# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第二十七条 (Article 27) - 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: 第二十七条 (Article 27)（費用の負担） — address `art-27` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-27 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-27 - 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. --- ### 第二十七条（費用の負担） — Burden of Costs caption: machine translation, not official art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-27 **第一項** 物件の提出、交付及び保管に要した費用（誤って他人の物を占有した者が要した費用を除く。）は、当該物件の返還を受ける遺失者又は民法第二百四十条（第三条において準用する場合を含む。以下同じ。）若しくは第二百四十一条の規定若しくは第三十二条第一項の規定により当該物件の所有権を取得してこれを引き取る者の負担とする。 art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-27/par-1 The expenses required for the submission, delivery and custody of property (excluding expenses required by a person who possessed another person's thing by mistake) are borne by the person who lost the property and receives its return, or by a person who acquires ownership of the property under the provisions of Article 240 of the Civil Code (including the case where it applies mutatis mutandis under Article 3; the same applies hereinafter) or Article 241 of the Civil Code, or under the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1), and takes it over. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の費用については、民法第二百九十五条から第三百二条までの規定を適用する。 art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-27/par-2 The provisions of Articles 295 through 302 of the Civil Code apply to the expenses referred to in the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-27/par-1: 民法第二百四十条 → 民法 第二百四十条 (Article 240), art-240 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-240 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-240 - art-27/par-1: 第三条 → 遺失物法 第三条 (Article 3), art-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-3 - art-27/par-1: 第二百四十一条 → 民法 第二百四十一条 (Article 241), art-241 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-241 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-241 - art-27/par-1: 第三十二条第一項 → 遺失物法 第三十二条第一項 (Article 32, paragraph (1)), art-32/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-32/par-1 - art-27/par-2: 前項 → 遺失物法 第二十七条第一項 (Article 27, paragraph (1)), art-27/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-27/par-1 - art-27/par-2: 民法第二百九十五条から第三百二条まで → 民法 第二百九十五条 (Article 295), art-295 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-295 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-295 - art-27/par-2: 民法第二百九十五条から第三百二条まで → 民法 第二百九十六条 (Article 296), art-296 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-296 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-296 - art-27/par-2: 民法第二百九十五条から第三百二条まで → 民法 第二百九十七条 (Article 297), art-297 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-297 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-297 - art-27/par-2: 民法第二百九十五条から第三百二条まで → 民法 第二百九十八条 (Article 298), art-298 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-298 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-298 - art-27/par-2: 民法第二百九十五条から第三百二条まで → 民法 第二百九十九条 (Article 299), art-299 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-299 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-299 - art-27/par-2: 民法第二百九十五条から第三百二条まで → 民法 第三百条 (Article 300), art-300 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-300 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-300 - art-27/par-2: 民法第二百九十五条から第三百二条まで → 民法 第三百一条 (Article 301), art-301 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-301 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-301 - art-27/par-2: 民法第二百九十五条から第三百二条まで → 民法 第三百二条 (Article 302), art-302 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-302 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-302 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 遺失物法 第二十七条第二項（費用の負担） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-27/par-2 - 遺失物法 第二十九条第一項（費用及び報労金の請求権の期間の制限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-29/par-1 - 遺失物法 第三十条第一項（拾得者等の費用償還義務の免除） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-30/par-1 - 遺失物法 第三十一条第一項（遺失者の費用償還義務等の免除） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-31/par-1 - 遺失物法 第三十二条第二項（遺失者の権利放棄による拾得者の所有権取得等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-32/par-2 - 遺失物法 第三十四条第一項（費用請求権等の喪失） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-34/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-34/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