# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第十二条 (Article 12) - 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: 第十二条 (Article 12)（照会） — address `art-12` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-12 - 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. --- ### 第十二条（照会） — Inquiry caption: machine translation, not official art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-12 **第一項** 警察署長は、提出を受けた物件の遺失者への返還のため必要があるときは、公務所又は公私の団体に照会して必要な事項の報告を求めることができる。 art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-12/par-1 When it is necessary for the return of the property received in a submission by the chief of a police station to the person who lost it, the chief may make an inquiry to a public office or a public or private organization and request a report on the necessary matters. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 遺失物法 第十八条第一項（公告に関する規定等の準用） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-18/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-20261011T093710-002, 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