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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions relating to UCITS, debt securitisation funds and property investment funds

Article L231-7-1

A de facto or de jure manager of an undertaking for collective investment in real estate or a professional undertaking for collective investment in real estate is liable to two years' imprisonment and…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Provisions common to investment services providers other than portfolio management companies

Article L533-12-7

…ice providers may not send, directly or indirectly, by electronic means, promotional communications to clients who are likely to be non-professional, in particular potential clients, relating to the p…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter II: Proceedings for judgment

Article 1564-7

Where the examination of the case has been referred to the hearing closing the investigation pursuant to the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 1546-1, the acts and documents referred to in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Tasks of the agency

Article 706-160

…court order:1° The management of all assets, whatever their nature, seized, confiscated or subject to a protective measure in the course of criminal proceedings, which are entrusted to it and which r…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Provisions applicable before the Examining Magistrate and the Examining Chamber

Article 706-128

Articles 706-122 à 706-127 are applicable before the Investigating Chamber in the event of an appeal against an order of lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder or in the event o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Payment of damages and interest on confiscated property

Article 706-164

…mpensation for the harm he has suffered as a result of a criminal offence as well as costs pursuant to articles 375 or 475-1 and who has not obtained compensation or reparation under articles 706-3 or…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article 775-1

…of any kind whatsoever resulting from this conviction. The provisions of this article do not apply to persons convicted of one of the offences mentioned in Article 706-47. This article also applies t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Organisation of the agency

Article 706-163

…ency has intervened for their management or sale, except where the law provides for the full return to the person seized of these proceeds and any accrued interest, and subject to the allocation of th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VII: Residence ban

Article 762-1

A person sentenced to a residence ban pursuant to article 131-31 du code pénal may be subjected by the sentencing decision to one or more of the following supervision measures: 1° Report periodically…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Provisions applicable before the Examining Magistrate and the Examining Chamber

Article 706-120

…ing the first paragraph of article 122-1 of the Criminal Code, it shall order, if the Public Prosecutor or a party has so requested, that the case file be forwarded by the Public Prosecutor to the Att…

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