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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 180-3

The provisions of Article 180-2 are applicable to the offences mentioned in Article 41-1-3 for the purposes of implementing the procedure provided for in the same Article 41-1-3.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 182

…icient. Persons who have been the subject of a partial referral order or partial transmission order and who do not remain under investigation for other facts are heard as assisted witnesses. The same…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 181-2

Where an indictment order of the examining magistrate which is no longer subject to appeal has, with regard to the criminal qualifications retained, mistakenly referred the accused to the assize court…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 180

In cases of referral, either to the police court or the criminal court, the investigating judge forwards the case file with his order to the public prosecutor. The latter is required to send it withou…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 179

…The reasons for the order to continue pre-trial detention shall be given by reference to 2°, 4°, 5° and 6° of Article 144. The accused in custody is immediately released if the criminal court has not…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 181-1

…iod of one year provided for in the eighth paragraph of article 181 is then increased to six months and only one extension may be made pursuant to the ninth paragraph of the same article 181.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 175-1

The person under investigation, the assisted witness or the civil party may, on expiry of the period indicated to him pursuant to the ninth paragraph of Article 116 or the second paragraph of Article…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 175

…o have been completed, the examining magistrate communicates the case file to the public prosecutor and at the same time notifies the parties' lawyers or, if they are not assisted by a lawyer, the par…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 177-1

…cision to dismiss the case, or the insertion of a statement informing the public of the reasons for and the operative part of the decision, in one or more newspapers, periodicals or electronic public…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 11: Settlement orders

Article 179-2

The investigating judge may specify in the committal order the date of the hearing before the police court or the criminal court when this date has been previously communicated to him by the public pr…

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