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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article 775-2

Convicts sentenced to a penalty that cannot give rise to a rehabilitation as of right benefit, upon simple request, from the exclusion of the mention of their conviction from bulletin no. 2, according…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article 778

When, in the course of any proceedings, the public prosecutor or investigating judge finds that an individual has been convicted under a false identity or has usurped a civil status, the necessary rec…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Adjournment

Article 747-4

When the trial court postpones sentencing pursuant to article 132-66 of the Penal Code, the sentence enforcement judge in whose jurisdiction the accused resides shall ensure, either by himself or by a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIIa: Socio-judicial supervision

Article 763-5

In the event of failure to comply with the obligations mentioned in the articles 131-36-2 and 131-36-3 of the Penal Code or the injunction to provide care, the sentence enforcement judge may, of his o…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIIa: Socio-judicial supervision

Article 763-7-1

…fore the sentence enforcement judge or the prison integration and probation service within a period of no more than eight days, in accordance with the procedures laid down by the decree referred to in…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Monitoring of probation measures and alternative sanctions and subsequent decision in the event of non-compliance

Article 764-42

Where the sentence is the subject in France or in the sentencing State of either an amnesty or a pardon or where this sentence is the subject of an annulment decided following a review procedure in th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VIII: Criminal records

Article 776

The bulletin n° 2 of the criminal record is issued:1° To prefects and State public administrations dealing with applications for the duties of a commercial court judge, applications for public employm…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Conversion of sentences

Article 747-1

In the event of a final conviction for an offence to a firm prison sentence of less than or equal to six months, or the firm part of which is less than or equal to six months, including if this senten…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Conversion of sentences

Article 747-1-1

In the event of a change in the sentenced person's situation since the sentencing decision that does not allow the sentence imposed to be enforced, the sentence enforcement judge may ex officio, at th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title VI: Judicial restraint

Article 750

The maximum duration of the judicial constraint is set as follows:

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