# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第三十四条 (Article 34) - 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: 第三十四条 (Article 34)（費用請求権等の喪失） — address `art-34` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-34 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-34 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十四条（費用請求権等の喪失） — Loss of the Right to Claim Expenses, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-34 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-34 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-34 **第一項** 次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、その拾得をし、又は交付を受けた物件について、第二十七条第一項の費用及び第二十八条第一項又は第二項の報労金を請求する権利並びに民法第二百四十条若しくは第二百四十一条の規定又は第三十二条第一項の規定により所有権を取得する権利を失う。 art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-34/par-1 A person falling under any of the following items loses, with respect to the property of which the person made a finding or that the person received by delivery, the right to claim the expenses referred to in Article 27, paragraph (1) and the reward referred to in Article 28, paragraph (1) or (2), and the right to acquire ownership under the provisions of Article 240 or 241 of the Civil Code or the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1): machine translation, not official **一** 拾得をした物件又は交付を受けた物件を横領したことにより処罰された者 art-34/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-34/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-34/par-1/item-1 a person punished for embezzling property of which the person made a finding or that the person received by delivery; machine translation, not official **二** 拾得の日から一週間以内に第四条第一項の規定による提出をしなかった拾得者（同条第二項に規定する拾得者及び自ら拾得をした施設占有者を除く。） art-34/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-34/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-34/par-1/item-2 a finder who has not made the submission under Article 4, paragraph (1) within one week from the day of the finding (excluding a finder prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article and a facility occupant who made the finding personally); machine translation, not official **三** 拾得の時から二十四時間以内に交付をしなかった第四条第二項に規定する拾得者 art-34/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-34/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-34/par-1/item-3 a finder prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (2) who has not made the delivery within 24 hours from the time of the finding; machine translation, not official **四** 交付を受け、又は自ら拾得をした日から一週間以内に第四条第一項又は第十三条第一項の規定による提出をしなかった施設占有者（特例施設占有者を除く。） art-34/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-34/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-34/par-1/item-4 a facility occupant (excluding a special-case facility occupant) who has not made the submission under Article 4, paragraph (1) or Article 13, paragraph (1) within one week from the day on which the facility occupant received the delivery or made the finding personally; machine translation, not official **五** 交付を受け、又は自ら拾得をした日から二週間以内（第四条第一項ただし書及び第十三条第一項ただし書に規定する物件並びに第十七条前段の政令で定める高額な物件にあっては、一週間以内）に第四条第一項又は第十三条第一項の規定による提出をしなかった特例施設占有者（第十七条前段の規定によりその提出をしないことができる場合を除く。） art-34/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-34/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-34/par-1/item-5 a special-case facility occupant who has not made the submission under Article 4, paragraph (1) or Article 13, paragraph (1) within two weeks (or, for property prescribed in the proviso to Article 4, paragraph (1) and the proviso to Article 13, paragraph (1) and high-value property specified by the Cabinet Order referred to in the first sentence of Article 17, within one week) from the day on which the special-case facility occupant received the delivery or made the finding personally (excluding a case where the special-case facility occupant may omit the submission under the first sentence of Article 17). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-34/par-1: 第二十七条第一項 → 遺失物法 第二十七条第一項 (Article 27, paragraph (1)), art-27/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-27/par-1 - art-34/par-1: 第二十八条第一項 → 遺失物法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-28/par-1 - art-34/par-1: 第二項 → 遺失物法 第二十八条第二項 (Article 28, paragraph (2)), art-28/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-28/par-2 - art-34/par-1: 民法第二百四十条 → 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 - art-34/par-1: 第二百四十一条 → 民法 第二百四十一条 (Article 241), art-241 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-241 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-241 - art-34/par-1: 第三十二条第一項 → 遺失物法 第三十二条第一項 (Article 32, paragraph (1)), art-32/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-32/par-1 - art-34/par-1/item-2: 第四条第一項 → 遺失物法 第四条第一項 (Article 4, paragraph (1)), art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-4/par-1 - art-34/par-1/item-2: 同条第二項 → 遺失物法 第四条第二項 (Article 4, paragraph (2)), art-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-4/par-2 - art-34/par-1/item-3: 第四条第二項 → 遺失物法 第四条第二項 (Article 4, paragraph (2)), art-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-4/par-2 - art-34/par-1/item-4: 第四条第一項 → 遺失物法 第四条第一項 (Article 4, paragraph (1)), art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-4/par-1 - art-34/par-1/item-4: 第十三条第一項 → 遺失物法 第十三条第一項 (Article 13, paragraph (1)), art-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-13/par-1 - art-34/par-1/item-5: 第四条第一項 → 遺失物法 第四条第一項 (Article 4, paragraph (1)), art-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-4/par-1 - art-34/par-1/item-5: 第十三条第一項 → 遺失物法 第十三条第一項 (Article 13, paragraph (1)), art-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-13/par-1 - art-34/par-1/item-5: 第十七条 → 遺失物法 第十七条 (Article 17), art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-17 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 遺失物法 第十五条第一項（施設占有者の留意事項） — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-15/par-1 - 遺失物法 第三十三条第一項（施設占有者の権利取得等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-33/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-20261011T093710-005, 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