# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第三十条 (Article 30) - 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: 第三十条 (Article 30)（拾得者等の費用償還義務の免除） — address `art-30` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-30 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-30 - 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. --- ### 第三十条（拾得者等の費用償還義務の免除） — Exemption of Finders, etc. from the Obligation to Reimburse Expenses caption: machine translation, not official art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-30 **第一項** 拾得者（民法第二百四十一条ただし書に規定する他人を含む。）は、あらかじめ警察署長（第四条第二項に規定する拾得者にあっては、施設占有者）に申告して物件に関する一切の権利を放棄し、第二十七条第一項の費用を償還する義務を免れることができる。 art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-30/par-1 A finder (including another person prescribed in the proviso to Article 241 of the Civil Code) may, by declaring in advance to the chief of a police station (or, for a finder prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (2), the facility occupant) that the finder waives all rights concerning the property, be released from the obligation to reimburse the expenses referred to in Article 27, paragraph (1). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-30/par-1: 民法第二百四十一条 → 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-30/par-1: 第四条第二項 → 遺失物法 第四条第二項 (Article 4, paragraph (2)), art-4/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-4/par-2 - art-30/par-1: 第二十七条第一項 → 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 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 遺失物法 第三十三条第一項（施設占有者の権利取得等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-33/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