The audit is carried out by three auditors:
1° Two judicial administrators or judicial representatives appearing on the list provided for in Article R. 814-44 and who do not carry on their business in the same jurisdiction as the audited professional, one of whom may be replaced, in the case of an occasional audit, by one of the persons specially authorised for this purpose;
2° A statutory auditor appearing on a list drawn up for six years by the Minister of Justice, on a proposal from the National Council of Court-appointed Administrators and Court-appointed Representatives after consultation with the National Association of Statutory Auditors, who may not be the person usually responsible for auditing the professional’s accounts;
3° Where the audit concerns a person mentioned in III of Article L. 812-2, the second judicial representative mentioned in 1° is replaced, as appropriate, by a bailiff or an auctioneer who does not carry out his activity in the same jurisdiction of the court of appeal as the audited professional.
These inspectors are appointed in the case of a triennial or periodic inspection by the President of the National Council and in the case of an occasional inspection by the authority that ordered the inspection.
An order of the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, sets the minimum scope of the checks that the auditors must carry out.
The costs incurred by the presence during the audits of the statutory auditor provided for in 2° shall be advanced by the National Council when the audit concerns a judicial administrator or a judicial representative registered on the national lists or a person mentioned in the second paragraph of article L. 811-2 or in the first paragraph of II of article L. 812-2.
Where the inspection concerns a person referred to in III of Article L. 812-2, the costs incurred by the presence, during the inspections, of a judicial representative and a bailiff or a judicial auctioneer, as well as the statutory auditor, shall be borne, as appropriate, by the competent regional chamber of bailiffs or disciplinary chamber of judicial auctioneers.