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Single chapter: Treatment of over-indebtedness

Article L771-2 of the French Consumer Code

Sont applicables dans les îles Wallis et Futuna, sous réserve des adaptations prévues à l’article L. 771-3, les dispositions des articles mentionnés dans la colonne de gauche du tableau ci-après, dans leur rédaction indiquée dans la colonne de droite du même tableau : ARTICLES APPLICABLES DANS LE RÉDACTIONUR L. 711-1 and L. 711-2 Resulting from law no. 2022-172 of 14 February 2022 in favour of independent professional activity L. 711-3…

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Article L771-3 of the French Consumer Code

For the application of Article L. 771-2: 1° Shall not apply: a) The last paragraph of Article L. 711-3 ; b) The 3rd and last paragraphs of article L. 711-4 ; c) The second paragraph of Article L. 732-3 ; d) The last paragraph of Article L. 742-25 ; 2° In Article L. 742-24, the reference to article L. 733-7 is not applicable until 1 January 2018; 3° The words:…

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Article L771-4 of the French Consumer Code

In French Polynesia and New Caledonia, the credit institutions mentioned in Title I of Book V of the Monetary and Financial Code, credit institutions and finance companies, payment institutions, electronic money institutions and the bodies mentioned in Article 5 L. 511-6 of the same code declare to the Banque de France payment incidents relating to loans granted to natural persons for non-business purposes. These declarations are entered, as soon as…

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Article L771-5 of the French Consumer Code

Sont applicables en Nouvelle-Calédonie et en Polynésie française, sous réserve des adaptations prévues à l’article L. 771-6, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the table below, in the wording indicated in the right-hand column of the same table: APPLICABLE ARTICLES IN THEIR REACTION L. 751-2 to L. 751-4 Resulting from the ordonnance n° 2016-301 du 14 mars 2016 L. 751-5 Resulting from the ordonnance n°…

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Article L771-7 of the French Consumer Code

As soon as a debtor refers a matter to the private individual overindebtedness commission set up by French Polynesia or New Caledonia, it shall inform the Overseas Issuing Institute mentioned in Article L. 721-25 of the Monetary and Financial Code. The latter informs the Banque de France for the purposes of registration in the file mentioned in Article L. 751-1 of this code. When, upon appeal by the interested party…

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