Section 1: Competent administrative authorities

The administrative authority competent to assign a foreign national to residence pursuant to 1°, 2°, 3°, 4°, 5° or 6° of article L. 731-3 or article L. 731-4 is the prefect of the département where the place of assigned residence is located and, in Paris, the police prefect.

Notwithstanding article R. 732-2, the Minister of the Interior is competent to place a foreign national under house arrest, pursuant to 6° of article L. 731-3 or article L. 731-4, in the following cases:1° When he himself has issued the expulsion decision; however, the departmental prefect and, in Paris, the police prefect are competent when the expulsion decision was issued by the Minister of the Interior before the entry into…

The administrative authority competent to assign a foreign national to residence, pursuant to 7° or 8° of article L. 731-3 or article L. 731-5 is the Minister of the Interior.