Chapter II: Other provisions.

The official receiver shall rule on the application by which the judicial administrator, the judicial representative or the liquidator requests the authorisation provided for in Article L. 663-1-1 after having heard or duly summoned the owner of the assets that are the subject of the protective seizure and the debtor. The application is examined in the presence of the public prosecutor.

I.-A referral to the specialised commercial court pursuant to the third paragraph of Article L. 662-8 is pronounced ex officio by the president of the court seised, by reasoned order, after having heard or duly summoned the debtor and obtained the opinion of the public prosecutor. The clerk of the commercial court seised shall immediately forward the file to the president of the designated specialised commercial court, together with a…