Article 1.　The purpose of this Law is to maintain agricultural, forestry and fisheries industries and to contribute to the stabilization of their managements by granting government subsidies to those who carry out the disasters rehabilitation works on agricultural land, agricultural facilities, forestry facilities and fishing port facilities (hereinafter referred to as "the agricultural land, etc." ) for the expenses necessary for the disasters rehabilitation works thereof.

Article 2.　In this Law, "agricultural land" shall mean the land that is used for the purpose of cultivation and "agricultural facilities" shall mean the public facilities that are necessary for utilization or preservation of agricultural land and are mentioned below:

2　In this Law, "forestry facilities" shall mean the public facilities that are necessary for utilization or preservation of forest land and are mentioned below:

3　In this Law, "fishing port facilities" shall mean the facilities that are located in the water and land areas which are to be used as fishing base and are mentioned below:

4　In this Law, "disasters" shall mean the damages caused by storms, flood, high tide, earthquake and other extraordinary natural phenomena.

5　In this Law, "disasters rehabilitation works" shall mean the works, expenses of which exceed 150,000 yen per place, out of works which are necessitated by disasters and of which objects are to restore the agricultural land, etc. damaged by disasters to their original status.

6　With regard to the application of this Law, the works, expenses of which exceed 150,000 yen per place, out of those which are necessitated by disasters and which aim to provide necessary facilities substituting for the facilities damaged by disasters (including agricultural land;hereinafter the same) when it is very difficult or inappropriate to restore them to their original status, shall be deemed to be disasters rehabilitation works.

7　In the cases of the preceding two paragraphs, the works that are concerned with one facility of which the places damaged by the disasters lie in a row at intervals within fifty metres (twenty metres, in the case of the facilities for fishing port;hereinafter the same), works that are concerned with one facility of which the places damaged by the disasters lie in a row at intervals exceeding fifty meters and works that are concerned with two or more facilities of which the separate execution is difficult or improper in view of the use of the facilities concerned, shall be regarded, as works for one place;provided that this shall not apply to the case when there is two or more bodies executing the works concerned.

Article 3.　The State may, within the limit of budgetary appropriations, give a subsidy to those who carry out the disasters rehabilitation works on the agricultural land, etc. for a part of its works expenses (as to the works which aim to provide for necessary facilities in place of such works which are not proper to be restored to their original status out of those prescribed in paragraph 6 of the preceding Article, when the works expenses for the said works exceed the amount necessary for restoration to their original status, an amount corresponding to the necessary amount in case disasters rehabilitation works to their original status would have been done;hereinafter the same).

2　The rate of subsidy granted by the State in accordance with the provision of the preceding paragraph shall be classified as follow:

Article 4.　In case there accrues a surplus in works expenses of disasters rehabilitation works, object of subsidy in the fiscal year in which the subsidy was received, the person who received a subsidy in accordance with the provisions of the preceding Article must immediately refund to the State sum corresponding to an amount obtained by multiplying the surplus of disasters rehabilitation work expenses by the rate under the same Article, after the fiscal year concerned was over.

2　In case the person who received a subsidy in accordance with the provisions of Article 3 does not make use of the subsidy on disasters rehabilitation works, object of its subsidy within the fiscal year in which the subsidy was received, or has made use of that subsidy in contravention of its purpose, or has executed the work, object of that subsidy, very inappropriately, the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry may order him to refund the whole or a part of that subsidy.

3　The person who is ordered to refund the subsidy in accordance with the provision of the preceding paragraph must without delay refund to the State the designated amount.

Article 5.　This Law shall not apply to the following disasters rehabilitation works:

Article 6.　The governor of To, Do, Fu or prefecture may conduct necessary investigation, demand report or make necessary direction on the execution of works to those who carry out the works, receiving a subsidy under this Law for the works expenses of disasters rehabilitation works on the agricultural land, etc., to make them execute the disasters rehabilitation works concerned properly.

Article 7.　No subsidy under the Law for Charge on the Treasury for Prefectural Public Works Expenses for Disasters (Law No.15 of 1911) shall be granted to those disasters rehabilitation works which are subsidized by the State in accordance with this Law.

Article 8.　Necessary procedures and others for enforcement of this Law shall be prescribed by Cabinet Order.