The guarantee fund shall cover, in accordance with the provisions of this section, compensation due to victims of accidents referred to in article L. 421-1 or to their dependants provided that these accidents occurred in mainland France, Mayotte or the overseas departments.
The Guarantee Fund will not pay compensation due to victims of accidents involving land motor vehicles or the trailers or semi-trailers of such vehicles normally based in the territory of a State other than France, as referred to in Article L. 211-4, when the French Central Bureau is responsible for compensating these victims in whole or in part.
The French central bureau is the national insurance bureau set up in France under the conditions mentioned in the second paragraph of article R. 211-22.
The provisions of articles R. 421-5 to R. 421-9 are applicable to refusals to accept responsibility by the French central bureau.