When safeguard, receivership or liquidation proceedings are opened against a judge of a commercial court, the person concerned ceases to hold office from the date of the opening judgment. He shall be deemed to have resigned.
The same provisions apply to a commercial court judge who has one of the qualities mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 713-3, when the company or public establishment to which it belongs is the subject of safeguard, receivership or liquidation proceedings.