# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第五条 (Article 5) - 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: 第五条 (Article 5)（書面の交付） — address `art-5` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-5 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-5 - 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. --- ### 第五条（書面の交付） — Document issuance caption: machine translation, not official art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-5 **第一項** 警察署長は、前条第一項の規定による提出（以下この節において単に「提出」という。）を受けたときは、国家公安委員会規則で定めるところにより、拾得者に対し、提出を受けたことを証する書面を交付するものとする。 art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-5/par-1 When the chief of a police station has received a submission under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (referred to simply as "submission" in this Section), the chief is to issue to the finder, as provided by National Public Safety Commission Rules, a document certifying that the submission was received. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-5/par-1: 前条第一項 → 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 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 遺失物法 第十三条第二項（施設占有者の義務等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-13/par-2 --- ## 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