# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第十一条 (Article 11) - Law: 遺失物法 (Lost Property Act), 平成十八年法律第七十三号 - English title "Lost Property Act": Ministry of Justice translation database, which lists the title - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第十一条 (Article 11)（返還時の措置） — address `art-11` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-11 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-11 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十一条（返還時の措置） — Measures upon Return caption: machine translation, not official art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-11 **第一項** 警察署長は、提出を受けた物件を遺失者に返還するときは、国家公安委員会規則で定めるところにより、その者が当該物件の遺失者であることを確認し、かつ、受領書と引換えに返還しなければならない。 art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-11/par-1 When returning the property received in a submission by the chief of a police station to the person who lost it, the chief must, as provided by National Public Safety Commission Rules, confirm that the person is the person who lost that property, and return it in exchange for a receipt. machine translation, not official **第二項** 警察署長は、拾得者の同意があるときに限り、遺失者の求めに応じ、拾得者の氏名又は名称及び住所又は所在地（以下「氏名等」という。）を告知することができる。 art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-11/par-2 Only where the finder's consent has been given, the chief of a police station may, at the request of the person who lost the property, disclose the finder's name or title and address or location (referred to as "name, etc."). machine translation, not official **第三項** 警察署長は、前項の同意をした拾得者の求めに応じ、遺失者の氏名等を告知することができる。 art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-11/par-3 The chief of a police station may, at the request of a finder who has given the consent under the preceding paragraph, disclose the name, etc. of the person who lost the property. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-11/par-3: 前項 → 遺失物法 第十一条第二項 (Article 11, paragraph (2)), art-11/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-11/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 遺失物法 第十一条第三項（返還時の措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-11/par-3 - 遺失物法 第十三条第二項（施設占有者の義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-13/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 遺失物法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/418AC0000000073/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — 遺失物法 — its English title as the Ministry of Justice's translation database lists it (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/1640), retrieved 2026-10-11 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch lost-property-act-20261011T093710-002, translated 2026-10-11 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch lost-property-act-20261011T095002-001, translated 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 186 — 遺失物法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11