Disaster Prevention and Protection Act Article 40

Where normal living conditions in disaster-affected areas are affected due to occurrence of disaster, various tiers of government shall, in terms of delimiting, acquiring, altering, evaluating, managing, protecting land and building, simplify administrative procedures and shall not be subject to Regional Planning Act, Urban Planning Law, Construction Law, Urban Renewal Regulation, Environmental Impact Assessment Law, Water and Soil Conservation Law, and other restrictions from related laws or acts in order to provide proper settlement for disadvantaged minority or to adopt reconstruction works in disaster-affected areas.Measures governing matters related to the simplified administrative procedures that are not subject to related laws or acts under the preceding paragraph shall be defined by the central disaster prevention and protection operation regulating authorities.