# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第十四条 (Article 14)
- 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: 第十四条 (Article 14)（書面の交付） — address `art-14`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-14
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-14
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### 第十四条（書面の交付） — Document issuance
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art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-14
**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、拾得者の請求があったときは、次に掲げる事項を記載した書面を交付しなければならない。
art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-14/par-1
A facility occupant who has received delivery under Article 4, paragraph (2) must, when the finder so requests, issue a document stating the following matters:
machine translation, not official
**一** 物件の種類及び特徴
art-14/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-14/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-14/par-1/item-1
the type and characteristics of the property;
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**二** 物件の交付を受けた日時
art-14/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-14/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-14/par-1/item-2
the date and time of receiving delivery of the property;
machine translation, not official
**三** 施設の名称及び所在地並びに施設占有者の氏名（法人にあっては、その名称及び代表者の氏名）
art-14/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-14/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-14/par-1/item-3
the name and location of the facility and the name of the facility occupant (for a corporation, its name and the name of its representative).
machine translation, not official
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## Cites
- art-14/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
## Cited by
1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction.
- 遺失物法 第四十二条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-42/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-42/par-1/item-1
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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-20261011T093710-002, translated 2026-10-11
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch lost-property-act-20261011T093710-003, 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