Chapter I: General provisions

This Code is applicable, in its wording resulting from Law No. 2023-703 of 1 August 2023 relating to military programming for the years 2024 to 2030 and containing various provisions concerning defence, in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptations provided for in this Title and with the sole exceptions: 1° For New Caledonia and French Polynesia, from the fifth paragraph of Article…

For the application of this code in the overseas collectivities and New Caledonia: 1° References to the department are replaced by references to the collectivity; 2° References to the prefect and sub-prefect are replaced by references to the State representative in the collectivity. In the absence of adaptation, references made, by provisions of this code applicable in the overseas collectivities and New Caledonia, to provisions that do not apply there…

In New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, the pecuniary penalties incurred pursuant to this Code are pronounced in local currency, taking into account the equivalent value of the euro in that currency. .