# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第二十四条 (Article 24)
- 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: 第二十四条 (Article 24)（特例施設占有者の保管物件の提出） — address `art-24`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-24
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-24
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### 第二十四条（特例施設占有者の保管物件の提出） — Submission of Property in Custody by Special-Case Facility Occupants
caption: machine translation, not official
art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-24
**第一項** 第十七条後段の規定により物件を保管する特例施設占有者は、特例施設占有者でなくなったときは、遅滞なく、前条の帳簿の写しを添付して、保管物件を警察署長に提出しなければならない。
art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-24/par-1
A special-case facility occupant that keeps property under the second sentence of Article 17 must, when it ceases to be a special-case facility occupant, without delay, submit the property in custody to the chief of a police station, attaching a copy of the book referred to in the preceding Article.
machine translation, not official
**第二項** 第十七条後段の規定により物件を保管する特例施設占有者が次の各号に掲げる場合のいずれかに該当することとなったときは、当該各号に定める者は、遅滞なく、前条の帳簿の写しを添付して、当該特例施設占有者が第十七条後段の規定により保管していた物件を警察署長に提出しなければならない。ただし、第三号に掲げる場合において、同号に規定する合併後存続し、又は合併により設立された法人が引き続き特例施設占有者であるときは、この限りでない。
art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-24/par-2
When a special-case facility occupant that keeps property under the second sentence of Article 17 comes to fall under any of the cases listed in the following items, the person specified in each of those items must, without delay, submit to the chief of a police station the property that the special-case facility occupant had kept under the second sentence of Article 17, attaching a copy of the book referred to in the preceding Article; provided, however, that this does not apply in the case listed in item (iii) where the corporation prescribed in that item that survives the merger or is incorporated as a result of the merger continues to be a special-case facility occupant.
machine translation, not official
**一** 死亡した場合 同居の親族又は法定代理人
art-24/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-24/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-24/par-2/item-1
when the person has died:A relative cohabiting with the deceased, or the statutory agent of the deceased; or
machine translation, not official
**二** 法人が合併以外の事由により解散した場合 清算人又は破産管財人
art-24/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-24/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-24/par-2/item-2
when a corporation has been dissolved for a reason other than a merger:A liquidator or a trustee in bankruptcy;
machine translation, not official
**三** 法人が合併により消滅した場合 合併後存続し、又は合併により設立された法人の代表者
art-24/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-24/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-24/par-2/item-3
when the corporation has ceased to exist as a result of a merger:A representative of a corporation surviving the merger or incorporated as a result of the merger.
machine translation, not official
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## Cites
- art-24/par-1: 第十七条 → 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-24/par-1: 前条 → 遺失物法 第二十三条 (Article 23), art-23 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-23
- art-24/par-2: 第十七条 → 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-24/par-2: 前条 → 遺失物法 第二十三条 (Article 23), art-23 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-23
- art-24/par-2: 第三号 → 遺失物法 第二十四条第二項第三号 (Article 24, paragraph (2), item (iii)), art-24/par-2/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-24/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-24/par-2/item-3
## Cited by
3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.
- 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 第四十二条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-42/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-42/par-1/item-4
- 遺失物法 第四十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-44/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-44/par-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-20261011T093710-004, 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