Chapter VIII: Judging of contraventions

In Nouméa, Mata-Utu and Papeete, the police court is constituted by a judge of the court of first instance, an officer of the public prosecutor’s office as set out in articles 45 to 48,810 and 811, and a court clerk. In the sections of the court of first instance and at mobile court hearings, the court is constituted by the judge responsible for the service of the section or the…

For the application of Article 527, the time limit for lodging an objection, as set out in the third paragraph of this article, is extended to two months if the defendant resides outside the island where the court that handed down the contested decision has its seat.

The first paragraph of Article 529 reads as follows: “For contraventions of locally applicable regulations on road traffic, insurance, hunting, fishing, environmental protection, consumer law, safety at sea, regulations on pubs or manifest public drunkenness and ecobuage, which are punishable only by a fine, the public prosecution is extinguished by the payment of a fixed fine which is exclusive of the application of the rules on repeat offences. “ In…

In New Caledonia, infringements of the first four classes of the police regulations governing public road passenger transport services, laid down by local regulations, are recorded in official reports drawn up concurrently by sworn officials of New Caledonia, the provinces and communes and public service delegatees. These officials are commissioned by the competent administrative authority or by the public service delegatee. After being approved by the public prosecutor, they take…

For the application in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands of article 529-7, the words: “For second-, third-, fourth- and fifth-class road traffic offences, the list of which is set by decree in the Conseil d’Etat,” are replaced by the words: “For second-, third-, fourth- and fifth-class offences against locally applicable road traffic regulations,”.

Other than the provisions made applicable by articles 544 and 545, the articles 841 and 845 are applicable before the police court.

The provisions of the fourth paragraph of Article 546 apply to cases prosecuted at the request of the competent water and forestry authorities.

Other than the provisions made applicable by the articles 547 and 549, article 846 is applicable to appeals against police judgments.