# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第二十八条 (Article 28) - 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: 第二十八条 (Article 28)（報労金） — address `art-28` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-28 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-28 - 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. --- ### 第二十八条（報労金） — Rewards caption: machine translation, not official art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-28 **第一項** 物件（誤って占有した他人の物を除く。）の返還を受ける遺失者は、当該物件の価格（第九条第一項若しくは第二項又は第二十条第一項若しくは第二項の規定により売却された物件にあっては、当該売却による代金の額）の百分の五以上百分の二十以下に相当する額の報労金を拾得者に支払わなければならない。 art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-28/par-1 A person who lost property (excluding a thing of another person possessed by mistake) and receives its return must pay the finder a reward in an amount equivalent to 5 percent or more and 20 percent or less of the value of that property (for property sold under Article 9, paragraph (1) or (2) or Article 20, paragraph (1) or (2), the amount of the proceeds of that sale). machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の遺失者は、当該物件の交付を受けた施設占有者があるときは、同項の規定にかかわらず、拾得者及び当該施設占有者に対し、それぞれ同項に規定する額の二分の一の額の報労金を支払わなければならない。 art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-28/par-2 If there is a facility occupant that received delivery of the property, the person who lost the property referred to in the preceding paragraph must, notwithstanding that paragraph, pay each of the finder and that facility occupant a reward in an amount equal to one half of the amount prescribed in that paragraph. machine translation, not official **第三項** 国、地方公共団体、独立行政法人（独立行政法人通則法（平成十一年法律第百三号）第二条第一項に規定する独立行政法人をいう。）、地方独立行政法人（地方独立行政法人法（平成十五年法律第百十八号）第二条第一項に規定する地方独立行政法人をいう。）その他の公法人は、前二項の報労金を請求することができない。 art-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-28/par-3 The national government, local governments, incorporated administrative agencies (meaning incorporated administrative agencies prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on General Rules for Incorporated Administrative Agencies (Act No. 103 of 1999)), local incorporated administrative agencies (meaning local incorporated administrative agencies prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Local Independent Administrative Agency Act (Act No. 118 of 2003)) and other public juridical persons may not claim the rewards referred to in the preceding two paragraphs. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-28/par-1: 第九条第一項 → 遺失物法 第九条第一項 (Article 9, paragraph (1)), art-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-9/par-1 - art-28/par-1: 第二項 → 遺失物法 第九条第二項 (Article 9, paragraph (2)), art-9/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-9/par-2 - art-28/par-1: 第二十条第一項 → 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-28/par-1: 第二項 → 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-28/par-2: 前項 → 遺失物法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-28/par-1 - art-28/par-3: 独立行政法人通則法（平成十一年法律第百三号）第二条第一項 → e-Gov law 411AC0000000103, 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-28/par-3: 地方独立行政法人法（平成十五年法律第百十八号）第二条第一項 → e-Gov law 415AC0000000118, 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-28/par-3: 前二項 → 遺失物法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-28/par-1 - art-28/par-3: 前二項 → 遺失物法 第二十八条第二項 (Article 28, paragraph (2)), art-28/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-28/par-2 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 遺失物法 第二十八条第二項（報労金） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-28/par-2 - 遺失物法 第二十八条第三項（報労金） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-28/par-3 - 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