# 遺失物法 / Lost Property Act — 第三十五条 (Article 35) - 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: 第三十五条 (Article 35)（所有権を取得することができない物件） — address `art-35` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-35 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-35 - 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. --- ### 第三十五条（所有権を取得することができない物件） — Property of Which Ownership Cannot Be Acquired caption: machine translation, not official art-35 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-35 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-35 **第一項** 次の各号に掲げる物のいずれかに該当する物件については、民法第二百四十条若しくは第二百四十一条の規定又は第三十二条第一項の規定にかかわらず、所有権を取得することができない。 art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-35/par-1 Ownership cannot be acquired, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 240 or 241 of the Civil Code or the provisions of Article 32, paragraph (1), in property that falls under any of the things listed in the following items: machine translation, not official **一** 法令の規定によりその所持が禁止されている物（法令の規定による許可その他の処分により所持することができる物であって政令で定めるものを除く。） art-35/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-35/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-35/par-1/item-1 a thing the possession of which is prohibited by laws and regulations (excluding a thing specified by Cabinet Order that may be possessed by virtue of a permission or other disposition under laws and regulations); machine translation, not official **二** 個人の身分若しくは地位又は個人の一身に専属する権利を証する文書、図画又は電磁的記録（電子的方式、磁気的方式その他人の知覚によっては認識することができない方式で作られた記録をいう。以下同じ。） art-35/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-35/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-35/par-1/item-2 a document, drawing or electronic or magnetic record (meaning a record made in an electronic form, a magnetic form or any other form not recognizable by human perception; the same applies hereinafter) certifying an individual's status or position or a right attaching exclusively to an individual; machine translation, not official **三** 個人の秘密に属する事項が記録された文書、図画又は電磁的記録 art-35/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-35/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-35/par-1/item-3 a document, drawing or electronic or magnetic record in which matters belonging to an individual's secrets are recorded; machine translation, not official **四** 遺失者又はその関係者と認められる個人の住所又は連絡先が記録された文書、図画又は電磁的記録 art-35/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-35/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-35/par-1/item-4 a document, drawing or electronic or magnetic record in which the address or contact information of an individual recognized as the person who lost the property or a person related to that person is recorded; machine translation, not official **五** 個人情報データベース等（個人情報の保護に関する法律（平成十五年法律第五十七号）第十六条第一項に規定する個人情報データベース等をいう。）が記録された文書、図画又は電磁的記録（広く一般に流通している文書、図画及び電磁的記録を除く。） art-35/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-35/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-35/par-1/item-5 a document, drawing or electronic or magnetic record in which a personal information database or the equivalent (meaning a personal information database or the equivalent prescribed in Article 16, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (Act No. 57 of 2003)) is recorded (excluding a document, drawing or electronic or magnetic record that is widely in general circulation). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-35/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-35/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-35/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-35/par-1/item-5: 個人情報の保護に関する法律（平成十五年法律第五十七号）第十六条第一項 → 個人情報の保護に関する法律 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/personal-information-protection-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/415AC0000000057/art-16/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 遺失物法 第九条第一項（売却等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-9/par-1 - 遺失物法 第九条第二項（売却等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-9/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-9/par-2 - 遺失物法 第二十条第一項（特例施設占有者による売却等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-20/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-20/par-1 - 遺失物法 第二十条第二項（特例施設占有者による売却等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-20/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-20/par-2 - 遺失物法 第三十七条第一項（都道府県への所有権の帰属等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-37/par-1 - 遺失物法 第三十七条第一項第一号（都道府県への所有権の帰属等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-37/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-37/par-1/item-1 - 遺失物法 第三十七条第二項（都道府県への所有権の帰属等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-37/par-2 - 遺失物法 第三十七条第三項（都道府県への所有権の帰属等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/lost-property-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/418AC0000000073/art-37/par-3 --- ## 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