French Commercial code
In forceArticle L. 723-1 reads as follows:
"Art. L. 723-1 -I.-The judges of the mixed commercial courts are elected within the jurisdiction of each of these courts by a college composed of:
1° Electors in their personal capacity:
a) Traders registered in New Caledonia in the Trade and Companies Register, subject, in the case of general partners and general partners, to the provisions of IV of this article;
b) Company managers registered in New Caledonia in accordance with the regulations applicable to the collectivity and the trade and companies register;
c) Spouses of the persons listed in a or b above who have declared to the trade and companies register that they are collaborating in their spouse's business without any other professional activity;
d) Sea captains or merchant navy captains exercising command of a ship registered in France whose home port is located in the district, maritime pilots exercising their duties in a port located in the district, civil aviation pilots domiciled in the district and exercising command of an aircraft registered in France ;
e) Serving members of mixed commercial courts, as well as former members of these courts;
2° Voters registered as representatives:
a) Commercial companies within the meaning of Article L. 210-1 and public establishments of an industrial and commercial nature whose registered office is located in the electoral division;
b) In respect of an establishment that is the subject in the electoral division of a supplementary registration or a secondary registration, unless exempted by the laws and regulations in force, the natural persons referred to in a and b of 1° and the legal persons referred to in a of this 2°, regardless of the electoral division in which these persons exercise their own right to vote ;
c) Companies of a commercial nature whose registered office is located outside the national territory and which have an establishment registered in the electoral division in the Trade and Companies Register;
3° Managers who, employed in the electoral division by the electors mentioned in 1° or 2°, carry out duties involving commercial, technical or administrative management responsibilities for the company or establishment.
II.-In respect of their registered office and all their establishments located in the local authority, the natural or legal persons mentioned in 1° and 2° of I have:
1° One additional representative, when they employ between ten and forty-nine employees in the local authority;
2° Two additional representatives, when they employ between fifty and one hundred and ninety-nine employees in the local authority;
3° Three additional representatives, when they employ between two hundred and four hundred and ninety-nine employees in the local authority ;
4° By four additional representatives, where they employ in the collectivity from five hundred to one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine employees;
5° By five additional representatives, where they employ in the collectivity two thousand or more employees.
III.-However, the natural persons listed in a and b of 1° of I whose spouse benefits from the provisions of c of 1° of the same paragraph do not appoint any additional representatives if they employ fewer than fifty employees in the local authority.
IV.-General partnerships and limited partnerships shall designate by express deliberation in accordance with the provisions of the Articles of Association a single representative on behalf of the partners and the company, without prejudice to the possibility of designating additional representatives in application of II above. "
