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Showing 20712080 of 62763 articles for Art. Arrêté DEVL1507007A of 23-3-2015

French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXVIII : Proceedings and decisions on lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder

Article D47-33

The obligation of care provided for, as a security measure, by Article 706-136-1 is ordered by a judgment made in accordance with l'article 712-6 before the date set for the release of the sentenced p…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXVIII : Proceedings and decisions on lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder

Article D47-37

…odified or lifted, the liberty and custody judge may only give a ruling after receiving the opinion of the sentence enforcement judge following the progress of the measure..

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXVIII : Proceedings and decisions on lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder

Article D47-36

The sentence enforcement judge of the jurisdiction in which the person subject to an obligation of care under article 706-136-1 at his habitual residence, assisted by the prison integration and probat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXVIII : Proceedings and decisions on lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder

Article D47-35

The medical opinion referred to by Article 706-136-1 and by Article D. 47-34 consists of at least one psychiatric assessment ordered by the sentence enforcement judge. The sentence enforcement judge m…

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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 D47-31

…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 of mental…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Book IV: Some special procedures

Article D47-38

By application of the provisions of Article 706-176, the judicial courts designated in the table below have jurisdiction to hear, in the districts defined in that table, the offences referred to in th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title I: Enforcement of criminal sentences

Article D48-3

Where there is no victim support office within the court and the sentence is handed down in the presence of the civil party, the sentence enforcement office may be asked to receive the civil party aft…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Rules of jurisdiction and procedure

Article D49-31

…prison in order to carry out the duties devolved upon him or her by this Code or by the provisions of the Criminal Code, travel and subsistence allowances shall be allocated to him or her under the c…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Rules of jurisdiction and procedure

Article D49-30

The sentence enforcement judge orders the extraction of sentenced persons, either with a view to their appearance in his chambers when he has deemed it useful, or to proceed with the adversarial heari…

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