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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Procedure in the event of an appeal

Article 712-14

The decisions of the enforcement judge and the enforcement court are provisionally enforceable. However, where the public prosecutor's appeal is lodged within twenty-four hours of notification, it sus…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXXIII: Procedure applicable in the event of a collective accident

Article 706-180

…he one-month period provided for in the first paragraph of Article 706-179. The investigating judge and the public prosecutor shall be notified of the judgment of the investigating chamber or the crim…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Common provisions

Article 712-17

…the time limit for the execution of the sentence or accommodation measures. In the event of urgency and the inability of the sentence enforcement judge and the judge sitting in his place, the warrant…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXXIII: Procedure applicable in the event of a collective accident

Article 706-178

The public prosecutor, the investigating judge and the specialised correctional panel of the judicial court mentioned in Article 706-176 exercise, throughout the jurisdiction determined pursuant to th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Seizures of certain intangible movable property or intangible movable rights

Article 706-155

…the Agence de gestion et de recouvrement des avoirs saisis et confisqués (Agency for the Management and Recovery of Seized and Confiscated Assets) where the latter has been seized. However, in the cas…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXIX: Special seizures

Article 706-141

This Title shall apply, in order to ensure the enforcement of the additional penalty of confiscation under the conditions defined in article 131-21 du code pénal, to seizures carried out in applicatio…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Seizures without dispossession

Article 706-158

During the investigation in flagrante delicto or the preliminary investigation, the liberty and custody judge, at the request of the public prosecutor, may order by reasoned decision the seizure, at t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXXIII: Procedure applicable in the event of a collective accident

Article 706-179

…the competent investigating court pursuant to the said Article. The parties are notified in advance and invited to make their observations by the investigating judge. The order is made eight days at t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 708-1

When a sentence of imprisonment is to be served on a woman who is more than twelve weeks pregnant, the public prosecutor or the sentence enforcement judge shall make every effort either to defer the s…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 710-1

…se decision may be appealed before the Criminal Appeals Chamber. The criminal court or courts that handed down the sentences or that are located at the seat of one of the courts that handed down the s…

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