When particularly serious acts appear likely to justify criminal or disciplinary sanctions, the General Rapporteur may, when justified by urgency and the public interest, and after the person concerned has been given the opportunity to present his observations, refer to the High Council, which deliberates without the presence of the restricted formation, a request for provisional suspension for a maximum period of six months, of a statutory auditor, natural person.
A request for provisional suspension may be referred to the General Rapporteur or the High Council by one of the authorities referred to in Article L. 824-4.
The High Council in its composition mentioned in the first paragraph may at any time end the provisional suspension on its own initiative or at the request of the person concerned.
The provisional suspension ceases ipso jure as soon as the criminal and disciplinary proceedings are extinguished.