(1) If any provision requires a hearing of the debtor, such hearing may be waived if the debtor is resident in a foreign country and such hearing would unreasonably delay the proceedings, or if the debtor’s residence is unknown. In such a case a representative or relation of the debtor is, as a rule, to be heard.
(2) If the debtor is not a natural person, subsection (1) applies accordingly to the hearing of persons entitled to represent the debtor or holding the debtor’s shares. If the debtor is a legal entity and such legal entity has no representative bodies (no management), those with a participating interest in it may be heard; subsection (1) sentence 1 applies accordingly.