The application for the designation of an authorised person may be submitted to the judge by the person who needs to be protected, by one of the persons mentioned in Article 494-1 or by the public prosecutor at the request of one of them.
The claim shall be brought, investigated and judged in accordance with the rules of the Code of Civil Procedure and in compliance with the provisions of Articles 429 and 431.
The designation of an authorised person is also possible following the investigation of an application for the opening of a judicial protection measure or when, pursuant to the third paragraph of Article 442, the guardianship judge replaces a curatorship or guardianship measure with family habilitation.