Section 2: Conditions governing access to the judicial and legal professions for certain commercial court registrars.

The clerk of a commercial court at least one of whose offices is abolished as a result of a new delimitation of judicial districts and who has performed his duties for at least three years may, on application made within two years of the abolition of his office, take up the professions of court-appointed administrator, lawyer, auctioneer, bailiff, court-appointed agent and notary, under the conditions laid down in this section.

The registrar referred to in Article R. 742-33 is exempt from the diploma and aptitude test for access to the professions referred to in that article.

The Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice may, on a proposal from the commission provided for in Article R. 742-36, grant the clerk referred to in Article R. 742-33 a partial exemption from the training period provided for in articles L. 811-5 and L. 812-3, to the article 2 du décret du 19 juin 1973 relatif à la formation professionnelle des commissaires priseurs et aux conditions d’accès à cette…

A commission is set up to issue proposals for exemption from the training period provided for in article R. 742-35; it is composed as follows: 1° Three commercial court clerks appointed on the proposal of the Conseil national des greffiers des tribunaux de commerce; they may not sit when they are personally interested; 2° Two members of the profession to which the candidate wishes to enter, in active service or…

The clerk of a commercial court who wishes to benefit from the provisions of article R. 742-35 must send his application by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, or hand it in against a receipt, to the secretariat of the commission. The application must be accompanied by all relevant information and documents, in particular those relating to the applicant’s professional experience, work, diplomas and publications. The applicant must also specify…

Within six months of the completion of the probationary period provided for in article R. 742-35, the court clerk shall again refer the matter to the commission so that it may examine, in the light of the assessments of the probationary supervisor and the nature and quality of the work he or she has done, whether he or she may enter the desired profession. The procedure followed before the committee…