# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第二十六条 (Article 26) - 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: 第二十六条 (Article 26)（指示） — address `art-26` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-26 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-26 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二十六条（指示） — Instructions caption: machine translation, not official art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-26 **第一項** 公安委員会は、施設占有者若しくは特例施設占有者又はその代理人、使用人その他の従業者（次項において「代理人等」という。）が第十三条第一項、第十九条、第二十二条第一項、第二十三条又は第三十七条第三項の規定に違反した場合において、遺失者又は拾得者の利益が害されるおそれがあると認めるときは、その利益を保護するため必要な限度において、当該施設占有者又は特例施設占有者に対し、必要な指示をすることができる。 art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-26/par-1 If a facility occupant or special-case facility occupant, or its agent, employee or other worker (referred to as an "agent, etc." in the following paragraph), has violated Article 13, paragraph (1), Article 19, Article 22, paragraph (1), Article 23 or Article 37, paragraph (3), and the Public Safety Commission recognizes that there is a risk that the interests of the person who lost the property or the finder may be harmed, the Public Safety Commission may give necessary instructions to that facility occupant or special-case facility occupant, to the extent necessary to protect those interests. machine translation, not official **第二項** 特例施設占有者又はその代理人等が、第二十条第一項から第三項まで又は第二十一条の規定に違反して、保管物件の売却若しくは処分をし、又はしようとしたときも、前項と同様とする。 art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-26/par-2 The same applies as in the preceding paragraph where a special-case facility occupant or its agent, etc. has sold or disposed of, or attempted to sell or dispose of, property in custody in violation of Article 20, paragraphs (1) through (3) or Article 21. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-26/par-1: 次項 → 遺失物法 第二十六条第二項 (Article 26, paragraph (2)), art-26/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-26/par-2 - art-26/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 - art-26/par-1: 第十九条 → 遺失物法 第十九条 (Article 19), art-19 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-19 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-19 - art-26/par-1: 第二十二条第一項 → 遺失物法 第二十二条第一項 (Article 22, paragraph (1)), art-22/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-22/par-1 - art-26/par-1: 第二十三条 → 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-26/par-1: 第三十七条第三項 → 遺失物法 第三十七条第三項 (Article 37, paragraph (3)), art-37/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-37/par-3 - art-26/par-2: 第二十条第一項から第三項まで → 遺失物法 第二十条第一項 (Article 20, paragraph (1)), art-20/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-20/par-1 - art-26/par-2: 第二十条第一項から第三項まで → 遺失物法 第二十条第二項 (Article 20, paragraph (2)), art-20/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-20/par-2 - art-26/par-2: 第二十条第一項から第三項まで → 遺失物法 第二十条第三項 (Article 20, paragraph (3)), art-20/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-20/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-20/par-3 - art-26/par-2: 第二十一条 → 遺失物法 第二十一条 (Article 21), art-21 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-21 - art-26/par-2: 前項 → 遺失物法 第二十六条第一項 (Article 26, paragraph (1)), art-26/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-26/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 - 遺失物法 第二十六条第二項（指示） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-26/par-2 - 遺失物法 第四十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-41/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-41/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-20261011T093710-004, 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