When a certificate of residence has been lost, the mayor of the municipality must immediately reproduce it ex officio.
市町村長は、住民票が滅失したときは、直ちに、職権で、これを再製しなければならない。
When the mayor of the municipality has reproduced a certificate of residence pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the mayor must immediately give public notice to that effect, and must make that certificate of residence (or, in a municipality that prepares certificates of residence by means of a magnetic disk under Article 6, paragraph (3) of the Act, a document stating the matters recorded in that certificate of residence) available for public inspection by interested persons for 15 days from the day on which the public notice was given.
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