# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第三十八条 (Article 38)

- 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: 第三十八条 (Article 38)（権限の委任） — address `art-38`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-38
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-38
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### 第三十八条（権限の委任） — Delegation of Authority
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-38</sup>

**第一項**  この法律の規定により道公安委員会の権限に属する事務は、政令で定めるところにより、方面公安委員会に行わせることができる。
<sup>art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-38/par-1</sup>
Affairs falling within the authority of the Hokkaido Public Safety Commission under the provisions of this Act may, as provided by Cabinet Order, be conducted by a District Public Safety Commission.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## 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
- This site's parser, version 186 — 遺失物法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11