If a unit owner cannot be identified or the whereabouts of a unit owner cannot be ascertained, the court may, at the request of the unit owners other than that unit owner (referred to as an "unknown or missing unit owner" in the following paragraph) (hereinafter referred to as "general unit owners" in this paragraph and paragraph (3)) or of the manager, make a judicial decision to the effect that a resolution at a meeting may be adopted by the general unit owners.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding Article, a person who has been found to be an unknown or missing unit owner by the judicial decision referred to in the preceding paragraph does not hold voting rights at a meeting (or, if the building to which that judicial decision pertains has been destroyed, voting rights at a meeting held by the persons who hold the right to use the grounds pertaining to that building or who hold a share of co-ownership in the attached facilities of the building (including rights related to them)).
前項の裁判により所在等不明区分所有者であるとされた者は、前条の規定にかかわらず、集会における議決権（当該裁判に係る建物が滅失したときは、当該建物に係る敷地利用権を有する者又は当該建物の附属施設（これに関する権利を含む。）の共有持分を有する者が開く集会における議決権）を有しない。
If the judicial decision referred to in paragraph (1) has been made at the request of general unit owners, those general unit owners must notify the manager of this without delay; provided, however, that if there is no manager, they must post a notice to that effect somewhere conspicuous within the building.