# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第十七条 (Article 17) - 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: 第十七条 (Article 17)（特例施設占有者に係る提出の免除） — address `art-17` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-17 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-17 - 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. --- ### 第十七条（特例施設占有者に係る提出の免除） — Exemption from Submission by Special-Case Facility Occupants caption: machine translation, not official art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-17 **第一項** 前条第一項の施設占有者のうち、交付を受け、又は自ら拾得をする物件が多数に上り、かつ、これを適切に保管することができる者として政令で定める者に該当するもの（以下「特例施設占有者」という。）は、交付を受け、又は自ら拾得をした物件（政令で定める高額な物件を除く。）を第四条第一項本文又は第十三条第一項本文の規定により遺失者に返還することができない場合において、交付又は拾得の日から二週間以内に、国家公安委員会規則で定めるところにより当該物件に関する事項を警察署長に届け出たときは、第四条第一項本文又は第十三条第一項本文の規定による提出をしないことができる。この場合において、特例施設占有者は、善良な管理者の注意をもって当該物件を保管しなければならない。 art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-17/par-1 Among the facility occupants referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, one that receives delivery of, or personally makes a finding of, a large number of items of property and falls under a person specified by Cabinet Order as able to keep them appropriately (referred to as "special-case facility occupant") may, in the case where the property of which it has received delivery or has personally made a finding (excluding high-value property specified by Cabinet Order) cannot be returned to the person who lost it under the main clause of Article 4, paragraph (1) or the main clause of Article 13, paragraph (1), omit the submission under the main clause of Article 4, paragraph (1) or the main clause of Article 13, paragraph (1) if, within two weeks from the day of the delivery or finding, it has notified the chief of a police station of matters relating to that property as provided by National Public Safety Commission Rules. In this case, the special-case facility occupant must keep that property with the care of a good manager. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-17/par-1: 前条第一項 → 遺失物法 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-16/par-1 - art-17/par-1: 第四条第一項 → 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-17/par-1: 第十三条第一項 → 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 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite 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 - 遺失物法 第十九条第一項（特例施設占有者による遺失者への返還） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-19/par-1 - 遺失物法 第二十四条第一項（特例施設占有者の保管物件の提出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-24/par-1 - 遺失物法 第二十四条第二項（特例施設占有者の保管物件の提出） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-24/par-2 - 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 --- ## 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-20261011T093710-003, 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