Any sum handed over in payment to a bailiff by a debtor to settle a claim must be repaid by the bailiff to the creditor within a maximum period of three weeks if the payment is made in cash, six weeks in other cases. If the debtor pays the claim in successive instalments, these time limits are six weeks and three months respectively.
Any breach of this rule is liable to one of the disciplinary sanctions provided for in article 16 of Order no. 2022-544 of 13 April 2022 relating to the ethics and discipline of ministerial officers.