# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第二十二条 (Article 22) - 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: 第二十二条 (Article 22)（特例施設占有者による返還時の措置） — address `art-22` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-22 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-22 - 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. --- ### 第二十二条（特例施設占有者による返還時の措置） — Measures upon Return by Special-Case Facility Occupants caption: machine translation, not official art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-22 **第一項** 特例施設占有者は、保管物件を遺失者に返還するときは、国家公安委員会規則で定めるところにより、その者が当該保管物件の遺失者であることを確認し、かつ、受領書と引換えに返還しなければならない。 art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-22/par-1 When returning property in custody to the person who lost it, a special-case facility occupant must, as provided by National Public Safety Commission Rules, confirm that the person is the person who lost that property in custody, and return it in exchange for a receipt. machine translation, not official **第二項** 特例施設占有者は、拾得者の同意があるときに限り、遺失者の求めに応じ、拾得者の氏名等を告知することができる。 art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-22/par-2 Only where the finder's consent has been given, a special-case facility occupant may, at the request of the person who lost the property, disclose the finder's name, etc. machine translation, not official **第三項** 特例施設占有者は、前項の同意をした拾得者の求めに応じ、遺失者の氏名等を告知することができる。 art-22/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-22/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-22/par-3 A special-case facility occupant may, at the request of a finder who has given the consent referred to in the preceding paragraph, disclose the name, etc. of the person who lost the property. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-22/par-3: 前項 → 遺失物法 第二十二条第二項 (Article 22, paragraph (2)), art-22/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-22/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-22/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 遺失物法 第二十二条第三項（特例施設占有者による返還時の措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-22/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-22/par-3 - 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 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch lost-property-act-20261011T093710-004, 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