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Article R1611-6 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Personalised support vouchers must be used by beneficiaries before 31 December of the year in which they are valid. Service providers present personalised support vouchers to the issuers for payment no later than 28 February following the year of their validity, failing which they will lapse definitively. Payment by the issuer is subject to the condition that the service provider has effectively certified that the use of the cheque has…

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Article R1611-7 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Undistributed personalised support vouchers that have expired under the conditions defined in the last paragraph of article R. 1611-11 are returned to the issuer by the distributor on whose behalf they were issued before 31 January following the year of their validity. They shall be exchanged or reimbursed for their face value by the issuer to the distributor, at the latter’s request, before 28 February following the year of their…

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Article R1611-8 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

To be accepted for payment by issuers, personalised support vouchers must bear, in clear print: I. – Affixed by the issuer, the following particulars: 1° Name and address of the issuer; 2° Name of the competent territorial authority or public establishment; 3° Number in a continuous series of numbers characterising the issue; 4° Face value of the voucher; 5° Calendar year of validity. II. – Stamped by the authorising officer…

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Article R1611-9 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The credit institutions, organisations or services mentioned in the fourth paragraph of article L. 1611-6 issue a certificate in duplicate to each issuer who opens a “personalised support voucher account”.The issuer shall submit one of these copies to the commission provided for in article R. 1611-12. The issuer shall pay into these accounts, to the exclusion of all others, the funds corresponding to the face value of the purchase of…

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Article R1611-10 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

No later than 31 May of the year following the year of validity of the personalised support vouchers, the issuer sends the authorising officer of the distributing local authority or public establishment the annual account relating to it. This account records the number and total amount of vouchers ordered during the year, those actually used and paid to service providers, those rejected pursuant to article R. 1611-6, those that have…

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Article R1611-11 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The order for personalised support vouchers is endorsed by the public accountant responsible for the operations of the distributing local authority or public establishment. The personalised support vouchers ordered are handed over to him by the issuer, and he takes charge of them in inactive asset accounting. These vouchers are then passed on by the accounting officer to one or more administrators acting on his behalf and responsible for issuing…

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Article R1611-12 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

The commission provided for in article L. 1611-6 and responsible for registering declarations to open personalised support voucher accounts is made up of a representative of the minister responsible for each of the following areas: – social affairs; – local authorities; – economy and finance. The commission is chaired by a member of the Inspectorate General of Social Affairs appointed by the minister responsible for social affairs. The secretariat of…

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Article R1611-13 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

I. – The manager of any personalised support voucher organisation is liable to a 4th class fine: – for failing to send, at the intervals specified in article R. 1611-6, to each distributing authority or establishment the list of service providers provided for in the fifth paragraph of article R. 1611-6; – not to send the distributor, after each order, the statement drawn up under the conditions defined in the…

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