CHAPTER I: General principles

For the application of article L. 1611-6, local authorities, public establishments for inter-communal cooperation, communal and inter-communal social action centres and school funds, referred to in this sub-section as “distributors”, may issue special payment vouchers known as “personalised support vouchers” to people experiencing social difficulties. In this sub-section, the following terms are used: -“beneficiaries”: persons who receive personalised support vouchers; -“issuers”: persons who make personalised support vouchers available to distributors…

The relationship between the distributor and the issuer of personalised support vouchers is governed by a contract. This contract specifies the terms and conditions for ordering personalised support vouchers, paying for, reimbursing or exchanging the vouchers, as well as how long they are to be kept. It also specifies the procedures for transmitting the information defined in article R. 1611-6, and the method for calculating any commission due to the…

The relationship between service providers who wish to accept personalised support cheques and the issuers is governed by a contract. This contract may stipulate maximum payment terms for service providers by the issuer, as well as the conditions under which the issuer may refuse to pay cheques wrongly accepted by the service provider.

Personalised support vouchers are presented by beneficiaries to service providers, who may only accept them in payment under the conditions laid down for their use by distributors, in particular with regard to the nature of the goods, products, or services that may be acquired. The service providers shall certify that they are used in accordance with these conditions, by affixing the statement provided for in III of article R. 1611-8.

Personalised support vouchers must be used by beneficiaries before 31 December of the year in which they are valid. Service providers present personalised support vouchers to the issuers for payment no later than 28 February following the year of their validity, failing which they will lapse definitively. Payment by the issuer is subject to the condition that the service provider has effectively certified that the use of the cheque has…

Undistributed personalised support vouchers that have expired under the conditions defined in the last paragraph of article R. 1611-11 are returned to the issuer by the distributor on whose behalf they were issued before 31 January following the year of their validity. They shall be exchanged or reimbursed for their face value by the issuer to the distributor, at the latter’s request, before 28 February following the year of their…

To be accepted for payment by issuers, personalised support vouchers must bear, in clear print: I. – Affixed by the issuer, the following particulars: 1° Name and address of the issuer; 2° Name of the competent territorial authority or public establishment; 3° Number in a continuous series of numbers characterising the issue; 4° Face value of the voucher; 5° Calendar year of validity. II. – Stamped by the authorising officer…