# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第十条 (Article 10) - 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: 第十条 (Article 10)（処分） — address `art-10` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-10 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-10 - 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. --- ### 第十条（処分） — Disposal caption: machine translation, not official art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-10 **第一項** 警察署長は、前条第一項本文又は第二項に規定する場合において、次に掲げるときは、政令で定めるところにより、提出を受けた物件について廃棄その他の処分をすることができる。 art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-10/par-1 In the cases prescribed in the main clause of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, the chief of a police station may, as provided by Cabinet Order, dispose of the property received in a submission, by destroying it or otherwise, in any of the following circumstances: machine translation, not official **一** 売却につき買受人がないとき。 art-10/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-10/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-10/par-1/item-1 when there is no purchaser at the sale; machine translation, not official **二** 売却による代金の見込額が売却に要する費用の額に満たないと認められるとき。 art-10/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-10/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-10/par-1/item-2 when the expected proceeds of the sale are recognized as less than the amount of the expenses required for the sale; machine translation, not official **三** 前条第一項ただし書に該当するときその他売却をすることができないと認められるとき。 art-10/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-10/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-10/par-1/item-3 when the case falls under the proviso to paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, or in any other case where the sale is recognized as impossible. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-10/par-1: 前条第一項 → 遺失物法 第九条第一項 (Article 9, paragraph (1)), art-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-9/par-1 - art-10/par-1: 第二項 → 遺失物法 第九条第二項 (Article 9, paragraph (2)), art-9/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-9/par-2 - art-10/par-1/item-3: 前条第一項 → 遺失物法 第九条第一項 (Article 9, paragraph (1)), art-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-9/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 遺失物法 第九条第三項（売却等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-9/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-9/par-3 --- ## 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-20261011T093710-002, 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