Subsection 1: Jurisdiction of Disciplinary Boards of First Instance

The competent Disciplinary Chamber of first instance is the one within whose jurisdiction the practitioner or professional partnership being sued is entered on the roll at the date the matter is brought before the court. If the practitioner is not entered on the roll, but was at the date of the facts, the competent disciplinary chamber of first instance is the one within whose jurisdiction the practitioner being prosecuted was…

When disciplinary chambers of first instance are simultaneously seised of separate but related applications, normally falling within their respective territorial jurisdiction, each of the presidents concerned shall refer the matter to the president of the national disciplinary chamber and send him the application file. The presidents of the disciplinary chambers of first instance hearing the other applications shall be notified of the referral order and shall send the file on…

When a disciplinary chamber receives a complaint or application that it considers to fall within the jurisdiction of another disciplinary chamber, its chairman shall immediately forward the file to that chamber, in an order that is not reasoned, not subject to appeal and not res judicata. However, it has the power to reject complaints or applications that are manifestly inadmissible and cannot be remedied in the course of proceedings, or…