Subsection 3: Entry into office, age limit and honorary membership

Within one month of their appointment, commercial court clerks take an oath before the commercial court, in the following terms: “I swear to faithfully perform my duties with accuracy and probity and to observe in everything the duties they impose on me.” They may only perform their duties from the day on which they take the oath. Any commercial court clerk who does not take the oath of office within…

The application for authorisation to extend the activity provided for in article L. 741-1 is submitted to the Minister of Justice, by tele-procedure on the Ministry of Justice website, no later than two months before the interested party’s seventieth birthday.

The title of honorary commercial court clerk may be conferred by the public prosecutor at the court of appeal on commercial court clerks who have served for at least twenty years.