# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第四十三条 (Article 43)

- 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: 第四十三条 (Article 43) — address `art-43`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-43
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-43
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### 第四十三条
<sup>art-43 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-43 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-43</sup>

**第一項**  法人の代表者又は法人若しくは人の代理人、使用人その他の従業者が、その法人又は人の業務に関し、前二条の違反行為をしたときは、行為者を罰するほか、その法人又は人に対しても、各本条の罰金刑を科する。
<sup>art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-43/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-43/par-1</sup>
When the representative of a corporation, or an agent, employee or other worker of a corporation or individual commits any one of the violations referred to in the preceding two Articles with regard to the business of the corporation or individual, not only the offender is punished but also the corporation or individual is punished by the fine prescribed in the respective Articles.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-43/par-1: 前二条 → 遺失物法 第四十一条 (Article 41), art-41 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-41
- art-43/par-1: 前二条 → 遺失物法 第四十二条 (Article 42), art-42 — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-42

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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-20261011T093710-006, 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