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 a personal capacity:
a) Traders registered in French Polynesia 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;
c) Spouses of the persons listed in a or b above who have declared in the Trade and Companies Register or in the National Register of Companies as a company in the trades and crafts sector that they collaborate in their spouse's activity 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 constituency, maritime pilots exercising their duties in a port located in the constituency, civil aeronautics pilots domiciled in the constituency 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 constituency;
b) In respect of an establishment that is the subject in the constituency of a supplementary registration or secondary registration, unless exempted by the laws and regulations in force, the natural persons mentioned in a and b of 1° and the legal persons mentioned in a of this 2°, regardless of the constituency in which these persons exercise their own voting rights ;
c) Companies of a commercial nature whose registered office is located outside the national territory and which have an establishment in the constituency registered in the register of companies;
3° Executives who, employed in the constituency 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 in the collectivity from ten to forty-nine employees;
2° Two additional representatives, when they employ in the collectivity from fifty to one hundred and ninety-nine employees;
3° Three additional representatives, when they employ in the collectivity from two hundred to four hundred and ninety-nine employees;
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 collectivity.
IV.-General partnerships and limited partnerships appoint 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 appointing additional representatives pursuant to II above. "
