When the seizure is carried out in the hands of an establishment authorised by law to keep deposit accounts, the latter is required to declare the balance of the debtor’s account(s) on the day of the seizure.
Within a period of fifteen working days following the seizure, during which the sums left in the account are unavailable, this balance may be allocated to the benefit or detriment of the distrainor by the following operations, provided that it can be proved that they took place prior to the seizure:
1° To the credit side: any cheques or bills of exchange previously remitted for collection but not yet entered in the account;
2° To the debit side:
a) Cheques cashed or credited to the account prior to the seizure and returned unpaid;
b) Ticket withdrawals made prior to the seizure and card payments, where the beneficiaries were actually credited prior to the seizure.
By way of derogation from the provisions of the second paragraph, commercial bills discounted and not paid on presentation or on their due date when this is subsequent to the seizure may be reversed within a period of one month following the seizure.
Any debit or credit transactions carried out in this way will reduce the seized balance only to the extent that their cumulative result is negative and greater than the sums not affected by the seizure on the day they were paid.