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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and New Caledonia

Article 824

For the application of Article 191, the investigating chamber of the Nouméa court of appeal and that of the Papeete court of appeal are composed of a chamber president or councillor and two judges fro…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and New Caledonia

Article 861

The period provided for in the third paragraph of Article 662 is two months..

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and New Caledonia

Article 868-1

Notwithstanding the provisions of the second and third paragraphs of article 712-2, the President of the Court of First Instance of Wallis and Futuna performs the duties of a sentence enforcement judg…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and New Caledonia

Article 809-2

In French Polynesia, the civil servants and agents mentioned in Article 35 of Organic Law No. 2004-192 of 27 February 2004 on the autonomous status of French Polynesia are deputy judicial police offic…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and New Caledonia

Article 809-3

For the application of article 44-1, references to the provisions of the Code général des collectivités territoriales provided for in this article are replaced by references to the provisions having t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and New Caledonia

Article 866-1

…in Article 706-103 of this Code, order protective measures on the property, movable or immovable, divided or undivided, of the person under investigation in order to guarantee payment of the fines inc…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and New Caledonia

Article 876

Article 773 reads as follows: "Art. 773.-A copy of each form recording a decision resulting in the deprivation of electoral rights shall be sent to the competent administrative authority in the territ…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and New Caledonia

Article 809-1

…of the Defence Code and article L. 1er du code de la route (1) are replaced by references to the provisions applicable locally which make it an offence to possess or carry a weapon and to the provisio…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and New Caledonia

Article 862

In the territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands, the president of the court of first instance shall exercise the powers vested in the commission mentioned in Article 706-4.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Provisions applicable in French Polynesia, the Wallis and Futuna Islands and New Caledonia

Article 862-1

For the application of article 706-2 in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna, after the words: "by article L. 5311-1 of the Public Health Code", the words: "or by locally applicable r…

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