These regulations contribute to the Judicial Branch's strategy of simplifying processes that by their nature do not need to go to court, slow down their solution, increase the number of proceedings and raise the costs to be borne by the citizens and the State.
The courts of the peace will no longer be in charge of the registration of contracts for the registration of pledges without dispossession, the processing of which will henceforth be under the responsibility of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and Mipymes, due to the entry into force of Law 45-20 on Secured Transactions.
As of this Friday, January 20, peace courts throughout the country will cease the registration of more than 46 thousand contracts of pledges without dispossession that were processed each year, which means a decongestion of 45.4% of the cases received by the peace courts and 9.3% of the cases received at the general level each year.
These procedures will be carried out through the Electronic System of Movable Guarantees destined to make public the notices containing the transactions of creation, modification, execution and cancellation of movable guarantees, as established in the new legal text.
Late declarations
Furthermore, from now on, according to Article 89 paragraph of Organic Law No. 4-23 of the Acts of Civil Status, the Central Electoral Board (JCE) has exclusive jurisdiction over late declarations of birth registration.
Pursuant to Article 220 of said law, Law No. 659, dated July 17, 1944, on acts of civil status, which dictates provisions on registries and death certificates, is hereby repealed, and consequently the rule contained in Article 41 thereof, which established the competence of the Courts of First Instance to order the late registration of births occurring within the jurisdiction of their judicial district, is hereby repealed.
The transfer of late declarations of birth registration to the JCE will decongest the courts of first instance in 42.3% of the cases entered in civil, family and children and adolescent matters.
