Chapter III: Trial courts

Meetings are being held in Nouméa, Papeete and Mata-Utu.

When the accused makes use of the option opened by Article 275 of this Code to take one of his relatives or friends as counsel, the latter’s bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record shall be placed in the case file.

A article R. 42, after the first paragraph, the following paragraph is inserted: “If the accused resides on an island that is not served by a regular postal service, notification shall be made by the administrative or military authority, which shall issue without delay, against a signature, a notice mentioning the date of the request for notification by the court clerk. “

A article R. 43, after the first paragraph, the following paragraph is inserted: “If the accused resides on an island that is not served by a regular postal service, he must pay the fine and the fixed procedural fee within sixty days of notification by the administrative or military authority, unless he lodges an objection. “ At the end of the last paragraph, the words “or on the notice” are…

I.-The first sentence of the first paragraph of Article R. 45 shall read as follows: “The objection made by the accused, within the time limits provided for in either the third or fifth paragraphs of article 527 or article 849, must be made:” II.-In the fourth paragraph of the same article, the following words are inserted after the words “the letter of notification”: “or a signed copy of the notice”…

Article R. 48 shall read as follows: “Art. R. 48.-The officer responsible for recovering fines shall proceed with recovery of the criminal order on expiry of the thirty-day period from the date of dispatch of the registered letter provided for in article R. 42, paragraph 1, or, if the accused resides on an island that is not served by a regular postal service, on the expiry of the period of…

In Article R. 49, the following paragraph is added: “For New Caledonia and French Polynesia, the amount of the fixed fine is set respectively by the Congress of New Caledonia and the Council of Ministers of French Polynesia within the limits imposed respectively by Article 86 of Organic Law No. 99-209 of 19 March 1999 relating to New Caledonia and Article 94 of Organic Law No. 2004-192 of 27 February…

For the application of Article R. 49-1, the last sentence of the second paragraph and the third and fourth paragraphs are deleted.

For the application of article R. 49-2 in French Polynesia, the model of the counterfoil receipt booklet is set by a decision of the Council of Ministers of French Polynesia.

For the application of article R. 49-5, the reference to article “529-5” is deleted.