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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 68

The arrival of the public prosecutor at the scene relieves the judicial police officer.The public prosecutor then performs all the judicial police acts provided for in this chapter.He may also instruc…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 63

…'s placement in police custody. He shall inform him of the reasons justifying, pursuant to Article 62-2, this placement and inform him of the classification of the facts that he has notified to the pe…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 66

The minutes drawn up by the judicial police officer pursuant to

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 69

If the needs of the investigation so require, the Public Prosecutor or the Examining Magistrate, when proceeding as described in this chapter, may travel to the jurisdictions of the courts bordering t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 60

…dicial police officer or, under the latter's control, by the judicial police officer, the technical and scientific police services or bodies of the national police and the national gendarmerie may dir…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 62

…she has committed or attempted to commit an offence, that person must be heard pursuant to Article 61-1 and the information provided for in 1° to 6° of the same article shall then be notified to him w…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Taxation

Article 672

Sont affranchies de la pluralité édictée par article 671, in civil deeds, provisions that are independent and not subject to proportional or progressive taxation. Where a deed contains several indepen…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Taxation

Article 671

…ent or do not necessarily derive from each other, a particular tax or duty is due for each of them, and according to its type. The amount is determined by the article of this Code in which the provisi…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Taxation

Article 666

Proportional or progressive registration duties and proportional land registration tax are levied on the values.

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French General Tax CodeIn force
II: Taxation

Article 673

Where the land registration tax does not take the place of registration duties, only one proportional tax is payable, in any event, on the main deed and on the deed supplementing, interpreting, rectif…

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