豪雨、特定非常災害に指定　運転免許証延長など特例措置―政府

　政府は１４日の閣議で、九州地方などに甚大な被害をもたらした豪雨を、特別措置法に基づく「特定非常災害」に指定する政令を決定した。これにより、被災者は運転免許証の有効期限や飲食店営業許可の延長などの特例措置を受けられる。
　武田良太防災担当相は同日の閣議後記者会見で、「被災者の不安の解消を図ることができる」と強調した。
　特定非常災害の指定は１９９５年の阪神大震災、２００４年の新潟県中越地震、１１年の東日本大震災、１６年の熊本地震、１８年の西日本豪雨、１９年の台風１９号に続き７例目。（2020/07/14-11:45）

The Japanese government adopted an ordinance on Tuesday to designate the recent heavy rains that caused devastating floods and landslides mainly in the Kyushu southwestern region as a specified extraordinary disaster under law.
   The designation will make affected people eligible for special administrative measures, including the extensions of the expiration dates of driver's licenses and eateries' business permits.
   Details will be announced by relevant government agencies later. These measures "can help alleviate the anxieties of affected people," disaster management minister Ryota Takeda said at a press conference.
   Specified extraordinary disaster designations are made for disasters that leave many people dead and missing, damage many homes and disrupt transportation and lifelines in a wide area.
   The downpours became the seventh disaster to be designated as a specified extraordinary disaster in the country. Past examples include the 1995 earthquake in the Kobe area in western Japan and the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami mainly in the Tohoku northeastern region.