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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security measures that may be ordered in the event of a declaration of lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder.

Article D47-29-2

To allow the immediate application of the order provided for by articles D. 47-29 and D. 47-29-1, the public prosecutor shall inform the State representative or, in Paris, the police prefect in advanc…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security measures that may be ordered in the event of a declaration of lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder.

Article D47-29-7

…or the purposes of modifying or releasing these measures. On pain of inadmissibility, this decision may only be appealed or referred to the Court of Cassation at the same time as an appeal or referral…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security measures that may be ordered in the event of a declaration of lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder.

Article D47-30

Where the person in respect of whom one or more of the measures provided for in Article 706-136 is involuntarily hospitalised, either pursuant to the provisions of Article L. 3213-1 of the Public Heal…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security measures that may be ordered in the event of a declaration of lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder.

Article D47-29-5

…rticles L. 3213-7 and L. 3213-8 of this code, and recalled in Article D. 47-29-3 above, and that it may take any appropriate action. The Public Prosecutor shall, for the same purposes, notify the Stat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security measures that may be ordered in the event of a declaration of lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder.

Article D47-31

The public prosecutor or the public prosecutor shall notify the automated national criminal records department of judgments and rulings declaring that a person is not criminally responsible on account…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 728-12

…on's consent to the forwarding of the sentencing decision; 8° Any observations the sentenced person may have on the forwarding of the sentencing decision. The certificate shall be signed by the compet…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 728-10

This chapter lays down the rules applicable, with a view to facilitating the social rehabilitation of sentenced persons, to the recognition and enforcement, in a Member State of the European Union, of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 728-11

A sentencing decision handed down by a French court or a court of a Member State may be transmitted, as the case may be, by the competent French authority for the purposes of recognition and enforceme…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 728-14

…of the sentence as well as any exchange relating thereto shall be carried out directly, as the case may be, with the competent authorities of the sentencing State or those of the executing State, by a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 728-13

Withdrawal of the certificate shall constitute withdrawal of the application for recognition and enforcement and shall preclude enforcement of the custodial sentence or detention order pursuant to thi…

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