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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-24

Any association that has been duly registered for at least five years on the date and of the events and whose statutory purpose is to defend or assist students and pupils of educational establishments…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subtitle I: Public and civil proceedings

Article 2-20

…of intentional personal injury or destruction, damage and deterioration punishable by the articles 222-1 to 222-18 and 322-1 to 322-13 of the Penal Code when public action has been initiated by the p…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Judicial police officers

Article 21-2

Without prejudice to their obligation to report to the mayor under Article 21, municipal police officers shall immediately report any crimes, offences or contraventions of which they are aware to any…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-27

…s for supplying the software, the conditions for authorising the persons mentioned in 1° of Article 230-25 and the procedures under which interested persons may exercise their right of access.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Clarifying the encrypted data needed to establish the truth

Article 230-2

…igating judge, or the court hearing the case decide to use, for the operations mentioned in article 230-1, to State resources covered by national defence secrecy, the written requisition must be sent…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-26

…e purposes of administrative investigations, nor for any purpose other than that defined in article 230-20.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial autopsies

Article 230-29

When a forensic autopsy has been carried out as part of an investigation or judicial enquiry and the preservation of the body of the deceased is no longer necessary to establish the truth, the compete…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-24

…appointed for this purpose by the Minister of Justice, shall assist in the application of Article 230-23. This magistrate may act ex officio or at the request of private individuals. He shall have d…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 212-2

When it declares that there are no grounds to follow up on the outcome of an investigation opened on the basis of a civil party, the investigating chamber may, at the request of the public prosecutor…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial autopsies

Article 230-28

A judicial autopsy may be ordered as part of a judicial investigation pursuant to articles 60, 74 and 77-1 or a judicial investigation pursuant to articles 156 et seq. It may only be carried out by a…

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