# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第三十三条 (Article 33) - 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: 第三十三条 (Article 33)（施設占有者の権利取得等） — address `art-33` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-33 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-33 - 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. --- ### 第三十三条（施設占有者の権利取得等） — Acquisition of Rights by Facility Occupants, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-33 **第一項** 第四条第二項に規定する拾得者が、その交付をした物件について第三十条若しくは前条第二項の規定により権利を放棄したとき又は次条第三号に該当して同条の規定により権利を失ったときは、当該交付を受けた施設占有者を拾得者とみなして、民法第二百四十条の規定並びに第三十条並びに前条第一項本文及び第二項の規定を適用する。この場合において、第三十条中「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）」とあるのは、「警察署長」とする。 art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-33/par-1 When a finder prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (2) has, under Article 30 or paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, waived rights in the property that the finder delivered, or has lost rights in it under the following Article by falling under item (iii) of that Article, the facility occupant who received the delivery is deemed to be the finder, and the provisions of Article 240 of the Civil Code, Article 30, and the main clause of paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply. In this case, the phrase "chief of a police station (or, for a finder prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (2), the facility occupant)" in Article 30 is deemed to be replaced with "chief of a police station". machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-33/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-33/par-1: 第三十条 → 遺失物法 第三十条 (Article 30), art-30 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-30 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-30 - art-33/par-1: 前条第二項 → 遺失物法 第三十二条第二項 (Article 32, paragraph (2)), art-32/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-32/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-32/par-2 - art-33/par-1: 次条第三号 → 遺失物法 第三十四条第一項第三号 (Article 34, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-34/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-34/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-34/par-1/item-3 - art-33/par-1: 同条 → 遺失物法 第三十四条 (Article 34), art-34 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-34 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-34 - art-33/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-33/par-1: 前条第一項 → 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 --- ## 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-20261011T093710-005, 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