# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第十八条 (Article 18) - 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: 第十八条 (Article 18)（公告に関する規定等の準用） — address `art-18` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-18 - 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. --- ### 第十八条（公告に関する規定等の準用） — Application Mutatis Mutandis of Provisions on Public Notice, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-18 **第一項** 第七条、第八条及び第十二条の規定は、警察署長が前条前段の規定による届出を受けた場合について準用する。この場合において、第七条第一項及び第五項並びに第十二条中「提出を受けた」とあるのは「第十七条前段の規定による届出を受けた」と、第七条第一項第二号中「場所」とあるのは「場所並びに第十七条後段の規定により当該物件を保管する特例施設占有者の氏名又は名称及び当該保管の場所」と読み替えるものとする。 art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-18/par-1 The provisions of Articles 7, 8 and 12 apply mutatis mutandis where the chief of a police station has received a notification under the first sentence of the preceding Article. In this case, the phrase "received in a submission" in Article 7, paragraphs (1) and (5) and Article 12 is deemed to be replaced with "received in a notification under the first sentence of Article 17", and the term "place" in Article 7, paragraph (1), item (ii) with "place, and the name or title of the special-case facility occupant who keeps that property under the second sentence of Article 17 and the place of that keeping". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-18/par-1: 第七条 → 遺失物法 第七条 (Article 7), art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-7 - art-18/par-1: 第八条 → 遺失物法 第八条 (Article 8), art-8 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-8 - art-18/par-1: 第十二条 → 遺失物法 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-12 - art-18/par-1: 前条 → 遺失物法 第十七条 (Article 17), art-17 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-17 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-17 - art-18/par-1: 第七条第一項 → 遺失物法 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-7/par-1 - art-18/par-1: 第五項 → 遺失物法 第七条第五項 (Article 7, paragraph (5)), art-7/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-7/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-7/par-5 - art-18/par-1: 第七条第一項第二号 → 遺失物法 第七条第一項第二号 (Article 7, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-7/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-7/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-7/par-1/item-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 遺失物法 第二十条第二項（特例施設占有者による売却等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-20/par-2 - 遺失物法 第三十七条第一項（都道府県への所有権の帰属等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-37/par-1 - 遺失物法 第三十七条第三項（都道府県への所有権の帰属等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-37/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-20261011T093710-003, 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