# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第十六条 (Article 16) - 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: 第十六条 (Article 16)（不特定かつ多数の者が利用する施設における掲示） — address `art-16` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-16 - 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. --- ### 第十六条（不特定かつ多数の者が利用する施設における掲示） — Notices in Facilities Used by an Unspecified and Large Number of Persons caption: machine translation, not official art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-16 **第一項** 施設占有者のうち、その施設を不特定かつ多数の者が利用するものは、物件の交付を受け、又は自ら物件の拾得をしたときは、その施設を利用する者の見やすい場所に第七条第一項各号に掲げる事項を掲示しなければならない。 art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-16/par-1 A facility occupant whose facility is used by an unspecified and large number of persons must, when the occupant has received delivery of property or has personally made a finding of property, post the matters listed in the items of Article 7, paragraph (1) in a place easily visible to persons using the facility. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の施設占有者は、第七条第一項各号に掲げる事項を記載した書面をその管理する場所に備え付け、かつ、これをいつでも関係者に自由に閲覧させることにより、前項の規定による掲示に代えることができる。 art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-16/par-2 The facility occupant referred to in the preceding paragraph may, in lieu of the posting under the preceding paragraph, keep at the place that the occupant manages a document stating the matters listed in the items of Article 7, paragraph (1) and allow persons concerned to inspect it freely at any time. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-16/par-1: 第七条第一項 → 遺失物法 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-7/par-1 - art-16/par-2: 前項 → 遺失物法 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-16/par-1 - art-16/par-2: 第七条第一項 → 遺失物法 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-7/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 遺失物法 第十六条第二項（不特定かつ多数の者が利用する施設における掲示） — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-16/par-2 - 遺失物法 第十七条第一項（特例施設占有者に係る提出の免除） — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-17/par-1 --- ## 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-20261011T093710-003, 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