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 force of decree no. 97-24 of 13 January 1997 on the basis of the provisions of article 23 of order no. 45-2658 of 2 November 1945, now codified in article L. 631-1, and after completion of the formalities provided for by the provisions of article 24 of the same ordinance, now codified in article L. 632-1;
2° Where the foreign national is in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, French Polynesia or New Caledonia at the time the house arrest is issued.