If a unit owner does not have, or will cease to have, an address or residence in Japan (or, for a corporation, its head office or principal office; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph and paragraph (3)), the unit owner may appoint an administrator from among persons who have an address or residence in Japan, to have the administrator perform the affairs concerning the management of the unit owner's exclusively-owned area and common areas.
An administrator appointed pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (referred to as a "domestic administrator" in the following paragraph and paragraph (4)) has the authority to perform the following acts:
an act of preservation;
保存行為
an act for the purpose of using or improving the exclusively-owned area, to the extent that it does not change the nature of the exclusively-owned area;
専有部分の性質を変えない範囲内において、その利用又は改良を目的とする行為
receipt of a convocation notice for a meeting;
集会の招集の通知の受領
exercise of voting rights at a meeting; and
集会における議決権の行使
performance of obligations owed to other unit owners with regard to the common areas, the grounds of a building, or attached facilities of the building other than common areas, or of obligations owed to other unit owners based on the bylaws or a resolution at a meeting.
If a unit owner has appointed a domestic administrator pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), and there is a manager or an incorporated management association exists, the unit owner must notify the manager or the incorporated management association without delay of the fact that they have appointed a domestic administrator, and of the name and the address or residence of the domestic administrator.
Beyond what is prescribed in paragraph (2), the relationship between a unit owner and the domestic administrator is governed by the provisions on mandate.