The request made to the lessor must, on pain of nullity, include an indication of the activities whose exercise is envisaged. It shall be made by extrajudicial act or by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt and notified in the same form to the creditors registered on the business. The latter may request that the change of business be subject to conditions likely to safeguard their interests.
The lessor must, within one month of this request, notify, in the same form, those of his lessees to whom he has undertaken not to lease with a view to carrying on activities similar to those referred to in the request. These must, on pain of foreclosure, make their attitude known within one month of this notification.
Failure by the lessor to notify his refusal or acceptance, or the conditions to which his agreement is subject, within three months of the request, is deemed to constitute acquiescence to the request. Such acquiescence shall not prevent the exercise of the rights provided for in article L. 145-50.