Cases involving non-seizure and late filings are removed from the court system 

These regulations support the Judiciary's strategy of streamlining proceedings that, by their very nature, do not need to go to court, They slow down the resolution of these issues, increase the number of administrative procedures, and raise the costs borne by citizens and the government. 

Justices of the peace will no longer handle the registration of contracts for pledges without dispossession; this process will henceforth fall under the responsibility of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, and MSMEs, due to the entry into force of Law 45-20 on Movable Property Security Interests. 

Starting this Friday, January 20, justice of the peace courts throughout the country will cease to register the more than 46,000 non-possessory pledge contracts they processed each year, which will reduce the caseload of cases received by the justice of the peace courts by 45.4% and the overall annual caseload by 9.3%. 

These procedures will be carried out through the Electronic System for Security Interests, which is designed to publish notices regarding the creation, modification, enforcement, and cancellation of security interests, as established by the new legislation. 

Late Filings 

Furthermore, going forward, pursuant to the paragraph of Article 89 of Organic Law No. 4-23 on Civil Status Records, the Central Electoral Board (JCE) has exclusive jurisdiction over late birth registrations. 

Pursuant to Article 220 of the aforementioned law, Law No. 659, dated July 17, 1944, on civil status acts—which sets forth provisions regarding death records and certificates—is hereby repealed, and, consequently, the provision contained in Article 41 thereof, which established the jurisdiction of the Courts of First Instance to order the belated registration of births that occurred within the jurisdiction of their judicial district. 

The transfer of late birth registration declarations to the JCE will help relieve the backlog in the courts of first instance by 42.3% of cases filed in civil, family, and Children and Adolescents matters.