# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第十三条 (Article 13) - 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: 第十三条 (Article 13)（施設占有者の義務等） — address `art-13` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-13 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-13 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十三条（施設占有者の義務等） — Obligations of Facility Occupants, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-13 **第一項** 第四条第二項の規定による交付を受けた施設占有者は、速やかに、当該交付を受けた物件を遺失者に返還し、又は警察署長に提出しなければならない。ただし、法令の規定によりその所持が禁止されている物に該当する物件及び犯罪の犯人が占有していたと認められる物件は、速やかに、これを警察署長に提出しなければならない。 art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-13/par-1 A facility occupant who has received delivery under Article 4, paragraph (2) must promptly return the property so delivered to the person who lost it or submit it to the chief of a police station; provided, however, that property that falls under things the possession of which is prohibited by laws and regulations and property that is recognized as having been in the possession of the perpetrator of a crime must be promptly submitted to the chief of a police station. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前節の規定は、警察署長が前項の規定による提出を受けた場合について準用する。この場合において、第五条中「前条第一項」とあるのは「第十三条第一項」と、「拾得者」とあるのは「施設占有者」と、第十一条第二項中「拾得者の同意」とあるのは「拾得者又は施設占有者の同意」と、「拾得者の氏名」とあるのは「その同意をした拾得者又は施設占有者の氏名」と、同条第三項中「拾得者」とあるのは「拾得者又は施設占有者」と読み替えるものとする。 art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-13/par-2 The provisions of the preceding Section apply mutatis mutandis where the chief of a police station has received a submission under the preceding paragraph. In this case, the phrase "paragraph (1) of the preceding Article" in Article 5 is deemed to be replaced with "Article 13, paragraph (1)", the term "finder" in that Article with "facility occupant", the phrase "the finder's consent" in Article 11, paragraph (2) with "the consent of the finder or facility occupant", the phrase "the finder's name" in that paragraph with "the name of the finder or facility occupant who gave that consent", and the term "finder" in paragraph (3) of that Article with "finder or facility occupant". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-13/par-1: 第四条第二項 → 遺失物法 第四条第二項 (Article 4, paragraph (2)), art-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-4/par-2 - art-13/par-2: 前項 → 遺失物法 第十三条第一項 (Article 13, paragraph (1)), art-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-13/par-1 - art-13/par-2: 第五条 → 遺失物法 第五条 (Article 5), art-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-5 - art-13/par-2: 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/ja/lost-property-act/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-4/par-1 - art-13/par-2: 第十一条第二項 → 遺失物法 第十一条第二項 (Article 11, paragraph (2)), art-11/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-11/par-2 - art-13/par-2: 同条第三項 → 遺失物法 第十一条第三項 (Article 11, paragraph (3)), art-11/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-11/par-3 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite 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/ja/lost-property-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-13/par-2 - 遺失物法 第十五条第一項（施設占有者の留意事項） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-15/par-1 - 遺失物法 第十七条第一項（特例施設占有者に係る提出の免除） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-17/par-1 - 遺失物法 第二十六条第一項（指示） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-26/par-1 - 遺失物法 第三十四条第一項第四号（費用請求権等の喪失） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-34/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-34/par-1/item-4 - 遺失物法 第三十四条第一項第五号（費用請求権等の喪失） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-34/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-34/par-1/item-5 - 遺失物法 第三十七条第二項（都道府県への所有権の帰属等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-37/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-20261011T093710-002, 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