# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第三条 (Article 3) - 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: 第三条 (Article 3)（準遺失物に関する民法の規定の準用） — address `art-3` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条（準遺失物に関する民法の規定の準用） — Application Mutatis Mutandis of the Provisions of the Civil Code to Quasi-Lost Property caption: machine translation, not official art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-3 **第一項** 準遺失物については、民法（明治二十九年法律第八十九号）第二百四十条の規定を準用する。この場合において、同条中「これを拾得した」とあるのは、「同法第二条第二項に規定する拾得をした」と読み替えるものとする。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-3/par-1 The provisions of Article 240 of the Civil Code (Act No. 89 of 1896) apply mutatis mutandis to quasi-lost property. In this case, the phrase "found it" in that Article is deemed to be replaced with "made the finding prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Lost Property Act". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-3/par-1: 民法（明治二十九年法律第八十九号）第二百四十条 → 民法 第二百四十条 (Article 240), art-240 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-240 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-240 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 遺失物法 第二条第一項（定義） — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-2/par-1 - 遺失物法 第二十七条第一項（費用の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-27/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-20261011T093710-001, 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