance of a fire alarmsystem (excluding a fire reporting device) linked to a fire department shall be as specified in
the following.
(i)
The wiring shall follow the installation of wiring for an automatic fire alarm system
listed in Article 24, item (i) as the relevant example.
(ii)
The push button of the electric manual call point shall be installed at a position ofwhich the height from the floor surface or ground surface is 0.8 meters or higher but 1.5
meters or lower and a sign shall be placed in an easily visible place.
(iii)
When one of the following events occurs, the receiver shall not indicate the occurrenceof a fire.
(a) Breakage or earth fault of a line of the wiring between the electric manual call point,
other than a M‐type electric manual call point, or receiver, other than a M‐type receiver,and a M‐type electric manual call point(b) Shortcircuiting of two lines of the wiring other than the signal circuit(c) Change of the circuit voltage or current due to switching, etc. of the switch(d) Subjected to vibration or impact(iv)
Fire alarm systems linked to a fire department [excluding fire reporting devices] to beinstalled at fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, (6)‐(a)‐1 and 2. and(b), row (16)‐(a), row (16‐2) and row (16‐3) of the Order shall follow the provision ofitem (v) of the preceding paragraph as the relevant example.
(Standards Concerning Emergency Alarm System)
Article 25‐2
A public address system to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Inter‐
nal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 24, paragraph (5) of the Order shall be apublic address system equipped with a device capable of generating a sound of which thelevel is equivalent to or higher than that of an emergency bell or automatic siren.
(2) The details of the technical standards concerning the installation and maintenance of an
emergency alarm system shall be as specified in the following.
(i)
The sounding device of an emergency bell or automatic siren shall be installed as speci‐
fied in the following (a) through (c).
(a) The sound pressure and tone shall be as specified in the following 1. through 3.
1. The sound pressure shall be equal to or higher than 90 decibels at a position whichis 1 meter away from the center of the installed sounding device.
2. In the case where a sounding device of an emergency bell or an automatic siren is
installed at a dance hall, karaoke box or similar where indoor or outdoor sounds
are difficult to hear, an appropriate measure shall be provided so that the fire
alarm can be heard as being clearly different from other alarm sounds or noises.
3. In the case of fire prevention properties which have private rooms used for the ser‐vice of allowing customers to use headphones, earphones or other similar items forentertainment purposes among fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table
1, row (2)‐(d), row (16)‐(a), row (16‐2) and row (16‐3) of the Order, a measure shall be
provided so that the alarm sound can be heard in the said private rooms without failwhile the said service is being provided.
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(c)
(ii)

(ii‐2)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)

(iii)
(a)

ing devices shall be capable of sounding the alarm exclusively at the floor of fire origin
and floor immediately above when the floor of fire origin is the second floor or higher,
the floor of fire origin, floor immediately above and basement floors when the floor of fire
origin is the first floor or the floor of fire origin, floor immediately above and other base‐ment floors when the floor of fire origin is a basement floor. In this case, a measure shallbe provided so that the fire alarm is automatically sounded in all zones of a fire preven‐tion property or parts thereof where the said system is installed when a certain length oftime has elapsed or a new fire signal has been received.
Sounding devices shall be installed on each floor so that the horizontal distance fromany part of the floor to a sounding device is 25 meters or less.
A starting device of a public address system to be installed on the 11th and higher floors
and 3rd and lower basement floors of a fire prevention property or fire prevention prop‐
erties listed in Appended Table 1, row (16‐2) and row (16‐3) shall be accompanied by adevice to communicate with a disaster protection center, etc.; provided, however, that
this shall not apply in the case where the starting device is an emergency telephone.
A starting device for an emergency alarm system shall be installed as specified in thefollowing (a) through (d).
A starting device shall be installed on each floor so that the walking distance from any
part of the said floor to one starting device shall be 50 meters or less.
Each starting device shall be installed at a position of which the height from the floor
surface is 0.8 meters or higher but 1.5 meters or lower.
An indicator lamp shall be installed immediately adjacent to each starting device.
An indicator lamp shall be a red lamp of which the light can be easily recognized froma distance of 10 meters in the direction forming an angle of 15 degrees or more against
the installation face.
A public address system shall be installed as specified in the following (a) and (b) or (c)and (d) through (1).
The sound pressure and tone shall be as specified in the following 1. through 3.
1. The sound pressure shall be that which is listed in the right‐hand column of thefollowing table at a position which is 1 meter away from the installed speaker ac‐
cording to the type listed in the left‐hand column of the said table.
Class
Class LClass MClass S

2.

Sound Pressure
92 decibels or higher
87 decibels or higher but less than 92 decibels
84 decibels or higher but less than 87 decibels

In the case where a speaker is installed at a dance hall, karaoke box or similar
where indoor or outdoor sounds are difficult to hear, an appropriate measure shallbe provided so that the fire alarm can be heard as being clearly different from oth‐er alarm sounds or noises.
3. In the case of fire prevention properties which have private rooms used for the ser‐vice of allowing customers to use headphones, earphones or other similar items forentertainment purposes among fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table
1, row (2)‐(d), row (16)‐(a), row (16‐2) and row (16‐3) of the Order, a measure shall be
provided so that the alarm sound can be heard in the said private rooms without failwhile the said service is being provided.
(b) The installation of a speaker shall be as specified in the following.
1. In the case of installing a speaker at places other than staircases or ramps, a speak‐
er to be installed shall be a Class L speaker for a public address zone (part which
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 25‐2)(c)does not extend over two or more floors of a fire prevention property and which iscompartmented by a floor, walls or doors (excluding shoji, i.e. sliding paper doors,
fusuma, i.e. thicker sliding paper doors, or similar of which the noise barrier per‐formance is extremely poor); the same shall apply in the following 2.) exceeding
100 square meters, a Class L or Class M speaker for a public address zone exceed‐ing 50 square meters up to 100 square meters or a Class L, Class M or Class S
speaker for a public address zone up to 50 square meters.
2. When installing a speaker at the places prescribed in 1., speakers shall be installed
so that the horizontal distance from any part of the said public address zone to one
speaker shall be 10 meters or less; provided, however, that speakers may not be in‐stalled in a public address zone of 6 square meters or less in the case of a room or
principal corridor or other passageway from the room to the ground or a public
address zone of 30 square meters or less in the case of other parts if the horizontal
distance from a speaker installed in an adjacent public address zone from a part ofthe said public address zone is 8 meters or less.
3. In the case where a speaker is installed at staircases or ramps, a Class L speaker
shall be installed every 15 meters in terms of the vertical distance.
The sound pressure or tone and installation of a speaker shall be as specified in the fol‐lowing.
1. In the case where a speaker is installed at places other than staircases or ramps, a
speaker shall be installed in each public address zone so that the sound pressure lev‐el calculated by the following equation shall be 75 decibels or higher at a position ofwhich the height from the floor surface of the said public address zone is 1 meter.
P = 10 log10 (2.

Where,
P : Sound pressure level (unit: decibels)
p : Acoustic power level of the speaker (unit: decibels)
Q : Directivity factor of the speakerr : Distance from the said place to the speaker (unit: meters)
: Average sound absorption coefficient in the public address zone
S : Total area of walls, floor and ceiling or roof of the public address zone (unit:
square meters)
In the case where a speaker is installed at places other than staircases or ramps
where the reverberation time in the said public address zone is 3 seconds or long‐er, a speaker shall be installed so that the distance from a position of which theheight is 1 meter from the floor surface of the said public address zone to the
speaker shall not exceed the value calculated by the following equation.
r=

3.
4.

Q
4(1   )
)

2
S
4r

3
QS
4 (1   )Where,
r : Distance of the said position to the speaker (unit: meters)
Q : Directivity factor of the speaker
S : Total area of walls, floor and ceiling or roof of the public address zone (unit:
square meters)
: Average sound absorption coefficient in the public address zone
In the case where a speaker is installed at staircases or ramps, a Class L speaker
shall be installed every 15 meters in terms of the vertical distance.
In the case where a speaker is installed at a dance hall, karaoke box or similar

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(d)
(e)

(f)

(g)

(h)

(i)

(j)
(k)

(l)

(iv)
(a)

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where indoor or outdoor sounds are difficult to hear, an appropriate measure shallbe provided at the said place so that the fire alarm can be heard as being clearly
different from other alarm sounds or noises.
In the case where a volume controller is installed, the wiring shall use a three wire system.
The operating switches of the operating part and remote control device shall be in‐stalled at places of which the height from the floor surface is 0.8 meters (0.6 meters in
the case of an operating sitting in a chair) or higher but 1.5 meters or lower.
The operating part and remote control device shall, in conjunction with the activation ofa starting device or automatic fire alarm system, be capable of indicating the floor orzone where the said starting device or automatic fire alarm system is activated.
The amplifier, operating part and remote control device shall be installed at positions
which are convenient for checking and where an effective measure for fire prevention isprovided.
A public address system shall be capable of sounding the alarm exclusively at the floorof fire origin and floor immediately above when the floor of fire origin is the second
floor or higher, the floor of fire origin, floor immediately above and basement floors
when the floor of fire origin is the first floor or the floor of fire origin, floor immediately
above and other basement floors when the floor of fire origin is a basement floor. In thiscase, a measure shall be provided so that the fire alarm is automatically sounded in allzones of a fire prevention property or parts thereof where the said system is installed
when a certain length of time has elapsed or a new fire signal has been received.
When sharing with another system, a public address system shall have a mechanism
which can shut off other public addresses other than the emergency alarm [excluding
those public addresses pertaining to the prediction of ground motion, etc. (meaning
public addresses which are made on receipt of a prediction prescribed in Article 2, par‐agraph (6) of the Meteorological Service Act (Act No. 165 of 1952) and warning pre‐scribed in paragraph (7) of the said article on ground motion prescribed in paragraph(4), item (ii) of the said article issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency pursuant to
the provision of Article 13 of the said act, prediction data prescribed in Article 10‐2,
item (i)‐(a) of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Meteorological Service Act (Ordi‐nance of the Ministry of Transport No. 101 of 1952) or prediction of ground motion
made by those authorized under Article 17, paragraph (1) of the said act or informationon these matters) which only requires a short time and which does not hamper the ef‐
fective notification of the occurrence of a fire] at the time of a fire.
A public address system shall be installed so that it does not suffer inductive interfer‐
ence by other electrical circuits.
One of the operating parts or a remote control device shall be installed at a disaster pro‐tection center, etc.; provided, however, that this shall not apply in the case where a mas‐ter control panel is installed pursuant to the provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item
(viii) which is applied mutatis mutandis in item (vi).
When two or more operating parts or remote control devices are installed at a single
fire prevention property, a system capable of simultaneously communicating between
places where the operating parts or remote control devices are installed shall be in‐stalled and a fire can be notified from any operating part or remote control device to allzones of the said fire prevention property.
The wiring shall be as specified in the following (a) through (e) in addition to what isprescribed by laws and regulations pertaining to electrical structures.
The value of the insulation resistance between the source circuit and the ground and be‐
tween the wires of the source circuit when measured by a 250 volt DC insulation re‐sistance meter shall be equal to or higher than 0.1 megohms in the case where the volt‐

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age of the source circuit to the ground is 150 volts or lower or equal to or higher than
0.2 megohms in the case where the voltage of the source circuit to the ground exceeds
150 volts.
(b) Electrical wires used for the wiring of a public address system and other electrical wires
shall not be placed in the same tube, duct or raceway or pull box or similar; provided,
however, that this shall not apply to electrical wires used for low current circuits of 60
volts or lower.
(c) The wiring shall be conducted so that the short‐circuiting or breakage of a speaker or
the wiring for a speaker on one floor due to a fire does not hinder the fire alarm opera‐tion on other floors.
(d) The provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (v) shall apply mutatis mutandis to theinstallation of wiring from an operating part or a starting device to speakers or sound‐ing devices or from an amplifier or operating part to a remote control device.
(e) The installation of a power source for an emergency alarm system shall following theprovision of Article 24, item (iii) as the relevant example.
(v)
The provision of Article 24, item (iv) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the installation ofan emergency power source.
(vi)
The provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) shall apply mutatis mutandis to an
emergency alarm system.
(3) An emergency alarm system shall conform to the standards to be specified by the Commis‐
sioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency in addition to what is prescribed in thetwo preceding paragraphs.
Section 3

Standards for Escape Equipment(Reduction of or Exemption from the Required Number of Escape Equipment)
Article 26
In the case where a floor of a fire prevention property listed in each item of Arti‐cle 25, paragraph (1) of the Order falls under the following items, the number of escapeequipment to be installed on the said floor shall be equal to or higher than the number
which is calculated on the basis that the phrases ʺone hundred personsʺ, ʺtwo hundred per‐sonsʺ and ʺthree hundred personsʺ in the main clause of Article 25, paragraph (2), item (i) of
the Order are deemed to be replaced by ʺtwo hundred personsʺ, ʺfour hundred personsʺ andʺsix hundred personsʺ respectively.
(i)
The main structural sections shall be of a fireproof construction.
(ii)
There shall be two escape staircases or special escape staircases which are direct stair‐cases leading to an evacuation floor or the ground (including ramps; hereinafter re‐ferred to as ʺdirect staircaseʺ).
(2) In the case where a direct staircase which is required pursuant to the provisions of Article
120, Article 121 and Article 122 of the Order for Enforcement of the Building Standards Act
and which is either an escape staircase (limited to an indoor or outdoor staircase which has
parts to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency) or
special escape staircase prescribed in Article 123 and Article 124 of the Order for Enforce‐
ment of the Building Standards Act to a floor of a fire prevention property listed in each itemof Article 25, paragraph (1) of the Order, the number of escape equipment to be installed on
the said floor may be equal to or higher than the number which is obtained by subtracting
the number of the said escape staircases or special staircases from the number calculated
pursuant to the provision of the main clause of Article 25, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Or‐
der or the preceding paragraph. In this case, when the number after subtraction is less than1, escape equipment may not be installed on the said floor.
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fire prevention property listed in each item of Article 25, paragraph (1) of the Order of which
the main structural sections are of a fireproof construction, the number of escape equipment
to be installed on the floor where the said connection corridor(s) is installed may be equal toor higher than the number which is obtained by subtracting double the number of the saidconnecting corridors from the number calculated pursuant to the provision of the mainclause of Article 25, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Order or the two preceding paragraphs. In
this case, the provision of the second sentence of the preceding paragraph shall apply muta‐
tis mutandis.
(i)
Fireproof construction or steel construction(ii)
Installation of a fire door (excluding a fire shutter) which is specified fire prevention
equipment equipped with an automatic closing device at the doorway at both ends of aconnecting corridor(iii)
Not serving purposes other than escape, passage and transportation(4) In the case where an escape bridge is installed at open rooftop space which falls under thefollowing at a fire prevention property listed in each item of Article 25, paragraph (1) of theOrder where the main structural sections are of a fireproof construction, when two or more
escape staircases or special escape staircases leading to the said open rooftop space from thefloor immediately below are installed, the number of escape equipment to be installed on thesaid floor immediately below may be equal to or more than the number which is obtainedby subtracting double the number of the said escape bridges from the number calculated
pursuant to the provision of the main clause of Article 25, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Or‐
der or the three preceding paragraphs. In this case, the provision of the second sentence ofparagraph (2) shall apply mutatis mutandis.
(i)
The effective area of an open rooftop space at which an escape bridge is installed shallbe 100 square meters or more.
(ii)
Windows and doorways facing an open rooftop space shall be equipped with a fire
door which is specified fire prevention equipment or a door with a steel wire‐reinforced
glass window and the passageway from the said doorway to the escape bridge shall nothinder escape.
(iii)
Doors, etc. installed on the route to an escape bridge shall be easily opened or closed at
the time of escape.
(5) When a floor of a fire prevention property listed in each item of Article 25, paragraph (1) of
the Order falls under one of the following items, escape equipment may not be installed on
the said floor.
(i)A floor shall fall under the following (a) through (f) in the case of a fire prevention
property listed in Appended Table 1, row (1) through row (8) of the Order, under thefollowing (a), (d), (e) and (f) in the case of a fire prevention property listed in row (9)through row (11) of the said table or under the following (a), (e) and (f) in the case of afire prevention property listed in row (12) and row (15) of the said table.
(a) The main structural sections shall be of a fireproof construction.
(b) A floor compartmented by fireproof walls or a floor of which any opening is equippedwith a fire door which is specified fire prevention equipment or a door with a steel
wire‐reinforced window(c) The capacity of a part compartmented as specified in (b) is less than the capacity pre‐scribed in each item of Article 25, paragraph (1) of the Order according to the categoryprescribed in the said item.
(d) The finishes of parts (excluding moldings, window sills and other similar parts) of thewalls and ceiling (roof in the case of no ceiling) facing inwards shall be made of a semi‐
combustible material or a sprinkler system is installed in all parts used for the principal
intended purpose of the said floor in accordance with the technical standards specified
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in Article 12 of the Order or a relevant example of the said technical standards.
(e) Direct staircases are either escape staircases or special escape staircases.
(f) Either a balcony or similar (hereinafter referred to as ʺbalcony, etc.ʺ is provided in an ef‐
fective manner for escape or two or more direct staircases are installed at separate posi‐tions so that two or more direct staircases can be reached from any part of the said floor
via two or more different routes.
(ii)
A floor shall fall under the following (a) and (b).
(a) The main structural sections are of a fireproof construction.
(b) A balcony, etc. [limited to a balcony in the case of a fire prevention property listed inAppended Table 1, row (5) and row (6) of the Order] is provided at part of a room fac‐
ing the outside air in an effective manner for escape and a staircase leading to theground from the said balcony or other facility for escape [limited to a staircase in thecase of fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (5) and row (6) of theOrder] or appliance is provided or a facility or appliance leading to another building isprovided.
(iii)
A floor shall fall under the following (a) through (d).
(a) The main structural sections are of a fireproof construction.
(b) There is a direct route from a room or apartment to a direct staircase and any openingof the said room or apartment facing the said direct staircase is equipped with a fire
door (excluding fire shutters) which is specified fire prevention equipment which has
an automatic closing device which can be opened as required or has a construction as
specified in the following 1. and 2.
1. A fire door shall be that which can be closed as required and which is also closed
in conjunction with the activation of a smoke detector.
2. A fire door shall have a part which can be directly opened by hand and which is
automatically closed and of which the width, height and height of its lower end
from the floor surface are 75 centimeters or more, 1.8 meters or more and 15 cen‐timeters or less respectively.
(c) A direct staircase shall have a construction (in the case of the construction specified in
Article 123, paragraph (1) of the Order for Enforcement of the Building Standards Act,
limited to those which have a part to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire andDisaster Management Agency) specified in Article 123 of the said Order [excluding
paragraph (1), item (vi), paragraph (2), item (ii) and paragraph (3), item (x)].
(d) The capacity shall be less than 30 persons.
(6) In the case where a floor of a fire prevention property listed in Article 25, paragraph (1), item(i) and item (ii) which is located at a small‐scale multi‐purpose fire prevention property serv‐
ing a specified intended purpose falls under each of the following items [in the case where
the said floor is the second floor where no parts serving the purposes of fire prevention
properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (2) and row (3) of the Order do not exist on thesecond floor, item (i) and item (iii)], escape equipment may not be installed on the said floor(i)
No parts serving the intended purposes of fire prevention properties listed in Append‐
ed Table 1, row (1) through row (2)‐©, row (3), row (4), row (9), row (12)‐(a), row (13)‐(a), row (14) and row (15) exist on the lower floor.
(ii)
There are two or more staircases directly leading to an evacuation floor or ground levelfrom the floor in question [in the case where a part compartmented by walls with no ef‐
fective opening for evacuation set forth in Article 4‐2‐2, paragraph (1) exists on the floor
in question, the said compartmented part](iii)
The capacity shall be less than 20 persons for any floor of fire prevention properties listed
in Article 25, paragraph (1), item (i) or less than 30 persons for any floor of fire prevention
properties listed in item (ii) of the said paragraph.
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pended Table 1, row (1) and row (4) of the Order] is a floor immediately below the open
rooftop space, which falls under each of the following items, of a building of which the main
structural sections are of a fireproof construction and where there are two or more escapestaircases or special escape staircases leading to the said open rooftop space from the said
floor, escape equipment may not be installed on the said floor.
(i)
The area of the open rooftop space is 1,500 square meters or more.
(ii)
Windows and doorways facing the open rooftop space are equipped with a fire door
which is specified fire prevention equipment or a door with a steel wire‐reinforced
glass window.
(iii)
There is a direct staircase leading from the open rooftop space to the evacuation floor or
the ground which has been made into an escape staircase prescribed in Article 123 of theOrder for Enforcement of the Building Standards Act or a specified escape staircase (lim‐ited to an outdoor or indoor staircase with a part to be specified by the Commissioner of
the Fire and Disaster Management Agency) or other escape facility or equipment.
(Details of Standards Concerning Escape Equipment)
Article 27
The details of the technical standards concerning the installation and mainte‐
nance of escape equipment shall be as specified in the following.
(i)Escape equipment which is to be installed at a fire prevention property with a single
staircase, etc. or parts thereof shall conform to one of the following (a) through (c).
(a) Escape equipment which is to be installed at a balcony, etc. of which the construction
offers safe and easy escape.
(b) Escape equipment shall be installed in a condition which allows its easy use at any time
without fail.
(c) Escape equipment which can be easily used by a single action (excluding the action to
open an opening and action to unlock the safety device) without fail(ii)
Openings for which escape equipment (excluding slide poles, escape ropes, escapebridges and escape steps) is installed shall not be positioned on the same vertical line;
provided, however, that this shall not apply to those which do not hinder escape.
(iii)
The indication of the installation of escape equipment shall be as specified in the fol‐lowing (a) through (c).
(a) At the doorway to a place where escape equipment is installed or stored (hereinafter re‐ferred to as ʺplace of escape equipment installation, etc.ʺ in this item) of a fire preven‐tion property with a single staircase, etc., a measure shall be provided above or imme‐
diately adjacent to the said doorway so that the place can be easily recognized as aplace of escape equipment installation, etc.
(b) At the place of escape equipment installation, etc., a sign indicating the presence of es‐
cape equipment and how to use it shall be provided at an easily visible place.
(c) A sign clearly indicating the place of escape equipment installation, etc. shall be provided at
an easily visible place near the doorway of an elevator hall or stairwell (in the case where an
anteroom is provided, the said anteroom) on the floor where the place of escape equipment
installation, etc. is located at a fire prevention property with a single staircase, etc.
(iv)
The installation of a fixed ladder among escape ladders shall be as specified in the fol‐lowing (a) through (e).
(a) A fixed ladder shall be installed at a pillar, floor, beam or other structurally firm part or
firmly reinforced part of a fire prevention property.
(b) A fixed ladder shall be firmly installed by means of bolting, embedding, welding or an‐other method.
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(c)
(d)
(e)

(v)
(a)

(b)

(c)
(d)

(vi)
(a)
(b)
(c)

The rungs of a fixed ladder shall be installed so that they have a distance of 10 centime‐ters or more from a fire prevention property.
The hatchway of a fixed ladder shall be an opening in which a circle with a diameter of
50 centimeters or more can be inscribed.
When a fixed ladder is installed on the fourth or higher floors, its installation shall be as
specified in the following 1. through 3. in addition to what is prescribed in (a) through (d).
1. A fixed ladder shall be a metal ladder.
2. A fixed ladder shall be installed on a balcony, etc. of which the construction offers
safe and easy escape; provided, however, that this shall not apply when a measure
is provided to prevent the fall of a person using the said fixed ladder.
3. The hatchway of a fixed ladder shall not be installed on the same vertical line as
the hatchway of the floor immediately below; provided, however, that this shallnot apply when such arrangement does not hinder escape or compromise safety.
The installation of a hung ladder among escape steps shall be as specified in the follow‐
ing (a) through (d).
The fittings for a hung ladder shall be installed so that a hung ladder can be easily fitted
to a pillar, floor, beam or other structurally firm part or reinforced part of a fire preven‐tion property; provided, however, that the installation of the said fittings may not be
required in the case where a hung ladder is directly hung from a firm window sill orsimilar.
The materials used for fittings (excluding a hatch for escape equipment) in (a) shall bethose which conform to Japan Industrial Standard G3101 or G3444 or those of which
the strength and durability are equivalent to or higher than those of the said conform‐
ing materials and which are given corrosion resistance treatment in the case of materi‐als having no corrosion resistance.
The rungs of a hung ladder shall be installed so that they have a distance of 10 centime‐ters or more from a fire prevention property.
When a hung ladder is installed on the fourth or higher floors, its installation shall be as
specified in the following 1. through 3. in addition to what is prescribed in (a) through (c).
1. A hung ladder shall be a metal ladder.
2. A hung ladder shall be installed on a balcony, etc. of which the construction offers
safe and easy escape and the fittings shall be a hatch for escape equipment; pro‐vided, however, that this shall not apply when a measure is provided to preventthe fall of a person using the said hung ladder.
3. The hatchway of a hung ladder shall not be installed on the same vertical line as
the hatchway of the floor immediately below; provided, however, that this shallnot apply when such arrangement does not hinder escape or compromise safety.
The installation of a descender shall be as specified in the following (a) through (c).
A descender shall be installed so that the rope is not damaged by contact with a fire
prevention property at the time of descending.
The length of the rope of a descender shall be the length from the installation position
to the ground surface or another surface to which descent is made.
The fittings for a descender shall be as specified in the following 1. through 3.
1. The fittings shall be mounted so that a descender can be easily installed to a pillar,
floor, beam or other structurally firm part or firmly reinforced part of a fire pre‐vention property.
2. The fittings shall be firmly mounted by means of bolting, welding or anothermethod.
3. The materials used for fittings in (a) shall be those which conform to Japan Industrial
Standard G3101 or G3444 or those of which the strength and durability are equivalent
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to or higher than those of the said conforming materials and which are given corrosion
resistance treatment in the case of materials having no corrosion resistance.
(vii)
The installation of a slide shall be as specified in the following (a) through (d).
(a) A slide shall be installed at a pillar, floor, beam or other structurally firm part or firmly
reinforced part of a fire prevention property.
(b) A slide shall be firmly installed by means of bolting, embedding, welding or anothermethod.
(c) A slide shall be installed so that it does not hinder escape while maintaining a safe de‐scending speed.
(d) There is an appropriate measure to prevent falling.
(viii) The installation of a slide pole and escape rope shall be as specified in the following (a)through (c).
(a) The length of a slide pole and escape rope shall be the length from the installation posi‐tion to the ground surface or another surface to which descent is made.
(b) A slide pole shall be able to be fixed at the top and bottom parts by fittings.
(c) The installation of the fittings of a slide pole and escape rope shall follow the provisionsof item (v)‐(a) and (b) as the relevant examples.
(ix)
The installation of an escape bridge and escape steps shall be as specified in the follow‐
ing (a) and (b).
(a) An escape bridge and escape steps shall be installed to a pillar, floor, beam or otherstructurally firm part or firmly reinforced part of a fire prevention property.
(b) One end of an escape bridge and escape steps shall be firmly installed by means of bolt‐
ing, welding or another method.
(x)
The installation of an escape chute shall be as specified in the following (a) through (d).
(a) The length of an escape chute shall be that which does not hinder escape while main‐taining a safe descent speed.
(b) An escape chute shall be installed at a pillar, floor, beam or other structurally firm partor firmly reinforced part of a fire prevention property.
(c) The fittings for an escape chute shall be mounted by means of bolting, welding or an‐other method.
(d) The materials used for fittings in (a) shall be those which conform to Japan Industrial
Standard G3101 or G3444 or those of which the strength and durability are equivalent
to or higher than those of the said conforming materials and which are given corrosion
resistance treatment in the case of materials having no corrosion resistance.
(xi)
Escape equipment (excluding metal escape ladders and descenders) shall conform to
the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Manage‐
ment Agency.
(2) In addition to what is prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the necessary matters concern‐
ing the installation and maintenance of escape equipment shall be specified by the Commis‐
sioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(Measuring Method for Illuminance of Auditorium Guiding Lamps)
Article 28
The illuminance of an auditorium guiding lamp set forth in Article 26, para‐graph (2), item (iii) at an auditorium shall be measured at the horizontal face of the floor sur‐face of the aisles of an auditorium.
(Fire Prevention Properties or Parts Thereof Where Installation of Guiding Lamps and Guid‐
ing Signs Is Not Required)
Article 28‐2
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parts as specified in each of the following items for exit lamps.
(i)
Of floors of fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (1) through row(16) of the Order, those floors at which the main escape exit (meaning an escape exit listed
in paragraph (3), item (i)‐(a) for evacuation floors [excluding windowless floors; the same
shall apply hereinafter in this item and item (i) of the following paragraph) or an escapeexit listed in (b) of the said item for floors other than evacuation floors (excluding base‐ment floors and windowless floors; the same shall apply hereinafter in this article); thesame shall apply hereinafter in this article] can be easily seen and recognized from any
part of the rooms and where the walking distance to the said escape exit is 20 meters orless for evacuation floors or 10 meters or less for floors other than evacuation floors.
(ii)
In addition to what is prescribed in the preceding item, evacuation floors of a fire pre‐vention property listed in Appended Table 1, row (1) of the Order [limited to those ofwhich the floor area is 500 square meters or less and of which the floor area of the audi‐
torium is 150 square meters or less; the same shall apply in paragraph (3), item (ii)]which fall under the following (a) through (c).
(a) There are two or more auditorium escape exits (meaning escape exits directly facing theauditorium; the same shall apply hereinafter in this article).
(b) An auditorium escape exit can be easily seen and recognized from any part of the audi‐
torium and the walking distance from any part of the auditorium to the said auditori‐um escape exit is 20 meters or less.
(c) All auditorium escape exits are provided with a lighting device (limited to those whichlights up in conjunction with the activation of a detector of an automatic fire alarm sys‐tem, can be lighted manually and is accompanied by an emergency power source; thesame shall apply hereinafter in this article) so that the said auditorium exits can be rec‐ognized at the time of a fire.
(iii)
In addition to what is prescribed in the two preceding items, rooms on evacuation
floors of a fire prevention property listed in Appended Table 1, row (1) through row(16) of the Order which fall under the following (a) through (c).
(a) Rooms which have an escape exit listed in paragraph (3), item (i)‐(a) of the following ar‐
ticle [limited to those which are primarily used by persons who are present in the saidrooms; the same shall apply hereinafter in this item, item (ii) of the following paragraphand paragraph (3), item (iii)](b) Rooms where an escape exit listed in paragraph (3), item (i)‐(a) in the following article
can be easily seen and recognized from any part of the said rooms and the walking dis‐
tance from any part of the said rooms to the said escape exit is 30 meters or less(c) Guiding signs emitting light by means of phosphorescence, etc. (hereinafter referred toas ʺlight storing‐type guiding signsʺ in this article and the following article) are in‐stalled as specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency(iv)
In addition to what is prescribed in the three preceding items, parts (excluding parts ofbasement floors, windowless floors and 11th or higher floors) other than parts used forthe intended purpose of a fire prevention property listed in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(b) and (c) of the Order of fire prevention properties which do not have parts used forthe intended purpose other than the intended purpose of a fire prevention property
listed in row (5)‐(b) and row (6)‐(b) and (c) of the said table and which have zones to beinstalled in parts used for the intended purpose of a fire prevention property listed inrow (6)‐(b) and (c) of the said table due to the provisions of the following (a) through (e)among fire prevention properties listed in row (16)‐(a) of the said table(a) Rooms which are compartmented by walls and a floor with a semi‐fireproof construc‐tion (walls and floor with a fireproof construction in the case where rooms are on thethird or higher floors)137

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 28‐2)(b) The finishing of the parts (excluding moldings, window sills and other similar parts) of
the walls and ceiling (roof in the case of no ceiling) facing inwards is made of semi‐
incombustible materials in the case of principal corridors or other passageways leading
to the ground or incombustible materials in the case of other parts.
(c) The total area of the openings of compartmenting walls and floor is 8 square meters orless and the area of one opening is 4 square meters or less.
(d) Each opening set forth in (c) shall be equipped with a fire door (a fire door which is
specified fire prevention equipment in the case of openings on the third or higher
floors) (excluding fire shutters at the openings of parts other than parts compartment‐
ing corridors and staircases) with an automatic closing device which can be opened as
required or with a construction as specified in the following or a door with a steel wire
reinforced glass window (limited to glass windowed doors to be installed at openings
which are not doorways of parts from which evacuation can be conducted through two
or more different routes, which face a corridor, staircase or other passageway directly
open to the outside air and of which the total area is 4 square meters or less).
1. A fire door which can be closed as required and which can also be closed on con‐junction with the activation of a smoke detector.
2. In the case of a fire door to be installed on a main corridor, staircase or other pas‐sageway leading to the ground from a room, it shall have a part which can be di‐rectly opened by hand and automatically closed and of which the width, heightand height from its lower end from the floor surface are 75 centimeters or more,
1.8 meters or more and 15 centimeters or less respectively.
(e) The main doorway of a part used for the intended purpose of a fire prevention property
listed in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(b) and (c) of the Order is directly open to the out‐side air and also faces a corridor, staircase or other passageway which can effectively
discharge smoke generated at the time of a fire in the said part.
(v)
In addition to what is prescribed in each of the preceding items, parts other than partsof basement floors, windowless floors and 11th or higher floors of small‐scale multi‐
purpose fire prevention properties serving specified intended purposes [excluding
those where parts serving intended purposes other than the intended purposes of fire
prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (1) through row (4), row (5)‐(a),row (6) or row (9) of the Order do not exist].
(2) Those to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions set forth in the proviso of Article 26, paragraph (1) of the Order shall be parts as speci‐
fied in each of the following items for exit route lamps.
(i)
Of floors of fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (1) through row(16) of the Order, those floors at which the main escape exit or an exit lamp installed forthe said escape exit can be easily seen and recognized from any part of the rooms andwhere the walking distance to the said escape exit is 40 meters or less for evacuation
floors or 30 meters or less for floors other than evacuation floors.
(ii)
In addition to what is prescribed in the preceding item, rooms on the evacuation floorof a fire prevention property listed in Appended Table 1, row (1) through row (16) of
the Order which fall under the following (a) and (b).
(a) A room which has an escape exit listed in paragraph (3), item (i)‐(a) of the following article(b) A room where an escape exit listed in paragraph (3), item (i)‐(a) of the following article
or an exit lamp or light storing‐type exit sign installed for the said escape exit can beeasily seen and recognized from any part of the room and where the walking distancefrom any part of the room to the said escape exit is 30 meters or less.
(iii)
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the intended purpose of a fire prevention property listed in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(b) and (c) of the Order of fire prevention properties which do not have parts used forthe intended purpose other than the intended purpose of a fire prevention property
listed in row (5)‐(b) and row (6)‐(b) and (c) of the said table and which have zones to beinstalled in parts used for the intended purpose of a fire prevention property listed inrow (6)‐(b) and (c) of the said table due to the provisions of the following (a) through (e)among fire prevention properties listed in row (16)‐(a) of the said table.
(a) Rooms which are compartmented by walls and a floor with a semi‐fireproof construc‐tion (walls and floor with a fireproof construction in the case where rooms are on thethird or higher floors)(b) The finishing of parts (excluding moldings, window sills and other similar parts) of thewalls and ceiling (roof in the case of no ceiling) facing inwards is made of semi‐
incombustible materials in the case of principal corridors or other passageways leading
to the ground or incombustible materials in the case of other parts.
(c) The total area of the opening of compartmenting walls and floor is 8 square meters orless and the area of one opening is 4 square meters or less.
(d) Each opening set forth in (c) shall be equipped with a fire door (a fire door which is
specified fire prevention equipment in the case of openings on the third or higher
floors) (excluding fire shutters at the openings of parts other than parts compartment‐
ing corridors and staircases) with an automatic closing device which can be opened as
required or with a construction as specified in the following or a door with a steel wire
reinforced glass window (limited to glass windowed doors to be installed at openings
which are not doorways of parts from which evacuation can be conducted through two
or more different routes, which face a corridor, staircase or other passageway directly
open to the outside air and of which the total area is 4 square meters or less).
1. A fire door which can be closed as required and which can also be closed in con‐junction with the activation of a smoke detector
2. In the case of a fire door to be installed on a main corridor, staircase or other pas‐sageway leading to the ground from a room, it shall have a part which can be di‐rectly opened by hand and automatically closed and of which the width, heightand height from its lower end from the floor surface are 75 centimeters or more,
1.8 meters or more and 15 centimeters or less respectively.
(e) The main doorway of a part used for the intended purpose of a fire prevention property
listed in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(b) and (c) of the Order is directly open to the out‐side air and also faces a corridor, staircase or other passageway which can effectively
discharge smoke generated at the time of a fire in the said part.
(iv)
In addition to what is described in the three preceding items, parts other than parts ofbasement floors, windowless floors and 11th or higher floors of small‐scale multi‐
purpose fire prevention properties serving specified intended purposes [excluding
those where parts serving intended purposes other than the intended purposes of fire
prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (1) through row (4), row (5)‐(a),row (6) or row (9) of the Order do not exist].
(v)
Of floors and ramps of fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (1)through row (16‐3) of the Order, those with emergency lighting devices prescribed in
Article 126‐4 of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Building Standards
Act (referred to as “emergency lighting devices” in the following article) [in the case ofsuch devices to be installed at staircases and ramps leading to boarding areas (limited
to those located on basement floors) and direct staircases of fire prevention properties
which meet the requirements to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Dis‐
aster Management Agency (excluding those installed at fire prevention properties
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where light storing‐type guiding signs are installed as specified by the Commissioner of
the Fire and Disaster Management Agency or parts thereof), limited to those with thecapacity to operate for 60 minutes or more] are installed.
(3) Those to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions set forth in the proviso of Article 26, paragraph (1) of the Order shall be parts as speci‐
fied in each of the following items for guiding signs.
(i)
Of floors of fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (1) through row(16) of the Order, those floors at which the main escape exit can be easily seen and rec‐ognized from any part of the rooms and where the walking distance to the said escapeexit is 30 meters or less.
(ii)
In addition to what is prescribed in the preceding items, rooms on the evacuation floorof a fire prevention property listed in Appended Table 1, row (1) of the Order which fallunder the following (a) through (c).
(a) There are two or more auditorium escape exits.
(b) An auditorium escape exit can be easily seen and recognized from any part of the audi‐
torium and the walking distance from any part of the auditorium to the said auditori‐um escape exit is 30 meters or less.
(c) All auditorium escape exits are provided with a lighting device so that the said audito‐rium exits can be recognized at the time of a fire.
(iii)
In addition to what is prescribed in the two preceding items, rooms on the evacuation
floor of a fire prevention property listed in Appended Table 1, row (1) through row (16)of the Order which fall under the following (a) and (b).
(a) A room which has an escape exit listed in paragraph (3), item (i)‐(a) of the following article.
(b) A room where an escape exit listed in paragraph (3), item (i)‐(a) of the following article
or an exit lamp or light storing‐type exit signs installed for the said escape exit can beeasily seen and recognized from any part of the room and where the walking distancefrom any part of the room to the said escape exit is 30 meters or less.
(Details of Standards Concerning Guiding Lamps and Guiding Signs)
Article 28‐3
Exit lamps and exit route lamps [excluding those to be installed at staircases orramps; the same shall apply in the following paragraph and paragraph (3)] shall be thosewhich have the vertical dimension of the visual surface listed in the middle column of thefollowing table and the brightness of the visual surface [meaning the product of the mean
luminance of the visual surface when a lamp is lit using a normal power source and the areaof the visual surface; the same shall apply in paragraph (4), item (ii) and item (iii)] listed in
the right‐hand column of the said table according to the category of lamp listed in the left‐
hand column of the said table.
Category

Exit Lamp

Exit Route
Lamp

Vertical Dimension of Visual Surface (meters)

Brightness of VisualSurface (candelas)

Class AClass BClass CClass A

0.4 meters or longer
0.2 meters or longer but less than 0.4 meters
0.1 meters or longer but less than 0.2 meters
0.4 meters or longer

50 candelas or higher
10 candelas or higher
1.5 candelas or higher
60 candelas or higher

Class BClass C

0.2 meters or longer but less than 0.4 meters
0.1 meters or longer but less than 0.2 meters

13 candelas or higher
5 candelas or higher(2) The effective range of an exit lamp or exit route lamp shall be the range where the walking dis‐
tance to the said lamp is equal to or less than the distance specified in each of the following
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lamp is 10 meters or less in the case where the said lamp cannot be easily seen or recognized.
(i)
The distance listed in the right‐hand column of the following table according to the cat‐egory listed in the left‐hand column of the said table

Class A
Exit Lamp

Exit Route
Lamp

(ii)

Class B

Category
Without a symbol showing the direction for escapeWith a symbol showing the direction for escapeDistance (meters)
60 meters
40 meters

Without a symbol showing the direction for escapeWith a symbol showing the direction for escape

30 meters
25 meters
15 meters
20 meters
15 meters
10 meters

Class CClass AClass BClass CDistance calculated by the following equation
D = khWhere,
D: Walking distance (unit: kilometers)
h: Vertical dimension of the visual surface of exit lamp or exit route lamp (meters)
k: Value in the right‐hand column of the following table according to the category in
the left‐hand column of the said table

Exit Lamp
Exit Route Lamp

Without a symbol showing the direction for escapeWith a symbol showing the direction for escape

Value of k
150
100
50

(3) Exit lamps and exit route lamps shall be installed on each floor as specified in each of thefollowing items.
(i)Exit lamps shall be installed above escape exits or at positions immediately adjacent toescape exits which are effective for escape as listed in the following (a) through (d).
(a) Doorway which directly leads to the ground from inside (in the case where an ante‐room is provided, the doorway of the said anteroom(b) Doorway for a direct staircase (in the case where an anteroom is provided, doorway ofthe said anteroom)(c) Doorway for a corridor or passageway which leads to an escape exit listed in (a) or (b)(excluding doorways for rooms to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Dis‐
aster Management Agency as rooms where escape from any part of the room is easy)(d) Places where a fire door which can be directly opened by hand (including fire shutterswith a wicket gate) and which is installed at a corridor or passageway leading to an es‐
cape exit listed in (a) or (b) (excluding the case where a fire door which closes in con‐junction with the activation of a detector of an automatic fire alarm system is provided
with a guiding sign and is also accompanied by an emergency lighting device so thatsufficient illuminance to recognize the said guiding sign is secured)(ii)
Exit route lamps shall be installed at positions listed in the following (a) through (c) of
corridors and passageways.
(a) Corners(b) Position within the effective range of an exit lamp to be installed at escape exits listed in(a) and (b) of the preceding item.
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dor or passageway (excluding parts within the effective range of exit lamps) in the ef‐
fective range of the exit route lamps.
(4) The details of the technical standards for the installation and maintenance of guiding lamps
are as specified in the following.
(i)
Exit lamps and exit route lamps shall be installed so as not to hamper passage.
(ii)
Exit lamps and exit route lamps shall be constantly lit at the level of brightness listed inparagraph (1); provided, however, that this shall not apply when a measure is provided
for the lighting of lamps in conjunction with the activation of a detector of an automatic
fire alarm system and in correspondence with the form of usage of the said place in thecase where the said fire prevention property has no persons or in the case where lamps
are installed at places listed in the following (a) through (c).
(a) Place where an escape exit or the direction for escape can be recognized due to outside
light(b) Place where darkness is especially required due to its form of usage(c) Place for use primarily by persons concerned with the said fire prevention property or
persons employed by the said persons concerned with(iii)
In the case where exit lamps and exit route lamps (excluding those to be installed at stair‐cases or ramps) are to be installed at a fire prevention property listed in the following (a)or (b) or parts thereof, the category of the said guiding lamps shall be Class A or Class B(limited to those exit lamps of which the brightness of the visual surface is 20 candelas or
higher or with a blinking function and those exit route lamps of which the brightness ofthe visual surface is 25 candelas or higher); provided, however, that this shall not apply
in the case where exit route lamps are installed at corridors and where the said guiding
lamps can be easily recognized from any part within their effective range.
(a) Fire prevention property listed in Appended Table 1, row (10), row (16‐2) or row (16‐3)of the Order(b) Any floor of a fire prevention property listed in Appended Table 1, row (1) through row(4) or row (9)‐(a) of the Order or floors where parts used for the intended purpose of afire prevention property listed in row (1) through row (4) or row (9) of the said table ex‐
ist among those floors of a fire prevention property listed in row (16)‐(a) of the said ta‐
ble of which the floor area is 1,000 square meters or more(iii‐2) Exit route lamps (excluding those to be installed at staircases and ramps) to be installed ina fire prevention property listed in Appended Table 1, row (2)‐(d), row (16)‐(a), row (16‐2)
and row (16‐3) of the Order [in the case of a fire prevention property listed in row (16)‐(a),row (16‐2) and row (16‐3) of the said table, limited to parts used for the intended purposeof a fire prevention property listed in row (2)‐(d) of the said table] shall be installed on thefloor surface or at positions immediately adjacent to the floor surface which are effective
for escape; provided, however, that this shall not apply in the case where light storing‐type guiding signs are installed as specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster
Management Agency.
(iv)
In the case of exit route lamps to be installed at staircases and ramps, these shall be in‐stalled so that the illuminance of the center line of the treads, surfaces and landings is 1
lux or higher.
(v)
Exit route lamps to be installed on the floor surface shall have sufficient strength not to
be destroyed under load.
(vi)
The blinking function or voice guidance function to be set up for guiding lamps shall be
as specified in the following (a) through (c).
(a) The said function shall not be set up for guiding lamps other than exit lamps to be in‐stalled at escape exits listed in item (i)‐(a) or (b) of the preceding paragraph.
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automatic fire alarm system.
(c) In the case of a detector of an automatic fire alarm system which is installed in the di‐rection of escape through an escape exit is activated, the blinking and voice guidance
set up for a guiding lamp installed at the said escape exit shall stop.
(vii)
Guiding lamps to be installed at places where there is a risk that they will be exposed to
rainwater or condensation shall be of a waterproof construction.
(viii) Lamps, advertising signs, notices and others which may be confused with guiding
lamps or which may block guiding lamps shall not be installed around guiding lamps.
(ix)
A power source shall be installed following the provision of Article 24, item (iii) as therelevant example.
(x)
An emergency power source shall be a storage battery system without an AC‐DC converter
and its capacity shall be equal to or more than the capacity capable of effectively operating
guiding lamps for 20 minutes [60 minutes in the case of guiding lamps to be installed at es‐
cape exits listed in item (i)‐(a) and (b) of the preceding paragraph, corridors and passage‐
ways leading to escape exits listed in (a) of the said paragraph on an evacuation floor,boarding areas (limited to those on basement floors) and staircases, ramps and passage‐
ways leading to the said boarding areas and direct staircases of a fire prevention property
which meets the requirements to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster
Management Agency (excluding exit route lamps in the case of a fire prevention property
where light storing‐type guiding signs are installed as specified by the Commissioner of theFire and Disaster Management Agency)] (including an emergency power source using astorage battery system with an AC‐DC converter, in‐house power generation system or fuelcell system for the capacity pertaining to operation lasting for more than 20 minutes) and its
installation shall follow the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (iv)‐(a)‐1. through4. and 6., (b)‐2. through 4., (c)‐1. through 4., (d)‐1. and 2. and (e) as the relevant examples.
(xi)
The wiring shall follow what is prescribed in laws and regulations pertaining to electri‐
cal structures.
(xii)
The provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) shall apply mutatis mutandis to
guiding lamps.
(5) The details of the technical standards for the installation and maintenance of guiding signs(excluding light storing‐type guiding signs to be installed in accordance with the provisionsof paragraph (1), item (iii)‐(c) of the preceding article and item (iii‐2) and item (x) of the pre‐ceding paragraph) shall be as specified in the following.
(i)Excluding those to be installed at escape exits or staircases, guiding signs shall be in‐stalled at those positions where the walking distance from any part of a corridor or pas‐sageway to a guiding sign is 7.5 meters or less and at corners on each floor.
(ii)
Guiding signs shall be installed at those positions which are likely to catch the eye ofmany persons and where there is sufficient daylight for their recognition.
(iii)
Advertising signs, notices and others which may be confused with guiding signs or
which may block guiding signs shall not be installed around guiding signs.
(6) Guiding lamps and guiding signs shall be those which conform to the standards to be speci‐
fied by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
Section 4

Standards for Facilities Necessary for Fire Extinguishing Activities(Parts of Fire Prevention Property Not Requiring Installation of Ventilation System)
Article 29
The parts to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in Article 28, paragraph (3) of the Order shall be the parts listed ineach of the following items.

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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 29~30)(i)Parts directly open to the outside air as specified in the following (a) and (b)(a) There is an opening [limited to those which are always open; the same shall apply in(b)] which is directly open to the outside air following the provisions of item (i)‐(a)through (c) of the following article as the relevant examples.
(b) The total area of openings which are directly open to the outside air shall follow theprovision of item (vi)‐(b) of the following article as the relevant example.
(ii)
Parts where a fire extinguishing system (excluding the mobile type) listed in the right‐
hand column of the table in Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Order is installed according to
the intended purpose of the part or room listed in the left‐hand column of the said tableof a fire prevention property listed in Appended Table 1 of the Order or parts thereof(limited to those parts, etc. which are primarily used by persons concerned with the said
fire prevention property and persons employed by the said persons concerned)(iii)
In addition to what is prescribed in the two preceding items, parts to be specified by theCommissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency as parts where there is norisk of heat and the ingredients of smoke hindering the fire extinguishing activities of a
firefighting team based on the judgement of the location and structure of a fire preven‐tion property or parts thereof and the conditions and status of use of the equipment(Details of Standards Concerning Ventilation System)
Article 30
The details of the technical standards concerning the installation and mainte‐
nance of a ventilation system shall be as specified in the following.
(i)
Vents shall be as specified in the following (a) through (e).
(a) One or more vents shall be installed in each part compartmented by partition walls,
barrier walls protruding downwards from the ceiling surface by 50 centimeters [80 cen‐timeters in the case of a fire prevention property listed in Article 28, paragraph (1), item(i) of the Order] or more or other which have the effect of preventing the movement ofsmoke equivalent to or higher than that of the said walls which are made up or coveredby an incombustible material (hereinafter referred to as ʺsmoke barrier wallsʺ in this ar‐
ticle) to make a zone with a floor area of 500 square meters [300 square meters in thecase of a fire prevention property listed in Article 28, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Or‐der] or less (hereinafter referred to as ʺventilation zoneʺ in this article); provided, how‐ever, that this shall not apply in the case where air outlets (limited to those connected toan air supply duct) are installed in the ventilation zone so that smoke can be effectively
removed by air supplied from the said air outlets.
(b) Vents shall be installed so that the horizontal distance from any part of a ventilation
zone to a vent is 30 meters or less.
(c) Vents shall be installed on the ceiling or walls (limited to parts which are above thelower end of a smoke barrier wall and of which the height from the floor surface isequal to or more than half of the ceiling height).
(d) Vents shall be connected to a duct for smoke ventilation or in direct contact with theoutside air.
(e) The construction of vents shall be as specified in the following.
1. In the case where smoke is ventilated through the said vents, there is no risk of thevents being closed due to the air current generated by smoke ventilation.
2. In the case where vents are connected to a duct for smoke ventilation, vents shallbe closed to maintain air‐tightness for the purpose of smoke ventilation and safety
except when smoke is being ventilated through the said vents.
(ii)
Air outlets shall be as specified in the following (a) through (d).
(a) One or more air outlets shall be installed for each ventilation zone which act as a basefor the fire extinguishing activities of a firefighting team, at such places as anterooms
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(b)
(c)
(d)

(iii)
(a)
(b)
(c)

(d)
(e)

(iv)
(a)

(b)

(v)

for special escape staircases, access lobbies for emergency generators or similar (herein‐
after referred to as ʺbase for fire extinguishing activitiesʺ in this article).
Air outlets shall be installed on the floor or walls (limited to parts of which the heightfrom the floor surface is less than half of the ceiling height).
Air outlets shall be connected to a duct for smoke ventilation or in direct contact withthe outside air.
The construction of air outlets shall be as specified in the following.
1. In the case where air is being supplied from the said outlets, there shall not be arisk of the air outlets being closed due to an air current generated by air supply.
2. In the case of air outlets which are connected to an air supply duct, air outlets shallbe closed to maintain the required air tightness for the purpose of air supply andsafety except when air is being supplied from the said air outlets.
Ducts shall be as specified in the following (a) through (e).
Ducts shall have the required strength, capacity and air‐tightness for the purpose of
smoke ventilation or air supply and for the purpose of safety.
Ducts shall be connected to a smoke ventilator or air supply unit.
In the case where there is a risk of excessive heating, spread of fire or similar in the sur‐rounding area due to the heat of smoke in the ducts, ducts shall be provided withmeasures, including those for their heat insulation and isolation from flammable goods.
In the case where a duct runs through a smoke barrier wall, no gap shall be created to
avoid any hindrance to smoke ventilation.
In the case where dampers are installed at necessary places to prevent the spread offire, including those where ducts run through walls or the floor of a fireproof construc‐tion, ducts shall be as specified in the following.
1. Dampers shall be those which can be easily opened or closed from the outside.
2. Dampers shall have a construction which is effective for the purpose of fire pre‐vention.
3. Dampers shall not be closed except when the temperature inside the duct has sig‐
nificantly risen due to a fire. In this case, the temperature for a damper equippedwith an automatic closing device to closure shall be 280C or higher.
4. Ducts connected to vents or air outlets to be installed at a base for fire extinguish‐
ing activities shall not be provided with a damper equipped with an automatic
closing device.
A starting device shall be as specified in the following (a) and (b).
A manual starting device shall be as specified in the following.
1. A manual starting device shall be installed in each ventilation zone.
2. A manual starting device shall be installed at a position from which the said venti‐
lation zone can be easily seen and to which access can be made at the time of a fire.
3. The operating part shall be installed at a position of which the height from the floor
surface is 0.8 meters or higher but 1.5 meters or lower for the said part to be installed
on a wall or approximately 1.8 meters for the said part to be hung from the ceiling.
4. A starting device shall have a sign in an easily visible place nearby to indicate that
it is a starting device for a ventilation system and how to operate it.
An automatic starting device shall be as specified in the following.
1. An automatic starting device shall be that which is activated in conjunction withthe activation of a detector, opening of a closed‐type sprinkler head or activation
or opening of a fire detection head of an automatic fire alarm system.
2. A manual/automatic switchover device shall be installed at a disaster protection cen‐ter, etc. In this case, a manual starting device shall conform to the provision of (a).
Smoke ventilators and air supply units shall be installed at position which are conven‐
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ient for checking and are less likely to be damaged by fire or other disasters.
(vi)
The performance level of a ventilation system shall be as specified in the following (a)through (c).
(a) In the case of a ventilation zone where smoke ventilation is conducted by a smoke ven‐tilator, the performance of the said smoke ventilator shall be equal to or higher than theperformance level listed in the right‐hand column of the following table according to
the category of ventilation zone listed in the left‐hand column of the said table.
Category ofVentilation Zone

Performance Level

Base for fire extin‐
guishing activities

Parts other than basefor fire extinguishingactivities

Fire prevention property
listed in Article 28, para‐graph (1), item (i) of the
Order
Fire prevention property
listed in Article 28, para‐graph (1), item (ii) anditem (iii)

Performance level of discharging air at the rate of
240 cubic meters per minute (360 cubic meters per
minute for a space which functions as an ante‐room for a special escape staircase as well as ac‐
cess lobby for an emergency elevator)
Performance level of discharging air at the rate of
300 cubic meters per minute (600 cubic meters per
minute in the case where one smoke ventilator isconnected to two or more ventilation zones)
Performance level of discharging air either at therate of 120 cubic meters per minute or in thequantity obtained by multiplying the floor area ofthe said ventilation zone by 1 cubic meter per
minute (2 cubic meters per minute in the casewhere one smoke ventilator is connector to two or
more ventilation zones) which ever is the greater)(b) In the case of a ventilation zone where smoke is discharged through vents in direct con‐tact with the outside air, the total area of the said vents shall be equal to or more than
the area listed in the right‐hand column of the following table according to the categoryof ventilation zone listed in the left‐hand column of the said table.
Category of Ventilation Zone
Base for fire extinguishing activities
Parts other than base for fire extin‐
guishing activities

(c)

(vii)
(viii)
(ix)
(x)

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Area
2 square meters (3 square meters for a space which functions as
an anteroom for a special escape staircase as well as accesslobby for an emergency elevator)
Area which is equivalent to one‐fiftieth of the floor area of thesaid ventilation zone

Air supply to a base for fire extinguishing activities shall be made by either an air sup‐ply unit with a performance level capable of supplying the required quantity of air forthe purpose of fire extinguishing activities or air outlets in direct contact with the out‐side air of which the total area is 1 square meters (1.5 square meters for a space whichfunctions as an anteroom for a special escape staircase as well as access lobby for an
emergency elevator) or more.
A power source shall be installed following the provision of Article 24, item (iii) as therelevant example.
An emergency power source shall be installed following the provision of Article 12,
paragraph (1), item (iv) as the relevant example.
The wiring for an operating circuit shall follow the provision of Article 12, paragraph(1), item (v) as the relevant example.
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ventilation system.
Ducts, smoke ventilators, air supply units and emergency power source shall be pro‐vided with measures prescribed in Article 12, paragraph (1), item (ix).

(Parts Requiring Installation of Watering Heads of Sprinkler System with Fire Department
Connection)
Article 30‐2
The parts to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in Article 28‐2, paragraph (2), item (i) of the Order shall be parts
other than those parts listed in each of the following items.
(i)Parts which are compartmented by fireproof walls or floor or automatic closing fire
doors and of which the floor area is 50 square meters or less among fire prevention
properties of which the main structural sections are of a fireproof construction(ii)
Bathrooms, toilets and other similar places(iii)
Parts which are compartment by fireproof walls or floor or automatic closing fire doors
and which are used as a machine room for elevators, machine room for a mechanical ven‐tilation system or room used for a similar purpose or communication equipment room,computer room or room used for a similar purpose among fire prevention properties ofwhich the main structural sections are of a fireproof construction(iv)
Place where a generator, transformer and other similar electrical equipment are installed(v)
Elevator shafts, linen chutes, pipe ducts and other similar places(Parts of Fire Prevention Properties Not Requiring Installation of Sprinkler System with Fire
Department Connection)
Article 30‐2‐2 The parts of fire prevention properties to be specified by an ordinance of the
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 28‐2, paragraph (4) of
the Order shall be parts listed in each of the following items.
(i)Parts where a ventilation system has been installed in accordance with the technicalstandards specified in Article 28 of the Order or using the said technical standards as
the relevant example(ii)
Parts which conform to the provision of Article 29(Details of Standards Concerning Sprinkler System with Fire Department Connection)
Article 30‐3
The details of the technical standards concerning the installation and maintenanceof a sprinkler system with a fire department connection shall be as specified in the following.
(i)Watering heads shall be mounted as specified in the following (a) through (f).
(a) Watering heads shall be mounted on parts of the ceiling facing inwards and in the loft;
provided, however, that they may not be mounted in fire prevention properties where
the finishes for part of the ceiling facing inwards is made of an incombustible material
or parts thereof or in the loft of fire prevention properties where the height of the loft isless than0.5 meters or parts thereof.
(b) Watering heads shall be mounted so that the horizontal distance from any part of theceiling or the loft to a watering head is 3.7 meters or less in the case of open watering
heads or closed watering heads or in accordance with the provision of Article 12, para‐graph (2), item (ii) of the Order (limited to parts other than parts pertaining to high sen‐sitivity heads among the standard heads) in the case of closed sprinkler heads; provid‐ed, however, that the distance may be that which corresponds to the distribution ofspray from the watering heads in those parts where the height of the watering head in‐stallation face (meaning parts of the ceiling facing inwards to which watering heads aremounted or the lower face of the floor of the floor above or the roof; the same shall ap‐
ply in this article) is 2.1 meters or less.
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(c)

(d)

(e)
(f)

(ii)
(iii)
(a)

(b)
(c)

(d)

Watering heads shall be installed so that the number of watering heads connected to
one water supply zone shall be 10 or less for open watering heads or closed watering
heads or 20 or less for closed sprinkler heads.
When watering heads are to be mounted on the lower face of a sloping ceiling or roof,
they shall be installed so that the shaft center of the said heads shall form a right angle
to the installation face of the said heads.
All watering heads to be mounted in a single water supply zone shall belong to thesame type, be it open watering head, closed watering heat or closed sprinkler head.
In addition to what is prescribed in (a) through (e), watering heads shall conform to thestandards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management
Agency.
In the case where a selector valve is to be installed, the said valve shall be installed neara fire department supply port.
Pipework shall be installed as specified in the following (a) through (g) in addition to
the provisions of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (vi)‐(a) and (d)‐1.
Pipe joints and valves shall be those of which the quality of the material conforms to Ja‐
pan Industrial Standard G5101 or G5705 (limited to blackheart malleable cast iron prod‐ucts) or conform to the standards specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster
Management Agency as those having the strength, corrosion resistance and heat re‐sistance equivalent to or higher than those which conform to a Japan Industrial Standard.
Pipes shall be those which have received corrosion resistance treatment, such as zincplating.
The connection of pipes shall be thread connection; provided, however, that this shallnot apply when pipe joints with a socket welding end or flange joints which have re‐ceived heat resistance treatment are used.
The pipe diameter for a sprinkler system with a fire department connection using open
watering heads or closed watering heads shall be equal to or more than the nominal
pipe diameter listed in the following table according to the number of watering heads
to be installed in a single water supply zone.

Number of Watering
6 or more
1
2
3
4 or 5but 10 or lessHeads Installed
Nominal pipe diameter 32 millimeters 40 millimeters 50 millimeters 65 millimeters 80 millimeters

(e)
(f)
(g)
(iv)
(a)

Brackets for pipework shall be robust and heat resistant.
A check valve shall be installed.
A measure to effectively drain water inside the pipework shall be provided.
A fire department supply port shall be as specified in the following (a) through (d).
The hose connection port of a fire department supply port shall be a Y hose connection
port; provided, however, that this shall not apply when the number of watering heads
to be mounted in a single water supply zone is 4 or less.
(b) The hose connection port of a fire department supply port shall be installed at a posi‐tion of which the height from the ground surface is 0.5 meters or more but 1 meter orless or the depth from the ground surface is 0.3 meters or less.
(c) The metal couplings for a fire department supply port shall be those metal couplings for afire department connection port prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (1), item (vi)‐(b).
(d) A fire department supply port shall have a sign which indicates that it is a fire depart‐
ment supply port for a sprinkler system with a fire department connection at an easily
visible place immediately adjacent to it along with a system diagram clearly indicating
the water supply zone, selector valve and fire department supply port.

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A fire department supply port shall conform to the standards to be specified by theCommissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
The provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) shall apply mutatis mutandis to asprinkler system with a fire department connection.

(Special Provisions, etc. for Inside Diameter of Main Pipe of Fire Department Indoor Fire Hy‐
drant System)
Article 30‐4
The case to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in the proviso of Article 29, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Ordershall be the case where the inside diameter of the main pipe is equal to or larger than thepipe diameter calculated by hydraulic calculation at a fire prevention property which has
been designated by a fire chief or fire station chief for the exclusive use of a fog gun and oth‐er discharge devices capable of discharging water in the form of a mist (referred to as ʺfog
gun, etc.ʺ in the next article) with a rated discharge rate of 200 liters per minute or less inview of the location and structure and conditions and status of use of equipment.
(2) The case of be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions set forth in the proviso of Article 29, paragraph (2), item (iv)‐(c) of the Order shall bebuildings where the transportation of discharge devices required for fire extinguishing activ‐
ities is considered to be easy by a fire chief or fire station chief due to the presence of an
emergency elevator.
(Details of Standards Concerning Fire Department Indoor Fire Hydrant System)
Article 31
The details of the technical standards for the installation and maintenance of afire department indoor fire hydrant system are as specified in the following.
(i)
The number of hose connection ports which is equal to or more than the number of ris‐
ers for a fire department indoor fire hydrant system shall be installed at a fire depart‐
ment supply port at a height of 0.5 meters or higher but 1 meter or lower from theground surface.
(ii)
A hose connection port at a fire department discharge port shall be installed at a heightof 0.5 meters or higher but 1 meter or lower from the floor surface.
(iii)
The metal couplings for a fire department supply port and fire department discharge
port shall be either the snap type or screw type and the construction of the metal cou‐plings shall conform to snap type sockets and snap type spigots of nominal diameterclass 65 (in the case of a fire prevention property designated by a fire chief or fire sta‐tion chief for the use of a fog gun, etc., the nominal diameter class designated by a fire
chief or station fire chief as the nominal diameter class to fit the said fog gun, etc.; thesame shall apply in this item) prescribed in the Ordinance for Technical Specifications
Pertaining to Snap or Screw Type Metal Couplings Used for Fire Hoses and Screw Type
Metal Couplings Used for Fire Suction Hoses in the case of the snap type or conform tofemale and male screws of the clamping ring of nominal diameter class 65 prescribed in
the said in the case of the screw type.
(iv)
Each fire department supply port or fire department discharge port shall have a sign inan easily visible place.
(iv‐2) Fire department supply ports and fire department discharge ports shall conform to thestandards to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management
Agency.
(v)
Pipework shall be as specified in the following (a) through (h).
(a) Pipework shall be exclusive for a fire department indoor fire hydrant system; provided,
however, that this shall not apply in the case where the performance of the said fire de‐partment indoor fire hydrant system is not hampered when it is in use.
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pipes of which the strength, corrosion resistance and heat resistance are equivalent to or
higher than those of pipes conforming to Japan Industrial Standards shall be used; pro‐vided, however, that in the case where the design water supply pressure for pipework[pressure at a fire department supply port when water is supplied so that the dischargepressure at the tip of the nozzle is 0.6 MPa (discharge pressure designated by a fire
chief or fire station chief as the discharge pressure at which a fog gun, etc. functions ef‐
fectively at a fire prevention property designated by the said fire chief or fire station
chief for the use of a fog gun, etc.) or higher; the same shall apply hereinafter in thisitem] exceeds 1 MPa, pipe conforming to the nominal thickness of Schedule 40 or moreamong pipes conforming to Japan Industrial Standard G3448 or G3454 or the nominal
thickness of Schedule 10 or more among pipes conforming to G3459 or pipes of which
the strength, corrosion resistance and heat resistance are equivalent to or more thanthose of pipes conforming to the said Japan Industrial Standard shall be used.
(c) Pipe joints shall conform to a Japan Industrial Standard specified in the right‐hand col‐umn of the following table according to the type listed in the left‐hand column of thesaid table or shall conform to the standards to be specified by the Commissioner of theFire and Disaster Management Agency as pipe joints of which the strength, corrosion
resistance and heat resistance are equivalent to or higher than those of pipe joints con‐forming to a Japan Industrial Standard; provided, however, that pipe joints used in thecase where the design water supply pressure for pipework exceeds 1 MPa shall be those
conforming to the nominal pressure of 16K among pipe joints conforming to Japan In‐
dustrial Standard B2239 or B2220 for flange joints, those conforming to the nominal
thickness of Schedule 40 (nominal thickness of Schedule 10 or more in the case where
the material used conforms to G3459) or more among pipe joints conforming to Japan
Industrial Standard B2312 or B2313 (excluding those of which the material conforms toG3468) for joints other than flange joints or those of which the strength, corrosion re‐sistance and heat resistance are equivalent to or more than those of pipe joints conform‐ing to a Japan Industrial Standard.
Type
FlangejointsScrew joint
Welded joint

Japan Industrial Standard
B2220 or B2239
B2220

B2301, B2302 or B2308 for which the material used conforms to G3214
Joints other Screw joint(limited to SUS F304 or SUS F316) or G5121 (limited to SCS13 or SCS14)
than flange
Welding joint for B2309, B2311, B2312 or B2313 (excluding those using a material con‐jointssteel piping
forming to G3468)(d) Valves shall be as specified in the following 1. through 3.
1. The quality of the material shall conform to Japan Industrial Standard G5101,
G5501, G5502, G5705 (limited to blackheart malleable cast iron products), H5120 or
H5121 or shall conform to the standards specified by the Commissioner of the Fireand Disaster Management Agency as valves having the strength, corrosion re‐sistance and heat resistance equivalent to or higher than those of valves conform‐ing to a Japan Industrial Standard.
2. In the case of on‐off valves, water stop valves and check valves, these valves shallconform to the standards specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster
Management Agency as valves conforming to Japan Industrial Standard B2011,
B2031 or B2051 or those having the performance equivalent to or higher than theperformance of valves conforming to a Japan Industrial Standard.

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3.

In the case of on‐off valves and water stop valves, the opening and closing direc‐
tions shall be indicated while the direction of flow shall be indicated in the case ofcheck valves.
(e) The pipe diameter of pipework shall be the nominal bore of the pipework as calculated
by means of hydraulic calculation.
(f) Pipework immediately close to the discharge side of a pressurized water supply unit
shall be equipped with a check valve and a water stop valve.
(g) Pipework immediately close to the suction side of a pressurized water supply unit shallbe equipped with a water stop valve.
(h) The pressure resistance performance of pipework shall be that which withstands thewater pressure when a pressure which is 1.5 times the design water supply pressure forthe said pipework is applied; provided, however, that in the case where a pressurizedwater supply unit is installed pursuant to the provision of (a) of the following item, thepressure resistance performance of the pipework on the discharge side of the said pres‐surized water supply unit shall be that which withstands the water pressure when apressure which is 1.5 times the shut‐off pressure of the said pressurized water supply
unit is applied.
(vi)
A fire department indoor fire hydrant system to be installed in a building of which thenumber of floors excluding basement floors is 11 or more shall be as specified in the fol‐lowing (a) through (d).
(a) In the case of a building of which the height exceeds 70 meters, a wet‐type fire depart‐
ment indoor fire hydrant system and a pressurized water supply unit shall be installed
as specified in the following in addition to following the provisions of Article 12, para‐graph (1), item (vii)‐(c)‐3. through 8., (d) and (g) as the relevant examples.
1. The discharge rate of the pump shall be equal to or higher than the rate calculated
by multiplying the highest totalized number of installed fire department discharge
ports on any two adjacent floors (3 if the number of installed discharge ports ex‐
ceeds 3) by 800 liters per minute [in the case of a designated fire prevention prop‐
erty pursuant to the provision of paragraph (1) of the preceding article, the rateused for hydraulic calculation]; provided, however, that the discharge rate of thepump in the case where a pressurized water supply unit is installed to each riser ofa fire department indoor fire hydrant system shall be equal to or higher than 1,600
liters per minute [in the case of a designated fire prevention property pursuant to
the provision of paragraph (1) of the preceding article, the rate obtained by multi‐
plying the rate used for hydraulic calculation by 2] for each unit.
2. The total head of the pump shall be a value equal to or higher than the value calcu‐
lated by the following equation.
H = h 1 + h2 + h3 + h4
Where,
H: Total head of the pump (unit: meters)
h1: Friction loss of the water head due to fire hose (unit: meters)
h2: Friction loss of the water head due to pipework (unit: meters)h3: Head (unit: meters)
h4: Head at the tip of the nozzle at the time of water discharge (in the case where
the said head is designated by a fire chief or fire station chief, the designatedhead (unit: meters)
3. The starting device shall be that which can be directly operated and can be remote‐ly operated from the operating part installed immediately adjacent to the fire de‐partment supply port or at a central control room.
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be damaged by fire or other disasters in a manner to avoid any hindrance to watersupply.
(b) Discharge devices prescribed in Article 29, paragraph (2), item (iv)‐(c) shall be 4 or more
20 meter long hoses and 2 or more nozzles and shall conform to the specifications to be
specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(c) A box storing discharge devices prescribed in (b) shall be installed at a location within awalking distance of 5 meters or less from a fire department discharge port where a fire‐fighting team can effectively conduct fire extinguishing activities at a rate of every 3
floors for each direct staircase.
(d) A box storing discharge devices prescribed in (b) shall have a sign in an easily visible
position.
(vii)
An emergency power source shall have a capacity to effectively run a pressurized watersupply unit(s) of a fire department indoor fire hydrant system for 2 hours or longer andshall also follow the provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (iv) as the relevant example.
(viii) Calculation of the friction loss due to the fire hose and pipework shall be based on the cri‐
teria to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(ix)
The provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) shall apply mutatis mutandis to afire department indoor fire hydrant system.
(x)
A water tank, etc. shall be provided with the measures prescribed in Article 12, para‐graph (1), item (ix).
(Details of Standards Concerning Emergency Power Outlets)
Article 31‐2
The details of the technical standards concerning the installation and mainte‐
nance of emergency power outlets shall be as specified in the following.
(i)An emergency power outlet shall be installed at a position of which the height from thefloor surface or tread of a staircase is 1 meter or higher but 1.5 meters or lower.
(ii)
An emergency power outlet shall be installed inside a recessed protective box.
(iii)
An emergency power outlet shall conform to an outlet rated for 15 amperes at 125 volts
among grounded two pole power outlets specified by Japan Industrial Standard C8303.
(iv)
Grounding work pursuant to the provisions of laws and regulations pertaining to electri‐
cal structures shall be conducted to the grounding pole of an emergency power outlet.
(v)
A power source shall be installed following the provision of Article 24, item (iii) as therelevant example.
(vi)
The circuit from the power source supplying power to emergency power outlets shallbe installed so that there are two or more circuits on each floor; provided, however, thatthe number of circuits on each floor may be one in the case where the number of emer‐
gency power outlets on each floor is one.
(vii)
The number of emergency power outlets to be installed on the circuit prescribed in thepreceding item shall be 10 or less.
(viii) The provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (iv) shall apply mutatis mutandis to theinstallation of an emergency power source.
(ix)
The marking for the installation of an emergency power outlet shall be as specified in
the following (a) through (c).
(a) A protective box for an emergency power outlet shall have the indication of ʺemergency
power outletʺ on its surface.
(b) A red lamp shall be installed above a protective box for an emergency power outlet.
(c) The wiring of the circuit for the lamp set forth in (b) shall follow the provision of Article
12, paragraph (1), item (v) as the relevant example.
(x)
The provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) shall apply mutatis mutandis toemergency power outlets.
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Article 31‐2‐2 The details of the technical standards for the installation and maintenance ofauxiliary facilities for a radio communication system shall be as specified in the following.
(i)
Auxiliary facilities for a radio communication system shall be a leaky coaxial cable, acombination of a leaky coaxial cable and an aerial connected to it or a combination of a
coaxial cable and an aerial connected to it (hereinafter referred to as ʺleaky coaxial ca‐
ble, etc.ʺ) and the said leaky coaxial cable, etc. shall be suitable for the transmission orradiation of radio waves in a frequency band designated by a fire chief or fire station
chief as the band in which mutual radio communications between firefighting teams
can be made easily.
(ii)
The nominal impedance of a leaky coaxial cable or coaxial cable shall be 50 ohms andan aerial, distributor and other devices connected to it shall be compatible with the said
impedance.
(iii)
A leaky coaxial cable, etc. shall be that which is fire resistant and of which the electricalproperties are not degraded by moisture.
(iv)
A leaky coaxial cable, etc. shall be laid so that it acquires heat resistance and its charac‐
teristic of radiating radio waves is not lowered by a metal plate, etc.
(v)
A leaky coaxial cable, etc. shall be firmly fixed using brackets, etc.
(vi)
A distributor, mixer, branching filter and other similar devices (hereinafter referred toas ʺdistributor, etc.ʺ) shall be those of which the insertion loss is low and an appropriate
waterproofing measure shall be provided for connecting parts of a leaky coaxial cable,
etc. and distributor, etc.
(vii)
In the case of installing an amplifier, the installation of an amplifier shall be as specified
in the following (a) through (c).
(a) The installation of a power source shall follow the provision of Article 24, item (iii) as
the relevant example.
(b) An amplifier shall be equipped with an emergency power source and the said emer‐
gency power source shall be that which is capable of ef the fectively running an auxilia‐
ry facility for a radio communication system for 30 minutes or more and its installation
shall follow the provision of Article 24, item (iv) as the relevant example.
(c) An amplifier shall be installed at a place where an effective fire prevention measure isprovided.
(viii) The terminals to connect a radio (hereinafter referred to as ʺterminalsʺ) shall be as speci‐
fied in the following (a) through (d).
(a) Terminals shall be installed at places where firefighting teams can effectively operate on
the ground and at a disaster protection center, etc.
(b) Terminals shall be those which fit CO1‐type connectors specified by Japan Industrial
Standard C5411.
(c) Terminals shall be installed at a place of which the height from the floor surface orground surface is 0.8 meters or higher but 1.5 meters or lower.
(d) Each terminal shall be housed in a protective box which conforms to the provisions of
the following 1. and 2.
1. A protective box to house a terminal which is installed on the ground shall have arobust construction which can prevent the box from being opened without due
course and shall have suitable measures for dustproofing and waterproofing.
2. The surface of a protective box shall be painted red and shall have the indication
ʺradio connection terminalʺ.
(ix)
The provision of Article 12, paragraph (1), item (viii) shall apply mutatis mutandis to an
auxiliary facility for a radio communication system.
(x)
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provided to prevent any hindrance to radio communication between firefighting teams.
Section 5

Inspection and Checking, etc. of Fire Defense Equipment, etc. or Special Fire De‐
fense Equipment, etc.

(Performance Evaluation Method)
Article 31‐2‐3 The performance evaluation prescribed in Article 17‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act
shall be conducted for the entries of an equipment installation and maintenance plan pre‐scribed in Article 17, paragraph (3) of the Act and other matters which are necessary to eval‐uate the performance of special fire defense equipment, etc.
(2) For the performance evaluation set forth in the preceding paragraph, a test to verify the per‐formance of special fire defense equipment, etc. shall be conducted as required at a date andtime designated by the Japan Fire Equipment Inspection Institute (hereinafter referred to as
the ʺInstituteʺ) or a registered inspection body [meaning a juridical person set forth in Article
17‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act and registered by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Com‐
munications; the same shall apply hereinafter in this paragraph] at a place designated by theInstitute or a registered inspection body.
(Notification and Inspection of Fire Defense Equipment, etc. or Special Fire Defense Equip‐
ment, etc.)
Article 31‐3
A person concerned with a fire prevention property who intends to undergo in‐spection pursuant to the provision of Article 17‐3‐2 of the Act shall notify the said intention
by submitting the documents listed in the following to a fire chief or fire station chief in ad‐
dition to the notification form in Appended Form 1‐2‐3 within 4 days of the date of comple‐
tion of the work pertaining to the installation of fire defense equipment, etc. or special fire
defense equipment, etc. at the said fire prevention property.
(i)Documents concerning fire defense equipment, etc. or special fire defense equipment,
etc. pertaining to the said installation(ii)
Report on the test results for fire defense equipment, etc. or report on the test results for
special fire defense equipment, etc. pertaining to the said installation(2) When a notification is made pursuant to the provision of the preceding paragraph, a fire
chief or fire station chief shall, without delay, conduct an inspection to determine whether or
not the fire defense equipment, etc. or special fire defense equipment, etc. installed at thesaid fire prevention property conforms to the technical standards to be specified by a cabinet
order set forth in Article 17, paragraph (1) of the Act or an order issued thereunder or a mu‐
nicipal ordinance pursuant to the provision of paragraph (2) of the said article [hereinafterreferred to as ʺtechnical standards for equipment, etc.ʺ in this article, Article 31‐4, Article 31‐
5, paragraph (2), item (ii) and paragraph (3) of the said article] or an equipment installationand maintenance plan prescribed in Article 17, paragraph (3) of the Act (hereinafter referred
to as ʺequipment installation and maintenance planʺ).
(3) In the case of inspection set forth in the preceding paragraph, fire defense equipment, etc. or
machines and tools which are parts of the said fire defense equipment, etc. certified as speci‐
fied in Article 31‐4, paragraph (1) and provided with an indication pursuant to the provisionof paragraph (2) of the said article are deemed to conform to the technical standards forequipment, etc. pertaining to the said certification.
(4) In the case where inspection has been conducted pursuant to the provision of paragraph (2),when a fire chief or station fire chief has found that the said fire defense equipment, etc. or
special fire defense equipment, etc. conforms to the technical standards for equipment, etc.

154Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 31‐3~31‐5)or an equipment installation and maintenance plan, he/she shall issue a certificate for inspec‐tion completion in Appended Form 1‐2‐3‐2 to a person concerned with the said fire preven‐tion property.
(5) The form for the report on the test results for fire defense equipment, etc. pursuant to theprovision of paragraph (1), item (ii) shall be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire andDisaster Management Agency for each type of fire defense equipment, etc.
(Equipment Installation and Maintenance Plan)
Article 31‐3‐2 The equipment installation and maintenance plan specified in Article 17, para‐graph (3) of the Act shall state the matters listed in each of the following items.
(i)
Matters concerning the outline of a fire prevention property(ii)
Matters concerning the outline of fire defense equipment, etc.
(iii)
Matters concerning the performance of special fire defense equipment, etc.
(iv)
Matters concerning the installation method of special fire defense equipment, etc.
(v)
Matters concerning the implementation of tests on special fire defense equipment, etc.
(vi)
Matters concerning the standards for checking, period of checking and period for re‐
porting of the check results for special fire defense equipment, etc.
(vii)
Matters concerning the maintenance of special fire defense equipment, etc.
(viii) Matters concerning the persons to be involved in the construction work, improvement
work and checking of special fire defense equipment, etc.
(ix)
In addition to what is listed in each of the preceding items, matters concerning the nec‐
essary matters concerning the installation and maintenance of special fire defense
equipment, etc.
(Certification of Fire Defense Equipment, etc.)
Article 31‐4
A juridical person to be registered by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster
Management Agency pursuant to the provision of the following article may conduct the cer‐tification of the conformity of fire defense equipment, etc. or machines and tools which areparts of the said fire defense equipment, etc. to whole or parts of the technical standards forequipment, etc. pertaining to the said fire defense equipment, etc. or machines and tools
which are parts of the said fire defense equipment, etc. (referred to as ʺcertificationʺ in thefollowing paragraph and following article).
(2) When a registered juridical person set forth in the preceding paragraph (referred to as ʺregis‐
tered certification bodyʺ in the following article) has awarded the certification of fire defense
equipment, etc. or machines and tools which are parts of the said fire defense equipment, etc.,
it may attach an indication that the said fire defense equipment, etc. or machines and tools
which are parts of the said fire defense equipment, etc. conform to whole or parts of the tech‐nical standards for equipment, etc. pertaining to the said fire defense equipment, etc. or ma‐chines and tools which are parts of the said fire defense equipment, etc. to the said fire defense
equipment, etc. or machines and tools which are parts of the said fire defense equipment, etc.
(3) The form for indication set forth in the preceding paragraph shall be specified by the Com‐missioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(Registered Certification Body)
Article 31‐5
Registration by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency
pursuant to the provision of paragraph (1) of the preceding article (hereinafter referred to asʺregistrationʺ in this article) shall be conducted on application by a juridical person who
intends to conduct the certification of fire defense equipment, etc. or machines and tools
which are parts of the said fire defense equipment, etc.
(2) The Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency shall register a juridical
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person who has applied for registration pursuant to the provision of the preceding para‐graph (hereinafter referred to as ʺregistration applicantʺ in this paragraph) if the said juridi‐
cal person satisfies the following requirements.
(i)
A person who falls under one of the following conducts the operations of certificationand the number of such persons is 2 or more at each office conducting the operations ofcertification(a) A person who has graduated from a university or college of technology under the
School Education Act by completing a major or program in mechanical engineering,
electrical engineering or industrial chemistry and who has experience of practical work
concerning the inspection or certification of fire defense equipment, etc. or machines
and tools which are parts of the said fire defense equipment, etc. for a total period of
one year or longer(b) A person who has knowledge and experience equal or superior to those of a person
listed in (a)(ii)
The operations of certification is conducted using machines, tools and other equipment
which are necessary to inspect the conformity of fire defense equipment, etc. or ma‐chines and tools which are parts of the said fire defense equipment, etc. with whole orparts of the technical standards for equipment, etc. pertaining to the said fire defense
equipment, etc. or machines and tools which are parts of the said fire defense equip‐
ment, etc.
(iii)
The registration applicant does not fall under any of the following on the grounds thatthe said registration applicant is controlled by a business operator which designs, man‐ufactures, processes or sells or displays for the purpose of sale fire defense equipment,
etc. or machines and tools which are parts of the said fire defense equipment, etc. forwhich an indication set forth in the provision of Article 31‐4, paragraph (2) may bemade pursuant to the provision of the said paragraph [hereinafter referred to as ʺbusi‐
ness operatorʺ in this item and paragraph (4)].
(a) In the case where the registration applicant is a juridical person, the business operator
is the parent juridical person.
(b) The ratio of officers and employees of the business operator (including those who were
officers and employees of the said business operator in the past two years) exceeds one‐half of the officers [in the case of a membership company (meaning a membershipcompany prescribed in Article 575, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act), members exe‐
cuting the business] of the registration applicant.
(c) The representative officer of the registration applicant is an officer or employee of thebusiness operator (including a person who was an officer or employee of the business
operator in the past two years).
(iv)
The registration applicant conforms to the following criteria as required to properly
conduct the operations of certification.
(a) A full‐time manager shall be assigned to the department in charge of conducting theoperations of certification.
(b) A document concerning the management and ensuring of the accuracy of the opera‐
tions of certification shall be prepared.
(c) A specialist department or organization in charge of managing the operations of certifi‐
cation and ensuring the accuracy thereof shall be established in accordance with the en‐tries of the document prescribed in (b).
(d) A system is in place to conduct the operations of certification fairly for those wishing toreceive certification nationwide.
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date of certification.
(i)Name and address of the person who has applied for certification (in the case of a jurid‐
ical person, the name of the company and location of the principal office)(ii)
Date of receiving the application for certification(iii)
Outline of the shape, structure, materials, ingredients and performance of fire defense
equipment, etc. or machines and tools which are parts of the said fire defense equip‐
ment, etc.
(iv)
Date of inspection to verify the conformity of fire defense equipment, etc. or machines
and tools which are parts of the said fire defense equipment, etc. to the whole or partsof the technical standards for equipment, etc.
(v)
Name of the person who has conducted the inspection set forth in the previous item
(vi)
Whether certified or not certified (including the reason(s) for no certification)(vii)
Date of a notice of either confirmed or not confirmed(4) The provisions of Article 1‐4, paragraph (2) and paragraph (4) through paragraph (7) shallapply mutatis mutandis to the application set forth in paragraph (1) and the provisions ofparagraph (8) through paragraph (15) and paragraph (17) through paragraph (22) of the said
article shall apply mutatis mutandis to registered juridical persons. In this case, the phrase
ʺMinister of Internal Affairs and Communicationsʺ in these provisions shall be deemed to be
replaced by ʺCommissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agencyʺ, the word ʺtrain‐ersʺ and the phrase ʺtraining subjects, number of hours, implementation schedule, venues
and other matters concerning the implementation planʺ in Article 1‐4, paragraph (2) shall bedeemed to be replaced by ʺpersons conducting the operations of certificationʺ and ʺoutlinesof machines, tools and other equipment used for the operations of certificationʺ respectively,
the phrase ʺlocation of the principal officeʺ in the said paragraph and paragraph (5) shall bedeemed to be replaced by ʺlocation of the principal office and fire defense equipment, etc. or
machines and tools which are parts of the said fire defense equipment, etc. of which certifi‐
cation is intendedʺ, the phrase ʺfrom paragraph (1) through paragraph (5)ʺ in paragraph (7)of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺparagraph (2), paragraph (4) and para‐graph (5) and Article 31‐5, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2)ʺ, the phrase ʺat least once a yearʺ
in paragraph (9) of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺwithout delay whenrequested to conduct certification except in the case where there is a justifiable reasonʺ, thephrase ʺstandards pertaining to training sessions prescribed in Article 2‐3ʺ in paragraph (10)of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺtechnical standards for equipment,
etc.ʺ, the phrase ʺa person who intends to take training sessionsʺ in paragraph (15) of thesaid article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺa business operatorʺ, the phrase ʺparagraph(3)ʺ in paragraph (17) and paragraph (21), item (i) of the said article shall be deemed to be
replaced by ʺArticle 31‐5, paragraph (2)ʺ and the phrase ʺparagraph (16) or paragraph (20)ʺ
in paragraph (21), item (iii) of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺparagraph(20) or Article 31‐5, paragraph (3)ʺ.
(Checking of and Reporting on Fire Defense Equipment, etc. or Special Fire Defense Equip‐
ment, etc.)
Article 31‐6
The checking of fire defense equipment, etc. pursuant to the provision of Article
17‐3‐3 of the Act shall be conducted at intervals of up to one year to be specified by theCommissioner of the Fire and Disaster Prevention Agency according to the type and con‐tents of checking.
(2) The checking of special fire defense equipment, etc. pursuant to the provision of Article 17‐3‐
3 of the Act shall be conducted at intervals for checking as specified in an equipment instal‐lation and maintenance plan set forth in Article 31‐3‐2, item (vi).
(3) A person concerned with a fire prevention property shall record the results of checking con‐
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ducted pursuant to the provisions of the two preceding paragraphs in a maintenance ledger(meaning a ledger filing copies of the documents pertaining to the notification set forth in Arti‐cle 31‐3, paragraph (1) and Article 33‐18, the certificate of inspection completion set forth in Ar‐
ticle 31‐3, paragraph (4), copies of reports set forth in the following paragraph, list of construc‐tion work and improvement work of fire defense equipment, etc. or special fire defense equip‐
ment, etc. and other documents required for the maintenance of fire defense equipment, etc. or
special fire defense equipment, etc.) and report to a fire chief or fire station chief at intervals
specified in each of the following items in accordance with the category of fire prevention prop‐
erty listed in each of the said items; provided, however, that reporting in the case of special fire
defense equipment, etc. shall be made at the reporting interval for the checking results as speci‐
fied in an equipment installation and maintenance plan set forth in Article 31‐3‐2, item (vi).
(i)
Fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (1) through row (4), row (5)‐(a), row (6), row (9)‐(a), row (16)‐(a), row (16‐2) and row (16‐3) of the Order: once a year(ii)
Appended Table 1, row (5)‐(b), row (7), row (8), row (9)‐(b), row (10) through row (15),row (16)‐(b), row (17) and row (18) of the Order: once every three years(4) The checking method and form for the report of the checking results pursuant to the provi‐sion of Article 17‐3‐3 of the Act shall be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disas‐
ter Management Agency.
(5) The types of fire defense equipment, etc. or special fire defense equipment, etc. which can bechecked by a person issued with a fire defense equipment technicianʹs license or a personwith a qualification to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications pursuant to the provision of Article 17‐3‐3 of the Act shall be specified by
the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(6) A person with a qualification to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Af‐
fairs and Communications pursuant to the provision of Article 17‐3‐3 of the Act shall be a
person who falls under one of the following items and who is issued with a document is‐sued by a juridical person registered by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Man‐
agement Agency (hereinafter referred to as ʺregistered training bodyʺ in this article and thefollowing article) certifying the he/she has acquired the necessary knowledge and skills con‐cerning the checking of fire defense equipment, etc. or special fire defense equipment, etc.
(referred to as ʺlicenseʺ in the following paragraph and paragraph (2) of the following arti‐cle) upon completion of a course of training sessions organized by the said registered train‐
ing body which enables the attendants to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills con‐cerning the checking of fire defense equipment, etc. or special fire defense equipment, etc.
(referred to as ʺqualified inspector of fire defense equipmentʺ in the following paragraphand paragraph (2) of the following article).
(i)Fire defense equipment TECHNICIAN prescribed in Article 17‐6 of the Act(ii)
Electrician prescribed in Article 3 of the Electricians Act (Act No. 139 of 1960)(iii)
Pipework supervising engineer prescribed in Article 27 of the Construction Industry
Act (Act No. 100 of 1949) and Article 27‐3 and Article 27‐8 of the Order for Enforcementof the Construction Industry Act (Cabinet Order No. 273 of 1956)(iv)
Person qualified as a water supply work supervisor prescribed in Article 12 of the Wa‐
ter Supply Act (Act No. 177 of 1957) and Article 3 of the Order for Enforcement of theWater Supply Act (Cabinet Order No. 336 of 1957)(v)
Person with a qualification to be specified by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure andTransportation prescribed in Article 12, paragraph (1) or paragraph (3) of the BuildingStandards Act(vi)
First class architect prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Architect Act or secondclass architect prescribed in paragraph (3) of the said act

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Person with practical experience of construction work or improvement work for fire de‐fense equipment, etc. or special fire defense equipment, etc. for one year or longer after
graduation from a university or college of technology under the School Education Act
or a university under the old Imperial Decree on Universities (Imperial Decree No. 388
of 1918) or technical college under the old Imperial Decree on Technical Colleges (Impe‐
rial Decree No. 61 of 1903) by completing a major in mechanical engineering, electricalengineering, industrial chemistry, civil engineering or structural engineering(viii) Person with practical experience of construction work or improvement work for fire de‐fense equipment, etc. or special fire defense equipment, etc. for two years or longer af‐
ter leaving a senior high school or secondary school under the School Education Act ora secondary school under the old Imperial Decree on Secondary Schools (Imperial De‐
cree No. 36 of 1943) by completing a course in mechanical engineering, electrical engi‐
neering, industrial chemistry, civil engineering or structural engineering(ix)
Person with practical experience of construction work or improvement work for fire de‐fense equipment, etc. or special fire defense equipment, etc. for five years or longer(x)
Person considered to have knowledge and skills equal or superior to those of a person
listed in each of the preceding items by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster
Management Agency(7) A qualified inspector of fire defense equipment shall lose his/her qualification when he/shefalls under any of the following items.
(i)When he/she becomes an adult ward or person under curatorship(ii)
When he/she is sentenced to punishment by imprisonment or graver(iii)
When he/she is sentenced to punishment by fine for violation of the Act(iv)
When he/she is found not to have properly conducted the checking of fire defense
equipment, etc. or special fire defense equipment, etc.
(v)
When he/she is found to have falsified his/her qualifications, educational career or prac‐
tical experience, etc.
(vi)
When he/she has failed to complete the training sessions conducted by a registeredtraining body at intervals specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Man‐
agement Agency and to obtain a license issued by the said registered training body.
(Registered Training Body)
Article 31‐7
Registration by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency
pursuant to the provision of paragraph (6) of the preceding article shall be made on application
by a juridical person who intends to conduct training sessions set forth in the said paragraph.
(2) The provisions of Article 1‐4, paragraph (2) through paragraph (7) shall apply mutatis mu‐tandis to the application set forth in the preceding paragraph and the provisions of para‐graph (8) through paragraph (22) of the said article shall apply mutatis mutandis to a juridical
person having received the registration set forth in the preceding paragraph. In this case, thephrase ʺMinister of Internal Affairs and Communicationsʺ in these paragraphs shall bedeemed to be replaced by ʺCommissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agencyʺ, thephrases ʺa fire protection manager of a fire prevention property listed in Article 4‐2‐2, para‐graph (1), item (i) of the Order who has five or more years of practical experience as the said
managerʺ and ʺmethod to issue a certificate of training completion using Appended Form 1ʺ
in Article 1‐4, paragraph (3) shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺa person who has two or
more years of practical experience of the research, design, manufacture or inspection of fire
defense equipment, etc.ʺ and ʺmethod to issue and collect the licenseʺ respectively, thephrase ʺthe standards pertaining to training sessions prescribed in Article 2‐3ʺ in paragraph(10) of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺthe standards pertaining to thetraining sessions to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management
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Agencyʺ, the phrase ʺother matters which are necessary for the implementation of training
operationsʺ in paragraph (12) of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺthe mat‐ters concerning the procedure to implement a necessary measure in the case where a quali‐
fied inspector of fire defense equipment has lost his/her qualification and other matterswhich are necessary for the implementation of training operationsʺ and the phrases for ʺforsix years from the date when the training sessions took placeʺ, ʺa certificate of training com‐pletion using Appended Form 1ʺ and ʺthe certification of training completion prescribed in
the preceding itemʺ in paragraph (16) of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by
ʺfor six years from the date when the license is issuedʺ, ʺthe licenseʺ and ʺthe license pre‐scribed in the preceding itemʺ respectively.
Section 6

Miscellaneous Provisions(Designation of Roads)
Article 31‐8
The roads to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Order shall be those which fallunder one of the following items.
(i)Roads under the Road Act (Act No. 180 of 1952)(ii)
Roads under the Land Readjustment Act (Act No. 119 of 1954), Act on Old Housing
Land Development Undertakings (Act No. 160 of 1964), City Planning Act (Act No. 100
of 1968), Urban Renewal Act (Act No. 38 of 1969), New Urban Infrastructure Develop‐
ment Act (Act No. 86 of 1972), Act on Special Measures Concerning the Promotion of
Supply of Housing Sites, etc. in Large Cities (Act No. 67 of 1975) or Act on Promotion of
Improvement of Disaster Control Districts in Populated Urban Districts (Act No. 49 of
1997; limited to Chapter 6)(iii)
Roads under the Ports and Harbors Act (Act No. 218 of 1950) or Road Transportation
Act (Act No. 183 of 1951)(iv)
In addition to what is prescribed in each of the preceding items, roads which are used
for the purpose of traffic and which are passable by automobiles (meaning those pre‐scribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Road Transport Vehicle Act (Act No. 185 of 1951)(Standard Spray Rate)
Article 32
The spray rate or discharge rate of water, foam, inert gas fire extinguishing
agent, halon fire extinguishing agent or dry chemical fire extinguishing agent to be specified
by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article
14, item (i) of the Order shall be the rate listed in the right‐hand column of the following ta‐
ble according to the category of head (foam outlet in the case of a foam fire extinguishing
agent; the same shall apply hereinafter in this article) of a fire extinguishing system listed in
the left‐hand column of the said table. In this case, the spray rate or discharge rate of the dis‐charge head of an inert gas fire extinguishing system or halon fire extinguishing system (ex‐cluding those using Halon 2402 or FK‐5‐1‐12) shall be the rate at a temperature of 20C.
Category of Head of Fire Extinguishing System
Spray Rate or Discharge Rate
Foam water sprinkler heads of foam fire extinguishing
75 liters per minutes
systemHeads of water spray, foam, inert gas, halon or dry
chemical fire extinguishing system (excluding foam
water sprinkler heads)

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Rate of water spray, foam, inert gas fire extin‐
guishing agent, halon fire extinguishing agent
or dry chemical fire extinguishing agent
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 32‐2~33)(Special Provisions for Standards Pertaining to Dangerous Workshop)
Article 32‐2
A fire prevention property to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of In‐
ternal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 31, paragraph (1) of the Order shall bea dangerous workshop prescribed in Article 1 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Ex‐
plosives Control Act (Ordinance of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry No. 88
of 1950).
(2) The provisions of Chapter 2, Part 3, Section 2 of the Order shall not apply to a dangerous
workshop prescribed in the preceding paragraph.
(Special Provisions for Standards Pertaining to Parts Used as Roads of Fire Prevention Property)
Article 33
The parts used as roads of a fire prevention property to be specified by an ordi‐
nance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 31, para‐graph (2) of the Order shall be those which satisfy the requirements listed in each of the fol‐lowing items.
(i)Parts used as roads of a fire prevention property are compartmented from other parts
by a floor or walls with a fireproof construction without any opening.
(ii)
External walls in contact with openings of parts used as roads of a fire prevention prop‐
erty are provided with an effective measures to prevent the spread of fire in the form offireproof eaves, floor, side walls or similar.
(2) With regard to parts used as roads of a fire prevention property set forth in the preceding
paragraph, the provisions of Chapter 2, Part 3, Section 2 through Section 6 of the Order shallnot apply to rooftop parts and the provisions of Chapter 2, Part 3, Section 2 through Section
6 excluding Article 13 through Article 16 of the Order, Article 18 of the Order, Article 21 of
the Order and Article 29 of the Order shall not apply to other parts.

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CHAPTER 2‐2 FIRE DEFENSE EQUIPMENT TECHNICIAN(Scope of Maintenance Work for Fire Defense Equipment, etc. Which May be Conducted by
Persons Other Than Fire Defense Equipment Technicians)
Article 33‐2
Minor maintenance work to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of In‐
ternal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 36‐2, paragraph (2) of the Order shallbe replacement of the hose or nozzle, fuses, screws and other parts of an indoor fire hydrant
system or outdoor fire hydrant system and repair of the fire hydrant box, hose storage box,
etc. and other similar work.
(Types of Construction Work or Improvement Work Corresponding to Types of Licenses)
Article 33‐3
The types of construction work or improvement work for fire defense equip‐
ment, etc. or special fire defense equipment, etc. among the types of construction work or
improvement work which can be conducted by a Class A fire defense equipment technician
pursuant to the provision of Article 17‐6, paragraph (2) of the Act shall be construction workor improvement work for fire defense equipment, etc. or special fire defense equipment, etc.
listed in the right‐hand column of the following table according to the designated category
listed in the left‐hand column of the said table.
DesignatedCategory

Type of Fire Defense Equipment, etc. or Special Fire Defense Equipment, etc.

Indoor fire hydrant system, sprinkler system, water spray fire extinguishing system or
outdoor fire hydrant system
Type 2
Foam fire extinguishing system
Inert gas fire extinguishing system, halon fire extinguishing system or dry chemical fire
Type 3extinguishing system
Automatic fire alarm system, gas leakage and fire alarm system or fire alarm system
Type 4reporting to a fire department
Type 5
Metal escape ladders, escape chutes or descenders
Special Type Special fire defense equipment, etc.
Type 1(2) The types of construction work or improvement work for equipment, etc. used for fire de‐fense which have the fire prevention and safety performance required among the types of
construction work or improvement work which can be conducted by a Class A fire defense
equipment technician pursuant to the provision of Article 17‐6, paragraph (2) of the Act shallbe specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(3) The types of improvement work for fire defense equipment, etc. or special fire defense
equipment, etc. among the types of improvement work which can be conducted by a Class B
fire defense equipment technician pursuant to the provision of Article 17‐6, paragraph (2) ofthe Act shall be improvement work for fire defense equipment, etc. listed in the right‐handcolumn of the following table according to the designated category listed in the left‐handcolumn of the said table.
DesignatedCategory
Type 1
Type 2Type 3162

Type of Fire Defense Equipment, etc.
Indoor fire hydrant system, sprinkler system, water spray fire extinguishing system or
outdoor fire hydrant system
Foam fire extinguishing system
Inert gas fire extinguishing system, halon fire extinguishing system or dry chemical fire
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Type 4
Type 5
Type 6
Type 7

Automatic fire alarm system, gas leakage and fire alarm system or fire alarm system
reporting to a fire department
Metal escape ladders, escape chutes or descenders
Fire extinguishers
Electrical leakage and firm alarm devices(4) The types of improvement work for equipment, etc. used for fire defense which have the fire
prevention and safety performance required among the types of improvement work which
can be conducted by a Class B fire defense equipment technician pursuant to the provisionof Article 17‐6, paragraph (2) of the Act shall be specified by the Commissioner of the Fireand Disaster Management Agency.
(Application Form for Issue of a License, etc.)
Article 33‐4
The application form for the issue of a fire defense equipment technicianʹs li‐
cense prescribed in Article 36‐3 of the Order (hereinafter referred to as the ʺlicenseʺ) shall use
Appended Form 1‐2‐4.
(2) The documents to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Com‐
munications set forth in Article 36‐3 of the Order shall be those listed in each of the follow‐
ing items.
(i)Document to certify the passing of the fire defense equipment technicianʹs qualification
examination(ii)
License which has already been issued (hereinafter referred to as ʺlicense in possessionʺ
in this article through Article 33‐5‐3) (limited to those who have been issued with a li‐
cense pertaining to another type or designated category)(3) A prefectural governor may allow the attachment of a copy of a license in possession in lieu
of a license in possession notwithstanding the provision of item (ii) of the preceding para‐graph when he/she finds that there is an exceptional circumstance for a person already is‐sued with a license not to be able to attach a license in possession at the time of applying forthe issue of a license.
(Issue of a License)
Article 33‐4‐2 When a prefectural governor issues two or more licenses to the same person on
the same date, he/she shall state the matters pertaining to the licenses on one type of license
in lieu of issuing the said other licenses.
(2) When a prefectural governor issues a different type of license from the type of license inpossession to a person who has already been issued with a license, he/she shall state thematters pertaining to the license in possession on the said different type of license before its
issue. In this case, a license shall be issued in exchange for the license in possession for those
who have attached a copy of the license in possession at the time of applying for the issue ofa license pursuant to the provision of paragraph (3) of the preceding article.
Article 33‐4‐3 A person who has already been issued with a license shall not be repeatedly is‐sued with a license which is the same type as the license in possession.
(Form and Details of a License)
Article 33‐5
A license shall use Appended Form 1‐3.
(2) The details on a license to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 36‐4, item (v) of the Order shall be a photographwhich has been taken within the last 10 years.

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Article 33‐5‐2 When a prefectural governor intends to order that a person who has been issued
with a license by another prefectural governor return the said license pursuant to the provi‐sion of Article 13‐2, paragraph (5) of the Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 17‐7, paragraph (2) of the Act, he/she shall notify the said other prefectural governor to that ef‐
fect in advance.
(Notice Pertaining to Act of Violation by Fire Defense Equipment Technician)
Article 33‐5‐3 A notice set forth in Article 13‐2, paragraph (6) of the Act which is applied mutatis
mutandis in Article 17‐7, paragraph (2) of the Act shall be made by a document stating thename of the fire defense equipment technician who is considered to have violated a provisionof the Act or an order based on the Act and the outline of the said violation which is accompa‐
nied by a copy of the license in the possession of the said fire defense equipment technician.
(Application Form for Revision of a License, etc.)
Article 33‐6
An application for the revision of a license prescribed in Article 36‐5 of the Ordershall use Appended Form 1‐4.
(2) The documents to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Com‐
munications set forth in Article 36‐5 of the Order shall be a document as specified in each of
the following items according to the reason for revision listed in each of the said items.
(i)Change of the details on a license as specified in Article 33‐5, paragraph (2): photograph(ii)
Change of the details on a license other than the change listed in the preceding item:
document certifying the reason for revision(3) The photograph set forth in the preceding paragraph shall be one which has been taken
within a period of 6 months preceding the submission of the application and which is 4.5
centimeters in height and 3.5 centimeters in width showing one‐third of the front side of theupper part of the body without a hat and with a light background and the date of the photo‐graph being taken and the name and age of the licensee stated on the back.
(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of the two preceding paragraphs, a person intending to ap‐
ply for the revision of a license pertaining to a change of the details of the license as specified
in Article 36‐4, item (ii) of the Order shall not be required to attach the document listed inparagraph (2), item (ii) when a prefectural governor intends to obtain information verifying
the identity of the person intending to make the said application from a governor of anotherprefecture pursuant to the provision of Article 30‐7, paragraph (5), item (i) of the Residential
Basic Book Act (Act No. 81 of 1967) (in the case of the work being delegated to a designatedinformation processing body pursuant to the provision of Article 30‐10, paragraph (1), item(v) of the said Act, the said designated information processing body) or intends to use in‐formation verifying the identity of the person intending to make the said application pursu‐
ant to the provision of Article 30‐8, paragraph (1), item (i) of the said act.
(Notice Pertaining to Revision of a License)
Article 33‐6‐2 When a prefectural governor has revised a license [excluding revision pertaining
to the details of a license prescribed in Article 33‐5, paragraph (2)] for a person who has been
issued a license by another prefectural governor, he/she shall notify the said other prefectur‐
al governor to that effect.
(Application Form for Reissue of a License, etc.)
Article 33‐7
An application for the reissue of a license prescribed in Article 36‐6 of the Ordershall be made using the application form in Appended Form 1 which is accompanied by thesaid license and a photograph in the case where the license is stained or damaged or a pho‐164

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tograph in other cases.
(2) The provision of Article 33‐6, paragraph (3) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the photographset forth in the preceding paragraph.
(Enquiry Pertaining to Reissue of a License)
Article 33‐7‐2 When a prefectural governor intends to reissue a license to a person who has
been issued with the said license by another prefectural governor, he/she shall make an en‐
quiry to the said other prefectural governor regarding the contents of the license issued tothe person who has been issued with the said license.
(Eligibility for Admission to Qualification Examination)
Article 33‐8
The persons to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 17‐8, paragraph (4), item (iii) of the Act shall bethose listed in the following.
(i)
Person who has graduated from a university under the old Imperial Decree on Univer‐sities, technical college under the old Imperial Decree on Technical Colleges or second‐ary school under the old Imperial Decree on Secondary Schools by completing a majoror program in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial chemistry, civilengineering or structural engineering(ii)
Person who has taken subjects concerning mechanical engineering, electrical engineer‐ing, industrial chemistry, civil engineering or structural engineering at a university, col‐lege of technology or special training school under the School Education Act and mas‐
tered 15 or more units specified by the Standard for Establishment of Universities (Or‐dinance of the Ministry of Education No. 28 of 1956) in the case of a university, theStandard for Establishment of College of Technology (Ordinance of the Ministry of Ed‐
ucation No. 23 of 1961) in the case of a college of technology or the Standard for Estab‐lishment of Special Training Schools (Ordinance of the Ministry of Education No. 2 of1976) in the case of a special training school(iii)
Person who has attended a school in the miscellaneous category under the School Edu‐
cation Act or another school specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster
Management Agency and mastered 15 or more units in subjects concerning mechanicalengineering, electrical engineering, industry chemistry, civil engineering or structural
engineering with one unit comprising 15 hours of learning in the case of lectures, 30
hours of learning in the case of exercises or 45 hours of learning in the case of laborato‐
ry experiments, practical training and skill practice(iv)
Person who has passed the second examination prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (1) of
the Professional Engineer Act (Act No. 25 of 1983)(v)
Electrician prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Electricians Act(vi)
Person who has received a First Class Chief Electricity Engineerʹs License, Second Class
Chief Electricity Engineerʹs Licence or Third Class Chief Electricity Engineerʹs Licenseprescribed in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Electricity Business Act (Act No. 170 of 1964)(vii)
Person with practical experience of five years or longer as an assistant for construction
work for equipment, etc. subject to construction or improvement work [meaning
equipment, etc. subject to construction or improvement work prescribed in Article 17‐8,
paragraph (1) of the Act; the same shall apply hereinafter](viii) Person specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency as
being equivalent to those persons listed in each of the preceding items(2) A person eligible for admission for the fire defense equipment technicianʹs qualification ex‐
amination (hereinafter referred to as ʺqualification examinationʺ in this chapter) pertaining
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gory in Article 33‐3; the same shall apply hereinafter in this chapter) of special types listed in
the left‐hand column of the table in Article 33‐3, paragraph (1); the same shall apply herein‐
after in this chapter] shall be a person who has been issued with licenses pertaining to thedesignated categories of one of Type 1 through Type 3, Type 4 and Type 5.
(Qualification Examination Method)
Article 33‐9
The qualification examination shall be conducted by the method specified ineach of the following items according to the category of designated category of qualification
examination listed in each of the said items; provided, however, that the practical test may
be limited to those who have passed the written test of the said qualification examination.
(i)Class A Special Type: written test(ii)
Designated categories other than the designated category listed in the preceding item:
written test and practical test
(Subjects of Written Test)
Article 33‐10
The written test set forth in item (i) of the preceding paragraph shall be conduct‐
ed on the following subjects.
(i)
Knowledge pertaining to fire and fire prevention concerning the performance ofequipment, etc. subject to construction and improvement work
(ii)
Structure, functions and construction work or maintenance method of equipment, etc.
subject to construction and improvement work(iii)
Laws and regulations related to fire defense(2) The written test set forth in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph shall be conducted on thefollowing subjects.
(i)
Basic knowledge concerning machinery and electricity(ii)
Structure, functions and construction work or maintenance method of fire defense
equipment, etc.
(iii)
Laws and regulations related to fire defense(Exemption from Qualification Examination)
Article 33‐11
A person who falls under Article 33‐8, item (iv) and who works in a technical fieldin the left‐hand column of the following table shall be exempt on application from the written
test pertaining to the designated categories listed in the right‐hand column of the said table on
the test subjects set forth in paragraph (2), item (i) and item (ii) of the preceding article.
Technical Field
Machinery
Electricity
ChemistryHygiene Engineering

Designated Categories
Type 1; Type 2, Type 3, Type 5; Type 6
Type 4; Type 7
Type 2; Type 3
Type 1(2) A person who falls under Article 33‐8, item (v) shall be exempt on application from the parts
concerning electricity among the test subjects set forth in paragraph (2), item (i) and item (ii)of the preceding article and components concerning electricity in the practical test.
(3) A person who falls under Article 33‐8, item (vi) shall be exempt on application from theparts concerning electricity among the test subjects set forth in paragraph (2), item (i) anditem (ii) of the preceding article.
(4) A person who has already been issued a license(s) pertaining to another class or designatedcategory shall be exempt from part of the test subjects set forth in paragraph (2) of the pre‐ceding articles as specified in each of the following items.

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(i)

(ii)

A person who has been issued with a Class A license and who intends to sit the written
test pertaining to another class or designated category and a person who has been is‐sued a Class B license and who intends to sit the written test pertaining to another des‐ignated category shall be exempt on application from the part which is common to all
designated categories among the test subjects set forth in paragraph (2), item (iii) of thepreceding article.
A person who has been issued a license pertaining to one of the designated categories
listed in the right‐hand column of the following table according to the class listed in theleft‐hand column of the said table and who intends to sit the written test pertaining toanother designated category in the same right‐hand column shall be exempt on applica‐tion from the test subject set forth in paragraph (2), item (i) of the preceding article.
Class
A

Designated Category
Type 1; Type 2; Type 3
Type 1; Type 2; Type 3
Type 4; Type 7
Type 5; Type 6

B

(iii)

A person who has been issued with a license pertaining to a Class A designated category
listed in the left‐hand column of the following table and who intends to sit the written
test pertaining to the Class B designated category listed in the right‐hand column of thesaid table according to the said Class A designated category shall be exempt on applica‐tion from the test subjects set forth in paragraph (2), item (i) of the preceding article.
Class A Designated Category
Type 1
Type 2Type 3
Type 4
Type 5Class B Designated Category
Type 2Type 3
Type 1
Type 3
Type 1
Type 2Type 7
Type 6(5) Employees of the Institute or a registered inspection body (meaning a juridical person which
has been registered pursuant to the provision of Article 21‐45 of the Act; the same shall ap‐
ply hereinafter) who have been involved in the actual execution of the test set forth in Article
21‐3, paragraph (3) of the Act shall be exempt on application from the test subjects set forthin paragraph (2), item (i) and item (ii) of the preceding article.
(6) A person who has worked as a fire corps volunteer for 5 or more years and who has com‐pleted the Applied Fire Defense Course [meaning the Applied Fire Defense Course set forthin Article 9, paragraph (1) of the Standards for Education and Training at Fire Academies(Public Notice of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency No. 3 of 2003)] of the specialist
education (meaning the specialist education set forth in Article 3, paragraph (4) of the said
standards) as part of the education and training at a fire academy set forth in Article 51, par‐agraph (4) of the Fire and Disaster Management Organization Act (Act No. 226 of 1947) shallbe exempt on application from the test subjects set forth in paragraph (2), item (i) and thepractical test set forth in the preceding article regarding the Class B fire defense equipment
technicianʹs qualification examination pertaining to the designated categories of Type 5 orType 6.

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Article 33‐11‐2 The pass criteria for the written test shall be the criteria specified in each of thefollowing items according to the type of designated category listed in each of the said items.
(i)Class A special type: The performance level for each test subject listed in each item of
Article 33‐10, paragraph (1) is 40% or higher and the overall performance level for thewhole of the said test subjects is 60% or higher.
(ii)
Designated category other than the designated category listed in the preceding item:
The performance level for each test subject (for a person who is exempt from whole orpart of the test subjects pursuant to the provision of the preceding article, excluding thesaid whole or part of the exempted test subjects) listed in each item of Article 33‐10,
paragraph (1) is 40% or higher and the overall performance level for the whole relevant
test subjects is 60% or higher.
(2) The pass criterion for the practical test is a performance level in the said test of 60% or higher(for a person who is exempt from components concerning electricity pursuant to the provi‐sion of paragraph (2) of the preceding article, excluding the said exempted components).
(Public Notice of Examination)
Article 33‐12
A prefectural governor [in the case where a person designated pursuant to theprovision of Article 17‐9, paragraph (1) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as ʺdesignatedqualification examination bodyʺ in this chapter) conducts affairs concerning the implemen‐tation of the qualification examination (hereinafter referred to as ʺqualification examinationaffairsʺ in this chapter), the designated qualification examination body; the same shall apply
in the following article and article 33‐14, paragraph (1)] shall issue a public notice of theplanned date and venue of the qualification examination and other necessary matters con‐cerning the implementation of the qualification examination in advance.
(2) When a designated qualification examination body intends to issue a public notice set forthin the preceding paragraph, it shall clearly indicate the prefectural governor who has en‐trusted the said designated qualification examination body to conduct the qualification ex‐
amination affairs pursuant to the provision of Article 17‐9, paragraph (1) of the Act (referred
to as ʺentrusting prefectural governorʺ in Article 33‐16) and shall conduct the qualification
examination using the method specified in the rules for qualification examination affairs set
forth in Article 13‐12, paragraph (1) of the Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article
17‐9, paragraph (4) of the Act.
(Application Procedure for Qualification Examination)
Article 33‐13
A person who intends to sit the qualification examination shall submit an appli‐
cation form for the qualification examination using Appended Form 1‐6 and the documents
listed in the following [for a person intending to sit the Class B fire defense equipment tech‐
nicianʹs qualification examination, excluding the document set forth in item (i)] as specified
by the prefectural governor to the prefectural governor.
(i)Document certifying the eligibility for the qualification examination as specified in Ar‐
ticle 17‐8, paragraph (4) of the Act and Article 33‐8, paragraph (2)(ii)
In the case of a person who intends to be exempt from a test subject(s) or part of a test
subject or the practical test pursuant to the provision of Article 33‐11, document certify‐
ing the possession of the qualification pertaining to the said exemption(iii)
Photograph(iv)
In addition to what is listed in the three preceding items, documents considered to be
especially necessary by the prefectural governor(2) The provision of Article 33‐6, paragraph (3) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the photographset forth in the preceding paragraph.
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Article 33‐14
The prefectural governor shall notify those persons who have successfully
passed the qualification examination of the fact that the said persons have successfully
passed the said qualification examination and shall issue a public notice listing the identifi‐
cation numbers of the said persons for the said qualification examination.
(2) When a designated qualification examination body issues a public notice set forth in the pre‐ceding paragraph, the provision of Article 33‐12, paragraph (2) shall apply mutatis mutandis
to the method of public notice.
(Application for Designation as Designated Qualification Examination Body)
Article 33‐15
An application pursuant to the provision of Article 17‐9, paragraph (2) of the Act
shall be made using an application form stating the matters listed in the following.
(i)Name of the applicant and location of the principal office(ii)
Date for which designation is sought(2) The application form set forth in the preceding article shall be accompanied by the following
documents.
(i)
Articles of incorporation and certificate of registered matters(ii)
Inventory of assets and balance sheet for the preceding business year of the businessyear in which the date of application falls (in the case of a juridical person incorporated
in the business year in which the date of application falls, list of assets at the time of in‐corporation)(iii)
Business plan and budget for income and expenditure for the business year in which
the date of application falls and following business year
(iv)
Document stating the outline of the business (es) already engaged in(v)
Document stating matters concerning the organization structure and management(vi)
Document stating the names, addresses and careers of the officers(vii)
Document verifying the purposeful decision concerning the application for designation(viii) Document stating the name and location of the office to handle the qualification exami‐
nation affairs(ix)
Document stating the outline of and improvement plan for examination facilities(x)Document stating the outline of the implementation method for qualification examina‐tion affairs(xi)Document stating the matters concerning the selection of examiners set forth in Article
13‐10, paragraph (1) of the Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 17‐9, para‐graph (4) of the Act(xii)
Document stating matters which can be useful references(Application Mutatis Mutandis of the Provisions of the Ordinance for Control of Hazardous
Materials)
Article 33‐16
The provisions of Article 58‐3, Article 58‐4, Article 58‐6, Article 58‐8, Article 58‐9
and Article 58‐12 of the Ordinance for Control of Hazardous Materials (Ordinance of thePrime Ministerʹs Office No. 55 of 1959) shall apply mutatis mutandis to notification or appli‐
cation by a designated qualification examination body to the Minister of Internal Affairs andCommunications, the provision of Article 58‐5 of the said Ordinance shall apply mutatis mu‐tandis to the requirements for the examiners of a designated qualification examination body,the provision of Article 58‐7 of the said Ordinance shall apply mutatis mutandis to the detailsof the rules for qualification examination affairs for a designated qualification examination
body, the provision of Article 58‐10 of the said Ordinance shall apply mutatis mutandis to abook of a designated qualification examination body, the provision of Article 58‐11 of thesaid Ordinance shall apply mutatis mutandis to reporting by a designated qualification exam‐
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ination body to an entrusting prefectural governor and the provision of Article 58‐13 of thesaid Ordinance shall apply mutatis mutandis to the taking over of qualification examinationaffairs between a designated qualification examination body and entrusting prefectural gov‐
ernor. In this case, the phrase ʺArticle 13‐7, paragraph (2) of the Actʺ in Article 58‐3, para‐graph (1) of the said Ordinance shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺArticle 13‐7, paragraph(2) of the Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 17‐9, paragraph (4) of the Actʺ, thephrase ʺArticle 13‐8, paragraph (2) of the Actʺ in paragraph (2) of the said article shall bedeemed to be replaced by ʺArticle 13‐8, paragraph (2) of the Act which is applied mutatis mu‐tandis in Article 17‐9, paragraph (4) of the Actʺ, the phrase ʺArticle 13‐9, paragraph (1) of theActʺ in Article 58‐4 of the said Ordinance shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺArticle 13‐9,
paragraph (1) of the Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 17‐9, paragraph (4) of
the Actʺ, the phrase ʺArticle 13‐10, paragraph (1) of the Actʺ in Article 58‐5 of the said Ordi‐nance shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺArticle 13‐10, paragraph (1) of the Act which is ap‐
plied mutatis mutandis in Article 17‐9, paragraph (4) of the Actʺ, the phrase ʺphysics, chemis‐tryʺ in item (i) of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺlaws and regulations
concerning mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial chemistryʺ, the phrase
ʺproperties of dangerous materials, prevention of a fire involving dangerous materials or afire extinguishing method pertaining to dangerous materials or dangerous materialsʺ in item(ii) of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺlaws and regulations related tostructure and functions of equipment, etc. subject to construction and improvement work,
construction work thereof or improvement method or fire defenseʺ, the phrase ʺArticle 13‐
10, paragraph (2) of the Actʺ in Article 58‐6, paragraph (1) of the said Ordinance shall bedeemed to be replaced by ʺArticle 13‐10, paragraph (2) of the Act which is applied mutatis
mutandis in Article 17‐9, paragraph (4) of the Actʺ, the phrase ʺArticle 13‐12, paragraph (1) of
the Actʺ in Article 58‐7 of the said Ordinance shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺArticle 13‐
12, paragraph (1) of the Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 17‐9, paragraph (4)of the Actʺ, the phrase ʺArticle 13‐12, paragraph (1) of the Actʺ in Article 58‐8, paragraph (1)of the said Ordinance shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺArticle 13‐12, paragraph (1) of the
Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 17‐9, paragraph (4) of the Actʺ, the phraseʺthe second sentence of Article 13‐12, paragraph (1) of the Actʺ in paragraph (2) of the said
article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺthe second sentence of Article 13‐2, paragraph (1)of the Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 17‐9, paragraph (4) of the Actʺ, thephrase ʺArticle 13‐12, paragraph (2) of the Actʺ in item (iv) of the said paragraph shall bedeemed to be replaced by ʺArticle 13‐12, paragraph (2) of the Act which is applied mutatis
mutandis in Article 17‐9,paragraph (4) of the Actʺ, the phrase ʺArticle 13‐13, paragraph (1) of
the Actʺ in Article 58‐9, paragraph (1) of the said Ordinance shall be deemed to be replacedby ʺArticle 13‐13, paragraph (1) of the Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 17‐9,
paragraph (4) of the Actʺ, the phrase ʺthe second sentence of Article 13‐13, paragraph (1) of
the Actʺ in paragraph (2) of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺthe second
sentence of Article 13‐13, paragraph (1) of the Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Arti‐cle 17‐9, paragraph (4) of the Actʺ, the phrase ʺArticle 13‐14 of the Actʺ in Article 58‐10, para‐graph (1) of the said Ordinance shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺArticle 13‐14 of the Act
which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 17‐9, paragraph (4) of the Actʺ, the phrase ʺtypeof qualification examinationʺ in item (ii) of the said paragraph shall be deemed to be re‐placed by ʺclass and designated category of qualification examinationʺ, the phrases ʺArticle
13‐14 of the Actʺ and ʺand the type of qualification examinationʺ in paragraph (2) of the said
article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺArticle 13‐14 of the Act which is applied mutatis
mutandis in Article 17‐9, paragraph (4) of the Act” and ʺand the class and designated catego‐ry of qualification examinationʺ respectively, the phrase ʺthe type of qualification examina‐tionʺ in Article 58‐11, paragraph (1), item (i) of the said Ordinance shall be deemed to be re‐170

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placed by ʺthe class and designated category of qualification examinationʺ, the phrase ʺArti‐cle 13‐17, paragraph (1) of the Actʺ in Article 58‐12 of the said Ordinance shall be deemed tobe replaced by ʺArticle 13‐17, paragraph (1) of the Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in
Article 17‐9, paragraph (4) of the Actʺ, and the phrase ʺArticle 13‐21 of the Actʺ in Article 58‐
13 of the said Ordinance shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺArticle 13‐21 of the Act which isapplied mutatis mutandis in Article 17‐9, paragraph (4) of the Actʺ.
(Training Sessions)
Article 33‐17
A fire defense equipment technician shall take the training sessions prescribed in
Article 17‐10 of the Act within two years from the first April 1 after the date of the issue of
his/her license.
(2) A fire defense equipment technician set forth in the preceding paragraph shall take the train‐
ing sessions prescribed in Article 17‐10 of the Act within five years from the first April 1 after
the date when he/she took the training sessions set forth in the said paragraph. The same
shall apply after the date when he/she took the said training sessions.
(3) In addition to what is prescribed in the two preceding paragraphs, the subjects of training
sessions, hours of training sessions and other necessary details for the implementation oftraining sessions shall be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Manage‐
ment Agency.
(Notification of Work Commencement for Equipment, etc. Subject to Construction or Im‐
provement Work)
Article 33‐18
Notification pursuant to the provision of Article 17‐14 of the Act shall be madeusing the Notification of the Commencement of Construction Work for Equipment, etc. Sub‐
ject to Construction or Improvement Work in Appended Form 1‐7 and attaching a copy ofthe documents specified in each of the following items according to the category listed ineach of the said items.
(i)Fire defense equipment, etc.: documents concerning the design for the construction
work for the said fire defense equipment, etc.
(ii)
Special fire defense equipment, etc.: documents concerning the design for the construc‐tion work for the said special fire defense equipment, etc., equipment, etc. installationand maintenance plan, document stating the evaluation results set forth in Article 17‐2,
paragraph (3) of the Act and document certifying that a person has been certified under
Article 17‐2‐2, paragraph (2) of the Act

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CHAPTER 3 FIRE DEFENSE SIGNALS(Fire Defense Signals)
Article 34
The fire defense signals to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Inter‐
nal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 18, paragraph (2) of the Act shall be fire
signals, forest fire signals, fire alarm signals and muster drill signals.
(2) The fire signals set forth in the preceding paragraph shall be those listed in each of the fol‐lowing items.
(i)Neighborhood fire signal(ii)
Call‐out signal(iii)
Reinforcement signal(iv)
Reporting signal(v)
Fire extinguished signal(3) The forest fire signals set forth in paragraph (1) shall be the call‐out signal and reinforcement
signal.
(4) The fire alarm signals set forth in paragraph (1) shall be the fire alarm issue signal and fire
all‐clear signal.
(5) The signaling method for fire defense signals set forth in the four preceding paragraphs shallbe that set forth in Appended Table 1‐3.
(6) The provisions of each of the preceding paragraphs shall apply mutatis mutandis to otherdisasters other than water disasters.

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CHAPTER 3‐2 DESIGNATED WATER SOURCE FOR FIRE DEFENSE(Signs for Designated Water Source for Fire Defense)
Article 34‐2
A fire chief or fire station chief shall erect a sign specified in Appended Table 1‐4
to mark a water source for fire defense which is designated pursuant to the provision of Ar‐
ticle 21, paragraph (1) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as ʺdesignated water source for fire
defenseʺ) at a point which is necessary for fire extinguishing activities at a place where a fireengine can easily approach the said designated water source for fire defense; provided,
however, that this shall not apply in the case where the said designated water source for fire
defense does not face a road [meaning a road prescribed in Article 2, item (i) of the Road
Traffic Act (Act No. 105 of 1960)].

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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 34‐2‐2~34‐2‐3)

CHAPTER 4 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SPECIAL FIRE DEFENSEEQUIPMENT, ETC.
(Application for Performance Evaluation of Special Fire Defense Equipment, etc.)
Article 34‐2‐2 An application pursuant to the provision of Article 17‐2, paragraph (2) shall bemade by submitting both the original and a copy of Appended Form 1‐8 (Appended Form 1‐
9 for an application pertaining to the case of revising special fire defense equipment, etc. oran equipment, etc. installation and maintenance plan).
(2) The documents to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Com‐
munications set forth in Article 17‐2, paragraph (2) of the Act shall be those listed in the fol‐lowing.
(i)
Two copies of the design drawing(ii)
Two copies of the specifications(iii)
One copy of the calculation sheet concerning the verification of performance(iv)
One copy of the report on the performance test results(Application for Certification, etc. by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications)
Article 34‐2‐3 An application pursuant to the provision of Article 17‐2‐2, paragraph (1) of the
Act shall be made using the application form in Appended Form 1‐10.
(2) An application pursuant to the provision of Article 17‐2‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act which isapplied mutatis mutandis in Article 17‐2‐3, paragraph (3) of the Act shall be made using theapplication form in Appended Form 1‐11.

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CHAPTER 4‐2 INSPECTION, ETC. OF A MACHINE OR TOOL, ETC. USED FOR
FIRE DEFENSE(Foam Fire Extinguishing Agents Excluded From the Scope of a Machine or Tool, Etc. Subject
to Inspection)
Article 34‐3
The foam fire extinguishing agents to be specified by an ordinance of the Minis‐try of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 37, item (iii) of the Order shallbe foam fire extinguishing agents for soluble liquids.
(Gas Leakage and Fire Alarm Systems Excluded from the Scope of a Machine or Tool, Etc. Sub‐
ject to Inspection)
Article 34‐4
The gas leakage and fire alarm systems to be specified by an ordinance of the
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 37, item (v) of the Ordershall be those listed in the following.
(i)System for which the target for detection is liquefied petroleum gas(ii)
System prescribed in the proviso of Article 41, paragraph (4) of the Ordinance to Speci‐
fy the Technical Standards Concerning Thermal Power Generation Equipment (Ordi‐nance of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry No. 60 of 1965)(iii)
Systems prescribed in Article 10, item (xii) of the Ordinance for Freezing Safety (Ordi‐nance of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry No. 51 of 1966) and Article
12, item (xvii) and Article 78, paragraph (1), item (ix‐5) of the Ordinance for Safety ofGeneral High Pressure Gas (Ordinance of the Ministry of International Trade and In‐
dustry No. 53 of 1966)(iv)
System prescribed in Article 9, paragraph (2) of the Ordinance to Specify the TechnicalStandards for Gas Structures (Ordinance of the Ministry of International Trade and In‐
dustry No. 98 of 1970)(Model Conformity Inspection Method)
Article 34‐5
The model conformity inspection method prescribed in Article 21‐2, paragraph(3) of the Act shall be an on‐the‐spot method involving the attendance of an inspector pro‐vided, however, that the data examination method may be used in the case where the Com‐missioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency specifies that the reliability of the in‐spection at the manufacturing process is secured.
(2) The model conformity inspection shall be conducted at a date and time designated by theInstitute or a registered inspection body at a place designated by the Institute or registeredinspection body.
(On‐the‐Spot Model Conformity Inspection Method)
Article 34‐6
The on‐the‐spot model conformity inspection method shall be an inspection
where the Institute or a registered inspection body samples a required number of products
from each lot of a machine or tool, etc. subject to inspection using the sampling procedures
set forth in JIS Z9015‐1 or a method found by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster
Management Agency to be similar (referred to as “the sampling method for model conformi‐
ty inspection” in the following article) at a place designated pursuant to the provision ofparagraph (2) of the preceding article with the attendance of an official of the Institute or aregistered inspection body to check whether or not the said machine or tool, etc. subject toinspection conforms to the model for which model approval based on the provision of Arti‐cle 21‐4, paragraph (2) of the Act is given.

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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 34‐7~35)(Model Conformity Inspection by the Data Examination Method)
Article 34‐7
A person intending to apply for model conformity inspection by the data exami‐
nation method (hereinafter referred to as “the applicant for the data examination method in
the rest of this article) shall make an application using the application form in Appended
Form 1‐12 to that effect to either the Institute or a registered inspection body.
(2) In the case where the Institute or a registered inspection body finds that the model pertain‐
ing to the application prescribed in the preceding paragraph falls under each of the follow‐
ing items, it shall conduct model conformity inspection by the data examination method forthe said model.
(i)
The said model has continually passed the latest on‐the‐spot model conformity inspec‐tion for at least 10 times.
(ii)
The model conformity inspection of the machine or tool, etc. subject to inspection per‐taining to the said model has been conducted roughly every three months.
(iii)
The management to ensure the quality has been firmly established at a factory, place ofbusiness or similar facility manufacturing the machine or tool, etc. subject to inspection
pertaining to the said model.
(3) In the case where the Institute or a registered inspection body conducts model conformity
inspection by the data examination method pursuant to the provision of the preceding para‐graph, it shall inform the applicant for the data examination method to that effect.
(4) Model conformity inspection by the data examination method shall be conducted in accord‐
ance with the procedure specified in each of the following items.
(i)
The applicant for the data examination method shall sample the required number fromeach lot of the machine or tool, etc. subject to inspection using the sampling method forthe model conformity inspection at a manufacturing facility, etc. and shall conduct a
test to check whether or not the said machine or tool, etc. subject to inspection conforms
to the model which has received model approval pursuant to the provision of Article
21‐4, paragraph (2) of the Act.
(ii)
The applicant for the data examination method shall swiftly report the results of the test
set forth in the preceding item to the Institute or registered inspection body.
(iii)
The Institute or a registered inspection body shall verify the results of the test reported
pursuant to the provision of the preceding item and shall swiftly inform the examina‐tion result pertaining to the said test to the applicant for the data examination method.
(Application Form, Samples and Documents Pertaining to the Test for a Machine or Tool, Etc.
Subject to Inspection)
Article 35
An application for the test for a machine or tool, etc. subject to inspection pursu‐
ant to the provision of Article 21‐3, paragraph (2) of the Act shall be made by submitting
both the original and a copy of the application form in Appended Form 2 (Appended Form 3
for an application for the test for a machine or tool, etc. subject to inspection of a different
model for an unimportant part from a model which has received model approval).
(2) A person who is engaged in the overseas business of the manufacture or sale of a machine ortool, etc. subject to inspection for their export to Japan may attach documents stating the re‐sults of inspection performed by a foreign inspection body set forth in Article 40, paragraph(2) of the Order to the application forms set forth in the preceding paragraph.
(3) The samples of a machine or tool, etc. subject to inspection to be specified by an ordinance ofthe Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 21‐3, paragraph (2)of the Act shall be the type and quantity specified in Appended Table 2 (in the case where
the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications finds the type and quantity specified in
the said table to be inappropriate in view of the test method or intended purpose, the typeand quantity to be specified by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications) ac‐
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cording to the category of the first test and second test prescribed in the following article;
provided, however, that the samples of a machine or tool, etc. subject to inspection in thecase where the documents which are prescribed in the preceding paragraph and which areconsidered to be appropriate by the Institute are attached shall be a single finished product(finished product of 10 liters in quantity for a foam fire extinguishing agent or a finishedproduct of 10 meters in length for a fixed temperature line type detector).
(4) The documents to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Com‐
munications set forth in Article 21‐3, paragraph (2) of the Act shall be those listed in the fol‐lowing.
(i)
Two copies of the design drawings for a machine or tool, etc. used for fire defense(ii)
Two copies of the specifications (detailed statement of the ingredients of fire extinguish‐
ing agents for fire extinguishers)(iii)
One copy of the brief survey report on the factory equipment (briefly stating the manu‐
facturing equipment and inspection equipment for a machine or tool, etc. subject to in‐spection)(iv)
One copy of the report on the in‐house test results(v)
One copy of the brief survey report on the manufacturing process (briefly describing
the manufacturing process of the machine or tool, etc. subject to inspection(vi)
One copy of the survey report pertaining to the in‐house inspection system concerning
the technical specifications of the machine or tool, etc. subject to inspection(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of the two preceding paragraphs, the Institute or registeredinspection body may make it unnecessary to attach parts of the samples or documents pre‐scribed in the two preceding paragraphs regarding an application for the test of a machineor tool, etc. subject to inspection of a different model for an unimportant part from a model
which has received model approval.
(Test Method for a Machines or Tool, Etc. Subject to Inspection)
Article 36
The test for a machine or tool, etc. subject to inspection shall be conducted at adate and time designated by the Institute or registered inspection body at a venue designat‐
ed by the Institute or registered inspection body in the form of a separate first test and sec‐
ond test.
(2) The first test set forth in the preceding paragraph shall be conducted using the application
form set forth in paragraph (1) of the preceding article, samples pertaining to the first test
among the samples of a machine or tool, etc. subject to inspection set forth in paragraph (3)of the said article and documents set forth in paragraph (4) of the said article.
(3) The second test set forth in paragraph (1) shall be conducted using samples pertaining to thesecond test among the samples of a machine or tool, etc. subject to inspection set forth inparagraph (3) of the preceding article based on the results of the first test.
(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of the three preceding paragraphs, the test for a machine ortool, etc. subject to inspection in the case where the documents which are set forth in para‐graph (2) of the preceding article and which are considered to be appropriate by the Instituteare attached shall be conducted using the application form set forth in paragraph (1) of thesaid article, documents set forth in paragraph (2) of the said article, samples of a machine ortool, etc. subject to inspection set forth in the proviso of paragraph (3) of the said article anddocuments set forth in paragraph (4) of the said article at a date, time and venue designatedby the Institute.
(Application Form for Model Approval)
Article 37
An application for model approval pursuant to the provision of Article 21‐4,
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pended Form 5 in the case of an application for the model approval of a machine or tool, etc.
subject to inspection of a different model for an unimportant part from a model which hasreceived model approval).
(Report on Change of Name, etc.)
Article 38
When a person who has received model approval changes the name (in the caseof a juridical person, the name of the company or the name of its representative) or address,
he/she shall submit without delay the notification form in Appended Form 6 accompanied
by a document certifying the fact to the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications.
(Application Form for Model Conformity Inspection)
Article 39
An application for model conformity inspection pursuant to the provision of Ar‐
ticle 21‐7 of the Act shall be made by submitting both the original and a copy of the applica‐tion form in Appended Form 7 provided, however, that this shall not apply in the casewhere the said application is made by an electromagnetic method (meaning a method using
an electronic data processing system or any other information communication technology as
specified by the Institute or a registered inspection body).
(Special Provisions for the Venue for Inspection, etc.)
Article 39‐2
In the case where it is difficult to conduct the test or model conformity inspec‐tion (hereinafter referred to as ʺinspection, etc.ʺ in this article and Chapter 4‐2) at the venue
designated by the Institute or registered inspection body because of a disaster or other ex‐
ceptional circumstance, difficulty to transport samples, difficulty to secure inspection
equipment or any other special circumstance and, if it is agreed by the Institute or registeredinspection body, the inspection, etc. may take place at a venue preferred by the person ap‐
plying for inspection, etc. (referred to as the ʺapplicantʺ in the following paragraph) not‐withstanding the provisions of Article 34‐5, paragraph (2) and Article 36, paragraph (1).
(2) The travel cost and other necessary expenses in the case where inspection, etc. takes place ata venue (excluding a location inside the territorial boundary of Japan) preferred by the ap‐
plicant shall be borne by the said applicant.
(Labelling for Successful Passing)
Article 40
The labels to be affixed pursuant to the provision of Article 21‐9, paragraph (1)of the Act shall be those in Appended Table 3.
(Approval of Products for Export)
Article 41
A person who intends to receive approval from the Minister of Internal Affairs
and Communications pursuant to the provision of Article 37 of the Order shall submit the ap‐
plication form in Appended Form 8 to the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications.
(2) When the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications finds it necessary in the casewhere the application set forth in the preceding paragraph is made, he/she shall require theperson who has made the said application to submit a sample of the machine or tool, etc. to
be used for fire defense pertaining to the said application or a purchase order from a foreigncountry which sufficiently proves that the product is for export or any other document
deemed worthy of replacing the said purchase order or a report on the operations of the ap‐
plicant.
(3) When the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications accepts that the product pertain‐
ing to the said application is destined for export as a result of examination of the application
form set forth in paragraph (1) and the purchase order or document or report set forth in thepreceding paragraph, he/she shall approve without delay that the product is for export.
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 42~44)(Notice to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)
Article 42
When the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications has awarded model
approval for a fire extinguisher for automobiles pursuant to the provision of Article 21‐4,
paragraph (2) of the Act, he/she shall notify the results of the test set forth in Article 21‐3,
paragraph (3) of the Act pertaining to the said fire extinguisher for automobiles to the Minis‐
ter of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
(Designation of Foreign Inspection Bodies)
Article 43
The designation of a foreign inspection body set forth in Article 40, paragraph(2) of the Order shall be conducted for each type of machine and tool subject to inspection
specified in Appended Table 3 of the Order based on an application by a person who intends
to receive the said designation.
(2) The Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications shall not make the designation set
forth in Article 40, paragraph (2) of the Order unless he/she has accepted that the person
who intends to be designated as a foreign inspection body set forth in the said paragraph(hereinafter referred to as the ʺapplicantʺ in this paragraph) satisfies the following require‐ments.
(i)
The applicant is a person with an address in a foreign country.
(ii)
The applicant possesses the technical ability and financial basis necessary to properly
and reliably implement the operations of inspection of the shape, structure, materials,
ingredients and performance of a machine or tool, etc. subject to inspection (referred toas ʺinspection operationsʺ in the following item).
(iii)
In the case where the applicant is engaged in a business other than conducting inspec‐tion operations, it is unlikely that the applicant will conduct inspection operations un‐
fairly due to conducting such other business.
(iv)
The applicant shall not fall under any of the persons listed in the following.
(a) A person of whom the designation was rescinded and a period of two years has notelapsed since the date of such rescission(b) A juridical person of which any officer falls under (a)(Inspection Method, etc.)
Article 44
The inspection method pursuant to the provision of Article 21‐16‐3, paragraph(1) of the Act shall verify, using appropriate inspection equipment and inspection method,whether or not the shape, structure, materials, ingredients and performance of the manufac‐
tured or imported machine or tool, etc. subject to self‐labelling (hereinafter referred to as“the shape, etc.” in this article) conform to the shape, etc. of the machine or tool, etc. subject
to self‐labelling notified pursuant to the provision of Article 21‐16‐4, paragraph (1) of the Act
and also to the design documents describing the location where the indication set forth in
Article 21‐16‐3, paragraph (1) of the Act is to be affixed (hereinafter referred to as “the de‐sign documents” in this article).
(2) The labels to be attached pursuant to the provision of Article 21‐16‐3, paragraph (1) of the
Act shall be those in Appended Table 4.
(3) The matters to be stated in the inspection record by a person engaged in the business ofmanufacturing or importing the machine or tool, etc. subject to self‐labelling pursuant to theprovision of Article 21‐16‐3 paragraph (3) of the Act shall be the following.
(i)Type and model of the machine or tool, etc. subject to self‐labelling(ii)
Design documents used in the inspection(iii)
Items and contents of the inspection and the judgement method(iv)
Date of and venue for the inspection(v)
Equipment and measuring instruments used for the inspection
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(vi)
(vii)

Name of the person who conducted the inspection
Quantity of the machine or tool, etc. subject to inspection of which the inspection has
been conducted(viii) Inspection results(ix)
History of changes in the case where any of the design documents, inspection equip‐
ment or inspection method set forth in paragraph (1) have been changed(4) The period for which the inspection records must be preserved pursuant to the provision of
Article 21‐16‐3, paragraph (3) of the Act shall be five years from the date of the inspection.
(5) The inspection records prescribed in paragraph (3) may be prepared by means of recording
the matters listed in each item of the said paragraph using an electromagnetic method(meaning an electronic method, magnetic method or any other method which is beyond
recognition by the human senses; the same shall apply hereinafter in this paragraph). In thecase where the inspection records set forth in the said paragraph are preserved by an elec‐
tromagnetic method, arrangements shall be in place so that the inspection records set forthin the said paragraph can be immediately shown using a computer or other equipment as
required.
(Notification of Manufacture, etc. of Machines and Tools Subject to Self‐Labelling)
Article 44‐2
The notification pursuant to the provision of Article 21‐16‐4, paragraph (1) of the
Act shall be made using the notification form in Appended Form 9 for each model.
(2) The matters to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Commu‐
nications set forth in Article 21‐16‐4, paragraph (1), item (ii) of the Act shall be those listed in
the following.
(i)Type and model of the machine or tool, etc. subject to self‐labelling to which a label is tobe affixed(ii)
Test results verifying that a machine or tool, etc. subject to self‐labelling to which a label isto be affixed conforms to the technical specifications pertaining to the said machine ortool, etc. subject to self‐labelling to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal
Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 21‐16‐3, paragraph (1) of the Act and, ofthe matters concerning the equipment used for the test and the test method, those to be
specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency(iii)
In the case where a person intending to affix a label is engaged in the business of im‐
porting a machine or tool, etc. subject to self‐labelling, the name, address or location of
the person whose business is the manufacture of the said machine or tool, etc. subject toself‐labelling(3) The notification pursuant to the provision of Article 21‐16‐4, paragraph (2) of the Act shalluse the notification form in Appended Form 10 in the case where a matter listed in each of
the items of paragraph (1) of the said article has changed or the notification form in Ap‐
pended Form 11 in the case where the business of the manufacture or import of a machine ortool, etc. subject to self‐labelling has been abolished.
(Approval of Products for Export)
Article 44‐3
A person who intends to receive approval from the Minister of Internal Affairs
and Communications pursuant to the provision of Article 41 of the Order shall submit theapplication form in Appended Form 12 to the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions.
(2) The provisions of Article 41, paragraph (2) and paragraph (3) shall apply mutatis mutandis tothe case where an application has been made pursuant to the provision of the preceding
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CHAPTER 4‐3 REGISTERED INSPECTION BODY
(Application for Registration as Registered Inspection Body)
Article 44‐4
A juridical person intending to receive the registration prescribed in Article 21‐
45 of the Act pursuant to the provision of the said article shall submit an application form to
the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications.
(2) The provision of Article 1‐4, paragraph (2) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the application
form set forth in the preceding paragraph. In this case, the phrase ʺlocation of the principal
officeʺ, the word ʺtrainersʺ and the phrases ʺtraining subjects, number of hours, implementa‐tion schedule, venues and other matters concerning the implementation planʺ and ʺpara‐graph (4)ʺ in the said paragraph shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺlocation of the principal
office and category of operation listed in each of the items of Article 21‐45 of the Actʺ, ʺa per‐son conducting the operations of inspection, etc. prescribed in Article 21‐45 of the Actʺ, ʺout‐line of machines, tools and other equipment used for operationsʺ and ʺArticle 21‐46, para‐graph (2) of the Actʺ respectively.
Article 44‐5
Article 44‐5‐2
Article 44‐5‐3

DeletedDeletedDeleted(Notification of Change of Name, etc. of Registered Inspection Body)
Article 44‐6
Notification of the change of any of the matters listed in Article 21‐46, paragraph(3), item (ii) and item (iv) of the Act pursuant to the provision of Article 21‐48, paragraph (2)of the Act shall be made using the notification form stating the following matters.
(i)Name of the designated inspection body or location of the principal office after change(ii)
Date on which the intended change will take place(iii)
Reason for change(Method of Inspection, etc.)
Article 44‐7
The technical standards to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Inter‐
nal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 21‐49, paragraph (2) of the Act shall be
the procedure specified in each of the following items according to the category of opera‐
tions listed in each of the said items.
(i)Operations listed in Article 21‐45, item (i) of the Act: Evaluation of the performance ofspecial fire defense equipment, etc. shall be conducted regarding the details of theequipment, etc. installation and maintenance plan prescribed in Article 17, paragraph(3) of the Act and other matters necessary for evaluation of the performance of special
fire defense equipment, etc. and, if required, a test to inspect the performance of special
fire defense equipment, etc. shall be conducted at a date and time designated by the In‐
stitute or registered inspection body and venue designated by the Institute or registeredinspection body.
(ii)
Operations listed in Article 21‐45, item (ii) through item (iv) of the Act: The test andmodel conformity inspection of a machine or tool, etc. subject to inspection prescribedin these provisions shall be conducted using the methods specified in specified in Arti‐cle 34‐5 through Article 34‐7 and Article 36.
(Details of Operational Rules)
Article 44‐8
The provision of Article 1‐4, paragraph (12) shall apply mutatis mutandis to mat‐ters concerning the implementation of the operations of inspection, etc. to be specified by an
ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 21‐51,
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paragraph (1) of the Act. In this case, the phrase ʺparagraph (15), item (ii) and item (iv)ʺ in
item (vii) of the said paragraph shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺArticle 21‐52, paragraph(3), item (ii) and item (iv) of the Actʺ.
(Application for Authorization of Operational Rules)
Article 44‐9
When a registered inspection body intends to obtain authorization of its opera‐
tional rules pursuant to the provision of Article 21‐51, paragraph (1) of the Act, it shall sub‐mit an application form to that effect together with the said operational rules to the Ministerof Internal Affairs and Communications.
(2) When a registered inspection body intends to obtain authorization of a revision of its opera‐
tional rules pursuant to the provision of the second sentence of Article 21‐51, paragraph (1)of the Act, it shall submit an application form stating the following matters to the Minister ofInternal Affairs and Communications.
(i)
Subject matter for revision(ii)
Date on which the intended revision will take place(iii)
Reason for revision(Application for Authorization of Business Plan and Income and Expenditure Budget)
Article 44‐10
When a registered inspection body intends to obtain authorization of its busi‐
ness plan and income and expenditure budget pursuant to the provision of Article 21‐52,
paragraph (1) of the Act, it shall submit an application form to that effect together with thebusiness plan and income and expenditure budget to the Minister of Internal Affairs andCommunications.
(2) The provision of paragraph (2) of the preceding article shall apply mutatis mutandis to au‐
thorization of a revision of a business plan and income and expenditure budget pursuant tothe second sentence of Article 21‐52, paragraph (1) of the Act.
(Electromagnetic Methods)
Article 44‐10‐2 The method to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 21‐52, paragraph (3), item (iii) of the Act shall be amethod indicating the matters recorded in the electromagnetic record set forth in the said
item on paper or a display unit of an output device.
(2) The electromagnetic method to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Af‐
fairs and Communications set forth in Article 21‐52, paragraph (3), item (iv) of the Act shallbe those in the following.
(i)
Method using an electronic data processing system where the computer used by thesender and the computer used by the recipient are connected by a telecommunications
line and where data is sent via the said telecommunications line for recording in a fileon the computer used by the recipient(ii)
Method to issue a file with recorded data which is contained in a magnetic disc or ob‐
ject capable of securely recording certain data using a means equivalent to that of amagnetic disc(3) The method listed in each item of the preceding paragraph shall be capable of preparing
documents by means of the outputting of the records in a file by the recipient.
(Books)
Article 44‐11
The matters to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 21‐53 of the Act shall be those in the following.
(i)Name of the person applying for the inspection, etc.
(ii)
Date of receipt of the application for the inspection, etc.
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Type of the machine or tool, etc. subject to inspection pertaining to the application for
the inspection, etc.
(iv)
Outline of the shape, structure, materials, ingredients and performance of the machineor tool, etc. subject to inspection of which the inspection, etc. has been conducted.
(v)
Date of conducting the inspection, etc.
(vi)
Name of the person who conducted the inspection, etc.
(vii)
Performance in the inspection, etc. and pass or failure of the inspection, etc.
(viii) Other matters to be specified by the representative of the registered inspection body(2) The books prescribed in Article 21‐53 of the Act shall be preserved for 5 years from the dateof the inspection, etc.
(Application for Authorization of Suspension or Abolition of Operations of Inspection, etc.)
Article 44‐12
When a registered inspection body intends to obtain authorization for the sus‐
pension or abolition of the operations of the inspection, etc. pursuant to the provision of Ar‐
ticle 21‐56, paragraph (1) of the Act, it shall submit an application form stating the following
matters to the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications.
(i)
Extent of the operations of the inspection, etc. of which suspension or abolition is in‐tended(ii)
Commencement date and duration of suspension or date of abolition(iii)
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 45~48)

CHAPTER 5 PERSONS OBLIGED TO TAKE EMERGENCY MEASURES TO EX‐
TINGUISH FIRES, ETC.
(Persons Allowed Access to Fire Risk Cautionary Area)
Article 45
The persons to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 23‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act shall be those listed ineach of the following items.
(i)Persons concerned with a fire prevention property or vessel located inside a fire risk
cautionary area(ii)
Persons who work at a fire prevention property or vessel with an accident has occurred
and who are related to emergency work pertaining to the said accident(iii)
Persons engaged in the operations of electricity, gas, water or other services and who
are related to emergency work pertaining to the said accident(iv)
Persons who are doctors or nurses, etc. and who intend to be involved in emergency
medical aid operations(v)
Persons engaged in the operations of fire extinguishing, emergency medical aid, emer‐
gency work or similar as specified by laws and regulations(vi)
Persons considered to be especially necessary by a fire chief or fire station chief(2) In the case where a fire chief or fire station chief finds it necessary in view of the conditions
at the scene, he/she may order all or some of the persons listed in item (i) through item (iv)and item (vi) of the preceding paragraph to vacate the fire risk cautionary area or to prohibitor restrict their access to the said area.
(Persons Obliged to Take Emergency Measures to Extinguish a Fire)
Article 46
The persons to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 25, paragraph (1) of the Act shall be those listed in
the following who are present at the scene of a fire excluding those who are unable to extin‐
guish a fire, prevent the spread of a fire or save human lives for reasons of their own illness,injury or other.
(i)
Person responsible for the occurrence of a fire(ii)
Person directly related to the occurrence of a fire(iii)
Any inhabitant or worker in a fire prevention property where a fire has broken out(Persons Who May be Requested to Provide Information)
Article 47
The persons to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 25, paragraph (3) of the Act shall be the persons
listed in each item of the preceding paragraph and persons concerned with, inhabitants of or
workers in a fire prevention property with a risk of the spread of a fire.
(Persons Allowed Access to a Fire Defense Cautionary Area)
Article 48
The persons to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 28, paragraph (1) of the Act shall be those listed ineach of the following items.
(i)Persons concerned with a fire prevention property or vessel located in a fire defense
cautionary area, inhabitants and their families who intend to rescue other persons(ii)
Persons working in a fire prevention property or a vessel located in a fire defense cau‐tionary area(iii)
Persons engaged in the operations of electricity, gas, water, telecommunications,transport and other services and who are related to firefighting activities

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Persons who are doctors or nurses, etc. and who intend to engage in emergency medi‐
cal aid operations(v)
Persons engaged in the operations of fire extinguishing, emergency medical aid andothers as specified by laws and regulations(vi)
Persons engaged in the operations of the press(vii)
Persons who have an access permit card issued by a fire chief or a fire station chief inadvance(2) When a firefighter or fire corps volunteer finds it necessary in view of the conditions at thescene, he/she may prohibit or restrict access by all or some of the persons listed in item (i),item (ii), item (vi) and item (vii) of the preceding paragraph to the said area.
(3) When a firefighter or fire corps volunteer finds the conditions at a scene to be extremely
dangerous, he/she may order all or some of the persons listed in item (i) and item (ii) of par‐agraph (1) to vacate the said area.
(Application Mutatis Mutandis to Other Disasters)
Article 49
The provisions of the three preceding articles shall apply mutatis mutandis toother disasters other than water disasters.

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CHAPTER 6 STANDARDS FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF AN AMBULANCETEAM(Special Provision for the Standards for the Organization of an Ambulance Team)
Article 50
The case to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in Article 44, paragraph (1) of the Order shall be the case where aperson suffering an injury or contracting a disease is transported from one medical institu‐
tion to another medical institution and where a doctor, nurse, assistant nurse or emergency
lifesaving technician is on board an ambulance.
(Training Sessions Concerning Ambulance Service)
Article 51
The training sessions to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal
Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 44, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Order and Ar‐
ticle 44‐2, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Order shall be equal to or more than the subjects andnumber of hours listed in the following table and which are conducted by the Commissionerof the Fire and Disaster Management Agency, prefectural governor or municipal mayor.
Subject
General theory of theambulance service
Anatomy and physi‐
ology pertaining tofirst aid treatment
Basic and practicalskills of first aid
treatment

First aid treatment by
type of injury or dis‐ease

Handling of first aid
devices and materials
Practical ambulanceservice and related
laws and regulations

On‐the‐job
training,
measuring of educa‐
tional effects and events

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Scope
Number of Hours
History, significance, obligations of ambulance team members and4 hours
other
General theory, names of various parts of the body, dermal system,
skeletal system, muscular system, respiratory system, circulatory
8 hours
system, digestive system, urinary system, nervous system, sensory
system, reproductive system and other systems
Observation, etc. (observation, judgement and listening to previous
illnesses, etc.), cardiopulmonary resuscitation (airway control, re‐moval of foreign matters, artificial respiration, cardiac massage(including combined application with artificial respiration) and42 hours
oxygen inhalation), hemostatis (hemostatis by means of directpressing or indirect pressing), bandaging, fixing, body heat reten‐tion,, body position management and transportation (various
modes of transportation, rescue and medical care in an ambulance)
First aid treatment for external injuries (bleeding, shock, wounds, head
injuries, facial injuries, eye injuries, cervical injuries, chest injuries,
abdominal injuries, genital injuries, vertebral (spinal) injuries, limb
injuries and multiple injuries), special injuries (burns, sunstroke (heat‐stroke), cold injuries, electric shock injuries, bomb injuries, oxygen
deficiency, near‐drowning, decompression sickness, acute poisoning,
43 hours
foreign matters in airway, etc., acute radiation injuries and animal
bites or stings) and illnesses (cardiac arrest, disturbance of conscious‐
ness, convulsions, high body temperature, breathing difficulty, ab‐dominal pain, genital bleeding, mental disorder and geriatric and pe‐
diatric illnesses) and handling of childbirth and newborn babies
Operating and handling methods, storage, management and disin‐
7 hours
fection of first aid devices and materials
Handling of accidents involving many casualties and fatal acci‐
dents, communication system for first aid activities and its opera‐tion, guidelines for actions to be taken at scenes of first aid and
10 hours
important points, recording of first aid actions and organizations,laws and regulations related to the ambulance service
On‐the‐job training at a medical institution and in the field, practi‐
cal tests, tests on theoretical knowledge, opening ceremony, clos‐
21 hours
ing ceremony and other events
Total
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 51‐2)(Persons With Knowledge and Experience Equal or Superior to That of Persons Completing a
Course of Training Sessions on Ambulance Service)
Article 51‐2
The persons to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 44, paragraph (3), item (ii) of the Order and Article
44‐2, paragraph (3), item (ii) of the Order shall be those listed in each of the following items.
(i)Persons who have received an emergency lifesaving technicianʹs license pursuant to theprovision of Article 3 of the Emergency Life Saving Technicians Act (Act No. 36 of 1991)(ii)
Persons certified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency as
having knowledge and experience equal or superior to that of persons who have com‐pleted the course of training sessions specified in the preceding article

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CHAPTER 7 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS(Causes to be Specified by an Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions)
Article 51‐3
The causes to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications set forth in Article 45, item (ii) of the Order shall be the spread of a toxicant[meaning a toxicant prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Prohibition ofChemical Weapons and the Regulation of Specific Chemicals (Act No. 65 of 1995)] or sub‐stance of which the toxicity is equal to that of a toxicant, spread of a biological substance(meaning a biological substance prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Imple‐
menting the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpilingof Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxic Weapons and on Their Destruction and Other Con‐ventions (Act No. 61 of 1982) or toxin (meaning a toxin prescribed in paragraph (2) of thesaid article), release of a radioactive material or radiation at an extraordinary level or an ac‐
cident with a risk of the spread or release of any of these substances.
(Registered Training Body Pertaining to Training Sessions on Disaster Prevention Manage‐
ment)
Article 51‐4
Registration by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications pursuant to
the provision of Article 47, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Order shall be made on application
by a juridical person who intends to provide training sessions.
(2) The provisions of Article 1‐4, paragraph (2) through paragraph (7) shall apply mutatis mu‐tandis to an application set forth in the preceding paragraph and the provisions of paragraph(8) through paragraph (22) of the said article shall apply mutatis mutandis to a juridical per‐son who is registered pursuant to the provision of the preceding paragraph. In this case, thephrase ʺa fire protection manager of a fire prevention property listed in Article 4‐2‐2, para‐graph (1), item (i) of the Orderʺ in paragraph (3), item (i)‐(a) of the said article shall bedeemed to be replaced by ʺdisaster protection managers of buildings and other structures
prescribed in Article 46 of the Orderʺ, the phrase ʺfire preventionʺ in (b) of the said item shallbe deemed to be replaced by ʺ fire prevention work‐related two or more years of practicalexperience and disaster prevention managementʺ, the phrase ʺAppended Form 1ʺ in item(iii) of the said paragraph and paragraph (16), item (iv) of the said article shall be deemed tobe replaced by ʺAppended Form 13ʺ and the phrase ʺArticle 2‐3ʺ in paragraph (10) of thesaid article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺArticle 51‐7ʺ.
(Persons Recognized as Having the Relevant Knowledge and Experience Required for DisasterProtection Managers)
Article 51‐5
The persons who are recognized as having the relevant knowledge and experi‐ence required for disaster protection managers prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (1), item(iv) of the Order shall be those who fall under one of the following items.
(i)Person appointed as a safety officer prescribed in Article 11, paragraph (1) of the Indus‐
trial Safety and Health Act(i‐2)
Person issued with a license on completion of a course of training sessions which ena‐
bles the participants to learn the necessary knowledge and skills for the checking ofproperties subject to disaster prevention management prescribed in Article 51‐12, para‐graph (3)(ii)
Person appointed as a hazardous materials security superintendent pursuant to theprovision of Article 13, paragraph (1) of the Act and who has been issued a Class A
hazardous materials engineerʹs license(iii)
Person appointed as a safety manager pursuant to the provision of Article 22, para‐
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(iv)
(v)
(vi)

(vii)
(viii)

graph (3) of the Mine Safety Act [in the case of the second sentence of the said para‐graph, person appointed as a safety supervisor pursuant to the provision of paragraph(1) of the said article]
Person engaged in the fire service affairs of the state or prefecture who has been in a
managerial or supervisory position for one year or more
Person who is a policeman or police personnel treated in the same way as a policeman
who has been in a managerial or supervisory position for three years or more
Person qualified as a building official or first class architect who has practical experi‐ence of fire prevention management of one year or more as well as practical experienceof disaster prevention management of one year or more
Person who is a fire corps volunteer of a municipality who has held a managerial or su‐
pervisory position for three years or more
Person who is recognized as equivalent to a person listed in each of the preceding itemsby the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency(Qualification of Disaster Protection Manager in the Case Where Operations Necessary for
Disaster Prevention Management Cannot be Properly Performed)
Article 51‐6
A property subject to disaster prevention management to be specified by an or‐
dinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 47, para‐graph (1) of the Order shall be a fire prevention property listed in each of the items of Article
2‐2, paragraph (1) for which the operations necessary for disaster prevention management
are recognized by a fire chief or fire station chief as impossible to perform due to the factthat every person in a managerial or supervisory position works at a distant place or otherreasons.
(2) The provision of Article 2‐2, paragraph (2) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the requirements
to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications set
forth in Article 47, paragraph (1) of the Order. In this case, the phrases ʺnecessary operations
for fire preventionʺ and ʺa fire prevention propertyʺ in Article 2‐2, paragraph (2) shall bedeemed to be replaced by ʺnecessary operations for disaster preventionʺ and ʺbuildings andother structuresʺ respectively.
(Training Sessions on Disaster Prevention Management)
Article 51‐7
The training sessions concerning disaster prevention management prescribed in
Article 47, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Order shall be training sessions on those who havenever undergone such training sessions (hereinafter referred to as ʺfresh training sessions fordisaster prevention managementʺ in this article) and training sessions to be specified by theCommissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency for those who have completed
fresh training sessions on disaster prevention management (hereinafter referred to as ʺre‐fresher training sessions on disaster prevention managementʺ in this article and Article 51‐
12).
(2) Fresh training sessions on disaster prevention management shall be conducted for the pur‐pose of teaching knowledge and skills pertaining to the matters listed in the following andthe hours of these training sessions shall be approximately 4 hours 30 minutes.
(i)
Matters concerning the significance and system of disaster prevention management(ii)
Matters concerning the maintenance of the structures and equipment necessary for dis‐
aster prevention management(iii)
Matters concerning drills for evacuation and other types of necessary drills for disasterprevention management(iv)
Matters concerning the necessary education for disaster prevention management(v)
Matters concerning the preparation of a fire defense plan
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Matters concerning the responsibilities of the disaster protection manager(vii)
Matters concerning joint disaster prevention management(3) The number of hours in the case where Class A fire prevention management fresh training
sessions prescribed in Article 2‐3, paragraph (1) and fresh training sessions for disaster pre‐vention management are combined for simultaneous teaching shall be approximately 14
hours notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2) of the said article and preceding par‐agraph.
(4) Refresher training sessions on disaster prevention management shall be conducted for the
purpose of teaching knowledge and skills pertaining to the matters listed in the following
and the hours of these training sessions shall be approximately 2 hours.
(i)Matters concerning the outline of revisions made in approximately the last five years oflaws and regulations concerning disaster prevention management(ii)
Matters concerning research on cases of disasters, etc.
(5) The number of hours in the case where Class A fire prevention management refresher train‐
ing sessions prescribed in Article 2‐3, paragraph (1) and refresher training sessions on disas‐
ter prevention management are combined for simultaneous teaching shall be approximately
3 hours notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (3) of the said article and the preceding
paragraph.
(6) A prefectural governor, fire chief of a municipality with a fire defense headquarters and afire station(s) or a juridical person registered by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Com‐
munications pursuant to the provision of Article 47, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Order shallissue a certificate of training completion using Appended Form 13 to those who have com‐pleted the course of fresh training sessions on disaster prevention management or refresher
training sessions on disaster prevention management.
(7) In addition to what is prescribed in each of the preceding paragraphs, details of the mattersnecessary for the implementation of training sessions concerning disaster prevention man‐agement shall be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
(Fire Defense Plan Pertaining to Disaster Prevention Management)
Article 51‐8
In accordance with the location and structure of a building or other structure
and the conditions and status of use of equipment, a disaster protection manager shall pre‐pare a fire defense plan pertaining to disaster prevention management pursuant to the pro‐vision of Article 48, paragraph (1) of the Order on roughly the following matters listed ineach of the following items and on receipt of an instruction from a person who has the title
to manage the said building or other structure and shall notify it to the competent fire chiefor fire station chief using Appended Form 1‐2 as the notification form. The same shall apply
when a disaster protection manager intends to revise the fire defense plan pertaining to dis‐
aster prevention management.
(i)Matters listed in the following as the basic matters concerning disaster prevention man‐agement(a) Matters concerning the organization of fire defense for self‐protection(b) Matters concerning the maintenance of and guide signs for escape routes, escape exits,
and other escape facilities(c) Matters concerning compliance with the authorized capacity and other matters for ra‐
tionalization of the capacity(d) Matters concerning education necessary for disaster prevention management(e) Matters concerning the periodic implementation of drills for evacuation and other typesof necessary drills for disaster prevention management(f) Matters concerning liaising with the relevant organizations for disaster prevention
management
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 51‐8)(g) Matters concerning the verification of the contents of the fire defense plan pertaining todisaster prevention management based on the results of the drills listed in (e) and re‐view of the said fire defense plan based on the results of the said verification(h) In addition to the matters listed in (a) through (g), necessary matters concerning disas‐
ter prevention management at a building or other structure(ii)
Matters listed in the following as matters concerning the reduction of damage by a dis‐
aster listed in Article 45, item (i) of the Order (hereinafter referred to as ʺearthquakeʺ inthis item)(a) Matters concerning the envisaged damage to buildings and other structures and per‐sons, etc. located in buildings and other structures at the time of the occurrence of anearthquake and measures to deal with the said envisaged damage(b) Matters concerning voluntary inspection to reduce the damage by an earthquake tobuildings and other structures(c) Matters concerning the checking and maintenance of equipment and materials neces‐sary to reduce the damage by an earthquake(d) Matters concerning measures to prevent the falling, over‐turning or shifting of furni‐ture, fixtures and other items installed at buildings and other structures at the time ofthe occurrence of an earthquake(e) Matters concerning reporting, liaising, evacuation guidance, rescue, aid and otheremergency measures to reduce the damage by an earthquake at the time of the occur‐
rence of an earthquake(f) In addition to what is prescribed in (a) through (e), necessary matters concerning reduc‐tion of the damage by an earthquake to buildings and other structures(iii)
Matters listed in the following as matters concerning the reduction of damage by a dis‐
aster prescribed in Article 45, item (ii) of the Order(a) Matters concerning reporting, liaising and evacuation guidance at the time of the occur‐
rence of a disaster prescribed in Article 45, item (ii) of the Order(b) In addition to what is prescribed in (a), necessary matters concerning the reduction ofdamage by a disaster prescribed in Article 45, item (ii) of the Order to buildings andother structures(2) The provisions of Article 3, paragraph (2) through paragraph (9) shall apply mutatis mutandis
to the preparation or change of a fire defense plan pertaining to disaster prevention man‐agement. In this case, the phrases ʺfire prevention managementʺ, “fire prevention property”,
ʺlimited to a person working in the said fire prevention property; the same shall apply in Ar‐
ticle 4, paragraph (1), item (ii), Article 28‐3, paragraph (4), item (ii)‐(c) and Article 29, item(ii)ʺ, ʺfire protection managerʺ, ʺoperations for the said fire prevention management (exclud‐ing checking of fire defense equipment, etc. or other special fire defense equipment, etc. pur‐suant to the provision of Article 17‐3‐3 of the Act; the same shall apply hereinafter in thisparagraphʺ and “location of the principal office; the same shall apply in Article 4, paragraph(1), item (ii)” in Article 3,paragraph (2) shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺdisaster preven‐tion managementʺ, “building or other structure”, ʺlimited to a person working in the said
fire prevention propertyʺ, ʺdisaster protection managerʺ, ʺoperations for the said disasterprevention measuresʺ and “location of the principal office” respectively, the phrases ʺfire
prevention propertyʺ and ʺfire protection managerʺ in paragraph (3) of the said article shallbe deemed to be replaced by “building or other structure” and ʺdisaster protection managerʺ
respectively, the phrases ʺArticle 1‐2, paragraph (3), item (i)ʺ and ʺfire protection managerʺ
in paragraph (4), paragraph (6) and paragraph (8) of the said article shall be deemed to be
replaced by ʺArticle 46 of the Orderʺ and ʺdisaster protection managerʺ respectively and thephrase “fire protection manager” in paragraph (5), paragraph (7) and paragraph (9) of thesaid article shall be deemed to be replaced by “disaster protection manager”.
191Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 51‐8~51‐11)(3) A disaster protection manager shall organize the evacuation drills prescribed in Article 48,
paragraph (2) of the Order at least once a year.
(4) The provision of Article 3, paragraph (11) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the case where a disas‐
ter protection manager organizes the evacuation drills set forth in the preceding paragraph.
(Notification of Appointment or Dismissal of Disaster Protection Manager)
Article 51‐9
The provision of Article 3‐2 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the notification of theappointment or dismissal of a disaster protection manager pursuant to the provision of Arti‐cle 8, paragraph (2) of the Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1)of the Act. In this case, the phrase ʺfire protection managerʺ in Article 3‐2, paragraph (2) shallbe deemed to be replaced by ʺdisaster protection managerʺ.
(Matters to be Specified Concerning Operations of Fire Defense Organization for Self‐
Protection in Fire Defense Plan)
Article 51‐10
A disaster protection manager shall roughly specify the matters listed in each of
the following items concerning the operations of a fire defense organization for self‐
protection in the fire defense plan pertaining to disaster prevention management pursuant
to the provision of Article 4‐2‐6 of the Order which is applied mutatis mutandis by replacing
the relevant phrases pursuant to the provision of Article 49 of the Order.
(i)
Matters concerning the procedure pertaining to reporting to the relevant organizations,escorting of those in a building for evacuation and other operations which are conduct‐
ed by a fire defense organization for self‐protection as necessary operations to reducethe damage by a disaster other than a fire(ii)
Matters concerning the education and training of the staff of a fire defense organization
for self‐protection(iii)
Other matters necessary for the operations of a fire defense organization for self‐protection(2) When the persons who hold the title to manage a fire prevention property prescribed in Ar‐
ticle 4‐2‐4 of the Order (in the case of a fire prevention property listed in item (ii) of the said
article, limited to those persons who hold the title for the parts used for the intended pur‐pose of a subject fire prevention property for the establishment of a fire defense organization
for self‐protection) intend to jointly set up a fire defense organization for self‐protection pur‐suant to the provision of Article 4‐2‐5, paragraph (2) of the Order, the disaster defense man‐agers pertaining to the said fire prevention property shall roughly specify the matters listed
in each of the following items in the fire defense plan pertaining to disaster prevention man‐agement in addition to the matters listed in the preceding paragraph.
(i)
Matters concerning the setting up and administration of a council concerning a fire de‐fense organization for self‐protection(ii)
Matters concerning the appointment of a supervisor of a fire defense organization forself‐protection(iii)
Matters concerning the scope of fire prevention properties which are subject to the op‐
erations of a fire defense organization for self‐protection(iv)
Other matters necessary for the administration of a fire defense organization for self‐
protection(Matters Requiring Consultation for Joint Disaster Prevention Management)
Article 51‐11
The provision of Article 3‐3 shall apply to the requirements to be specified by an
ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 48‐2 ofthe Order. In this case, the phrases “fire prevention property” and “fire prevention man‐agement” in Article 3‐3 shall be deemed to be replaced by “building or other structure” and“disaster prevention management” respectively.
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Other Structure)
Article 51‐11‐2 The provision of Article 4 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the preparation orchange of a fire defense plan pertaining to the disaster prevention management of an entire
building or other structure. In this case, the phrases “fire prevention management supervisor”,“location, structure, situation of equipment and status of use of a fire prevention property”
and “manage the said fire prevention property” in the main paragraph of Article 4, paragraph(1) shall be deemed to be replaced by “disaster prevention management supervisor”, “loca‐
tion, structure, situation of equipment and status of use of a building or other structure” and“manage the said building or other structure” respectively, the phrase “fire prevention proper‐ty” in item (i), item (ii), item (vi) and item (vii) of the said paragraph shall be deemed to be re‐placed by “building or other structure”, the phrase “fire prevention management” in item (ii)and item (iii) of the said paragraph shall be deemed to be replaced by “disaster prevention
management”, the phrase “drills for fire extinguishing, reporting and evacuation based on thefire defense plan for the entire fire prevention property and other types of necessary drills” initem (iii) of the said paragraph shall be deemed to be replaced by “evacuation based on the fire
defense plan for the building or other structure and other types of necessary drills”, the phrase“escape exits, safety compartments and smoke‐proof compartments” in item (iv) of the said
paragraph shall be deemed to be replaced by “escape exits”, the phrases “fire extinguishingactivities and reporting” and “fire, earthquake or another disaster” in item (v) of the said par‐agraph shall be deemed to be replaced by “reporting” and “disasters listed in Article 45 of theOrder” respectively, the phrase “at the time of a fire” in item (vi) of the said paragraph shall bedeemed to be replaced by “in the case where a disaster listed in Article 45 of the Order oc‐
curs”, the phrase “fire prevention management” in item (vii) of the said paragraph shall bedeemed to be replaced by “disaster prevention management”, the phrases “fire prevention
management supervisor” and “fire prevention properties prescribed in Article 8‐2, paragraph(1) in paragraph (2), paragraph (4) and paragraph (6) of the said article shall be deemed to be
replaced by “disaster prevention management supervisor” and “buildings or other structures
prescribed in Article 36, paragraph (1)” respectively and the phrase “Article 3” in paragraph(3), paragraph (5) and paragraph (7) shall be deemed to be replaced by “Article 3 [which is ap‐
plied mutatis mutandis in Article 51‐8, paragraph (2)]”.
(Notification of Appointment or Dismissal of Disaster Prevention Management Supervisor)
Article 51‐11‐3 The provision of Article 4‐2 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the notification of theappointment or dismissal of a disaster prevention management supervisor pursuant to theprovision of Article 8‐2, paragraph (4) of the Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article
36, paragraph (1) of the Act.
(Checking for Disaster Prevention Management and Reporting)
Article 51‐12
The person who has the title to manage a building or other structure set forth in
Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act shall record and preserve the results of checking which
was conducted pursuant to the provision of Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act which isapplied mutatis mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act in the disaster prevention
management register (meaning a book filing those listed in the following) and shall preserve
the said register.
(i)
Copy of the certificate of training completion of the refresher training sessions on disas‐
ter prevention management set forth in Article 51‐7, paragraph (6)(ii)
Copies of documents pertaining to the notifications set forth in Article 51‐8, paragraph(1), Article 3‐2, paragraph (1) which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 51‐9, Article 4,paragraph (1) which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 51‐11‐2, Article 4‐2, para‐
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 51‐12)graph (1) which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 51‐11‐3 and Article 8‐2‐5, para‐graph (2) of the Act(iii)
Copy of the report set forth in Article 4‐2‐4, paragraph (3) which is applied mutatis mu‐tandis in the following paragraph(iv)
Copy of the application form set forth in Article 4‐2‐8, paragraph (2) which is appliedmutatis mutandis in Article 51‐16, paragraph (2)(v)
Notice set forth in Article 4‐2‐8, paragraph (5) or paragraph (6) which is applied mutatis
mutandis in Article 51‐16, paragraph (2)(vi)
Documents stating the status listed in the following (a) through (h) which are to bechecked based on the fire defense plan pertaining to disaster prevention management(a) Status of the maintenance of escape facilities(b) Status of compliance with the authorized capacity and other matters for rationalizationof the capacity(c) Status of education necessary for disaster prevention management(d) Status of drills for evacuation and other types of drills necessary for disaster prevention
management(e) Status of voluntary inspection to reduce the damage by an earthquake to buildings andother structures by an earthquake(f) Status of the checking and maintenance of equipment and materials necessary to re‐duce the damage by an earthquake(g) Status of the implementation of measures to prevent the falling, over‐turning or shiftingof furniture, fixture and other items installed at buildings and other structures at thetime of the occurrence of an earthquake(h) Status of disaster prevention drills, education and publicity pertaining to large‐scale
earthquakes (limited to the facilities prescribed in Article 4, item (i), item (ii), item (xiii),
item (xiv) and item (xxiii) of the Order for Enforcement of the Act on Special Measures
Concerning Countermeasures for Large‐Scale Earthquakes (excluding those managed
by the persons prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Act on Special Measures
Concerning Countermeasures for Large‐Scale Earthquakes) of buildings and otherstructures prescribed in Article 46 of the Order and located in an area for intensified
countermeasures)(vii)
In addition to what is listed in each of the preceding items, documents necessary fordisaster prevention management(2) The provisions of Article 4‐2‐4, paragraph (1) and paragraph (3) shall apply mutatis mutandis
to checking pursuant to the provision of Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act which is ap‐
plied mutatis mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act.
(3) The qualified inspector for disaster prevention management prescribed in Article 8‐2‐2, par‐agraph (1) of the Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act
by replacing the relevant phrases (hereinafter referred to as a ʺqualified inspector for disas‐
ter prevention managementʺ) shall be a person who falls under any of the following items,
who has completed a course of training sessions to learn the necessary knowledge and skills
for the checking of a property subject to disaster prevention management conducted by a ju‐
ridical person registered by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications (hereinaf‐
ter referred to as a ʺregistered training bodyʺ in this Article) and who has obtained a docu‐
ment certifying the acquisition of knowledge and skills necessary for the checking of a fire
prevention property which is issued by the said registered training body (referred to as a ʺli‐
censeʺ in item (vi) of the following paragraph).
(i)
A person who is a disaster protection manager prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (1) of
the Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1) by replacing therelevant phrases and who has 3 or more years practice experience
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A person who has completed a course of training sessions concerning disaster preven‐tion management prescribed in Article 47, paragraph (1), item (i) of the Order and who
has 5 or more years practical experience of the operations necessary for disaster preven‐tion management(iii)
A person who is a fire defense official of a municipality and who has 1 or more years
practical experience of operations concerning disaster prevention management(iv)
A person who is a fire defense official of a municipality and who has 5 or more years
practical experience as a fire defense official (excluding those listed in the preceding
item)
(v)
A person who is a fire corps volunteer of a municipality and who has 8 or more years
practical experience as a fire corps volunteer(vi)
A person who is a qualified inspector for disaster prevention management and who has
3 or more years practical experience of the checking of fire prevention properties(vii)
A person who is found by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management
Agency to have knowledge and skills equal or superior to those of a person listed ineach of the preceding items(4) A qualified inspector for disaster prevention management shall lose his/her qualification
when he/she falls under any of the following items.
(i)When he/she becomes an adult ward or person under curatorship(ii)
When he/she is sentenced to punishment by imprisonment or graver(iii)
When he/she is sentenced to punishment by a fine for violation of the Act(iv)
When he/she is found not to have properly conducted the checking of the matters nec‐
essary for disaster prevention management of a building or other structure(v)
When he/she is found to have falsified his/her qualifications or practical experience, etc.
(vi)
When he/she has failed to complete the training sessions conducted by a registeredtraining body at intervals specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Man‐
agement Agency and to obtain a license issued by the said registered training body(Registered Training Body Pertaining to Training Sessions Concerning Checking for Disaster
Prevention Management)
Article 51‐13
Registration by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications pursuant to
the provision of paragraph (3) of the preceding article shall be made on application by a ju‐
ridical person intending to provide the training sessions set forth in the said paragraph.
(2) The provisions of Article 1‐4, paragraph (2) through paragraph (7) shall apply mutatis mutan‐
dis to an application set forth in the preceding paragraph and the provisions of paragraph (8)through paragraph (22) of the said article shall apply mutatis mutandis to juridical persons
who have received the registration set forth in the preceding paragraph. In this case, thephrase ʺa fire protection manager of a fire prevention property listed in Article 4‐2‐2, para‐graph (1), item (i) of the Orderʺ in paragraph (3), item (i)‐(a) of the said article shall bedeemed to be replaced by ʺa disaster protection manager of a building or other structure
prescribed in Article 46 of the Orderʺ, the phrase ʺfire preventionʺ in (b) of the said item shallbe deemed to be replaced by ʺdisaster prevention managementʺ, the phrase ʺmethod to issue
a certificate of training completion using Appended Form 1ʺ in item (iii)‐(b) of the said para‐graph shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺmethod to issue and collect a license (meaning a li‐
cense prescribed in Article 51‐12, paragraph (3); the same shall apply in paragraph (16)ʺ, thephrase ʺthe standards pertaining to training sessions prescribed in Article 2‐3ʺ in paragraph(10) of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺthe standards pertaining to train‐
ing sessions to be specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management
Agencyʺ, the phrase ʺother matters which are necessary for the implementation of training
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ʺthe matters concerning the procedure to implement necessary measures in the case where aqualified inspector for disaster prevention management has lost his/her qualification andother matters which are necessary for the implementation of training operationsʺ, the phraseʺfor six years from the date when the training sessions took placeʺ in paragraph (16) of thesaid article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺfor six years from the date when the license
was issuedʺ, the phrase ʺa certificate of training completion using Appended Form 1ʺ in item(iv) of the said paragraph shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺthe licenseʺ and the phrase ʺacertificate of training completionʺ in item (v) of the said paragraph shall be deemed to be re‐placed by ʺthe licenseʺ.
(Checking Standards for Checking for Disaster Prevention Management)
Article 51‐14
The standards to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act which is applied muta‐
tis mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act shall be those as specified in the following.
(i)
The notification set forth in Article 51‐8, paragraph (1) and the notification set forth in
Article 3‐2, paragraph (1) which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 51‐9 have been
made.
(ii)
In the case of a fire prevention property set forth in Article 4‐2‐4 of the Order (in thecase of a fire prevention property listed in item (ii) of the said article, limited to parts
used for the intended purpose of a subject fire prevention property for the establish‐
ment of a fire defense organization for self‐protection), the notification set forth in Arti‐cle 8‐2‐5, paragraph (2) has been made.
(iii)
The matters specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agen‐cy have been properly conducted based on a fire defense plan pertaining to disasterprevention management.
(iv)
In the case of a building or other structure prescribed in Article 46 of the Order which is
subject to management under separate titles, the matters specified by the Commissionerof the Fire and Disaster Management Agency have been properly conducted.
(v)
The facilities necessary for evacuation and fire doors prescribed in Article 8‐2‐4 of the
Act have been properly managed.
(Checking Label for Disaster Prevention Management)
Article 51‐15
The provisions of Article 4‐2‐7, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) shall apply muta‐
tis mutandis to the label set forth in Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph (2) which is applied mutatis mutan‐
dis in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act and the provision of Article 4‐2‐7, paragraph (3) shallapply mutatis mutandis to the matters to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Inter‐
nal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph (2) of the Act which isapplied mutatis mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act. In this case, the phrase ʺfire
prevention propertyʺ in Article 4‐2‐7, paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) shall be deemed to be
replaced by ʺbuilding or other structureʺ, the phrase “paragraph (1) of the said article” in themain paragraph of paragraph (1) of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by “Article
36, paragraph (1) of the Act”, the phrase “Article 4‐2‐4, paragraph (1)” in item (i) of the said
paragraph shall be deemed to be replaced by Article 4‐2‐4, paragraph (1) which is applied mu‐
tatis mutandis in Article 51‐12, paragraph (2)”, the phrase ʺthe standards listed in paragraph (1)of the preceding article (in the case of the provision of paragraph (2) of the said article being
applied, the standards listed in paragraph (1), item (i) through item (iii) of the said article; thesame shall apply in the following article)ʺ in item (ii) of the said paragraph shall be deemed tobe replaced by ʺthe standards listed in Article 51‐14ʺ, the phrase ʺAppended Table 1ʺ in para‐graph (2) of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺAppended Table 5ʺ, the phrase
ʺName of the person who holds the title set forth in Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act ʺ in
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paragraph (3), item (ii) of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺName of the per‐son who holds the title set forth in Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act which is applied mu‐
tatis mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Actʺ and the phrase ʺthe qualified inspector ofa fire prevention propertyʺ in item (iii) of the said paragraph shall be deemed to be replaced by
ʺthe qualified inspector for disaster prevention managementʺ.
(Special Provisions for Checking for Disaster Prevention Management)
Article 51‐16
The standards to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (1), item (iii) of the Act which isapplied mutatis mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act shall conform to the stand‐ards prescribed in Article 51‐14 in the case of inspection by a fire chief or fire station chiefprescribed in Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (2) of the Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Ar‐
ticle 36, paragraph (1) of the Act.
(2) The provision of Article 4‐2‐8, paragraph (2) shall apply mutatis mutandis to an application
pursuant to the provision of Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (2) of the Act which is applied mutatis
mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act, the provisions of Article 4‐2‐8, paragraph (3)and paragraph (4) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the matters to be specified by an ordinanceof the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (2)of the Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act, the provi‐sions of Article 4‐2‐8, paragraph (5) and paragraph (6) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the no‐tice pursuant to the provision of Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (3) of the Act which is applied mutatis
mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act and the provision of Article 4‐2‐8, paragraph (7)shall apply mutatis mutandis to the notification pursuant to the provision of Article 8‐2‐3, para‐graph (5) of the Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act. In
this case, the phrase ʺAppended Form 1‐2‐2‐2‐3ʺ in Article 4‐2‐8, paragraph (2) shall bedeemed to be replaced by ʺAppended Form 14ʺ and the phrase ʺAppended Form 1‐2‐2‐3ʺ inparagraph (7) of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺAppended Form 15ʺ.
(Label for Special Certification Concerning Checking for Disaster Prevention Management)
Article 51‐17
The provision of Article 4‐2‐9, paragraph (1) shall apply mutatis mutandis to thelabel set forth in Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (7) of the Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in
Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act and the provision of Article 4‐2‐9, paragraph (2) shall ap‐
ply mutatis mutandis to the matters to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal
Affairs and Communications set forth in Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (7) of the Act which is ap‐
plied mutatis mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act. In this case, the phrases ʺAp‐
pended Table 1‐2ʺ and “fire prevention property” in Article 4‐2‐9, paragraph (1) shall bedeemed to be replaced by ʺAppended Table 6ʺ and “building or other structure” respective‐
ly, the phrase “Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (4), item (i) of the Actʺ in paragraph (2), item (i) of thesaid article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺArticle 8‐2‐3, paragraph (4), item (i) of the Act
which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Actʺ and the phrase
ʺName of the person who holds the title set forth in Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (1) of the Act ʺin paragraph (3), item (ii) of the said article shall be deemed to be replaced by ʺName of theperson who holds the title set forth in Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (1) of the Act which is appliedmutatis mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Actʺ(Checking Label for Fire Prevention Property and for Disaster Prevention Management)
Article 51‐18
The label set forth in Article 36, paragraph (4) of the Act shall not be attached toa fire prevention property set forth in Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act among buildings
and other structures set forth in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act in the case where the197Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 51‐18~52)
said fire prevention property does not satisfy the requirements listed in the following.
(i)
Checking is conducted in accordance with the provision of Article 4‐2‐4, paragraph (1).
(ii)
Checking is conducted in accordance with the provision of Article 4‐2‐4, paragraph (1)which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 51‐12, paragraph (2).
(iii)
The said fire prevention property conforms to the standards prescribed in Article 4‐2‐6.
(iv)
The said fire prevention property conforms to the standards prescribed in Article 51‐14.
(2) The label set forth in Article 36, paragraph (4) of the Act shall use the form in Appended Ta‐
ble 7 and shall be affixed to an easily visible place of a building or other structure.
(3) The matters to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Commu‐
nications set forth in Article 36, paragraph (4) of the Act shall be those listed in each of thefollowing items.
(i)
The date which is one year after the date when checking was conducted pursuant to theprovision of Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act or the date when checking was con‐ducted pursuant to the provision of Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph (1) of the Act which is ap‐
plied mutatis mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act which ever was the earlier.
(ii)
Name of the person who holds the title set forth in Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph (1) of the
Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act(iii)
Names of the qualified inspector of a fire prevention property and the qualified inspec‐
tor for disaster prevention management and other matters to be specified by the Com‐missioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency(Label for Special Certification Concerning Checking of Fire Prevention Property and Check‐ing for Disaster Prevention Management)
Article 51‐19
The label set forth in Article 36, paragraph (5) of the Act shall use the form inAppended Table 8 and shall be affixed at an easily visible place of a building or other struc‐ture, etc.
(2) The matters to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Commu‐
nications set forth in Article 36, paragraph (5) of the Act shall be those listed in the following.
(i)
The date when the effect of the certification is lost pursuant to the provision of Article
8‐2‐3, paragraph (4), item (i) of the Act (excluding the parenthetic text) or the date whenthe effect of the certification is lost pursuant to the provision of Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph(4), item (i) of the Act (excluding the parenthetic text) which is applied mutatis mutandis
in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act, which ever is the earlier.
(ii)
Name of the person who holds the title set forth in Article 8‐2‐2, paragraph (1) of the
Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the Act(iii)
Name of the fire defense headquarters or fire station to which the fire chief or fire sta‐tion chief who granted the certification belongs(Persons Not Subject to Compensation for Damage, etc.)
Article 52
The persons to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
and Communications set forth in Article 36‐3, paragraph (2), item (i) shall be those listed in
the following.
(i)
Owner, manager, possessor, inhabitant or worker of the proprietary element where thefire occurred(ii)
Person who caused the fire(iii)
Person who is directly related to the occurrence of the fire(2) The case where proprietary elements are used all together for the intended purpose of resi‐
dences, stores, offices or warehouses or any other type of building shall be the case listed in
the following where such use is made by a single person or a single juridical person or simi‐
lar body as listed in the following.
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Article 52)(i)Case where all the proprietary elements are possessed as a single residence and areused for the intended purpose of residence(ii)
Case where all the proprietary elements are used as a store, office or warehouse for theintended purpose of a single business, office or enterprising entity(iii)
Other case where all the proprietary elements are used for the intended purpose of asingle type of building in a similar manner to the cases prescribed in the two preceding
items(3) The persons to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Commu‐
nications set forth in Article 36‐3, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Act shall be the owner, man‐ager, possessor, inhabitant and worker of each element of the proprietary elements which
are used all together for the intended purpose of residences, stores, offices or warehouses or
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Supplementary Provisions)

Supplementary Provisions(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of enforcement (April 1,
1961) of the Act to Revise Parts of the Fire Service Act (Act No. 117 of 1960).
(2) The Ordinance Concerning Fire Defense Signals, etc. (Ministerial Ordinance of the Prime
Minister’s Office No. 10 of 1949) and the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Ordinance Per‐taining to Inspection Fees for Fire Defense Machines or Tools, etc. (Ministerial Ordinance of
the Prime Minister’s Office No. 27 of 1952) shall be abolished.
(3) An application for the inspection of a fire defense machine or tool, etc. which has alreadybeen made to the Director of the National Research Institute for Fire and Disaster at the timeof enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance or notification concerning the inspection of afire defense machine or tool, etc. which has already been made to the Director of the Nation‐
al Research Institute for Fire and Disaster at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Or‐
dinance shall be deemed to be an application or notification made based on the provisions of
Chapter 4 of this Ministerial Ordinance respectively.
(4) A notification pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisionsof the Act to Revise Parts of the Fire Service Act shall be made using the following form for
notification.

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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Supplementary Provisions)Notification for Exclusion of Fire Defense Equipment, etc.
from Application of Technical Specifications
Year

Month

Day

To: Fire Chief (Fire Station Chief) (Municipal Mayor)
ApplicantAddressSeal

Name

I hereby submit a notification of the exclusion of fire defense equipment, etc. fromthe application of the relevant technical specifications pursuant to the provision of
Paragraph 3 of the Supplementary Provision of the Act to Partially Revise the Fire
Service Act as detailed in the following.
Intended purpose

Fire defense equipment, etc.

Fire prevention property

Type

Floor number

Structure
Floor

Floor

Floor

Floor

No.

No.

No.

No.

Total

Floor area

Total

Capacity

Total

Firefighting

Emergency

equipment or

alarm orEscapesimplified fire

emergency

equipment

extinguisher

alarm system

Guidinglamps andguiding signs

Current state of
installation
Those notified for exclu‐
sion from application

Other necessary matters* Column for reception* Column for processing

Remarks
1
The size of this form shall be B4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2
An intended purpose listed in Appended Table 1 of the Cabinet Order for Enforcement of
the Fire Service Act shall be entered in the column for “Intended purpose of fire preven‐tion property”.
3
Reference matters, including whether the fire prevention property is the existing property
or property under construction, shall be entered in the column for “Other necessary mat‐ters”.
4
No entries should be made in the asterisked (*) columns.

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Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 36 of December 28, 1963)[Extract](Effective Date)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from January 1, 1964.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 16 of July 1, 1964)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 27 of September 17, 1964)[Extract](1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 1 of January 12, 1965)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation; provided,
however, that the revised provisions of Appended Tables 2 and 3 shall come into effect as from
June 1, 1965.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 25 of September 27, 1965)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from October 1, 1965;; provided, however,that signs for designated water sources which actually exist at the time of enforcement of this
Ministerial Ordinance shall be deemed to be signs specified by this Ministerial Ordinance for aperiod of up to the day when two years have passed since the date of enforcement of this Minis‐
terial Ordinance.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 6 of April 22, 1966)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation; provid‐ed, however, that the revised provisions for the table in Article 1 paragraph (1) shall comeinto effect as from October 1, 1966.
(2) With regard to a person who is actually qualified based on an act or regulations (including amunicipal ordinance or regulations, etc.) and is engaged in construction work or improve‐
ment work for fire defense equipment, etc. at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Or‐
dinance, a prefectural governor may use another examination method notwithstanding theprovisions of Article 33‐8 of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service
Act after its revision by this Ministerial Ordinance for a limited period of two years from thedate of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 27 of October 24, 1966)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from January 1, 1967.
(2) A person who has actually passed the fire defense equipment technician’s examination per‐taining to the designated category of Type 1 pursuant to the provisions of Article 33‐2 prior
to revision by this Ministerial Ordinance or a person who has been issued with a fire defense
equipment technician’s license designating the type of construction work or improvement
work for fire defense equipment, etc. under the designated category of Type 1 pursuant to
the provisions of the said article at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinanceshall be deemed to be a person who has passed the fire defense equipment technician’s ex‐
amination pertaining to the designated category of Type 1 pursuant to the provisions of Ar‐
ticle 33‐2 after revision by this Ministerial Ordinance or a person who has been issued with afire defense equipment technician’s license designating the type of construction work or im‐
provement work for fire defense equipment, etc. under the designated category of Type 1

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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Supplementary Provisions)pursuant to the provisions of the said article respectively.
(3) With regard to the fire defense equipment technician’s examination pertaining to thedesignatedcategory of Type 1 for a person who is actually qualified based on an act or regulations (in‐cluding a municipal ordinance or regulations, etc.) or a similar person and is engaged inconstruction work or improvement work for an indoor fire hydrant system, sprinkler sys‐tem, water spray fire extinguishing system or outdoor fire hydrant system at the time of en‐forcement of this Ministerial Ordinance, a prefectural governor may use another examina‐tion method notwithstanding the provisions of Article 33‐8 of the Ministerial Ordinance for
Enforcement of the Fire Service Act for a limited period of two years from the date of en‐forcement of this Ministerial Ordinance.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 32 of November 14, 1967)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation; provided,
however, that the revised provisions of Article 26 shall come into effect as from October 1, 1969.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 7 of March 30, 1968)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 1968.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 16 of June 12, 1968)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 3 of March 28, 1969)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 1969; provided, however,that the revised provisions of Article 33‐2, Appended Form 1‐2‐2 and Appended Form 1‐3
shall come into effect as from May 1 of the said year, revised provisions of Article 23 para‐graph (7) and Article 28‐3 paragraph (1) item (iv) as from October 1 of the said year and re‐vised provisions of Article 23 (limited to those parts pertaining to the ionization type or pho‐toelectric type detector), Article 24 item (iv) and Article 24‐3 paragraph (3) item (v) as fromJanuary 1, 1970.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the phrase “which falls under
one of the following items shall have a detector(s)” in Article 23 paragraph (5) of the Minis‐
terial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision shall be deemed to be
replaced by “which fall under item (ii) and item (v) shall have a Type 1 or Type 2 rate of riseor compensatory type detectors or special or Type 1 fixed temperature type detectors (lim‐ited to those of which the nominal working temperature is 75C or lower)” for the applica‐tion of the said paragraph of the said article for the period up to December 31, 1969.
(3) With regard to the form of the fire defense equipment technician’s license for a person who
has already been issued with a fire defense equipment technician’s license at the time of en‐forcement of the revised provisions of Appended Form 1‐3, the provisions then in force shallremain applicable notwithstanding the form of Appended Form 1‐3 of the Ministerial Ordi‐nance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision.
(4) A notification pursuant to the provision of paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions of
the Cabinet Order to Revise Parts of the Cabinet Order for Enforcement of the Fire Service
Act (Cabinet Order No. 18 of 1969) shall be made using the following form.

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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Supplementary Provisions)Notification for Exclusion of Fire Defense Equipment, etc.
from Application of Technical Specifications
Year

Month

Day

To: Fire Chief (Fire Station Chief) (Municipal Mayor)
ApplicantAddressSeal

Name

I hereby submit a notification of the exclusion of fire defense equipment, etc. fromthe application of the relevant technical specifications pursuant to the provision of
Paragraph 2 of the Supplementary Provision of the Act to Partially Revise the Fire
Service Act as detailed in the following.
Name

Fire pre‐ventionproperty

Build‐
ing area
Struc‐
turem2

Intended
purpose
Gross
area

m2

Location

Tel (Numberof floors

Capacity1.

Fireproof building

3.

Other than fireproof

2. Fireproof construction

current

building

capacity

Contracted

Details of exclusion from application

Subject category for notification

Fire defense equipment

Emer‐
gency
alarm
systemGuiding
lamps
Auto‐
matic
fire
alarm
systemExtension

Rehabili‐
tationAm*Excluded fromapplication

other

Public ad‐
dress system
Bell or siren
Exit lamp
Exit route
lamp
Detector

Emergency
powersourceElectrical leakage andfire alarm device
Other
neces‐
sary
matters* Column for reception

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New
construc‐tion)* Column for processing

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Supplementary Provisions)Remarks
1
The size of this form shall be B4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2
An intended purpose listed in Appended Table 1 of the Cabinet Order for Enforcement of
the Fire Service Act shall be entered in the column for “Intended purpose of fire preven‐tion property”.
3
The column for “Contracted current capacity” shall only be filled in when the column for“Electrical leakage and fire alarm device” is filled in.
4
Place the circle (O) for the relevant items in the columns for “Structure” and “Subject cat‐egory for notification”.
5
Reference matters, including whether the fire prevention property is the existing property
or property under construction, shall be entered in the column for “Other necessary mat‐ters”.
6
No entries should be made in the asterisked (*) columns.

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Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 7 of March 31, 1970)[Extract](1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from January 1, 1971).
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 27 of December 26, 1970)[Extract](1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from January 1, 1971)
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 20 of August 29, 1972)[Extract](1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from January 1, 1973; provided, howev‐
er, that the revised provisions of Article 2, Article 6, Article 9, Article 24‐3, Article 33‐2, Ap‐
pended Table 2, Appended Table 3 and Appended Form 1‐3 and the provisions of paragraph(3) of the Supplementary Provisions shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation.
(2) With regard to the details of the technical standards pertaining to emergency alarm systems
which do not conform to the provisions of Article 25‐2 paragraph (3) after revision among
the emergency alarm systems pertaining to actually existing fire prevention properties on
January 1, 1973 or fire prevention properties actually under work for new construction, ex‐tension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodelling on the said date, the provisions
then in force shall remain applicable for the time being.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 13 of June 1, 1973)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation; provid‐ed, however, that the revised provisions of Article 4, Article 4 paragraph (1) and Article 4‐2,
revised provision adding one article after Article 4‐3 [limited to parts pertaining to the pro‐visions of paragraph (1) item (ii) and item (iii) and paragraph (6)], revised provisions of Ar‐
ticle 34 paragraph (5) and Article 34‐2, revised provisions concerning the Appended Tables
and revised provisions to change Appended Form 1 to Appended Form 1‐2 and to add aform before the said Form shall come into effect as from September 1, 1973 while the revised
provisions of the table in Article 1 paragraph (1), revised provision adding one article after
Article 4‐3 [limited to parts pertaining to paragraph (7)], revised provision adding one item
after Article 14 paragraph (1) item (v), revised provisions of Article 23 paragraph (4) throughparagraph (6), Article 24, Article 24‐3 paragraph (3), Article 25‐2 paragraph (2), Article 27
and Article 28‐3 shall come into effect as from January 1, 1974.
(2) With regard to the details of the technical standards pertaining to automatic fire alarm sys‐tems, electric leakage and fire alarm devices, emergency alarm systems, escape equipment
and guiding lamps which do not conform to the provisions of Article 23 paragraph (4) andparagraph (5), Article 24, Article 24‐3 paragraph (3), Article 25‐2 paragraph (2), Article 27
and Article 28‐3 paragraph (1) after revision among those systems, etc. pertaining to actuallyexisting fire prevention properties on January 1, 1974 or fire prevention properties underwork for new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodelling on
the said date, the provisions then in force shall remain applicable for the period up to De‐
cember 31, 1974.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 27 of July 1, 1974)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation; provid‐ed, however, that the revised provisions adding the following one subsection after Subsec‐
tion 4 shall come into effect as from April 1, 1975.
(2) A person who has been issued with a fire defense equipment technician’s license prior to thedate of promulgation of this Ministerial Ordinance shall take the training sessions prescribed
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(3) The provisions of Article 33‐15 paragraph (2) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the case re‐ferred to in the preceding paragraph.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 40 of December 2, 1974)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from January 1, 1975; provided, howev‐
er, that the provisions listed in each of the following items shall come into effect as from the
day listed in each of the said items.
(i)
Revised provisions of Article 12 item (iv) and item (vii) and revised provisions in thetables in Article 14 paragraph (1) item (xi) and paragraph (4) item (i): April 1, 1975
(ii)
Revised provisions of Appended Table 2 (limited to parts pertaining to foam fire extin‐
guishing agents): January 1, 1976
(2) With regard to the technical standards pertaining to automatic fire alarm systems, emergen‐cy alarm systems and escape equipment at actually existing fire prevention properties on
January 1, 1975 or fire prevention properties under work for new construction, extension, re‐construction, relocation, repair or remodelling on the said date (hereinafter referred to as“existing fire prevention properties, etc.” in the following paragraph), the provision then inforce shall remain applicable for the period up to May 31, 1976 notwithstanding the provi‐sions of Article 23 paragraph (2), Article 24 item (ii) and item (iv), Article 25‐2 paragraph (2)and Article 27 of the revised Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act
after revision (hereinafter referred to as “the New Ordinance”).
(3) With regard to guiding lamps pertaining to existing fire prevention properties, etc. on Janu‐ary 1, 1975, the provisions then in force shall remain applicable for the time being notwith‐standing the provisions of Article 28‐3 paragraph (1) of the New Ordinance as long as a per‐son concerned with the said fire prevention properties, etc. has notified the fire chief (mayor
in the case of a municipality which has no fire defense headquarters) or fire station chief us‐
ing an appended form for notification on or before May 31, 1975.
(4) A fire defense equipment technician’s license which has actually been issued at the time ofenforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance shall be deemed to be a fire defense equipment
technician’s license of Appended Form 1‐3 of the New Ordinance.

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Appended Form
Notification for Exclusion of Guiding Lamps
from Application of Technical Specifications
Year

Month

Day

To: Fire Chief (Fire Station Chief) (Municipal Mayor)
ApplicantAddressSeal

Name

I hereby submit a notification of the exclusion of fire defense equipment, etc. fromthe application of the relevant technical specifications pursuant to the provision of
Paragraph 3 of the Supplementary Provision of the Ministerial Ordinance to Partially
Revise the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act as detailed
in the following.
Existing
fire preven‐

Buildingtion prop‐area

erty, etc.

Intended

Name

Structure

Location

purposem2

Gross area

1. Fireproof building

m2

Tel (

)

Numberof floors
2. Fireproof construction

3. Other

Category of guiding lamp

Quantity installed

Other necessary matters

Exit lamp
Exit route lamp
* Column for reception* Column for processing

Remarks
1
The size of this form shall be B5 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2
An intended purpose listed in Appended Table 1 of the Cabinet Order for Enforcement of
the Fire Service Act shall be entered in the column for “Intended purpose of the existing
fire prevention property, etc.”
3
Place the circle (O) for the relevant item in the column for “Structure”.
4
Reference matters, including whether the fire prevention property is the existing property
or property under construction, shall be entered in the column for “Other necessary mat‐ters”.
5
No entries should be made in the asterisked (*) columns.

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Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 22 of November 18, 1975)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation; provided,
however, that the revised provisions of Article 14 and Article 18, the revised provisions of Ap‐
pended Table 2 and parts pertaining to water flow detection devices and deluge valves in the re‐vised provisions of Appended Table 3 shall come into effect as from December 1, 1975 and thepart pertaining to foam fire extinguishing agents in the revised provisions of Appended Table 3
shall come into effect as from January 1, 1976.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 29 of December 22, 1975)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from January 1, 1976.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 16 of June 7, 1976)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as form the date of promulgation; provided,
however, that the part pertaining to fire alarm systems in the revised provisions of Appended
Table 2 shall come into effect as from September 1, 1976.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 5 of March 23, 1979)(1) Of this Ministerial Ordinance, the revised provisions of Article 24 item (ii) and Appended
Table 3 shall come into effect as from April 1, 1979, revised provisions of Article 4‐3, Ap‐
pended Table 1, Appended Form 1‐2‐2 and Appended Fig. 1 (excluding No. 1 and No. 2), re‐vised provisions adding one figure after Appended Fig. 2‐2, revised provisions of Appended
Fig. 3 and Appended Fig. 6, revised provisions adding one figure after Appended Fig. 6 andthe provisions of paragraph (3) of the Supplementary Provisions shall come into effect asfrom July 1 of the said year and all other provisions shall come into effect as from the dateof promulgation.
(2) With regard to an indication of having passed the individual inspection stipulated in theprovisions of Article 21‐9 paragraph (1) of the Fire Service Act at the time of enforcement of
the revised revisions of Appended Table 3, the provisions then in force shall remain applica‐
ble notwithstanding the form for indication in Appended Table 3 after revision.
(3) An application pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisionsof the Cabinet Order to Revise Parts of the Fire Service Act (Cabinet Order No. 363 of 1978)
shall be made using the following appended form for notification.

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Appended Form
Notification for Use of Rugs, etc.
Year

Month

Day

To: Fire Chief (Fire Station Chief) (Municipal Mayor)
ApplicantAddressSeal

Name

I hereby submit a notification regarding rugs, etc. currently in use pursuant to theprovision of Paragraph 2 of the Supplementary Provision of the Cabinet Order toPartially Revise the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act asdetailed in the following.
Fire prevention
property

Intended pur‐

Name

pose

Capacity

Tel ()

Number of floors

Category of rugs, etc.

Presence/absence

Other necessary matters

1 Rug
2 Mosen (felt carpet)
3 Tufted carpet, knitted carpet, hocked rug,
glued carpet or needle punch carpet
4 Mat
5 Artificial lawn
6 Synthetic resin floor sheet
7 Other* Column for reception* Column for processing

Remarks
1
The size of this form shall be B5 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2
An intended purpose listed in Appended Table 1 of the Cabinet Order for Enforcement of
the Fire Service Act shall be entered in the column for “Intended purpose of the existing
fire prevention property, etc.”
3
Place the circle (O) for the relevant item in the column for “Presence/absence”.
4
No entries should be made in the asterisked (*) columns.

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Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 19 of September 13, 1979)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 13 of May 28, 1981)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from July 1, 1981.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 16 of June 20, 1981)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from July 1, 1981.
(2) With regard to the Class A fire defense equipment technician’s qualification examination
pertaining to the designated category of Type 4 for a person who conforms to Article 17‐8
paragraph (3) of the Fire Service Act and who has also actually been issued with a chief gas
engineer’s license prescribed in Article 31 paragraph (1) of the Gas Business Act (Act No. 51
of 1954) at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance or who has qualified as agas consumption equipment installation work supervisor prescribed in Article 4 paragraph(1) of the Act Concerning the Supervision of Installation Work of Specified Gas Consump‐tion Equipment (Act No. 33 of 1979) at the said time, the prefectural governor may use an‐other examination method for a limited period up to June 30, 1983 notwithstanding the pro‐visions of Article 33‐9 of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act.
(3) With regard to actually existing fire prevention properties at the time of enforcement of this
Ministerial Ordinance or fire prevention properties under work for new construction, exten‐
sion, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodelling at the said time, the provisions of Arti‐cle 12 item (iv)‐(a)‐7. of the Fire Service Act after revision (hereinafter referred to as “theNew Ordinance”) shall not apply for the time being.
(4) The quantity of fire extinguishing agent to be stored in a storage container for carbon diox‐
ide for fire extinguishing agent to be installed at fire prevention properties which either ac‐
tually exist at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial ordinance or which are under workfor new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodelling at the said
time and which store or handle cotton, wood filaments or shavings, waste cloth or waste pa‐
per, yarn or straw, etc. or part thereof, the provisions then in force shall remain applicablefor the period up to December 31, 1983 notwithstanding the provisions of Article 19 para‐graph (3) item (i)‐(a) and (c) of the New Ordinance.
(5) With regard to the details of the technical standards concerning the installation and mainte‐
nance of a whole area discharge type or localized discharge type halon fire extinguishing sys‐
tem to be installed at actually existing fire prevention properties or fire prevention properties
under work for new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodellingat the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance, the provisions then in force shall re‐main applicable for the period up to December 31, 1983 notwithstanding the provisions of Ar‐
ticle 20 paragraph (4) of the New Ordinance.
(6) With regard to guiding lamps actually installed at actually existing fire prevention proper‐
ties listed in Appended Table 1, row (16‐3) of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of
the Fire Service Act at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance or fire preven‐tion properties actually under work for new construction, extension, reconstruction, reloca‐
tion, repair or remodelling which are listed in the said row at the said time, the provisions ofArticle 28‐3 paragraph (1) shall not apply for the time being as long as a person concernedwith the said property has notified the fire chief (mayor in the case of a municipality which
has no fire defense headquarters) or fire station chief using an appended form for notifica‐tion on or before December 31, 1981.
(7) A fire defense equipment technician’s license which has actually been issued at the time ofenforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance shall be deemed to be a fire defense equipment
technician’s license of Appended Form 1‐3 of the New Ordinance.
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Appended Form
Notification for Exclusion of Guiding Lamps
from Application of Technical Specifications
Year

Month

Day

To: Fire Chief (Fire Station Chief) (Municipal Mayor)
ApplicantAddressSeal

Name

I hereby submit a notification of the exclusion of fire defense equipment, etc. fromthe application of the relevant technical specifications pursuant to the provision of
Paragraph 3 of the Supplementary Provision of the Ministerial Ordinance to Partially
Revise the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act as detailed
in the following.
Existing
fire preven‐tion prop‐
erty, etc.

IntendedNameGross area
Structure

Location

purposem2

Tel (Area of parts classi‐
fied under row (16‐3)

1. Fireproof building)m2

2. Fireproof construction

3. Other

Category of guiding lamp

Quantity installed

Other necessary matters

Exit lamp
Exit route lamp
* Column for reception* Column for processing

Remarks
1
The size of this form shall be B5 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2“Existing fire prevention property, etc.” means an actually existing fire prevention prop‐
erty or fire prevention property actually undergoing work for new construction, exten‐
sion, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodeling.
3
In addition to placing the circle (O) for the relevant item in the column for “Structure”, an in‐tended purpose listed in Appended Table 1 of the Cabinet Order for Enforcement of the Fire
Service Act shall be entered in the column for “Intended purpose” in the case of a building.
4
Place the circle (O) for the relevant item in the column for “Structure”.
5
Reference matters, including whether the fire prevention property is the existing property
or property under construction, shall be entered in the column for “Other necessary mat‐ters”.
6
No entries should be made in the asterisked (*) columns.

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Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 29 of December 1, 1981)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 1982.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 2 of January 20, 1982)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from June 1, 1982; provided, however, that therevised provisions of Article 28‐3 paragraph (1) shall come into effect as from February 1, 1982.
(2) With regard to the details of the technical standards pertaining to carbon dioxide fire extin‐
guishing systems, halon fire extinguishing systems and dry chemical fire extinguishing sys‐
tem at actually existing fire prevention properties on June 1, 1982 or fire prevention proper‐
ties actually under work for new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair
or remodelling on the said date, the provisions then in force shall remain applicable for thetime being notwithstanding the provisions of Article 19 paragraph (4) item (v) and item (vii),
Article 20 paragraph (4) and Article 21 paragraph (1) and paragraph (4) item (ii) and item(vii) of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision (here‐
inafter referred to as “the New Ordinance”.
(3) With regard to the details of the technical standards pertaining to guiding lamps at actuallyexisting fire prevention properties on February 1, 1982 or fire prevention properties actually
under work for new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodel‐ling on the said date, the provisions then in force shall remain applicable for the time being
notwithstanding the provisions of Article 28‐3 paragraph (1) of the New Ordinance.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 26 of October 17, 1983)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from January 1, 1984; provided, however,that the revised provisions of Article 46 shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation.
(2) A fire defense plan which has actually been notified pursuant to the provisions of Article 3of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act prior to revision by this
Ministerial Ordinance at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance shall bedeemed to have been notified pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the Ministerial Ordi‐nance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision by this Ministerial Ordinance forthe period up to September 30, 1984.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 24 of September 27, 1984)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from October 1, 1984; provided, howev‐
er, that the revised provisions of Article 35, Article 36, Article 43 and Article 44 shall come in‐to effect as from April 1, 1985.
(2) With regard to actually existing fire prevention properties on October 1, 1984 or fire preven‐tion properties actually under work for new construction, extension, reconstruction, reloca‐
tion, repair or remodelling on the said date (hereinafter referred to as “existing fire preven‐tion properties, etc.”), the provisions of Article 145 paragraph (1) item (iv‐2) of the Ministeri‐al Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision (hereinafter referred to as“the New Ordinance”) shall not apply for the period up to March 31, 1985.
(3) With regard to the installation of zonal sounding devices for automatic fire alarm systems at
existing fire prevention properties, etc., the provisions then in force shall remain applicablefor the period up to May 31, 1985 notwithstanding the provisions of Article 24 item (v) of the
New Ordinance.
(4) With regard to existing fire prevention properties, etc., the provisions of Article 14 para‐graph (1) item (x) and item (xi)‐(c)‐1., Article 16 paragraph (3) item (ii), Article 18 paragraph(4) item (viii) and Article 23 paragraph (4) item (i)‐(d) and paragraph (6) item (i) of the Min‐
isterial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act prior to revision (hereinafter re‐ferred to as “the Old Ordinance”) (in the case of the provisions of Article 14 paragraph (1)213Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Supplementary Provisions)
item (x) and item (xi)‐(c)‐1. Of the Old Ordinance, limited to their application for sprinkler
systems which use open sprinkler heads) shall remain effective for the time being notwith‐standing the provisions of Article 14 paragraph (1) item (x)‐(a) and item (xi)‐(c)‐1., Article 16
paragraph (3) item (ii‐2), Article 18 paragraph (4) item (viii) and Article 23 paragraph (4)item (i)‐(d)‐5. through 8. and paragraph (6) item (i) of the New Ordinance.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 30 of December 15, 1984)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation; provided,
however, that the revised provisions of Appended Form 10and Appended Form 14 of the Ordi‐nance Concerning the Control of Hazardous Materials in Article 1 and the revised provisions ofAppended Form 1‐2‐3and Appended Form 1‐6 of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of
the Fire Service Act in Article 2 shall come into effect as from April 1, 1985.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 17 of August 5, 1986)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 23 of October 15, 1986)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from December 1, 1986.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 28 of December 9, 1986)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 31 of December 25, 1986)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from January 1, 1987.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 1 of January 23, 1987)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 1987.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 7 of March 18, 1987)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as form the date of promulgation.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 30 of October 23, 1987)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 1988; provided, however, thatthe revised provisions of Article 33‐10, Article 25 and Article 39, revised provisions adding one
article after Article 39 and revised provisions of Article 44‐4 shall come into effect as from thedate of promulgation.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 2 of January 20, 1988)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 3 of February 20, 1989)(Effective Date)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from May 23, 1990; provided, however,that the provisions of each of the following items shall come into effect as from the day spec‐
ified in each of the said items.
(i)
Revised provisions of Article 2 item (ii) of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of
the Fire Service Act, revised provisions of Article 31‐2‐2 item (vii) of the said Ordinanceand revised provisions of Article 33‐8 item (iii) of the said Ordinance in Article 1: dateof promulgation(ii)
Revised provisions of Article 33‐3 through Article 33‐7 of the Ministerial Ordinance for214

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Enforcement of the Fire Service Act, revised provisions of Article 33‐13 of the said Or‐
dinance and revised provisions of Appended Forms 1‐3 and 1‐4 of the said Ordinance:
April 1, 1989
(Transitional Measures)(2) A fire defense equipment technician’s license which has actually been issued as of April 1,
1989 shall be deemed to be a fire defense equipment technician’s license of Appended Form
1‐3 of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision (here‐
inafter referred to as “the New Ordinance”).
(3) A photograph actually issued as of March 31, 1989 may constitute the details of a license speci‐
fied in Article 33‐5 paragraph (2) of the New Ordinance for the period up to March 31, 1992.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 25 of June 5, 1989)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from September 1, 1989.
(2) With regard to an indication of actually having the flame retardancy stipulated in the provi‐sions of Article 8‐3 paragraph (2) of the Fire Service Act at the time of enforcement of this
Ministerial Ordinance, the provisions then in force shall remain applicable notwithstanding
the form for indication in Appended Table 1 after revision.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 17 of May 30, 1990)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from June 1, 1990; provided, however,that the revised provisions of Article 22 [excluding item (vi)] and Article 31 [excluding item(vii)] shall come into effect as from December 1, 1990.
(2) With regard to the details of the technical standards pertaining to outdoor fire hydrant sys‐
tems and fire department indoor fire hydrant systems at actually existing fire prevention
properties on December 1, 1990 or fire prevention properties actually under work for new
construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodelling on the said date,
the provisions then in force shall remain applicable for the time being notwithstanding theprovisions of Article 22 item (i), item (iii), item (v), item (x) and item (xi) and Article 31 item(v), item (vi)‐(a) (excluding 4.), item (viii) and item (ix).
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 23 of July 27, 1990)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from September 1, 1990.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 29 of October 30, 1990)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from January 1, 1991.
(2) With regard to the technical standards pertaining to sprinkler systems at actually existing
short‐term care facilities for the elderly and commuting dormitories for people with a men‐tal disability at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance or short‐term care facil‐
ities for the elderly and commuting dormitories for people with a mental disability actually
under work for new construction, relocation, repair or remodelling at the said time, the pro‐visions then in force shall remain applicable for the period up to December 31, 1993 notwith‐standing the provisions of Article 13 paragraph (2) of the Ministerial Ordinance for En‐
forcement of the Fire Service Act after revision.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 20 of May 28, 1991)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from June 1, 1991.
(2) With regard to the technical standards pertaining to automatic fire alarm systems which do
not conform to the provisions of Article 23 paragraph (4) item (i) – (e), item (vii‐4) and item(vii‐5)‐(c), paragraph (5) and paragraph (6) item (i) and item (ii), Article 24‐2 item (ii)‐(a) and215

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Appended Table 1‐2 of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act af‐
ter revision of automatic fire alarm systems at actually existing fire prevention properties at
the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance or fire prevention properties actually
under work for new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodel‐ling at the said time, the provisions then in force shall remain applicable for the period up to
May 31, 1993 notwithstanding the said provisions.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 4 of January 29, 1992)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from March 1, 1992.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 2 of January 29, 1993)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from February 1, 1993; provided, however,that the revised provisions of Article 6 shall come into effect as from March 1, 1993.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 1 of January 6, 1994)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 1994.
(2) With regard to the details of the technical standards pertaining to automatic fire alarm sys‐
tems and emergency alarm systems at actually existing fire prevention properties at the timeof enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance or fire prevention properties actually underwork for new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodelling at thesaid time, the provisions then in force shall remain applicable notwithstanding the provi‐sions of Article 25‐2 paragraph (2) item (iii)‐(a), (b) and (e) of the Ministerial Ordinance for
Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 4 of January 19, 1994)[Extract](1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 1994.
(3) With regard to the forms prescribed in Appended Form 1 through Appended Form 1‐2‐3‐2,
Appended Form 1‐4, Appended Form 1‐5 and Appended Form 1‐7 through Appended Form
12 of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision by this
Ministerial Ordinance, the forms then in force may remain applicable for the period up to
March 31, 1995 notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1).
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 44 of November 28, 1994)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 1995; provided, however,that the revised provisions in the Contents and revised provisions adding one chapter after
Chapter 6 shall come into effect as from January 1, 1995.
(2) A person certified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency on thebasis of the provisions of Article 2 item (viii) of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of
the Fire Service Act before revision by this Ministerial Ordinance prior to the enforcement of
this Ministerial Ordinance shall be deemed to be a person listed in Article 2 item (viii) of the
Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision.
(3) A fire defense plan which has actually been notified pursuant to the provisions of Article 3of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act prior to revision by this
Ministerial Ordinance at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance shall bedeemed to have been notified pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the Ministerial Ordi‐nance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision by this Ministerial Ordinance forthe period up to March 31, 1996.

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Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 2 of February 16, 1996)(Effective Date)
Article 1
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulga‐tion; provided, however, that the provisions listed in each of the following items shall comeinto effect as from the day specified in each of the said items.
(i)
Revised provisions of Article 25: April 1, 1996
(Transitional Measures Concerning the Technical Standards Pertaining to the Water Quality,
etc. of Sprinkler Systems)
Article 2With regard to the technical standards pertaining to sprinkler systems which do
not conform to the provisions of Article 13‐6 paragraph (1) item (i), paragraph (2) item (i) of
the said article and Article 14 paragraph (1) item (xi)‐(c)‐1. Of the Ministerial Ordinance for
Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision (hereinafter referred to as “the New Ordi‐nance” among sprinkler systems at actually existing fire prevention properties or parts
thereof at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance or fire prevention properties
or parts thereof actually under work for new construction, extension, reconstruction, reloca‐
tion, repair or remodelling at the said time, the provisions then in force shall remain appli‐
cable notwithstanding the said provisions.
(Transitional Measures, etc. Concerning the Technical Standards Concerning Sprinkler Sys‐
tems of Which the Sprinkler Heads are Mounted at High Ceiling Parts)
Article 3With regard to the technical standards pertaining to sprinkler systems at parts
prescribed in Article 12 paragraph (2) item (ii)‐(b) of the Cabinet Order for Enforcement of
the Fire Service Act, parts where the height from the floor surface to the ceiling exceeds 6
meters at stores, offices or similar facilities and where parts where the height from the floor
surface to the ceiling exceeds 10 meters of underground passages of fire prevention proper‐
ties in paragraph (1) item (v) of the said article and parts where the height from the floor
surface to the ceiling exceeds 6 meters at fire prevention properties in item (v)‐(b) of the said
paragraph (referred to as “high ceiling parts” in the following paragraph), the provisions of
the New Ordinance shall not apply and the provisions in force shall remain applicable forthe period up to March 31, 1998 notwithstanding the provisions of Article 1.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 19 of March 31, 1997)(Effective Date)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from July 1, 1997; provided, however,that the provisions in each of the following items shall come into effect as from the day listed
in each of the said items.
(i)
Revised provisions of Article 3 paragraph (5), part to delete the phrase “or a master op‐
erating panel” in the revised provisions of Article 24‐2 item (i) and revised provisions of(e) of the said item, revised provisions of Article 24‐2‐4 item (iii)‐(e) and revised provi‐sions of Article 25‐2 paragraph (2) item (iii)‐(f): April 1, 1997
(ii)
Revised provisions of Article 4‐3 paragraph (5) item (iv)‐(b), revised provisions of Arti‐cle 12 paragraph (1) item (vii)‐(b)‐1. and (d) and paragraph (2) item (v), revised provi‐sions of Article 13‐6 paragraph (2) item (i) through item (iv) and paragraph (3) item (ii),revised provisions of Article 14 paragraph (1) item (i)‐(e) and item (xi‐(b) and (d), part
pertaining to the water discharge pressure in the revised provisions of Article 15 item(iv), revised provisions of Article 16 paragraph (3) item (iii)‐(b), revised provisions ofArticle 18 paragraph (4) item (xi)‐(b), revised provisions of Article 19 paragraph (1) item(ii) and paragraph (4) item (vii)‐(c) and (d), item (ix)‐(b) and item (xiii)‐(a), part pertain‐
ing to the discharge pressure in the revised provisions of Article 20 paragraph (1) item
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(Transitional Measures)(2) With regard to the details of the technical standards pertaining to indoor fire hydrant sys‐tems, sprinkler systems, water spray fire extinguishing systems, foam fire extinguishing sys‐tems, carbon dioxide fire extinguishing systems, outdoor fire hydrant systems, automatic
fire alarm systems, emergency alarm systems, sprinkler systems with a fire department con‐nection and fire department indoor fire hydrant systems at actually existing fire prevention
properties or parts thereof on July 1, 1997 or fire prevention properties or parts thereof actu‐
ally under work for new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or re‐modelling on the said date, the provisions then in force shall remain applicable notwith‐standing the provisions of Article 12 paragraph (1) item (vii)‐(d), Article 14 paragraph (1)item (xi) [excluding (b) and (d)], Article 16 paragraph (3) item (iii) [excluding (b) and (e)‐1.],
Article 18 paragraph (4) item (ix) [excluding (b)], Article 19 paragraph (4) item (xix)‐(d), Ar‐ticle 22 item (x) [excluding (b) and (d)], Article 24 item (i)‐(a), €, (f) and (h), item (v)‐(c) and(g) and item (xiii)‐(d), Article 25‐2 paragraph (2) item (i)‐(b) and item (iii)‐(g), article 30‐3
item (i)‐(b) and Article 31 item (vi)‐(a) of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of theFire Service Act after revision (hereinafter referred to as “the New Ordinance”).
(3) With regard to the technical standards concerning measuring of the flame retardancy ofrugs, etc. prescribed in Article 4‐3 paragraph (5) of the Cabinet Order for Enforcement of theFire Service Act which are actually used at fire prevention properties on October 1, 1999, theprovisions then in force shall remain applicable notwithstanding the provisions of Article 4‐
3 paragraph (5) item (iv)‐(b) of the New Ordinance as long as they are continually used at
the said fire prevention properties.
(4) With regard to the details of the technical standards pertaining to indoor fire hydrant sys‐tems, sprinkler systems, carbon dioxide fire extinguishing systems, halogenated fire extin‐
guishing systems, dry chemical fire extinguishing systems, outdoor fire hydrant systems
and fire department indoor fire hydrant systems at actually existing fire prevention proper‐
ties or parts thereof on October 1, 1999 or fire prevention properties or parts thereof actually
under work for new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodel‐ling on the said date, the provisions then in force shall remain applicable notwithstanding
the provisions of Article 12 paragraph (1) item (vii)‐(b)‐1. and paragraph (2) item (v), Article
13‐6 paragraph (2) item (i) through item (iv) and paragraph (3) item (ii), article 14 paragraph(1) item (xi)‐(b), Article 15 item (iv), article 19 paragraph (1) item (ii) and paragraph (4) item(vii)‐(c) and (d), item (ix)‐(b) and item (xiii)‐(a), Article 20 paragraph (1) item (ii) and para‐graph (4) item (v), Article 21 paragraph (1) item (i), Article 22 item (x)‐(b) and Article 31 item(v)‐(b) of the New Ordinance.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 9 of March 30, 1998)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 1998; provided, however,that the revised provisions adding the following one item to Article 25 paragraph (3) shallcome into effect as from October 1, 1998.
(2) With regard to the details of the technical standards for the installation and maintenance offire reporting devices at actually existing fire prevention properties or parts thereof on Octo‐
ber 1, 1998 or fire prevention properties or parts thereof actually under work for new con‐struction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodelling on the said date, theprovisions then in force shall remain applicable notwithstanding the provisions of Article 25
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after revision (hereinafter referred to as “the New Ordinance”).
(3) The Application Form of Issue of Fire Defense Equipment Technician’s License, Application
Form for Revision of Fire Defense Equipment Technician’s License, Application Form for Re‐
issue of Fire Defense Equipment Technician’s License and Application Form to Sit the Quali‐
fication Examination for Fire Defense Equipment Technician using Appended Form 1‐2‐4,
Appended Form 1‐4, Appended Form 1‐5 and Appended Form 1‐6 respectively of the Minis‐
terial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act before revision which actually exist
on April 1, 1998 may be used for the time being notwithstanding Appended Form 1‐2‐4, Ap‐
pended Form 1‐4, Appended Form 1‐5 and Appended Form 1‐6 of the New Ordinance. In
this case, no affixing of a sale is required.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 31 of July 24, 1998)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation; provid‐ed, however, that the revised provisions of Article 13‐2 paragraph (1), revised provisions ofArticle 13‐5, revised provisions of Article 13‐6 and revised provisions of Article 14 shallcome into effect as from April 1, 1999.
(2) The Notification Form of Installation of Fire Defense Equipment, etc. and Notification Form ofWork Commencement for Fire Defense Equipment, etc. using Appended Form 1‐2‐3 and Ap‐
pended Form 1‐7 respectively of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service
Act before revision which actually exist at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordi‐nance may be used for the time being notwithstanding Appended Form 1‐2‐3 and Appended
Form 1‐7 of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 46 of December 18, 1998)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 1999.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 5 of March 17, 1999
(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 1999; provided, however,that the revised provisions of Article 3 paragraph (2), Article 13 paragraph (2), Article 28‐2
and Article 28‐3 shall come into effect as from October 1, 1999.
(2) With regard to the technical standards pertaining to sprinkler systems which do not conformto the provisions of Article 13 paragraph (2) of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of
the Fire Service Act after revision (hereinafter referred to as “the New Ordinance”) among
sprinkler systems at actually existing fee‐paying nursing homes or parts thereof on October
1, 1999 or fee‐paying nursing homes or parts thereof actually under work for new construc‐tion, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodelling on the said date, the provi‐sions then in force shall remain applicable for the period up to September 30, 2007 notwith‐standing the provisions of the said paragraph.
(3) With regard to the technical standards (excluding those pertaining to emergency powersources) pertaining to guiding lamps which do not conform to the provisions of Article 28‐3
paragraph (1) through paragraph (4) of the New Ordinance among guiding lamps at actual‐ly existing fire prevention properties or parts thereof on October 1, 1999 or fire prevention
properties or parts thereof actually under work for new construction, extension, reconstruc‐tion, relocation, repair or remodelling on the said date, the provisions then in force shall re‐main applicable notwithstanding the provisions of the said paragraphs.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 34 of September 29, 1999)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from October 1, 1999.
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ment of the Fire Service Act after revision among ventilation systems at actually existing fire
prevention properties or parts thereof on October 1, 1999 or fire prevention properties orparts thereof actually under work for new construction, extension, reconstruction, reloca‐
tion, repair or remodelling on the said date, the provisions then in force shall remain appli‐
cable notwithstanding the provisions of the said articles.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 13 of March 24, 2000)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 2000.
(2) A fire defense equipment technician’s license which has actually been issued at the time ofenforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance shall be deemed to be a fire defense equipment
technician’s license on Appended Form 1‐3 of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of
the Fire Service Act after revision (referred to as “the New Ordinance” in the following par‐agraph).
(3) The Application Form for Issue of Fire Defense Equipment Technician’s License, Application
form for Revision of Fire Defense Equipment Technician’s License, Application Form for Re‐
issue of Fire Defense Equipment Technician’s License and Application Form to Sit Qualifica‐tion Examination for Fire Defense Equipment Technician using Appended Form 1‐2‐4, Ap‐
pended Form 1‐4, Appended Form 1‐5 and Appended Form 1‐6 respectively of the Ministe‐rial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act before revision which actually exist at
the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance may be used for the time being not‐withstanding Appended Form 1‐2‐4, Appended Form 1‐4, Appended Form 1‐5 and Append‐
ed Form 1‐6 of the New Ordinance.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 36 of May 31, 2000)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from June 1, 2000.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 44 of September 14, 2000)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of enforcement (January 6,2001) of the Act to Revise Parts of the Cabinet Act (Act No. 88 of 1999).
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 50 of November 17, 2000)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 2001.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 51 of November 20, 2000)(Effective Date)
Article 1
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as form January 1, 2001.
(Transitional Measures Concerning Flame Retardant Label, etc.)
Article 2
A person who is actually certified pursuant to the provisions of Article 4‐4 para‐graph (1) item (i) of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act before
revision (referred to as “the Old Ordinance” in the following article) at the time of enforce‐
ment of this Ministerial Ordinance shall be deemed to be a person who is registered pursu‐
ant to the provisions of Article 4‐4 paragraph (1) item (i) of the Ministerial Ordinance for En‐
forcement of the Fire Service Act after revision (hereinafter referred to as “the New Ordi‐nance”) on the date of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance (referred to as “the date ofenforcement” in Article 4).
Article 3
The form for flame retardant labels in Appended Table 1 of the Old Ordinancewhich are actually attached to flame retardant goods at the time of enforcement of this Min‐220

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Supplementary Provisions)isterial Ordinance shall be deemed to be the form for flame retardant labels in Appended
Table 1 of the New Ordinance.
(Transitional Measures Concerning a Qualified Inspector for Fire Defense Equipment)
Article 4
A person who has completed the training sessions recognized by the Commis‐
sioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency as equivalent to training sessions tolearn the necessary knowledge and skills for the checking of fire defense equipment and has
actually obtained a document certifying the acquisition of the knowledge and skills neces‐sary for the checking of fire defense equipment (hereinafter referred to as “a license” in thisarticle) issued by the body conducting the said training sessions (including a person whose
license has expired) at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance shall be deemed
to be a qualified inspector for fire defense equipment prescribed in Article 31‐6 paragraph(5) of the New Ordinance on the date of enforcement.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Home Affairs No. 43 of March 29, 2001)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 2001; provided, however,that the revised provisions of Article 12 paragraph (1) item (i), revision provisions adding
one item to Article 13‐6 paragraph (3), revised provisions adding one sub‐item to Article 14
paragraph (1) item (vi), revised provisions adding one item to Article 19 paragraph (5) item
(xix‐2), revised provisions adding one item to Article 20 paragraph (4) item (xiv), revised
provisions adding one sub‐item to Article 30‐3 item (iv) and revised provisions adding one
item to Article 31 item (iv) shall come into effect as from July 1, 2001.
(2) With regard to the details of the technical standards pertaining to indoor fire hydrant sys‐tems, sprinkler systems, inert gas fire extinguishing systems, halogenated fire extinguishingsystems, sprinkler systems with a fire department connection and fire department indoor
fire hydrant systems at actually existing fire prevention properties or parts thereof at thetime of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance or fire prevention properties or parts
thereof actually under work for new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, re‐pair or remodelling on the said date, the provisions then in force shall remain applicable
notwithstanding the provisions of Article 12 paragraph (1) item (i)‐(b), Article 13‐6 para‐graph (3) item (vii), Article 14 paragraph (1) item (vi)‐(f), Article 19 paragraph (5) item (i‐2),
item (vi‐3), item (xv)‐(d) and item (xix‐3) and paragraph (6) item (vi), Article 20 paragraph(4) item (xiv‐2), Article 30‐3 item (iv)‐(e) and Article 31 item (iv‐2) of the Ministerial Ordi‐nance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision.
(3) A person who has actually passed the fire defense equipment technician’s qualification ex‐
amination pertaining to the designated category of Type 3 pursuant to the provisions of Ar‐
ticle 33‐3 of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act before revisionat the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance or a person who has been issued
with a fire defense equipment technician’s license designating the type of construction workor improvement work for fire defense equipment, etc. under the designated category ofType 3 pursuant to the provisions of Article 33‐3 of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforce‐
ment of the Fire Service Act after revision at the said time shall be deemed to be a person
who has passed the fire defense equipment technician’s qualification examination pertaining
to the designated category of Type 3 pursuant to the provisions of Article 33‐3 of the Minis‐
terial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision or a person who has
been issued with a fire defense equipment technician’s license designating the type of con‐struction work or improvement work for fire defense equipment, etc. under the designatedcategory of Type 3 pursuant to the provisions of the said article respectively.

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Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 68 of April 26, 2001)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 3 of January 25, 2002)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from July 1, 2002; provided, however, that therevised provisions of Appended Form 1‐6 shall come into effect as from April 1 of the said year.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 19 of February 28, 2002)[Extract](Effective Date)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of enforcement of the Act
to Revise Part of the Act on Public Health Nurses, Midwives and Nurses (March 1, 2002).
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 105 of October 7, 2002)(Effective Date)
Article 1
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of enforcement(October 25, 200) of the Act to Revise Parts of the Fire Service Act (Act No. 30 of 2002; here‐
inafter referred to as “the Revised Act”); provided, however, that the provisions listed ineach of the following items shall come into effect as from the day listed in each of the said
items.
(i)
Revised provisions of Article 33‐6 paragraph (4) and provisions of paragraph (1) andparagraph (2) of the following article: date of promulgation(ii)
Provisions of paragraph (3) of the following article: January 1, 2003
(iii)
Revised provisions of Article 3 and Article 4‐2, revised provisions adding eight articles
after the said article and revised provisions of Article 4‐4 paragraph (2), Article 5, Arti‐cle 6, Article 12 item (iv)‐(a)‐4., Article 23 paragraph (6), Appended Table 1, Appended
Table 1‐2, Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐2 and Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐3: date of enforcement of
the provisions prescribed in the proviso of Article 1 of the Supplementary Provisions of
the Revised Act (October 1, 2003)(Transitional Measures)
Article 2
A juridical person intending to conduct the training session set forth in Article 4‐2‐4 paragraph (4) of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act afterrevision (hereinafter referred to as “the New Ordinance”) may be registered by the Minster
of Internal Affairs and Communications in the same manner as that prescribed in Article 4‐2‐
5 paragraph (1) through paragraph (6) of the New Ordinance even before the date of en‐forcement of the provisions prescribed in item (iii) of the preceding article (hereinafter re‐ferred to as “the date of enforcement”).
(2) When the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications decided to make a registration
or not to make registration pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, he/sheshall notify the applicant to that effect in the same manner as that prescribed in Article 4‐2‐5
paragraph (4) or paragraph (6) respectively of the New Ordinance.
(3) A registered training body which is registered pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1)may conduct the training sessions prescribed in Article 4‐2‐4 paragraph (4) of the New Ordi‐nance and issue a license prescribed in the same paragraph even before the date of enforce‐
ment. In this case, the said license shall become effective as from the date of enforcement.
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Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 90 of June 13, 2003)(Effective Date)
Article 1
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of enforcement(October 1, 2003) of the provisions prescribed in the proviso of Article 1 of the Supplemen‐tary Provisions of the Act to Revise Parts of the Fire Service Act (Act No. 30 of 2002; hereinaf‐
ter referred to as “the Revised Act”); provided, however, that the provisions listed in each of
the following items shall come into effect as from the day listed in each of the said items.
(i)
Revised provisions of Appended Form 1 (excluding the part to revise “Class _ Fire Pre‐vention Management Training Sessions” to “a course of Training Sessions for Class _Fire Prevention Management”: date of promulgation(ii)
Provisions of the following article: April 1, 2005
(iii)
Revised provisions of Article 2‐3, revised provisions to change Article 4‐2‐4 paragraph (2)item (i) to item (i‐2) of the said paragraph and to add one item before the said item, re‐vised provisions of Appended Form 1 (limited to the part to revise “Class_Fire Preven‐tion Management Training Sessions” to “a course of Training Sessions for Class _ Fire
Prevention Management”) and revised provisions of Appended Form 1‐2‐2: April 1, 2006
(Transitional Measures)
Article 2
A prefectural governor, fire chief of a municipality with a fire defense headquar‐ters and fire stations or a juridical person who is registered by the Minster of Internal Affairs
and Communications pursuant to the provisions of Ar5ticle 3 paragraph (1) item (i)‐(a) or
item (ii)‐(a) of the Cabinet Order for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Cabinet Order No.
37 of 1961) and who conducts training sessions concerning fire protection management may
conduct the Class A fire prevention management refresher training sessions prescribed in
Article 2‐3 paragraph (1) of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act
after revision (hereinafter referred to as “the New Ordinance”) even before the date of en‐forcement of the provisions prescribed in item (iii) of the preceding article (hereinafter re‐ferred to as “the date of enforcement”) and issue a certificate of training completion pre‐scribed in paragraph (5) of the said article. In this case, the said license shall become effective
as from the date of enforcement.
Article 3With regard to the details of the technical standards pertaining to automatic fire
alarm systems, emergency alarm systems and escape equipment at actually existing fire pre‐vention properties or parts thereof at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinanceor fire prevention properties or parts thereof actually under work for new construction, ex‐tension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodelling at the said time, the provisions
then in force shall remain applicable for the period up to October 1, 2005 notwithstanding
the provisions of Article 23 paragraph (4 item (vii)‐(f), Article 24, Article 25‐2 paragraph (2)item (i)‐(a) and Article 27 paragraph (1) [excluding item (i)] of the New Ordinance.
Article 4With regard to the details of the technical standards pertaining to escape equip‐
ment at actually existing fire prevention properties or parts thereof at the time of enforce‐
ment of this Ministerial Ordinance or fire prevention properties or parts thereof actually un‐
der work for new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodellingat the said time, the provisions then in force shall remain applicable for the period up to Oc‐
tober 1, 2006 [October 1, 2008 as long as the fire chief (mayor in a municipality without a fire
defense headquarters) or station chief finds it especially necessary] notwithstanding theprovisions of Article 27 paragraph (1) item (i) of the New Ordinance.
Article 5With regard to the details of the technical standards for escape equipment at ac‐
tually existing fire prevention properties or parts thereof at the time of enforcement of this
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new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodelling at the said
time, the provisions of Article 27 paragraph (1) item (i) shall not apply in the case where anecessary measure(s) is provided by October 1, 2006 using a method specified by the Com‐missioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency as a method not hindering escapebased on judgement of the location and structure of a fire prevention property or its floors
and the conditions and status of use of the equipment.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 101 of July 24, 2003)[Extract]
Article 1
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of enforcement(July 25, 2003) of the Act on Special Measures Concerning Advancement of Countermeas‐ures Against Disasters of Tonankai and Nankai Earthquakes.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 54 of March 26, 2004)[Extract](Effective Date)
Article 1
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of enforcement(June 1, 2004) of the provisions listed in Article (1) item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisionsof the Act to Revise Parts of the Fire and Disaster Management Organization Act and theFire Service Act; provided, however, that the provisions listed in each of the following items
shall come into effect as from the day specified in each of the said items.
(i)
Revised provisions of Article 33‐11 paragraph (vi) [limited to parts to revise “(Public
Notice of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency No. 1 of 1970) Article 2 paragraph(4)” to “Public Notice No. 3 of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency No. 3 of 2003]
Article 3 paragraph (4)” and “Appended Table 5 paragraph (3)” to “Article 9 paragraph(1)”], revised provisions of Article 50 and revised provisions of Article 51: April 1, 2004
(ii)
Revised provisions of Article 1‐2 paragraph (1), revised provisions to change Article 1‐2
to Article 1‐3 and to add one article after Article 1, revised provisions of Article 3 [exclud‐ing the part to add “or special fire defense equipment, etc. prescribed in Article 17 para‐graph (3) (hereinafter referred to as “special fire defense equipment, etc.)” after “fire de‐fense equipment, etc.” in paragraph (1) item (iii) of the said article, the part to add “orspecial fire defense equipment, etc.” after “fire defense equipment, etc.” in paragraph (2)and paragraph (8) of the said article and the part to delete “multiple” in paragraph (8) of
the said article] and revised provisions to add “prescribed in Article 1‐2 paragraph (3)item (i) of the Order and “after” fire prevention properties”: August 1, 2004
(Transitional Measures)
Article 3
A juridical person intending to obtain the registration set forth in Article 1‐4 par‐agraph (1), Article 4‐2‐5 paragraph (1), Article 4‐6 paragraph (1), Article 31‐5 paragraph (1)and Article 31‐7 paragraph (1) of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Ser‐vice Act after revision (hereinafter referred to as “the New Ordinance”) by this Ministerial
Ordinance may apply even before enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance. The same shallapply to the notification of operational rules pursuant to the provisions of Article 1‐4 para‐graph (12) [including the case where applied mutatis mutandis in Article 4‐2‐5 paragraph (2),Article 4‐6 paragraph (4), Article 31‐5 paragraph (3) and Article 31‐7 paragraph (2) of the
New Ordinance].
(2) Juridical persons actually having the registered status set forth in Article 4‐2‐5 paragraph (1)of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act before revision (herein‐
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4‐6 paragraph (1), Article 31‐5 paragraph (1) and Article 31‐7 paragraph (1) of the Old Ordi‐nance at the said time shall be deemed to be juridical persons having the registered status set
forth in Article 4‐2‐5 paragraph (1), Article 4‐6 paragraph (1), Article 31‐5 paragraph (1) and
Article 31‐7 paragraph (1) of the New Ordinance until the day on which six months from thedate of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance have elapsed. In the case where the said
juridical persons have applied for the registration set forth in these provisions pursuant tothese provisions during the said period, the same shall apply for the period until which adisposition pertaining to the application in question is made.
Article 4
Flame retardant labels using the form specified in Appended Table 1‐2‐2 of the
Old Ordinance and which actually exist at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordi‐nance may be used for the time being notwithstanding Appended Table 1‐2‐2 of the New
Ordinance.
(2) Flame retardant labels which use the form specified in Appended Table 1‐2‐2 of the Old Or‐
dinance and which are actually affixed to a flame retardant good pursuant to the provisionof Article 4‐4 paragraph (1) of the Old Ordinance at the time of enforcement of this Ministe‐rial Ordinance shall be deemed to be flame retardant labels using the form specified in Ap‐
pended Table 1‐2‐2 of the New Ordinance.
Article 5Labels set forth in Article 31‐4 paragraph (2) of the Old Ordinance which actual‐ly exist at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance may be used for the time be‐
ing notwithstanding the provisions of Article 31‐4 paragraph (2) of the New Ordinance aslong as the designated certification body in the said paragraph has the registered status set
forth in Article 31‐4 paragraph (1) of the New Ordinance or is deemed to be a registered ju‐
ridical person set forth in Article 31‐5 paragraph (1) of the New Ordinance pursuant to theprovisions of Article 3 paragraph (2) of the Supplementary Provisions.
(2) Labels set forth in Article 31‐4 paragraph (2) of the Old Ordinance which are actually affixed
to fire defense equipment, etc. or a machine or tool which form part of the said equipment,
etc. pursuant to the provisions of the said paragraph at the time of enforcement of this Min‐
isterial Ordinance shall be deemed to be labels set forth in Article 31‐4 paragraph (2) of the
New Ordinance pursuant to the provisions of the said paragraph.
Article 6
For the period from the date of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance to
May 31, 2005, persons issued with a fire defense equipment technician’s license pertaining to
the designated categories of any one from Type 1 through Type 3, Type 4 and Type 5 listed
in the left‐hand column of the table in Article 33‐3 paragraph (1) of the New Ordinance canconduct construction work or improvement work of special fire defense equipment, etc.
notwithstanding the provisions of the said paragraph.
(2) With regard to the fire defense equipment technician’s qualification examination pertaining
to the category of Special Type listed in the left‐hand column of the table in Article 33‐3 par‐agraph (1) of the New Ordinance, prefectural governors (including designated qualification
examination bodies) may not conduct the said fire defense equipment technician’s qualifica‐tion examination notwithstanding the provisions of Article 33‐3 paragraph (1) of the New
Ordinance for the limited period from the date of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinanceto December 31, 2004.
(3) The fire defense equipment technician’s licenses set forth in Appended Form 1‐3 of the Old
Ordinance which have actually been issued at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial
Ordinance and fire defense equipment technician’s licenses which may be used for the time
being pursuant to the provisions of the following paragraph shall be deemed to be fire de‐fense equipment technician’s licenses set forth in Appended Form 1‐3 of the New Ordinance.
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Supplementary Provisions)Fire Defense Equipment Technician’s License and Application Form to Sit the Qualification
Examination for Fire Defense Technician using Appended Form 1‐3, Appended Form 1‐4 andAppended Form 1‐6 respectively of the Old Ordinance which actually exist at the time of en‐forcement of this Ministerial Ordinance may be used for the time being notwithstanding Ap‐
pended Form 1‐3, Appended Form 1‐4 and Appended Form 1‐6 of the New Ordinance.
Article 7
A person who has actually completed the Applied Fire Defense Course of spe‐cialist education prescribed in Article 33‐11 paragraph (6) of the Old Ordinance at the timeof enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance shall be deemed to be a person who has com‐pleted the Applied Fire Defense Course of specialist education prescribed in Article 33‐11
paragraph (6) of the New Ordinance for the purpose of application of the said paragraph.
Article 8
Disposition, proceeding and other acts conducted based on the provisions of the
Old Ordinance before enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance and which have compara‐ble provisions among the provisions of the New Ordinance shall be deemed to have been
conducted based on the comparable provisions of the New Ordinance except in those cases
stipulated otherwise by these Supplementary Provisions.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 93 of May 31, 2004)(Effective Date)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of enforcement of the pro‐visions listed in Article 1 item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions (June 1, 2004) of the Act
to Revise Parts of the Fire and Disaster Management Organization Act and the Fire Service
Act (Act No. 84 of 2003).
(Transitional Measures)(2) With regard to the technical standards pertaining to sprinkler systems at actually existing
rehabilitation facilities for people with a physical disability, rehabilitation facilities for peo‐
ple with an internal disability and vocational facilities for people with a disability at the timeof enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance or rehabilitation facilities for people with aphysical disability, rehabilitation facilities for people with an internal disability and voca‐
tional facilities for people with a disability actually under work for new construction, exten‐
sion, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodelling at the said time, the provisions then inforce shall remain applicable notwithstanding the provisions of Article 13 paragraph (2) of
the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision (hereinafterreferred to as “the New Ordinance”) by this Ministerial Ordinance.
(3) With regard to the forms prescribed in Appended Form 1‐2‐2, Appended Form 1‐2‐3, Ap‐
pended Form 1‐2‐3‐2, Appended Form 1‐6 and Appended Form 1‐7 of the New Ordinance,
the provisions then in force shall remain applicable for the period up to November 30, 2004
notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 112 of July 30, 2004)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation; provided, how‐ever, that the revised provisions of Article 1‐3 paragraph (1) in Article 1 and revised provisions ofArticle 3 paragraph (8) shall come into effect as from August 1, 2004 and the revised provisions ofArticle 19 paragraph (4) item (i)‐(a)‐1. in Article 1 shall come into effect as from December 1, 2005.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 15 of February 18, 2005)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 2005.
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Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 20 of March 7, 2005)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 33 of March 22, 2005)[Extract](Effective Date)
Article 1
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 2005; provided,
however, that the revised provisions of Article 12, Article 19, Article 24, Article 24‐2‐4 andArticle 28‐3 of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act in Article 1
and the revised provisions of the table in the main provisions of the ministerial ordinance toregister registered certification bodies (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications No. 116 of 2004) prescribed in Article 31‐4 paragraph (2) of the Ministerial
Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act in Article 3 of the Supplementary Provi‐sions shall come into effect as from April 1, 2006.
(Transitional Measures)
Article 2
A person prescribed in Article 2 item (iii) of the Ministerial Ordinance for En‐
forcement of the Fire Service Act before revision (hereinafter referred to as “the Old Ordi‐nance”) by this Ministerial Ordinance shall be deemed to be a person recognized as having therelevant knowledge and experience required for a disaster protection manager prescribed in
Article 2 item (iii) of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after re‐vision (hereinafter referred to as “the New Ordinance”) by this Ministerial Ordinance.
(2) The fire defense equipment technician’s licenses set forth in Appended Form 1‐3 of the Old
Ordinance which have actually been issued at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial
Ordinance and fire defense equipment technician’s licenses which may be used for the time
being pursuant to the provisions of the following paragraph shall be deemed to be fire de‐fense equipment technician’s licenses set forth in Appended Form 1‐3 of the New Ordinance.
(3) Fire defense equipment technician’s licenses using Appended Form 1‐3 of the Old Ordi‐nance which actually exist at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance may be
used for the time being notwithstanding Appended Form 1‐3 of the New Ordinance.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 96 of May 31, 2005)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from June 1, 2005.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 136 of August 31, 2005)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of enforcement (September 1,2005) of the Act on Special Measures Concerning Advancement of Countermeasures Against
Earthquake Disasters in Relation to Subduction Zone Earthquakes Around Japan Trench andChishima Trench.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 64 of March 31, 2006)
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Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 77 of April 27, 2006)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of enforcement (May 1, 2006) of
the Companies Act.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 96 of June 14, 2006)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 116 of September 29, 2006)(Effective Date)
Article 1
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from October 1, 2006; pro‐vided, however, that the revised provisions adding one item after Article 4‐2‐4 paragraph (4)item (iii) shall come into effect as from April 1, 2007.
(Transitional Measures)
Article 2
For the period from the date of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance to one day
before the date of enforcement of the provisions listed in Article 1 item (iii) of the Supplementary
Provisions of the Services and Supports for Persons with Disabilities Act, the phrase “support fa‐
cilities for persons with disabilities (limited to facilities mainly admitting persons with severe
disabilities) prescribed in Article 5 paragraph (12) of the Services and Supports for Persons with
Disabilities Act (Act No. 123 of 2005)” in Article 13 paragraph (2) of the Ministerial Ordinance for
Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision by this Ministerial Ordinance shall be deemed
to be replaced by “support facilities for persons with disabilities (limited to facilities mainly ad‐
mitting persons with severe disabilities) prescribed in Article 5 paragraph (12) of the Services
and Supports for Persons with Disabilities Act (Act No. 123 of 2005), rehabilitation and support
facilities for persons with physical disabilities {limited to rehabilitation facilities for persons withphysical disabilities [limited to rehabilitation facilities for persons with physical disabilities (lim‐ited to facilities mainly admitting persons with severe physical disabilities), rehabilitation facili‐ties for persons with visual disabilities, rehabilitation facilities for persons with audito‐
ry/language disabilities or rehabilitation facilities for persons with internal disabilities (limited tofacilities mainly admitting persons with severe physical disabilities)] prescribed in Article 29 of
the Act on Welfare of Physically Disabled Persons (Act No. 283 of 1949) before revision by theprovisions of Article 35 of the Supplementary Provisions of the said act, custodial care facilities
for persons with physical disabilities prescribed in Article 30 of the said act and vocational facili‐ties for persons with physical disabilities (limited to facilities mainly admitting persons with se‐vere physical disabilities) prescribed in Article 31 of the said act} prescribed in Article 41 para‐graph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the said act which are allowed to operate based on
the provisions then in force pursuant to the provisions of Article 41 paragraph (1) or Article 58
paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the said act, and support facilities for persons
with intellectual disabilities [(limited to rehabilitation facilities for persons with intellectual disa‐
bilities (excluding day care facilities) prescribed in Article 21‐6 of the Act for the Welfare of Per‐
sons with Intellectual Disabilities (Act No. 37 of 1960) before revision pursuant to the provisionsof Article 52 of the Supplementary Provisions of the said act, vocational facilities for persons
with intellectual disabilities (excluding day care facilities) prescribed in Article 21‐7 of the said
act and commuting dormitories for persons with intellectual disabilities prescribed in Article 21‐
8 of the said act) prescribed in Article 58 paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of theServices and Supports for Persons with Disabilities Act”.

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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Supplementary Provisions)(Transitional Measures)(2) A Certificate of Excellent Compliance for Fire Prevention using the form specified in Ap‐
pended Table 1‐2 of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act before
revision by this Ministerial Ordinance which is actually displayed at the time of enforcementof this Ministerial Ordinance may be used for the period up to the day on which the certifi‐
cation becomes invalid pursuant to the provisions of Article 8‐2‐3 paragraph (4) item (i) of
the Fire Service Act.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 66 of June 13, 2007)(Effective Date)
Article 1
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 2009; provided,
however, that the provisions of Article 1 and Article 3 shall come into effect as from the dateof promulgation.
(Transitional Measures)
Article 2With regard to the technical standards pertaining to sprinkler systems and au‐
tomatic fire alarms at actually existing fire prevention properties on April 1, 2009 or fire pre‐vention properties actually under work for new construction, extension, reconstruction, re‐location, repair or remodelling on the said date, the provisions then in force shall remain
applicable for the period up to March 31, 2012 notwithstanding the provisions of Article 12‐
2, Article 13, Article 13‐2, Article 13‐3, Article 13‐5, Article 13‐6, Article 14, Article 23 and Ar‐
ticle 24 of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision by
this Ministerial Ordinance.
Article 3
Those to be specified by an ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications as facilities mainly admitting persons with severe physical disabilities
listed in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(b) of the Cabinet Order for Enforcement of the Fire Ser‐vice Act which is deemed to have been replaced pursuant to the provision of Article 19 of
the Cabinet Order Concerning the Enactment of Relevant Cabinet Orders Accompanying thePartial Enforcement of the Services and Supports for Persons with Disabilities Act (Cabinet
Order No. 320 of 2006) shall be rehabilitation facilities for people with physical disabilities(limited to facilities mainly admitting persons with severe physical disabilities), rehabilita‐tion facilities for persons with visual disabilities, rehabilitation facilities for persons with au‐
ditory/language disabilities (limited to facilities mainly admitting persons with severe phys‐
ical disabilities), custodial care facilities for persons with physical disabilities and vocational
facilities for persons with physical disabilities (limited to facilities mainly admitting persons
with severe physical disabilities).
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 68 of June 19, 2007)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of enforcement (June 20, 2007)of the Act to Revise Parts of the Building Standards Act to Ensure the Safety of Buildings and the
Cabinet Order Concerning the Enactment of Relevant Cabinet Orders Accompanying the En‐
forcement of the Act to Revise Parts of the Building Standards Act, etc. to Ensure the Safety of
Buildings.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 55 of April 30, 2008)
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Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 78 of July 2, 2008)(Effective Date)
Article 1
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from October 1, 2008.
(Transitional Measures)
Article 2With regard to the details of the technical standards pertaining to automatic fire
alarm systems, gas leakage and fire alarm systems and emergency alarm systems at actuallyexisting fire prevention properties or parts thereof at the time of enforcement of this Ministe‐rial Ordinance or fire prevention properties or parts thereof actually under work for new
construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodelling at the said date, theprovisions than in force shall remain applicable for the period up to March 31, 2010.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 105 of September 24, 2008)(Effective Date)
Article 1
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of enforcement(June 1, 2009; hereinafter referred to as “the date of enforcement) of the Act to Revise Parts of
the Fire Service Act (Act No. 93 of 2007); provided, however, that the provision of Article 3of the Supplementary Provisions shall come into effect from the date of promulgation.
(Preparations Prior to Enforcement)
Article 2
A course of training sessions which was completed prior to the date of enforce‐
ment and which is specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management
Agency as equivalent to a course of training sessions prescribed in Article 51‐12 paragraph(3) of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act before revision by
this Ministerial Ordinance (referred to as “the New Ordinance” in the following article) shallbe deemed to be a course of training sessions prescribed in the said paragraph.
Article 3
A juridical person intending to obtain the registration set forth in Article 4‐2‐12
paragraph (1), article 51‐4 paragraph (1) or Article 51‐3 paragraph (1) of the New Ordinancemay make the application in question even before the date of enforcement.
(2) In the case where an application is made pursuant to the provision of the preceding para‐graph, the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications may grant the registration even
before the date of enforcement in the same manner as prescribed in Article 4‐2‐12, Article 51‐
4 or Article 51‐13 of the New Ordinance. In this case, when registration is obtained in thesame manner as prescribed in Article 4‐2‐12, Article 51‐4 or Article 51‐13 of the New Ordi‐nance, registration is deemed to be obtained on the date of enforcement pursuant to the pro‐visions of Article 1‐4 paragraph (2) through paragraph (5) of the New Ordinance which areapplied mutatis mutandis in Article 4‐2‐12 paragraph (2) of the New Ordinance by replacing
the relevant phrases, the provisions of Article 1‐4 paragraph (2) through paragraph (5) of the
New Ordinance which are applied mutatis mutandis in Article 51‐4 paragraph (2) of the New
Ordinance by replacing the relevant phrases or the provisions of Article 1‐4 paragraph (2)through paragraph (5) of the New Ordinance which are applied mutatis mutandis in Article
51‐13 paragraph (2) of the New Ordinance by replacing the relevant phrases.
(3) In the case of a juridical person who has obtained registration in the same manner as pre‐scribed in Article 4‐2‐12, Article 51‐4 or Article 51‐13 of the New Ordinance conducts train‐
ing sessions in the same manner as prescribed in Article 1‐4 paragraph (10) which is appliedmutatis mutandis in Article 4‐2‐14 paragraph (1) through paragraph (3) and paragraph (5),Article 51‐7 paragraph (1) through paragraph (5) and paragraph (7) or Article 51‐13 para‐graph (2) of the New Ordinance by replacing the relevant phrases, the said juridical person
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may issue a certificate of training completion in the same manner as prescribed in Appended
Form 1‐2‐2‐3‐2 or Appended Form 13 or a document certifying the acquisition of theknowledge and skills necessary for the checking of a fire prevention property in the manneras prescribed in Article 51‐12 paragraph (3) of the New Ordinance even before the date ofenforcement. In this case, the said certificate of training completion or document shall bedeemed to be a certificate of training completion in Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐3‐2 or Appended
Form 13 or a license prescribed in Article 51‐12 paragraph (3) of the New Ordinance on thedate of enforcement.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 155 of December 26, 2008)[Extract](Effective Date)
Article 1
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulga‐tion; provided, however, that the provision of Article 2 shall come into effect as from April 1,
2009.
(Transitional Measures)
Article 2With regard to the details of the technical standards pertaining to sprinkler sys‐
tems and fire reporting devices at actually existing fire prevention properties or parts thereof
on April 1, 2009 or fire prevention properties or parts thereof actually under work for new
construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodelling on the said date,
the provisions then in force shall remain applicable for the period up to March 31, 2012.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 16 of March 9, 2009)[Extract](Effective Date)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 93 of September 30, 2009)(Effective Date)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation; provid‐ed, however, that the provision of Article 2 shall come into effect as from December 1, 2009
and the provisions of Article 3 and Article 4 shall come into effect as from September 1, 2010.
(2) For the purpose of application of the provisions of Article 4‐5, Article 4‐6, Article 31‐4, Article
31‐5, Article 31‐6 and Article 31‐7 of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Ser‐vice Act after revision by this Ministerial Ordinance (hereinafter referred to as “the New Ordi‐nance) pertinent to special incorporated associations or special incorporated foundations (re‐ferred to as “special case juridical persons under the Civil Code” in the following paragraph)prescribed in Article 42 paragraph (1) of the Act Concerning the Arrangement, etc. of RelevantActs Accompanying the Enforcement of the Act concerning General Incorporated Associationsand General Incorporated Foundations and the Act Concerning the Approval, etc. of Public In‐
terest Incorporated Associations and Public Interest Incorporated Foundations (Act No. 50 of
2006; referred to as “the Arrangement Act” in the following paragraph), the phrase “Commis‐
sioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency” in Article 4‐5 paragraph (1) and Article 4‐
6 paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) shall be deemed to be replaced by “Minister of Internal Af‐
fairs and Communications”, the phrase “the phrase “Minister of Internal Affairs and Commu‐
nications” in these provisions shall be deemed to be replaced by “Commissioner of the Fire
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ed, the phrase “Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency” in Article 31‐4
paragraph (1) and Article 31‐5 paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) shall be deemed to be replacedby “Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications”, the phrase “the phrase “Minister of In‐
ternal Affairs and Communications” in these provisions shall be deemed to be replaced by“Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency “” in Article 31‐5 paragraph (4)shall be deemed to be deleted, the phrase “Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Manage‐
ment Agency” in Article 31‐6 paragraph (6) and Article 31‐7 paragraph (1) shall be deemed tobe replaced by “Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications”, the phrase “the phrase“Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications” in these provisions shall be deemed to be
replaced by “Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency in Article 31‐7 para‐graph (2)” shall be deemed to be deleted.
(3) In the case where a special care juridical person under the Civil Code registered by the Min‐
ister of Internal Affairs and Communications pursuant to the provision of Article 4‐5 para‐graph (1), Article 31‐4 paragraph (1) or Article 31‐6 paragraph (6) of the New Ordinancewhich is deemed to have been replaced pursuant to the provision of Article 4‐5 paragraph(1), Article 31‐4 paragraph (1) or Article 31‐6 paragraph (6) of the Ministerial Ordinance for
Enforcement of the Fire Service Act before revision by this Ministerial Ordinance or the pre‐ceding paragraph has become a public interest incorporated association or public interest in‐corporated foundation specified in the Act Concerning the Approval, etc. of Public Interest
Incorporated Associations and Public Interest Public Foundations (Act No. 49 of 2006) pur‐suant to the provision of Article 44 of the Arrangement Act or has become a general incorpo‐
rated association or general incorporated foundation pursuant to the provision of Article 45of the Arrangement Act, the said registration by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Com‐
munications is deemed to be registration by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Man‐
agement Agency pursuant to the provision of Article 4‐5 paragraph (1), Article 31‐4 para‐graph (1) or Article 31‐6 paragraph (6) of the New Ordinance.
(4) With regard to the details of the technical standards pertaining to automatic fire alarm sys‐tems, emergency alarm systems and guiding lamps which do not conform to the provisionsof Article 23 paragraph (5), Article 24 item (ii)‐(c), item (v)‐(a)‐3 and item (v‐2)‐(a)‐3, Article
25‐2 paragraph (2) item (i)‐(a)‐3 and item (iii)‐(a)‐3 and Article 28‐3 paragraph (4) item (iii‐2)
among automatic fire alarm systems, emergency alarm systems and guiding lamps at actual‐ly existing fire prevention properties or parts thereof on December 1, 2009 or fire prevention
properties actually under work for new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation,
repair or remodelling on the said date, the provisions then in force shall remain applicablefor the period up to November 30, 2010.
(5) With regard to the details of the technical standards pertaining to guiding lamps which do
not conform to the provision of Article 28‐3 paragraph (4) item (x) of the New Ordinanceamong guiding lamps at actually existing fire prevention properties or parts thereof on Sep‐
tember 1, 2010 or fire prevention properties or parts thereof actually under work for new
construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodelling on the said date,
the provisions then in force shall remain applicable for the period up to August 31, 2012.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 106 of November 6, 2009)This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 2010.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 8 of February 5, 2010)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation.
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Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 85 of August 26, 2010)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 109 of December 14, 2020)(Effective Date)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 2011.
(Transitional Measures)
Article 2
A person who has actually completed the Class A fire prevention management
fresh training sessions prescribed in Article 2‐3 paragraph (2) of the Ministerial Ordinancefor Enforcement of the Fire Service Act before revision (hereinafter referred to as “the Old
Ordinance”) by this Ministerial Ordinance at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Or‐
dinance shall be deemed to be a person who has completed the Class A fire prevention man‐agement fresh training sessions prescribed in Article 2‐3 paragraph (2) of the Ministerial Or‐
dinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision (hereinafter referred to as “theNew Ordinance”) by this Ministerial Ordinance.
(2) A person who has actually completed the Class A fire prevention management refresher
training sessions prescribed in Article 2‐3 paragraph (3) of the Old Ordinance at the time ofenforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance shall be deemed to be a person who has complet‐ed the Class A fire prevention management refresher training sessions prescribed in Article
2‐3 paragraph (3) of the New Ordinance.
(3) A person who has actually completed the Class B fire prevention management training ses‐
sions prescribed in Article 2‐3 paragraph (4) of the Old Ordinance at the time of enforcementof this Ministerial Ordinance shall be deemed to be a person who has completed the Class B
fire prevention management training sessions prescribed in Article 2‐3 paragraph (4) of the
New Ordinance.
(4) A person who has actually completed the fresh training sessions on disaster prevention
management prescribed in Article 51‐7 paragraph (2) of the Old Ordinance shall be deemed
to be a person who has completed the fresh training sessions on disaster prevention man‐agement prescribed in Article 51‐7 paragraph (2) of the New Ordinance.
(5) A person who has actually completed a course of training sessions combining the Class A
fire prevention management fresh training and the fresh training on disaster prevention
management prescribed in Article 51‐7 paragraph (3) of the Old Ordinance shall be deemed
to be a person who has completed a course of training sessions combining the Class A fire
prevention management fresh training and the fresh training on disaster prevention man‐agement prescribed in Article 51‐7 paragraph (3) of the New Ordinance.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No.55 of June 17, 2011)(Effective Date)
Article 1
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of promulga‐tion; provided, however, that the provisions listed in each of the following items shall comeinto effect as from the day listed in each of the said items.
(1) Revised provision of Article 33‐17 of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire
Service Act in Article 1 and the provisions of Article 2: April 1, 2012
(2) Revised provision of Article 28‐2 paragraph (2) item (iv) of the Ministerial Ordinance for En‐
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Article 2With regard to persons who have to take the training sessions prescribed in Arti‐cle 33‐17 paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of theFire Service Act before revision pursuant to Article 1 before the date of enforcement of theprovision listed in item (i) of the preceding article (referred to as “the effective date for item(i)” in the following paragraph), the provisions then in force shall remain applicable for alimited period up to the time of taking the said training sessions notwithstanding the provi‐sion of Article 33‐17 paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of the Ministerial Ordinance for En‐
forcement of the Fire Service Act after revision pursuant to Article 1 [referred to as “the New
Ordinance” in paragraph (3)].
(2) With regard to persons who have to take the training sessions prescribed in Article 58‐14
paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of the Ordinance for Control of Hazardous Materials before
revision pursuant to Article 2 before the date of enforcement of item (i); the provisions thenin force shall remain applicable for a limited period up to the time of taking the said training
sessions notwithstanding the provision of Article 58‐14 paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of theOrdinance for Control of Hazardous Materials after the revision pursuant to Article 2.
(3) With regard to the details of the technical standards pertaining to guiding lamps which do
not conform to the provision of Article 28‐2 paragraph (2) item (iv) of the New Ordinanceamong guiding lamps at actually existing fire prevention properties or parts thereof at thetime of enforcement of the provision listed in item (ii) of the preceding article or fire preven‐tion properties or parts thereof actually under work for new construction, extension, recon‐
struction, relocation, repair or remodelling on the said date, the provisions then in force shallremain applicable for the period up to November 30, 2014.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 131 of September 22, 2011)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from October 1, 2011.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 16 of March 27, 2012)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 2012.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 91 of October 19, 2012)[Extract]
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 2013; provided, however, thatthe provisions listed in each of the following items shall come into effect as from the day listed ineach of the said items.
(ii)
Revised provisions of Article 1, Article 2‐2 and Article 3 of the Ministerial Ordinance for
Enforcement of the Fire Service Act in Article 1, revised provisions to change Article 4of the said ordinance to Article 3‐2 and to add one article after Article 3‐2, revised pro‐vision of Article 4‐2 of the said ordinance, revised provisions to change Article 4‐2 toArticle 4 and to add one article after Article 4, revised provisions of Article 4‐2‐4 andArticle 4‐2‐6 through Article 4‐2‐9 of the said ordinance, revised provisions of Article
51‐8, Article 51‐9 and Article 51‐11 of the said ordinance, revised provision to change
Article 51‐11 to Article 51‐11‐2 of the said ordinance, revised provision to add one arti‐
cle after Article 51‐10 of the said ordinance, revised provision to add one article after
Article 51‐11‐2 of the said ordinance, revised provisions of Article 51‐12, Article 51‐14
through Article 51‐19, Appended Form 1‐2 and Appended Form 1‐2‐2, revised provi‐sions to change Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐2 of the said ordinance to Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐234

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2‐3 and to add two appended forms after Appended Form 1‐2‐2, revised provisions todelete Appended Form 14 and Appended Form 15 of the said ordinance, to change Ap‐
pended Form 16 to Appended Form 14 and to change Appended Form 17 to Appended
Form 15 and the provision of Article 7: April 1, 2014
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 21 of March 27, 2013)[Extract](Effective Date)
Article 1
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 2014; provided,
however, that the provisions listed in each of the following items shall come into effect asfrom the day listed in each of the said items.
(i)
Revised provision to add one article after Article 11, the revised provisions of Article 12,
Article 13‐6 paragraph (3), Article 14 paragraph (1), Article 18 paragraph (4), Article 22
and Article 31 and the provisions of Article 2 paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Pro‐
visions: October 1, 2013
(ii)
Revised provisions of Article 5, Article 6 paragraph (1) and Article 10: April 1, 2015
(Transitional Measures)
Article 2With regard to the details of the technical standards pertaining to indoor fire
hydrant systems, sprinkler systems, foam fire extinguishing systems, outdoor fire hydrant
systems and fire department indoor fire hydrant systems which do not conform to the pro‐visions of Article 11‐2, Article 12, Article 13‐6, Article 18, Article 22 and Article 31 of the Min‐
isterial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision (hereinafter referred
to as “the New Ordinance” in the rest of this article) among those at actually existing fire
prevention properties or parts thereof at the time of enforcement of the provision of Article 1
item (i) of the Supplementary Provisions or fire prevention properties or parts thereof actu‐
ally under work for new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or re‐modelling on the said date or fire prevention properties or parts thereof of which work for
new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodelling will start by
March 31, 2014, the provisions then in force shall remain applicable notwithstanding theprovisions of the said articles.
(2) With regard to the details of the technical standards pertaining to electricity leakage and fire
alarm devices which do not conform to the provisions of Article 24‐3 of the New Ordinanceamong those at actually existing fire prevention properties or parts thereof at the time of en‐forcement of this Ministerial Ordinance or fire prevention properties or parts thereof actual‐ly under work for new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodel‐ling on the said date, the provisions then in force shall apply notwithstanding the provisionsof the said article.
(3) With regard to the details of the technical standards pertaining to auxiliary facilities for ra‐
dio communication which do not conform to the provisions of Article 31‐2‐2 of the New Or‐
dinance among those at actually existing fire prevention properties or parts thereof at thetime of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance or fire prevention properties or parts
thereof actually under work for new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, re‐pair or remodelling on the said date, the provisions then in force shall remain applicable up
to May 31, 2016 or the date determined by the fire chief (mayor in a municipality without afire defense headquarters) or the fire station chief, whichever comes first, within a period notexceeding two years and two months from the date of enforcement.

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Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 22 of March 27, 2013)[Extract](Effective Date)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 2014.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 23 of March 27, 2013)(Effective Date)
Article 1
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 2014.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 28 of March 27, 2013)This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 2013; provided, however, thatthe provisions of Article 4 shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 126 of December 27, 2013)(1) This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 2015; provided, however,that the revised provision of Article 13‐6 paragraph (3) item (vi) shall come into effect asfrom the date of promulgation.
(2) With regard to the standards concerning fire alarm systems linked to the fire department at
actually existing fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(b), row (16)‐(a), row (16‐2) and row (16‐3) [in the case of fire prevention properties listed in row (16)‐(a),row (16‐2) and row (16‐3) of the said table, limited to those where parts serving the purposesof fire prevention properties listed in row (6)‐(b) of the said table; the same shall apply in therest of this paragraph] at the time of enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance or fire pre‐vention properties listed in row (6)‐(b), row (16)‐(a), row (16‐2) and row (16‐3) actually un‐
der work for new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodellingon the said date, the provisions then in force shall remain applicable for the period up to
March 31, 2018 notwithstanding the provisions of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcementof the Fire Service Act after revision by this Ministerial Ordinance.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 128 of December 27, 2013)[Extract](Effective Date)
Article 1
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of enforcement(December 27, 2013) of the Act to Revise Parts of the Act on Special Measures Concerning
Advancement of Countermeasures Against Disasters of Tonankai and Nankai Earthquakes(Act No. 87 of 2013).
(Transitional Measures Following the Partial Revision of the Ministerial Ordinance for En‐
forcement of the Fire Service Act)
Article 3Parts specifying the matters listed in each item of Article 3 paragraph (6) of the
Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act before revision by this Minis‐
terial Ordinance of the fire defense plan prepared pursuant to the provisions of Article 8paragraph (1) and Article 8‐2 paragraph (1) of the Fire Service Act [including the case where
they are applied mutatis mutandis in Article 36 paragraph (1) of the Fire Service Act] before
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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Supplementary Provisions)listed in each item of Article 3 paragraph (6) of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of
the Fire Service Act after revision by this Ministerial Ordinance as long as they specify thematters listed in each item of Article 3 paragraph (6) of the Ministerial Ordinance for En‐
forcement of the Fire Service Act after revision by this Ministerial Ordinance.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 19 of March 26, 2014)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 2015; provided, however, thatthe revised provisions of Article 22 item (x)‐(b) and Article 44‐2 paragraph (2) item (ii) shall comeinto effect as from the date of promulgation.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 22 of March 27, 2014)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect on the date of enforcement (April 1, 2014) of theprovisions listed in Article 1 item (ii) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Concerning theDevelopment of Related Acts to Implement New Disabilities Insurance and Welfare Measures for
the Realization of Coexistence in the Local Community (Act No. 51 of 2012); provided, however,that the provision of Article 3 shall come into effect as from the date of promulgation.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 80 of October 16, 2014)[Extract](Effective Date)
April 1This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 2016; provided,
however, that the provision listed in each of the following items shall come into effect asfrom the day specified in each of the said items.
(i)Provision of Article 4 of the Supplementary Provisions: date of promulgation(ii)
Revised provision to change “gross area” in Article 12‐2 paragraph (1) item (i) of the
Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act in Article 1 to “referencearea” [meaning the total of the floor areas prescribed in Article 12 paragraph (2) item(iii‐2) of the Order. The same shall apply hereinafter in this paragraph, Article 13 para‐graph (3), Article 13‐5 paragraph (1) and Article 13‐6 paragraph (1)], revised provision
to change “gross area” in tem (ii) of the said paragraph and in Article 13 paragraph (3)item (ix‐2) of the said Order; revised provision of Article 13‐5 of the said Order, revised
provision to add one article after the said article and revised provisions of Article 13‐6
and Article 14 of the said Order and Article 2 paragraph (1) and Article 3 of the Sup‐
plementary Provisions: March 1, 2015
(Transitional Measures)
Article 2With regard to the technical standards concerning indoor fire hydrant systems,
sprinkler systems and power fire pump systems at actually existing fire prevention proper‐
ties listed in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(b), row (16)‐(a) and row (16‐2) of the Cabinet Orderfor Enforcement of the Fire Service Act after revision (referred to as “the New Order” in thefollowing paragraph) by the Cabinet Order to Revise Parts of the Cabinet Order for En‐
forcement of the Fire Service Act (Cabinet Order No. 333 of 2014) at the time of enforcementof the provision listed in item (ii) of the preceding article and fire prevention properties
listed in row (6)‐(b), row (16)‐(a) and row (16‐2) of the said table actually under work for
new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodelling on the saiddate, the provisions then in force shall remain applicable for the period up to March 31, 2018
notwithstanding the provision of Article 12‐2 paragraph (1) item (i) of the Ministerial Ordi‐
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(2) With regard to the standards concerning fire alarm systems linked to the fire department at
actually existing fire prevention properties listed in Appended Table 1, row (6)‐(a)‐1 and 2,
row (16)‐(a), row (16‐2) and row (16‐3) of the New Order (in the case of fire prevention prop‐
erties listed in row (16)‐(a), row (16‐2) and row (16‐3), limited to those with parts serving theintended purposes of fire prevention properties listed in row (6)‐(a)‐1 or 2 of the said table,
excluding those with parts serving the intended purposes of fire prevention properties listed
in row (6)‐(b) of the said table; the same shall apply in the rest of this paragraph) at the timeof enforcement of this Ministerial Ordinance and fire prevention properties actually underwork for new construction, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodelling on
the said date, the provisions then in force shall remain applicable for the period up to March
31, 2019 notwithstanding the provisions of Article 25 paragraph (1), paragraph (3) and para‐graph (4) of the New Ordinance.
Article 3With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed prior to theenforcement of the provisions prescribed in Article 1 item (ii) of the Supplementary Provi‐sions, the provisions then in force shall remain applicable.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 10 of February 27, 2015)[Extract](Effective Date)
Article 1
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 2015; provided,
however, that the provision listed in each of the following items shall come into effect asfrom the day specified in each of the said items.
(i)
Revised provision of Article 14 of the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire
Service Act in Article 1: March 1, 2015
(ii)
Provisions of Article 2, Article 3 and Article 2 of the Supplementary Provisions: April 1,
2016(Transitional Measures)
Article 2
When sprinkler systems for apartments at actually existing specified apartments,
etc. [meaning specified apartments, etc. prescribed in Article 2 item (i) of the Ministerial Or‐
dinance Concerning Equipment, etc. Used for Fire Defense Which Have the Required Fire
Prevention and Safety Performance at Specified Apartments, etc. after revision (hereinafterreferred to as “the New Ordinance” in this article) by the provision of Article 3 and limited
to parts of specified welfare facilities, etc. prescribed in item (i‐3) of the said article which ex‐
ist on the tenth or lower floors of those having 11 or more floors excluding basements; thesame shall apply hereinafter] at the time of enforcement of the provision listed in item (ii) of
the preceding article and specified apartments, etc. actually under work for new construc‐tion, extension, reconstruction, relocation, repair or remodelling on the said date do not con‐form to the provision of Article 3 paragraph (3) item (ii)‐(a) of the New Ordinance, the pro‐visions then in force shall remain applicable for the period up to March 31, 2018 for normallyused fire defense equipment, etc. listed in the middle column of the table in paragraph (2) of
the said article and equipment, etc. used for fire defense which have the required fire pre‐vention and safety performance listed in the right‐hand column of the said table notwith‐standing the provisions of the said paragraph and paragraph (3) item (ii)‐(a) of the said arti‐
cle.

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Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 35 of March 31, 2015)[Extract](Effective Date)
Article 1
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of enforcementof the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in the Administrative Pro‐
cedure.
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 53 of May 29, 2015)
This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from the date of enforcement of the Act Par‐
tially Amending the Building Standards Act (June 1, 2015).
Supplementary Provisions (Ordinance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communica‐
tions No. 10 of February 24, 2016)[Extract](Effective Date)
1. This Ministerial Ordinance shall come into effect as from April 1, 2016; provided, however,that the revised provisions of Article 26 shall come into effect as from the date of enforce‐
ment (June 1, 2016) of the Cabinet Order Partially Amending the Ministerial Ordinance for
Enforcement of the Building Standards Act and the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcementof the Local Autonomy Act, and the provisions of the following paragraph shall come into
effect from the date of promulgation.

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Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Table 1)
Appended Table 1(Re: Article 4‐2‐7)< Certificate of Completed Checking of Fire Prevention Control Point>

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. The unit for figures is millimeters.
3. The colors shall be white for the background and other colors for others other than the
background as shown in the following table.

①
②
③
④

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Name of Color Tone
Vivid green
Light green
Vivid yellowish red
Pale reddish yellow

JIS Z8102
Code
vv‐G
It‐G
vv‐YR
pl‐rY

Standard Color Chart Value
5.0 G5.5 / 10.0
5.0G7.5 / 7.5
5.0YR 6.0 / 14.0
10.0 YR 8.5 / 5.5

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Table 1‐2)
Appended Table 1‐2(Re: Article 4‐2‐9)< Certificate of Excellent Compliance for Fire Prevention >Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. The unit for figures is millimeters.
3. The colors shall be navy blue for the background and other colors for others other thanthe background as shown in the following table.

①

Name of Color Tone
Vivid yellow

JIS Z8102
Code
vv‐Y

Standard Color Tone Value
5.0 Y 8.0 / 14.00

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Appended Table 1‐2‐2(Re: Article 4‐4)Type of Fire Retardant Goods(1) Cloth blinds, plywood for display, drop curtains and other similar
curtains used on stage, plywood used for large props on stage, con‐struction sheets and materials thereofFire Retardant Label(2) Rugs, etc. and materials thereof(3) Fire retardant
goods otherthan thoselisted in (1)and (2) above(i) Those conforming
to the standards forthe washing re‐sistance perfor‐
mance pertaining to
the fire retardancy
as specified by theCommissioner of
the Fire and Disaster
Management Agen‐cy(1) Those conforming
to the standards forwashing in waterand dry cleaning(2) Those conforming
to the standards forwashing in water(3) Those conforming
to the standards fordry cleaning(ii) Other than those listed in (i)Remarks
1. The unit for numerical figures shown in the fire retardant label column is millimeters.
2. The colors used for these labels shall be white for the background, red for ʺFIRE RE‐
TARDANTʺ, black for FDMA Registration No.ʺ and ʺName of Registered Confirmation
Bodyʺ, green for other letters and black for horizontal lines.
3. In the case where confirmation by a registered confirmation body has not been conductedor the name of the registered confirmation body is not stated even though confirmationby the said registered confirmation body has been conducted, the name of the person
who confirmed the fire retardant performance himself/herself instead of the name of theregistered confirmation body.

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Appended Table 1‐2‐3(Re: Article 23)

Category of Detector Installation Place

Type of Detector

Type 1 or Type 2
Rate‐of‐Rise
Spot Type

Places listed in Article 23,
paragraph (4), item (i)‐(d)‐2.

Type 1 or Type 2
Rate‐of‐Rise
Line TypeSpecial or Type 1
Fixed Tempera‐ture Type○○

Places listed in Article 23,
paragraph (4), item (i)‐(d)‐3.

○Places listed in Article 23,
paragraph (4), item (i)‐(d)‐4.

○Places listed in Article 23,
paragraph (4), item (i)‐(d)‐6.

○

○

○

Places listed in Article 23,
paragraph (4), item (i)‐(d)‐7.

○○

Places listed in Article 23,
paragraph (4), item (e)‐2.

○○Type 1 or Type 2
Compensatory
Spot Type○

Remarks
1. A circle indicates that the type of detector listed in the corresponding column is suitable
for the category of detector installation place in the corresponding row.
2. The fixed temperature detector to be installed at the places listed in Article 23, paragraph(4), item (i)‐(d)‐2. shall be either the acid resistant type or the alkali resistant type depend‐ing on the property of corrosive gas.
3. The fixed temperature detector to be installed at the places listed in Article 23, paragraph(4), item (i)‐(a)‐2., 3., 6. and 7. shall be that of which the nominal working temperature is
75C or lower.
4. The fixed temperature detector to be installed at the places listed in Article 23, paragraph(4), item (i)‐(d)‐7. or (e)‐2. of the said item shall be the waterproof type.
5. The rate‐of‐rise line type detector to be installed at the places listed in Article 23, para‐graph (4), item (i)‐(e)‐2. shall be limited to Type 2.

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Appended Table 1‐3(Re: Article 34)
Fire Defense Signals
MethodSignalCategory
Fire Signals

Type

Gong Signals

Neighborhood fire signal:
within some 800 meters ofa fire corps volunteer sta‐tion

(Continuous gongs)

Call‐out signal:
within the response areaof a fire station, substationor fire corps station
Reinforcement signal:
outside response from afire station, sub‐station orfire corps station on spe‐cial alarm
Reporting signal:
on the detection of a fireoutside the response area
Fire extinguished signal

Siren Signals
Without Reso‐nance
About 3 sec.

Other Signals

About 2 sec.
(continuous blaresin short bursts)
About 5 sec.
(3 gongs)
About 6 sec.
(2 gongs)(single gong)(Alternation of one
gong and two gongs)
Forest Fire
Signals

Fire Alarm
Signals

Call‐out signal:
within the response areaof a fire station, sub‐station or fire corps station
Reinforcement signal:
outside response from afire station, sub‐station orfire corps station on spe‐cial alarm
Fire alarm issue signal

About 10 sec.
(Alternation of threegongs and two gongs)
Ditto

About 2 sec.
Ditto

About 30 sec.
(Alternation of single
gong and four gongs)

SignboardFire Alarm
Issued at Present

About 6 sec.
White letters on
red background,
optional configu‐
ration and size
Stremer
white

red
red

red
white

Fire all‐clear signal(Alternation of 2 single
gongs and two gongs)
Muster Drill
SignalRemarks

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About
10sec.

About
1min.

About 3 sec.
About 15 sec.

Muster drill signal(Alternation of single
gong and three gongs)

Flag

white

Vocal communi‐
cation; removal of
the signboard or
lowering of theflag or streamer

About 6 sec.
1. One or two or more types of signals may be simultaneously used for a fire alarm issue sig‐
nal and fire all‐clear signal.
2. The duration of signals shall be that which is deemed to be appropriate.
3. A neighborhood fire signal may be used for the emergency call for firefighters or fire corps
volunteers.

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Appended Table 1‐4(Re: Article 34‐2)< Water Source for Fire Defense >Remarks
1. The colors shall be white for letters and edges, red for the frame and blue for the back‐ground and reflective paint shall be used in principle.
2. In the case where it is extremely difficult or inappropriate to place a signboard as illus‐
trated here, a different method may be used.

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Appended Table 2(Re: Article 35)
Type of Machine or Tool, etc.
Subject to Inspection

Type of Samples

Fire extinguisher

Finished product

Fire extinguishing
agent

Fire extinguishing agent for
fire extinguisher
Foam fire extinguishing
agent
Rate‐of‐rise spot
type or heat‐smoke com‐bined spot type
Rate‐of‐rise line
type

Detector

Fire alarm system

Fixed tempera‐ture spot type orheat sensing
spot type ana‐
logue detector
Ionisation spot
type or ionisation
spot type ana‐
logue detector

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For First Test
9 units (3 units for the in‐vehicle type;
33 units for the type which does notallow refilling of the fire extinguish‐
ing agent)
24 units (limited to the type whichallows refilling of the fire extin‐
guishing agent (18 units for the typefor an ordinary fire or oil fire))

For Second Test
20 units (10 units
for the in‐vehicle
type)
3 units for the in‐vehicle typePressurising gas
container withfilled pressurisinggas
Corrosion resistantpaint test piece of
15 cm in lengthand 5 cm in width
Finished product32 units (limited to the type whichallows refilling of the fire extin‐
guishing agent (26 units for the typefor an ordinary fire or oil fire)
5 pieces of 0.3 cm in thickness and15 pieces of which the painting
thickness is the same as that for afire extinguisher
10 units

Finished product100 liters (200 liters for synthetic
resin surfactant)Finished productResin test piece

12 units
10 pieces of 15 cm in length, 1.3 cm inwidth and 0.3 cm in thickness

20 units

Finished productAir sampling pipe

12 units
10 units of 35 cm in overall lengthwith a connection at the center us‐
ing couplings and one unit of 100
meters in overall length
10 pieces of 15 cm in length, 1.3 cm inwidth and 0.3 cm in thickness

20 units

Finished productaccompanied by 3
terminal strips toconnect the line
Resin test piece

51 meters

100 meters

Finished product12 units (51 units for single use
type)
10 pieces of 15 cm in length, 1.3 cm inwidth and 0.3 cm in thickness

20 units

12 units
3 units
10 pieces of 15 cm in length, 1.3 cm inwidth and 0.3 cm in thickness

20 units

Resin test piece
Fixed tempera‐ture line type

Quantity of Samples

Resin test piece

Finished product
Electric bulb
Resin test piece

3 units for the in‐vehicle type

20 units (10 units
for a large fire
extinguisher)
1,000 liters

10 pieces of 15 cm in length, 1.3 cm inwidth and 0.3 cm in thickness

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Table 2)
Type of Machine or Tool, etc.
Subject to Inspection
Photoelectric
spot type or
photoelectric
spot type ana‐
logue detector

Detector

Fire alarm system

Projected beam
type or photo‐voltaic analogue
type

Smoke com‐bined spot typeor heat‐smoke
combined spot
type

Ultraviolet spot
type

For First Test

For Second Test

Finished product12 units (6 units for the light extinc‐tion type)

20 units (10 units
for the light ex‐
tinction type)Light emitting
element
Light receiving
element
Electron tube
Electric bulb
Resin test piece

3 units

Finished product
Light emitting
element
Light receiving
element
Electron tube

6 units
3 units

Electric bulb
Resin test piece

3 units
10 pieces of 15 cm in length, 1.3 cm inwidth and 0.3 cm in thickness

Finished product12 units (6 units for the light extrac‐
tion type)Light emitting
element
Light receiving
element
Electron tube
Electric bulb
Resin test piece

3 units

Finished product
Light emitting
element
Light receiving
element
Electron tube
Electric bulb
Resin test piece

Infrared spot
type

Quantity of Samples

Type of Samples

Finished product
Light emitting
element
Light receiving
element
Electron tube
Electric bulb
Resin test piece

3 units
3 units
3 units
10 pieces of 15 cm in length, 1.3 cm inwidth and 0.3 cm in thickness
10 units

3 units
3 units

20 units (10 units
for the light extrac‐
tion type)3 units
3 units
3 units
10 pieces of 15 cm in length, 1.3 cm inwidth and 0.3 cm in thickness
6 units
3 units

10 units

3 units
3 units
3 units
10 pieces of 15 cm in length, 1.3 cm inwidth and 0.3 cm in thickness
6 units
3 units

10 units

3 units
3 units
3 units
10 pieces of 15 cm in length, 1.3 cm inwidth and 0.3 cm in thickness

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Type of Machine or Tool, etc.
Subject to Inspection

Flame combined
spot typeFire alarm system

Detector

UV‐IR com‐bined spot type

Electric manual call point

RepeaterFinished product
Light emitting
element
Light receiving
element
Electron tube
Electric bulb
Resin test piece
Finished product
Light emitting
element
Light receiving
element
Electron tube
Electric bulb
Resin test piece
Finished productTerminator
SwitchProtective plate
Protective device
Electric bulb
Electromagnetic
code electricmanual call point
Resin test piece
Finished productTerminator
Electric bulb
Electromagnetic
code electricmanual call point
SwitchElectrical indicat‐
ing meter
Storage battery
Power supply
transformer
Resin test piece
Receiver248

Quantity of Samples

Type of Samples

Finished product

For First Test
6 units
3 units

For Second Test
10 units

3 units
3 units
3 units
10 pieces of 15 cm in length, 1.3 cm inwidth and 0.3 cm in thickness
6 units
3 units

10 units

3 units
3 units
3 units
10 pieces of 15 cm in length, 1.3 cm inwidth and 0.3 cm in thickness
3 units
3 units
3 units
3 units
3 unit3 units
3 units

10 pieces of 15 cm in length, 1.3 cm inwidth and 0.3 cm in thickness
Quantity which is sufficient for 10 ormore lines (3 if the quantity exceeds 3)

10 units

Quantity which is
sufficient for 10 ormore lines

3 units
3 units
3 units

3 units
3 units
3 units
3 units
10 pieces of 15 cm in length, 1.3 cm inwidth and 0.3 cm in thickness
1 unit1 unit (in the case of
the P‐type, G‐type
and GP‐type, quan‐tity which is suffi‐
cient for 20 or morelines) (5 if the quan‐tity exceeds 5)

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Table 2)
Type of Machine or Tool, etc.
Subject to Inspection

Terminator
Electric bulb
Electromagnetic
code electricmanual call point
Sounding device
Storage battery
SwitchElectrical indicat‐
ing meter
Power supply
transformer
Resin test piece
Disaster prevention alarmfor residence(s)Quantity of Samples

Type of Samples

For First Test
3 units
3 units

3 units

3 units
3 units
3 units
3 units
3 units
10 pieces of 15 cm in length, 1.3 cm inwidth and 0.3 cm in thickness
7 units
3 units

Closed type sprinkler head
Water flow detection device

Finished productPower supply
transformer
Finished productFinished product

Deluge valve

Finished product2 units (1 unit for a product ofwhich the inside diameter is 200
mm or more)

Metal escape ladder

Finished product
Test piece of
1 meter in length
Hook
Finished productRope

3 units
3 units

Descender

For Second Test

50 units
2 units (1 unit for a product ofwhich the inside diameter is 200
mm or more)

3 unit3 units
2 ropes

20 units

20 units
5 units (1 unit for a
product of which
the inside diameter
exceeds 150 mm or
2 units for a prod‐
uct of which theinside diameter is
100 mm or more
but 150 mm or less)
5 units (1 unit for a
product of which
the inside diameter
exceeds 150 mm or
2 units for a prod‐
uct of which theinside diameter is
100 mm or more
but 150 mm or less)10 units

5 units

Remarks
1. Anti‐corrosion test pieces for a fire extinguisher shall only need to be submitted for thetype of fire extinguisher where the inner surface of the main body is given anti‐corrosion
treatment using paint.
2. In the case where the automatic recording device of a receiver of a fire alarm system is theperforator type or printer type, fire recorded sheets shall be attached.
3. A detector, electric manual call point, repeater or receiver of a fire alarm system or a dis‐
aster prevention alarm for residence(s) shall only need to be submitted when they areused as components unless they are finished products.

249

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Table 3)
Appended Table 3(Re: Article 40)
Type of Machine or Tool, Etc. Subject to Inspection
Fire extinguisher
Detector or electric manual call point of fire alarm system
Repeater
Receiver
Metal escape ladder

Descender

Fire extinguishing agent for fire extinguisher
Foam fire extinguishing foam

Closed type sprinkler head

Water flow detection device
Deluge valve
Disaster prevention alarm for residence(s)250Label Design

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Table 4)
Appended Table 4(Re. Article 44)
Type of Machine or Tool, Etc. Subject to Self‐Labelling

Label Design

Power pump for fire defense

Fire hose

Suction pipe for fire defense

Coupling

Aerosol type disposable fire extinguisher
Current transformer or receiver of electrical leakage and alarm
device251

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Table 5)
Appended Table 5(Re: Article 51‐15)< Certificate of Completed Checking of Fire Prevention Control Point >Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. The unit for figures is millimeters.
3. The colors shall be white for the background and other colors for others other than the
background as shown in the following table.

①
②
③
④

252

Name of Color Tone
Vivid green
Light green
Vivid yellowish red
Pale reddish yellow

JIS Z8102
Code
vv‐G
It‐G
vv‐YR
pl‐rY

Standard Color Chart Value
5.0 G5.5 / 10.0
5.0G7.5 / 7.5
5.0YR 6.0 / 14.0
10.0 YR 8.5 / 5.5

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Table 6)
Appended Table 6(Re: Article 51‐17)< Certificate of Excellent Compliance for Fire Prevention >Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. The unit for figures is millimeters.
3. The colors shall be navy blue for the background and other colors for others other thanthe background as shown in the following table.

①

Name of Color Tone
Vivid yellow

JIS Z8102
Code
VV‐Y

Standard Color Chart Value
5.0 Y 8.0 / 14.00

253

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Table 7)
Appended Table 7(Re: Article 51‐18)< Certificate of Completed Checking of Fire /Disaster Protection Control Point >Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. The unit for figures is millimeters.
3. The colors shall be white for the background and other colors for others other than the
background as shown in the following table.

①
②
③
④

254

Name of Color Tone
Vivid green
Light green
Vivid yellowish red
Pale reddish yellow

JIS Z8102
Code
vv‐G
It‐G
vv‐YR
pl‐rY

Standard Color Chart Value
5.0 G5.5 / 10.0
5.0G7.5 / 7.5
5.0YR 6.0 / 14.0
10.0 YR 8.5 / 5.5

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Table 8)
Appended Table 8(Re: Article 51‐19)< Certificate of Excellent Compliance for Fire /Disaster Protection >Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. The unit for figures is millimeters.
3. The colors shall be navy blue for the background and other colors for others other thanthe background as shown in the following table.

①

Name of Color Tone
Vivid yellow

JIS Z8102
Code
VV‐Y

Standard Color Chart Value
5.0 Y 8.0 / 14.00

255

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1)
Appended Form 1(Re: Article 2‐3)No.
Certificate of Training Completion
Name :
Date of Birth :This is to certify that you have successfully completed a course of Training Sessions
for ClassFire Prevention Management set up pursuant to the provision of Article
3, paragraph (1), item ( ) of the Order for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act.

Date:

256

Municipal Fire Chief

Seal(Prefectural Governor)

Seal

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐2)
Appended Form 1‐2(Re: Article 3, 51‐8)

Notification on Preparation of (or Changes of) Fire Defense Plan
Date :
To: Fire Chief (Fire Station Chief) (Municipal Mayor)
Fire /Disaster protection manager
Address
Seal

Name

Title Holder for Management
Address(Name of the company and name of the rep‐resentative in the case of a juridical person)
Seal

Name

I hereby submit a notification on the preparation of (or changes of) a fire defense planpertaining to fire /disaster protection management as attached hereto.
Location of fire prevention property
or building or other structure
Name of fire prevention property
or building or other structure(in the case of a change,
the name after the change)
Intended purpose of fire prevention property

Appended Table 1,

or building or other structurerow ( ) of the Order(in the case of a change,
the intended purpose after the change)
Other necessary matters(major changes in the case of changes)* Column for reception* Column for processing

Remarks:
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. Delete irrelevant letters in the case of “fire /disaster protection”.
3. Do not make any entries in the asterisked columns.

257

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐2‐2)
Appended Form 1‐2‐2(Re: Article 3‐2, 51‐9)

Notification on Appointment (Dismissal) of Fire /Disaster Protection Manager
Date :
To: Fire Chief (Fire Station Chief) (Municipal Mayor)
Notified byAddress(Name of the company and name of the rep‐resentative in the case of a juridical person)
Seal

Name

I hereby submit a notification on the appointment (dismissal) of a fire /disaster pro‐tection manager as detailed in the following.

Fire prevention property
or building
or other structure

Details
Location
Name
Intended purpose
Type
□A □B
Classification* Subject to application of Article 2of the Order* Subject to application of Article 3,
paragraph (3) of the OrderTel (Appended Table 1, row ( ) of the Order
Capacity
Management title□ Single Multiple titles
Name
Intended purpose
CapacityClass
Training
Sessions Training Body
Date of completion
Others(Year) (Month) (Day)(Year) (Month) (Day)□ Class A (□Fresh/ □Refresher) □ Disaster protection□B(□Fresh/ □Refresher)(Year) (Month) (Day)
Article 3, paragraph(1), item ( )of the Order
Article 2, item ( ) of the Ordi‐
nance(Year) (Month) (Day)
Article 47, paragraph(1), item( ) of the Order
Article 51‐5, item ( ) of the Or‐
dinance

Name
Date of dismissal(Year) (Month) (Day)

Reason for dismissal

Other necessary matters** Column for reception

258

Born

Address
Date of appointment
Position in office

Qualification

Appointment
Dismissal

Fire/disaster protection manager

Name and date of birth)** Column for progressMinisterial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐2‐2)
Remarks:
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. Delete irrelevant letters in the case of “fire /disaster protection” by drawing a line
through them.
3. Entries in a column marked with an asterisk (*) shall be made for each fire prevention
property set forth in Article 1‐2 of the Order situated on the same premises in the case of
those to which the provision of Article 2 of the said Order is applied or each part belong‐
ing to each management title in the case of those to which the provision of Article 3, par‐agraph (3) of the said Order is applied.
4. In the case of fire prevention properties set forth in Article 1‐2, paragraph (3), item (ii)and item (iii) of the Order, the size of a fire prevention property upon the completion of
the construction work shall be entered in the column ʺOther necessary mattersʺ.
5. In the case of the application of Article 3, paragraph (2) or text shown in parentheses in
Article 47 of the said Order, the reason why neither a person in a managerial position nor
a person in a supervisory position can properly conduct the necessary work for fire pre‐vention as well as disaster prevention management should be entered in the column
ʺOther necessary mattersʺ.
6. In columns with □ mark, tick (✓) the relevant □.
7. No entries should be made in the double‐asterisked (**) columns.

259

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐2)
Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐2(Re: Article 4, 51‐11‐2)

Notification on the Preparation (Changes) of a Fire Defense planfor the Entire Fire Prevention Property
Date :
To: Fire Chief (Fire Station Chief) (Municipal Mayor)
Fire /Disaster Protection Manager
Address
Seal

Name

Title Holder for Management
Address(Name of the company and name of the rep‐resentative in the case of a juridical person)
Seal

Name

I hereby submit a notification on the preparation (changes) of a fire defence plan per‐taining to the fire defense/disaster defense management for the entire fire prevention
property as attached hereto.
Location of fire prevention property
or building or other structure
Name of fire prevention property
or building or other structure
Intended purpose of fire prevention property

Appended Table 1,

or building or other structurerow ( ) of the Order(in the case of a change,
the intended purpose after the change)
Other necessary matters* Column for reception* Column for processing

Remarks:
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. Delete irrelevant letters in the case of “fire /disaster protection” by drawing a line throughthem.
3. Do not make any entries in the asterisked columns.
260

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐2‐2)
Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐2‐2(Re: Article 4‐2, 51‐11‐3)

Notification on Appointment (Dismissal) of
Fire/Disaster Protection Management Supervisor
Date :
To: Fire Chief (Fire Station Chief) (Municipal Mayor)
Notified byAddress(Name of the company and name of the rep‐resentative in the case of a juridical person)
Seal

Name

I hereby submit a notification on the appointment (dismissal) of a fire /disaster pro‐tection management supervisor as detailed in the following.

Location
Name

Tel (

Intended purpose
Type

□A □B

Capacity
Born

Address
Date of appointment

Qualification

Appointment)

Appended Table 1, row ( ) of the Order

Name and date of birth

Dismissal

Fire/Disaster Prevention Management Supervisor

Fire prevention
property

DetailsClass
Training
Sessions Training Body
Date of completion
Others(Year) (Month) (Day)(Year) (Month) (Day)□ Training sessions on disasterprevention management□ Class A □ B(Year) (Month) (Day)□ Article 3, paragraph(1), item( ) of the Order□ Article 2, item ( ) of the Ordi‐
nance(Year) (Month) (Day)□ Article 47, paragraph(1), item( ) of the Order□ Article 51‐5, item ( ) of theOrdinance

Name
Date of dismissal(Year) (Month) (Day)

Reason for dismissal

Other necessary matters** Column for reception** Column for progress

Remarks:
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. Delete irrelevant letters in the case of “fire /disaster protection” by drawing a line
through them.
3. In columns with □ mark, tick (✓) the relevant □.
4. No entries should be made in the double‐asterisked (**) columns.

261

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐2‐3)
Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐2‐3(Re: Article 4‐2‐8)

Application for Certification of Reporting on Checking of Property
under Fire Prevention Measures Under Special Provisions
Date :
To: Fire Chief (Fire Station Chief) (Municipal Mayor)
ApplicantAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofSeal

a juridical person)

I hereby submit an application for certification under the provision of Article 8‐2‐3,
paragraph (1) of the Fire Service Act pursuant to the provision of paragraph (2) of
the said article as detailed in the following.
Details
Fire prevention property

Location
Name
Intended pur‐Appended Table 1,poserow ( ) of the Order

Capacity

Management title

Subject to the applica‐

Name

Single or multiple titles

Intended Purpose

tion of Article 2 of theFire Service Act
Date of commencement of(Year)(Month)(Day)(Year)(Month)(Day)management of fire preven‐tion property by the appli‐cantDate of previous certification
under special provisions
Other necessary matters* Column for reception* Column for processing

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. No entries should be made in the asterisked (*) columns.

262

Capacity

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐3)
Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐3(Re: Article 4‐2‐8)

Notification of Change of Title Holder for Management
Date :
To: Fire Chief (Fire Station Chief) (Municipal Mayor)
Notified byAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofSeal

a juridical person)

I hereby submit a notification of the change of the title holder for management for afire prevention property pursuant to the provision of Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (5) of
the Fire Service Act as detailed in the following.
Details
Fire prevention property

Location
Name
Intended purpose

Appended Table 1,row ( ) of the Order

Title holder for man‐

Address

agement before change

Name
Tel

Title holder for man‐

Address

agement after change

Name
Tel

Date of certification of fire prevention property(Year)(Month)(Day)(Year)(Month)(Day)

under special provisions
Date of change
Other necessary matters* Column for reception* Column for processing

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. No entries should be made in the asterisked (*) columns.

263

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐3‐2)
Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐3‐2(Re: Article 4‐2‐14)No.
Certificate of Training Completion
Name :
Date of Birth :This is to certify that you have successfully completed ( ) training sessions on fire
defense operations for self‐protection set up pursuant to the provision of Article 4‐2‐
8, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Order for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act.
Date:

264

Municipal Fire Chief

Seal(Prefectural Governor)

Seal(Registered Training Body)

Seal

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐3‐3)Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐3‐3(Re: Article 4‐2‐15)

Notification on Establishment (Change) of Fire Defense Organization for Self‐Protection
Date :
To: Fire Chief (Fire Station Chief) (Municipal Mayor)
Title Holder for Management
Address
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofa juridical person)

Seal

I hereby submit a notification of the establishment (change) of a fire defense organi‐zation for self‐protection as detailed in the following.
Details
Location of fire prevention property
Name of fire prevention property (name after change
in the case of notifying a change)
Intended purpose of the said property(main change in the case of notifying a change)
Total area and number of floors of the said property(main change in the case of notifying a change)
Extent of the title concerned in the case of multiple
management titles
Organization of the internal body of fire defense or‐
ganization for self‐protection
Deployment of staff of fire defense organization forself‐protection
Name and address of supervisor

Name
Address

Equipment held by fire defense organization for self‐
protection* Column for reception* Column for progress

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. No entries should be made in the asterisked (*) columns.

265

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐4)
Appended Form 1‐2‐2‐4(Re: Article 4‐4)Application for Authorization of Person to Affix a Flame Retardant Label
Date :
To: Fire Chief (Fire Station Chief) (Municipal Mayor)
ApplicantAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofa juridical person)

Seal

I hereby submit an application for the registration of a person to affix a fire retardantlabel pursuant to the provision of Article 8‐3, paragraph (2) of the Fire Service Act asdetailed in the following.
Details
Type of businessType of fire retardant goods to which a label is to be affixed
1 Manufactur‐ 1 Curtains
2 Cloth blinds
3 Stage curtains
4 Rugs, etc.
ing
5 Plywood
6 Drop curtains
7 Construction sheets
2 Fire retardant 1 Curtains Material 2 ClothMaterial 3 Stage
Material 4 Plywood
treatment
blindscurtains
Finished
Finished
Finishedproduct
product
product
5 Thick
Material 6 Construc‐ Material
stage cur‐ Finishedtion
Finished
tains
sheetsproduct
product
3 Import and1 Curtains Material 2 ClothMaterial 3 Stage
Material 4 Rugs, etc.
sale
blindscurtains
Finished
Finished
Finishedproduct
product
product
5 Plywood Material 6 Drop
Material 7 Construc‐ Material
curtains
tion sheets FinishedFinished
Finishedproduct
product
product
4. Cutting, fabrication, sewing
Name and location of plant, workshop or store for Manufacturing
manufacture, treatment, cutting, fabrication, sewing Fire retardant treatment
or import and sale of fire retardant goods
Import and saleCutting/fabrication/sewing* Column for reception* Column for processing

Material
Finishedproduct

Material
Finishedproduct

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. In the column ʺType of fire retardant goods to which a label is to be affixed, circle whichever item is applicable. Circle ʺFinished productʺ if the item is a good under the flame re‐tardancy requirement or ʺmaterialʺ if the item is a material for a good under the fire re‐tardancy requirement.
3. No entries should be made in the asterisked (*) columns.

266

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐2‐3)
Appended Form 1‐2‐3(Re: Article 31‐3)

Notification on Installation of Fire Defense Equipment, etc.
(Special Fire Defense Equipment, etc.)
Date :
To: Fire Chief (Fire Station Chief) (Municipal Mayor)
Notified byAddressName

Seal

I hereby submit a notification pursuant to the provision of Article 17‐3‐2 of the Fire
Service Act as I have installed fire defense equipment, etc. (special fire defense
equipment, etc.) as detailed in the following.
Details

Property underfire prevention
measures

Installed byAddressName
Location
Name
Intended purpose
Structure and size

Tel (

)

Type of construction ();
floors above the ground andBasement floors
Floor area
m2 Total aream2

Construction work

Type of fire defense equipment, etc.
(special fire defense equipment, etc.)
Type of work
New construction/extension/relocation/replacement/remodeling/other ( )Tel ()
Address and name Addressof designer
Name
Tel (
)
Address and name Addressof constructor
Name
Address
Name
Fire defense
Date ofState of undergoing
equipment techni‐
Issuing prefec‐
issue
training sessions
Type, etc.
ciantural governor
LicenseIssue No.
Location
Date
A･B
Type Prefecture
Prefecture
Date of construction started
Date of construction completed
Date of inspection desired* Column for reception* Column for decision* Remarks

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. The design documents for fire defense equipment, etc. or design documents for special
fire defense equipment, etc. shall be attached to this notification form for each type of fire
defense equipment, etc. or special fire defense equipment, etc.
3. No entries should be made in the asterisked (*) columns.

267

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Separate Form 1‐2‐3‐2)
Separate Form 1‐2‐3‐2(Re: Article 31‐3)

Certificate of Completed Inspection of Fire Defense Equipment, etc./
Special Fire Defense Equipment, etc.

No :Date :
To: Fire Chief (Fire Station Chief) (Municipal Mayor)

Seal

This is to certify that the following fire defense equipment, etc./special fire defense
equipment, etc. conforms to the technical standards prescribed in Article 17 of theFire Service Act or an equipment installation and maintenance plan.
Details
ApplicantAddressName
LocationFire prevention
property

Name
Intended purpose
Structure and size

floors above the ground andFloor area

m Total area2

basement floorsm2Type of fire defense equipment, etc./
Special fire defense equipment, etc.
Date of inspection
Inspector

Title

Title and name (seal)

Name

Seal

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. When either fire defense equipment, etc. or special fire defense equipment, etc. is in‐stalled, delete the type of equipment which is not installed.

268

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐2‐4)
Appended Form 1‐2‐4(Re: Article 33‐4)

Application for Issue of Fire Defense Equipment Technicianʹs License
Date of application:
To: Prefectural Governor
Applicant
TEL
Work, etc.
Extension ()

Home or mobile

Address
in kana

Domicile of origin

Name

Prefecture

Date of birth

Born (Year)(Month) (Day)(Year)(Month) (Day)Date of examination conductedType of examination passed

Type, Category* Column for reception* Column for fee

and designated category
Identification number in exam‐
inationLicense in possession* Column for processing

Status of application to gover‐nor of another prefecture
Remarks
1. The name of the prefecture in which the domicile of origin is located shall be entered in
the column ʺDomicile of originʺ. A person of foreign nationality shall enter ʺforeign na‐
tionalʺ in this column.
2. A person in possession of a fire defense equipment technicianʹs license shall enter thetype of the said license and designated category in the column ʺLicense in possessionʺ.
3. When an application to a governor of another prefecture for the issue of a license is inprogress, the name of the said other prefecture and type of license for which an applica‐tion is made shall be entered in the column ʺStatus of application to governor of anotherprefectureʺ.
4. No entries should be made in the asterisked (*) columns.

269

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐3)
Appended Form 1‐3(Re: Article 33‐5)

Remarks
1. ʺClass A Special Typeʺ, ʺClass A Type 1ʺ, ʺClass A Type 2ʺ, ʺClass A Type 3ʺ, ʺClass A
Type 4ʺ, ʺClass A Type 5ʺ, ʺClass B Type 1ʺ, ʺClass B Type 2ʺ, Class B Type 3, ʺClass B
Type 4ʺ, ʺClass B Type 5ʺ, ʺClass B Type 6ʺ and ʺClass B Type 7ʺ in the column ʺClass andTypeʺ mean either a Class A fire defense equipment technicianʹs license or a Class B fire
defense equipment technicianʹs license with the designated category of Special Type,Type 1, Type 2, Type 4, Type 4, Type 5, Type 6 or Type 7.
2. A white plastic card should be used with the back side treated to prevent the easy eradi‐
cation of the letters written and the stamp after preparation of the license.

270

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐4)
Appended Form 1‐4(Re: Article 33‐6, 33‐7)

Application for Revision/Reissue of Fire Defense Equipment Technicianʹs License
To: Prefectural Governor
in kana
Name of appli‐cantDate of birth

Date of application(Year)

Postcode－(Month)(Year)(Day)(Month)Domicile of origin(Day)

PrefectureHome or mobile phone number
Workplace phone number

Address

Contact phone number
Extension ( )○ Application item (Circle the relevant item (Item 1 through Item 4 for revision and Item 5 through Item 8 forreason for reissue) and enter the old entry in the case of Item 1 through Item 3.)

1. NameRevision

2. Domicile of origin* Column for fee* Column for progress

Fire defense equipment technicianʹs license
in possession

3. Date of birth
4. Photo

Old name in kana
Old name
Old domicile Prefecture oforiginOld date of birthRea‐
son forreissue

Date of
Issue

Issue No.

Class and TypeClass A Special TypeClass A Type 1
Class A Type 2Class A Type 3
Class A Type 4Class A Type 5Class B Type 1
Class B Type 2Class B Type 3
Class B Type 4Class B Type 5Class B Type 6
Class B Type 7* Date of Issue

5. Lost6. Destroyed
7. Stained
8. Damaged

Issuing Prefec‐
tural Governor* Receipt No.

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. The name of the prefecture in which the domicile of origin is located shall be entered in
the column ʺDomicile of originʺ. A person of foreign nationality shall enter ʺforeign na‐
tionalʺ in this column.
3. No entries should be made in the asterisked (*) columns.

271

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐5)
Appended Form 1‐5

Deleted272

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐6)
Appended Form 1‐6(Re: Article 33‐13)

Application to Sit Qualification Examination for Fire Defense Equipment Technician
To:
Name of(Year)

Date of application(Month)(Day)in kanaapplicantDate of birth

Postcode

Born(Year)(Month)－(Day)

Domicile of origin

PrefectureHome or mobile phone number
Workplace phone number, etc.

Address

Contact phone number

Extension (Date of exami‐(Year)

nationClass and type(Month))(Day)

Class A / B Type* Column for feeof examination
Place
Eligibility forClass A exami‐
nationSpecial type
Other than special type
Exemption from examination using
qualification professional engineer

To receive 

Exemption from examination using
electricianʹs license

To receive 

Exemption from examination using
Exemption fromexaminationelectricity engineerʹs license

To receive 

Exemption from examination using fire
defense equipment technicianʹs license* Column for
To receive 

reception

Exemption from examination using
experience of working as fire corps
volunteer for 5 years or more and hav‐
ing completed Applied Fire Defense
Unit of specialist education

To receive 

Remarks :1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by theJapan Industrial Standard.
2. The name of the prefecture in which the domicile oforigin is located shall be entered in the column ʺDom‐
icile of originʺ. A person of foreign nationality shallenter ʺforeign nationalʺ in this column.
3. No entries should be made in the asterisked (*) col‐umns.

* Identification No. in the exami‐
nation273

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐7)
Appended Form 1‐7(Re: Article 33‐18)

Notification of Work Commencement for Equipment, Etc.
Subject to Construction or Improvement Work
Date :
To:
Notified byAddressSeal

Name

Work site
Name of fire prevention property forwhich the work is to be carried out
Types of equipment, etc. subject toconstruction or improvement work
Constructor of

Address

equipment, etc.

Name (name of thesubject to con‐company and namestruction or im‐of the representa‐

provement

tive in the case of aworkjuridical person)

Fire defense

Address

equipment

Nametechnician

Type of designatedcategory of license

TELClass,
etc.
Class
A•B

Type of work

1 New

Issuing

Date of

Status of undergoing

prefecturalissue

training sessions

governorIssue No.
/ /Prefecture

No.

Location

Date

Prefecture/ /2 Expansion 3 Relocation 4 Replacement

5 Remodeling 6 Other
Date of scheduled commencement* Column for reception

Date of scheduled completion* Column for progress

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. In the column ʺType of workʺ, circle which ever work is relevant.
3. No entries should be made in the asterisked (*) columns.

274

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐8)
Appended Form 1‐8(Re: Article 34‐2‐2)

Application for Performance Evaluation of Special Fire Defense Equipment, etc.

Date :
To: Japan Fire Defense Equipment Inspection Institute(Registered Inspection Body)
ApplicantAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofa juridical person)

Seal

TEL
I hereby submit an application for special fire defense equipment, etc. as detailed in
the following.
Details
Type of special fire defense equip‐
ment, etc.

OutlineAddress
Subject fire prevention property
NameType of fire defense equipment, etc.
to be replaced by special fire de‐fense equipment, etc. under appli‐
cationRemarks

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.

275

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐9)
Appended Form 1‐9(Re: Article 34‐2‐2)

Application for Revised Performance Evaluation of Special Fire Defense Equipment, etc.

Date :
To: Japan Fire Equipment Inspection Institute(Registered Inspection Body)
ApplicantAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofa juridical person)

Seal

TEL
I hereby submit an application for performance evaluation in view of a change of
special fire defense equipment, etc. as detailed in the following.
Details
Type of special fire defense equip‐
ment, etc.
Outline of the change
Subject fire prevention property

Address
Name

Type of fire defense equipment, etc.
to be replaced by special fire defense
equipment, etc. under application
Body which conducted the perfor‐
mance evaluation before the change
Date of performance evaluation
before the change
Evaluation No. before the change
Remarks

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.

276

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐10)
Appended Form 1‐10
(Re: Article 34‐2‐3)

Application for Certification by the Minister of Special Fire Defense Equipment, etc.
Date :
To: Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications
ApplicantAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofa juridical person)

Seal

TEL
I hereby submit an application for certification of the equal or higher level of performanceof special fire defense equipment, etc. as detailed in the following to that of fire defense
equipment, etc. pursuant to the provision of Article 17‐2‐2, paragraph (1) of the Fire Ser‐vice Act.
Details
Type of special fire defense equip‐
ment, etc.
OutlineSubject fire prevention property

Address
Name

Type of fire defense equipment, etc.
to be replaced by special fire de‐fense equipment, etc. under appli‐
cationBody which conducted the perfor‐
mance evaluation
Date of performance evaluation
Evaluation No.
Remarks

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.

277

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐11)
Appended Form 1‐11
(Re: Article 34‐2‐3)

Application for Approval of Change of Special Fire Defense Equipment, etc.
Date :
To: Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications
ApplicantAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofa juridical person)

Seal

TEL
I hereby submit an application for approval of the change of special fire defense
equipment, etc. as detailed in the following pursuant to the provision of Article 17‐2‐
2, paragraph (1) of the Fire Service Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article
17‐2‐3, paragraph (3) of the Fire Service Act.
Details
Type of special fire defense equip‐
ment, etc.
Outline of the change
Subject fire prevention property

Address
Name

Type of fire defense equipment, etc. tobe replaced by special fire defense
equipment, etc. under application
Body which conducted the performance evaluation pertaining to thechangeDate of performance evaluation
Evaluation No.
Remarks

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.

278

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 1‐12)
Appended Form 1‐12
(Re: Article 34‐7)

Application for Use of the Data Examination Method
Date :
To: Japan Fire Equipment Inspection Institute(Registered Inspection Body)
ApplicantAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofSeal
a juridical person )TEL
I hereby submit an application for use of the data examination method regarding
the following.
Details

Type

Model

Model No.

Place of Inspection

Remarks

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.

279

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 2)
Appended Form 2(Re: Article 35)

Application for Model Test
Date :
To: Japan Fire Equipment Inspection Institute(Registered Inspection Body)
ApplicantAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofa juridical person)

Seal

TEL
I hereby submit an application for the test set forth in Article 21‐3, paragraph (1) of
the Fire Service Act as detailed in the following.
Details

Type

Model

Remarks:
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.

280

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 3)
Appended Form 3(Re: Article 35)

Application for Model Test
Date :
To: Japan Fire Equipment Inspection Institute(Registered Inspection Body)
ApplicantAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofa juridical person )

Seal

TEL
I hereby submit an application for the test set forth in Article 21‐3, paragraph (1) of
the Fire Service Act as detailed in the following.
Details

Type

Model

Model
Model which hasmodel approval

Model No.
Date of model approval

Differences

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.

281

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 4)
Appended Form 4(Re: Article 37)

Application for Model Approval
Date :
To: Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications
ApplicantAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofa juridical person )TEL
I hereby submit an application for model approval as detailed in the following.
Details

Type

Model

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.

282

Seal

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 5)
Appended Form 5(Re: Article 37)

Application for Model Approval
Date :
To: Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications
ApplicantAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofa juridical person)

Seal

TEL
I hereby submit an application for model approval as detailed in the following.
Details

Type

Model

Model
Model which hasmodel approval

Model No.
Date of model approval

Differences

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.

283

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 6)
Appended Form 6(Re: Article 38)

Notification of Change of Name (Name of Company/Representative’s Name/Address)
Date :
To: Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications
ApplicantAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofa juridical person)

Seal

TEL
I hereby submit a notification of the change of name (name of company/representative’s name /address) as detailed in the following.
Details

Old

New

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.

284

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 7)
Appended Form 7(Re: Article 39)

Application for Model Conformity Inspection
Date :
To: Japan Fire Equipment Inspection Institute(Registered Inspection Body)
ApplicantAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofSeal
a juridical person)
TEL
I hereby submit an application for a model conformity inspection as detailed in thefollowing.
Details
Type

Model

Model No.

Serial No. of products for inspection

Quantity applied

No. ~No.

Date of inspection desired

Place of inspection desired

Model conformity
inspection method
Fee

Unit price

Yen

Total

Yen

Remarks

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.

285

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 8)
Appended Form 8(Re: Article 41)

Application for Export Approval
Date :
To: Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications
ApplicantAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofa juridical person)
TEL
I hereby submit an application for export approval as detailed in the following.
Details

Type

Model

Quantity

Destination

Remarks

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.

286

Seal

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 9)
Appended Form 9(Re: Article 44‐2)

Notification of Labelling for Machine or Tool, Etc. Subject to Self‐Labelling
Date :
To: Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications
Notified byAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofa juridical person)

Seal

TEL
I hereby submit a notification of the intended labelling conforming the relevant tech‐nical specifications of a machine or tool, etc. subject to self‐labelling as detailed in thefollowing.
Details
Type of machine or tool, etc.
subject to self-labelling
Model of machine or tool, etc.
subject to self-labelling* Name of Manufacturer* Address or Location of Manufacturer** Notification No.
Remarks
Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. In the model column, entries shall be made to clearly indicate the principal shape, struc‐ture, materials, ingredients and performance of the machine or tool, etc. subject to self‐labelling.
3. The test results confirming conformity to the relevant technical specifications pertaining
to the machine or tool, etc. subject to self‐labelling shall be compiled and attached to thisAppended Form 9 using the form specified by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster
Management Agency as a reference.
4. Of the matters concerning the test method and equipment used for the test, those speci‐
fied by the Commissioner of the Fire and Disaster Management Agency shall be attachedusing a separate sheet. However, in the case where the contents of such matters are iden‐
tical to those of a previously submitted notification pertaining to the machine or tool, etc.
subject to self‐labelling, the submission of a document pertaining to the said matters may
be replaced by entering the relevant information to that effect in the Remarks column.
5. Only an importer of a machine or tool, etc. subject to self‐labelling shall make entries in
the asterisked (*) columns.
6. No entries should be made in the double asterisked (**) column.
287

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 10)
Appended Form 10(Re: Article 44‐2)

Notification of Change to Previously Notified Matters
Date :
To: Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications
Notified byAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofa juridical person)

Seal

TEL
I hereby submit a notification of the change of previously notified matters as detailed
in the following.
Details

Subject matter of the change

Old
Contents of the change
NewType of machine or tool, etc. subject to self-labelling pertaining to
the change
Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.

288

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 11)
Appended Form 11(Re: Article 44‐2)

Notification of Abolition of Business of Manufacture (Import)
Date :
To: Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications
Notified byAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofa juridical person)

Seal

TEL
I hereby submit a notification of the abolition of the business of manufacture (im‐port) as detailed in the following.
Details

Type of machine or tool, etc.
subject to self-labelling

Date of abolition

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.

289

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 12)
Appended Form 12(Re: Article 44‐3)

Application for Approval of Goods for Export
Date :
To: Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications
ApplicantAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofa juridical person)

Seal

TEL
I hereby submit an application for approval of goods for export as detailed in the fol‐lowing.
Details

Type

Model

Quantity

Destination

Remarks

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.

290

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 13)
Appended Form 13(Re: Article 51‐7)

No.
Certificate of Training Completion
Name :
Date of Birth :This is to certify that you have successfully completed () training sessions on dis‐
aster prevention management set up pursuant to the provision of Article 47, para‐graph (1), item (i) of the Order for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act.
Date:

Municipal Fire Chief

Seal(Prefectural Governor)

Seal(Registered Training Body)

Seal

291

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 14)
Appended Form 14(Re: Article 51‐16)

Application for Certification of Reporting on Checking
for Disaster Prevention Management Under Special Provisions
Date :
To: Fire Chief (Fire Station Chief) (Municipal Mayor)
ApplicantAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofSeal

a juridical person)
TEL

I hereby submit an application for certification under the provision of Article 8‐2‐3,
paragraph (1) of the Fire Service Act which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 36,
paragraph (1) of the said act pursuant to the provision of Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (2)of the said act as detailed in the following.
Details
Location
Name
Intended
purposeDisaster prevention property
Capacity
Subject to application of
Article 2 of Fire Service Act
Date of commencement ofmanagement of property
subject to disaster preven‐tion management by theapplicantDate of previous certification
under the special provisions

Appended Table 1, row ( ) of the OrderManagement title Single or multiple titles
Name
Intended purpose Capacity(Year)(Month)(Day)(Year)(Month)(Day)

Other necessary matters* Column for reception* Column for processing

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. No entries should be made in the asterisked (*) columns.

292

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Form 15)

Appended Form 15(Re: Article 51‐16)

Notification of Change of Title Holder for Management
Date :
To: Fire Chief (Fire Station Chief) (Municipal Mayor)
Notified byAddress
Name (Name of the company and nameof the representative in the case ofSeal

a juridical person)

I hereby submit a notification of the change of the title holder for management of afire prevention property as described in the following pursuant to the provision of
Article 8‐2‐3, paragraph (5) of the Fire Service Act which is applied mutatis mutandis
in Article 36, paragraph (1) of the said act.
Details
Location
Disaster prevention prop‐
Name
erty
Intended purpose
Address
Title holder for manage‐Namement before the change
TEL
Address
Title holder for manage‐Namement after change
TEL
Date of certification of property subject todisaster prevention measures under the spe‐cial provisions

Appended Table 1, row ( ) of the Order(Year)(Month)(Day)(Year)(Month)(Day)

Date of the change

Other necessary matters* Column for reception* Column for processing

Remarks
1. The size of this form shall be A4 as specified by the Japan Industrial Standard.
2. No entries should be made in the asterisked (*) columns.

293

294

No.2
(Thick cloth and plywood)

No.1(Thin cloth)(unit: mm)

40

40

235

90
50 30
100

250

900

20
210

25
0
45

200

0
15

Air intake

50

Screw cockfor fineadjustment

110

30

45°

Specimen
supportframe
Electric spark
ignition systemMicroburner

165

50
90

460

540

Air
intake

210
50 30

115

900

200

15
30

160

Air intake

50

110

45°

65

25
0
71
90

460

540
Screw cockfor fineadjustment

Glass windowAir
intakeSpecimen
supportframe
Electric spark
ignition system
MeckelburnerGlass window

0

20

30

30

90

300

300

(unit: mm)

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Fig. 1)

Appended Fig. 1
Combustion test box(Re: Article 4‐3)

No.3
(Rugs, etc.)

Front View

(unit: mm)(unit: mm)

210
50 30

50

70

30

110

45°
Calcium
silicate board
Air intake

40
350

20

5
48

460

540

Screw cockfor fineadjustment

350

900

900
360

500

540

Glass window

Glass window

Specimen hold‐down frame
Specimen
Air‐mixedburner

200

70

90

30

300

300

40

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Fig. 1)

No.4

295

No.5

No.1

Side View(unit: mm)(unit: mm)

900

900

450

180

200

Glass
window

45 40 40 40 40 45
10250

Hole forgas pipe

250

80

10

80

490

290

10
45 40 40 40 40 45

023

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Fig. 1~2)

296

Appended Fig. 2
Specimen support frame(Re: Article 4‐3)

No.2
(unit: mm)(unit: mm)

Bottom View

Top View
Square bar
with nails fitted

3R
8

Square bar
with nails fitted

3R

250

65

25

40
67

250

25

30

23

8

230

170

150

5

8

23

25

200

150

490

2
2

2
20

8

3R
30

3R

490

23

254

8

8

5

230

250

170

4

150

15 40 40 40 15

25

8Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Fig. 2)

No.3

297

No.2

No.1
(unit: mm)(unit: mm)

Top View

8

3R

8

450

23

230

23

170

150

250

8

23

8

40

254

35

3R

67

0
23
490
8
8

490

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Fig. 2‐2)298

Appended Fig. 2‐2Specimen support frame(Re: Article 4‐3)

No.3
(unit: mm)(unit: mm)
220

220
180

20

Square bar
with nails fitted

Square bar
with nails fitted20

20

Bottom View

65

25

250

90

3R
35

8

2

8
20

20

2

2

490

230

25

170

150

20

2

Calcium
silicate
board

200

Specimenhold‐down
frame

4

25

150

15 40 40 40 15

485

400

360

25

4

3R

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Fig. 2‐2~2‐3)

Appended Fig. 2‐3Specimen hold‐down frame and calcium silicate board(Re: Article 4‐3)

299

300

No.2
(Rugs, etc.)

No.1(Other than rugs, etc.)(unit: mm)(unit: mm)

Source of sparks

Source of sparks
Lead line
BurnerBurnerGas
pipe

Support pole forelectric spark
ignition system

10

115

Glass
window

125

180
100

180

250

125

250

125

Gas pipe

Lead wire

350

Glass window

10

300
350

Screw cockfor fine adjustment
300

Glass
windowGlass window

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Fig. 3)

Appended Fig. 3
Electric spark ignition system(Re: Article 4‐3)

Appended Fig. 4
Micro burner(Re: Article 4‐3)

(unit: mm)(unit: mm)

Thickness 0.5

24
20

8

20

30

10
5

6

25

11

30
20
80

80

165

55

10
160

30

5

2
Gimlet hole

5

10
25

11

6

8.6

50

2
Gimlet hole

0.2
Gimlet hole

60

20

10

6.4

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Fig. 4~5)

Appended Fig. 5
Meckel burner(Re: Article 4‐3)

301

302

No.2

No.1
(unit: mm)(unit: mm)NozzleStabilizerA44◎ 0.1 A

Main body of burner

0.5 ± 0.05

M10X0.5

8.2

120°

M6X0.52

45°

Cock for fine adjustment
Fitting1
1

4
7

8 ± 0.05

514

0.18 + 0.03
‐ 0

11
10h6

1.5

NozzleBurner rotating device

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Fig. 6)

Appended Fig. 6
Air‐mixed burner(Re: Article 4‐3)

No.3
(unit: mm)(unit: mm)

Stabilizer

Main body of burner

A

2.5

11
10H7

2

7
10

Exit

1.7

◎

7

6

Mixing chamber
4 ± 0.05
A

5

15
9

40

7

2

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Fig. 6)

No.4

303

304

No.2

No.1
(unit: mm)(unit: mm)

11
5

Coil
support brace

Coilsupportpole

Screw cock forfine adjustment

Flame
application
burner

45

10
15 0
0

Sp

8

10
15 0
0

Coil support pole45°2Specimen
supportcoil

Glass window

Coilsupport
brace

ec
im

en

2

Specimen
support coil

Flame
Flame
application
application
burnerburnerMicroburner
Air intake
Micro burner

Micro burnerSpecimen
support coil

Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Fire Service Act (Appended Fig. 7)

Appended Fig. 7
Specimen support coil
(Re: Article 4‐3)

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